It was blatantly embargoed.
Yep but why do that?
I assumed we'd have got Acun come out with the news breaking about KLP. You need him to say why he's going and then hopefully fans will understand.
It was blatantly embargoed.
Yep but why do that?
I assumed we'd have got Acun come out with the news breaking about KLP. You need him to say why he's going and then hopefully fans will understand.
'cos corporate confidentiality is a thing.
It just seems a bit weird, because the story has broken and then Humberside have released a 2 day old interview when it's a bit unclear when this new bid was tabled and what the situation is now.
If Baz is reporting that a deal is expecting to be done, it's because someone at the club, probably Tan, has told him
The Seri news definitely annoyed fans though as I think many thought it was done, but it was never reported that way.
We're going to have a much harder job convincing UK based players than we are foreign ones. I think that's shown so far, what we know of, we've been turned down by Swift, Twine and Seri, all UK based.
The Seri being effectively done narrative was from a Turkish journalist who is fairly well known over there to be hit and miss at best. People assumed he was right because he’d got the Tufan news correct (jumped on it when it was already obvious) and he broke the news about Wright which Baz confirmed. Baz only ever reported facts which we knew to be true with Seri like he agreed to a wage decrease.
The impression I had with Swift was that we’d moved on because we’d got wind of Twine being available rather than he turned us down?
The Seri being effectively done narrative was from a Turkish journalist who is fairly well known over there to be hit and miss at best. People assumed he was right because he’d got the Tufan news correct (jumped on it when it was already obvious) and he broke the news about Wright which Baz confirmed. Baz only ever reported facts which we knew to be true with Seri like he agreed to a wage decrease.
The impression I had with Swift was that we’d moved on because we’d got wind of Twine being available rather than he turned us down?
I think what you have to take from these confirmed targets is that we are operating at a whole new level.
We like any other club will have a list and work our way through it as the window progresses from the top down.
Some we'll get, some we won't but days of fawning over Sunderland rejects and L1 'superstars' appear to be over for the time being and we can dare to dream again.
Last summer we couldn't match P'boro for Marriott so this summer has been quite wonderful really.
Wasn't that a bullet dodged.
Not really, he still got 9 this season but he does struggle for fitness.
And back to KLP, there's no way he's ready for the PL. It seems an quite unBrentford move by Brentford
I'd take the money if its 20m and there's no other bids, but they have a track record of developing talent and they are where they are by doing just that.
Besides I think there'll possibly be others in as the widow progresses.
Tan is an experienced agent. He'll do what's right for the club.
I don't think we'd have got that level of bid at this stage in the window if the Allam's were still here.
I think they'd be cautions of accepting a bid only to find 2 or 3 clubs matching it and offering terms this early in the widow.
That Humberside excerpt suggests Tan is doing the same.
We don't need to rush to sell. Will still get similar value in January and given Brentford have been in this last 3 windows, I doubt they'll go away.
Probably because the athletic is behind a paywall and Buckingham got banned for telling it like it was.Phil Buckingham and the Athletic published effectively the same story too. Neither of which have received anywhere near the same level of pushback that Baz has got.
Yep but why do that?
I assumed we'd have got Acun come out with the news breaking about KLP. You need him to say why he's going and then hopefully fans will understand.
The initial statement of saying he wouldn’t sell for £30m was daft, just think he gets rather excited as he is living his “dream” after all. I’m sure he’ll learn, at the end of the day if we pull £20m in for KLP because of that statement it’s done it’s job even though people will think he’s bottled it.Probably protecting the boy as much as anything. Not wanting to appear eager to sell.
The initial statement of saying he wouldn’t sell for £30m was daft, just think he gets rather excited as he is living his “dream” after all. I’m sure he’ll learn, at the end of the day if we pull £20m in for KLP because of that statement it’s done it’s job even though people will think he’s bottled it.