Transfer Rumours Summer 2020 Transfer Thread

[Ric Glasgow]

The club should have learn't from its mistakes.

It clearly did!! £18 million plus the potential of a further £7 million was good business for Bowen.....That's an opinion based on what I saw and how I rated him in monetary terms.

Please don't tell me that every one posting on here looked at Robertson,McGuire and Bowen on a weekly basis and saw them as guaranteed certainties to prosper in the P.L? If you can answer yes to that then switch jobs fast...

 

[Howdentiger2]

What’s your education?

In football

Spells at Hull, scunny, reading

Coached at Hull, Leeds, York, local FA and national FA plus my own coaching business working freelance with players.

Scouted for numerous clubs

All coaching qualifications for both outfield and keepers upto uefa A level

Academic level - degree level ( although I still can't spell )

 

[GEvans76]

It clearly did!! £18 million plus the potential of a further £7 million was good business for Bowen.....That's an opinion based on what I saw and how I rated him in monetary terms.

Please don't tell me that every one posting on here looked at Robertson,McGuire and Bowen on a weekly basis and saw them as guaranteed certainties to prosper in the P.L? If you can answer yes to that then switch jobs fast...

I look at the cost of selling Bowen to West Ham as I look at the upcoming fixtures at Fleetwood & Rochdale

 

[Ric Glasgow]

I look at the cost of selling Bowen to West Ham as I look at the upcoming fixtures at Fleetwood & Rochdale

And you don't hold the remaining players, who basically chucked in the towel,in any way responsible?

 

[Tentotwo]

It clearly did!! £18 million plus the potential of a further £7 million was good business for Bowen.....That's an opinion based on what I saw and how I rated him in monetary terms.

Please don't tell me that every one posting on here looked at Robertson,McGuire and Bowen on a weekly basis and saw them as guaranteed certainties to prosper in the P.L? If you can answer yes to that then switch jobs fast...

How good Jarrod actually becomes is yet to be seen but as goalscorer with pace to burn and a cracking left peg he won’t ever go hungry.

 

[Ric Glasgow]

In football

Spells at Hull, scunny, reading

Coached at Hull, Leeds, York, local FA and national FA plus my own coaching business working freelance with players.

Scouted for numerous clubs

All coaching qualifications for both outfield and keepers upto uefa A level

Academic level - degree level ( although I still can't spell )

Under qualified to post on here!!!!

 

[Steven Toast]

If we're going to use Crystal balls and hindsight,how much should we have sold Andy Robertson for?

Well, £8m for a young, British player who had had two very good PL seasons sounds like daylight robbery. Can you think of a reason why that figure was acceptable?

 

[GLP]

Well, £8m for a young, British player who had had two very good PL seasons sounds like daylight robbery. Can you think of a reason why that figure was acceptable?

Let’s also not forget that Stewart was also a make weight in that transaction.

 

[Trumpton Tiger.]

Well, £8m for a young, British player who had had two very good PL seasons sounds like daylight robbery. Can you think of a reason why that figure was acceptable?

It was nearly £2m to Burnley if the manager at time had of got his way, likewise Maguire to Boro for a similar amount.

 

[Ric Glasgow]

Well, £8m for a young, British player who had had two very good PL seasons sounds like daylight robbery. Can you think of a reason why that figure was acceptable?

Maybe Robertson saw his career on a somewhat higher plain than the Championship after his second relegation with the Club?

 

[GEvans76]

And you don't hold the remaining players, who basically chucked in the towel,in any way responsible?

Partly but mostly the coach

 

[GLP]

Maybe Robertson saw his career on a somewhat higher plain than the Championship after his second relegation with the Club?

He’d earned the right to play at a higher level. It doesn’t mean you sell him for peanuts.

 

[Tentotwo]

Well, £8m for a young, British player who had had two very good PL seasons sounds like daylight robbery. Can you think of a reason why that figure was acceptable?[/

I can remember Robertson getting slated at City.

Comments like ‘He cannot defend’ or ‘He gets caught out of position’ regularly cropped up.


At some clubs it’s not about money..it’s about turning potential into the finishing article.

 

[Steven Toast]

Let’s also not forget that Stewart was also a make weight in that transaction.

True, which is confusing because at the time there were so many better prospects in their academy we should have taken.

 

[Steven Toast]

Maybe Robertson saw his career on a somewhat higher plain than the Championship after his second relegation with the Club?

What GLP said. We were never going to stand in his way, but that doesn’t mean we should get fleeced.

 

[GLP]

The irony of this is that they spent their first few years selling players slightly under market value so they could reinvest and improve. Their model revolves around selling players, if they hold out for top whack and don't sell, it completely messes up their model.

Brentford always have 2-3 players identified for every position. So should they sell a player they have potential signings already identified that fit into their style of play. I can’t remember any Brentford player in recent times going for an inconsiderable amount. They always seem to get a fair fee.

 

[Howdentiger2]

Brentford always have 2-3 players identified for every position. So should they sell a player they have potential signings already identified that fit into their style of play. I can’t remember any Brentford player in recent times going for an inconsiderable amount. They always seem to get a fair fee.

A fair fee....like we did for Bowen then!

 

[GLP]

And you don't hold the remaining players, who basically chucked in the towel,in any way responsible?

Even if we had sold Bowen and kept Grosicki. We’d probably have had enough to stay up. £800k? I’d have happily kept him and let him go for free at the end of the season. Fine margins and calculated risk. The owners got this wrong.

 

[Ric Glasgow]

Even if we had sold Bowen and kept Grosicki. We’d probably have had enough to stay up. £800k? I’d have happily kept him and let him go for free at the end of the season. Fine margins and calculated risk. The owners got this wrong.

But ask yourself this...Did Grosicki want to stay? He was huffy at the best of times,not knocking his talent,but keeping a player against his will is pointless? My understanding was that Grosicki wanted away?

 

[GLP]

A fair fee....like we did for Bowen then!

We didn’t get a fair fee. We can go round and round the houses here. Jarrod was proven over 3 seasons in a relatively poor team playing on the wing.

Watkins has had one good season at Brentford and there’s no way there should be that kind of price disparity.

Time will prove who is the better PL prospect as they are now both plying their trade in the PL. my money is on Bowen.