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Agreed but I guess the problem we've got is we don't actually have a precedent yet which tells us what sort of money this regime are willing to accept.
Agree but if the reported fee of 7m is even close to what the club will accept, and the fans are saying 20m plus when looking at the Watford players fee, then the first test of this regimes selling prowess is going to seriously upset the fanbase!
 
Agreed but I guess the problem we've got is we don't actually have a precedent yet which tells us what sort of money this regime are willing to accept.
He won't be going cheap mate, we can be pretty certain of that. We will only sell when it suits us, plus we have his replacement either at the club already, or we know who we need to bring in.
 
Agree but if the reported fee of 7m is even close to what the club will accept, and the fans are saying 20m plus when looking at the Watford players fee, then the first test of this regimes selling prowess is going to seriously upset the fanbase!
If we were to sell at 7M we would hardy make any profit. He'll go for a good price, if we were to sell.
 
He won't be going cheap mate, we can be pretty certain of that. We will only sell when it suits us, plus we have his replacement either at the club already, or we know who we need to bring in.

I'm playing devil's advocate, beleive me. As I trust the owner and Speakman. BUT I don't think we can be sure that he won't be going cheap. We have no historical context to show us what this ownership want to do with selling players.

I do trust them that they won't accept anything that isn't what they think is right for us. I just don't know what they think is right.
 
I'm still slightly concerned about our CB cover. Alese and Ballard both had two injuries in their first season with us, makes me a little worried about their reliability going forward. Batth I don't think has a bad injury record but he is getting on. After that it's Triantis and Anderson who are both young and inexperienced, and would probably be sent out on loan this year in an ideal world, and then we're back to square pegs in round holes... It's a difficult one as there is depth there, I'm just a bit concerned about the injury records personally.

On Clarke, I wonder if the club have Aravena pencilled in as his replacement and the links to that one went cold whilst we were waiting to see what happened with JC... Wouldn't surprise me to see him signed up sharpish if Jack goes.
 
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I'm playing devil's advocate, beleive me. As I trust the owner and Speakman. BUT I don't think we can be sure that he won't be going cheap. We have no historical context to show us what this ownership want to do with selling players.

I do trust them that they won't accept anything that isn't what they think is right for us. I just don't know what they think is right.
They managed to get £1million from Everton for a 16 yr old who never played a 1st team game so reckon they'll be getting more than £7 million for a player like Clarke
 
They managed to get £1million from Everton for a 16 yr old who never played a 1st team game so reckon they'll be getting more than £7 million for a player like Clarke

Aye I didn't say £7m. I just said we can't be sure that we will hold out for the types of numbers most of us will be happy with.
 
Aye I didn't say £7m. I just said we can't be sure that we will hold out for the types of numbers most of us will be happy with.
I think we can be fairly certain we will hold out for a good deal that suits us.
 
I think we can be fairly certain we will hold out for a good deal that suits us.

I'm not fairly certain of anything in football like :D Especially when we haven't experienced this ownership selling a top asset yet. We all want to believe we will hold out for £20-25m (or more) but when bids of £13-14m come in, who knows how this lot will react. Especially if they see that income as being the difference between retaining Stewart, Roberts, Cirkin etc

I wouldn't sell for less than £20m myself, but I'm not the one trying to balance a squad and contract renewals.
 
I'm still slightly concerned about our CB cover. Alese and Ballard both had two injuries in their first season with us, makes me a little worried about their reliability going forward. Batth I don't think has a bad injury record but he is getting on. After that it's Triantis and Anderson who are both young and inexperienced, and would probably be sent out on loan this year in an ideal world, and then we're back to square pegs in round holes... It's a difficult one as there is depth there, I'm just a bit concerned about the injury records personally.

On Clarke, I wonder if the club have Aravena pencilled in as his replacement and the links to that one went cold whilst we were waiting to see what happened with JC... Wouldn't surprise me to see him signed up sharpish if Jack goes.
I think a reinvestment in one of them cryo chambers would be a wise move from us. Allardyce managed to keep Kirchoff fit with one and Defoe swore by it.
 
I'm not fairly certain of anything in football like :D Especially when we haven't experienced this ownership selling a top asset yet. We all want to believe we will hold out for £20-25m (or more) but when bids of £13-14m come in, who knows how this lot will react. Especially if they see that income as being the difference between retaining Stewart, Roberts, Cirkin etc

I wouldn't sell for less than £20m myself, but I'm not the one trying to balance a squad and contract renewals.
I think everything they've done up to now, deserve our trust. We are a different beast now, on the football side.
 
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Relegation goes against them getting that fee. He is a hell of a good footballer though. Would immediately improve the likes of Tottenham, Brentford, Villa. I could even see him sitting in alongside Casameiro and making Man U better. Someone will get a proper player for around £40m I reckon.
 
Relegation goes against them getting that fee. He is a hell of a good footballer though. Would immediately improve the likes of Tottenham, Brentford, Villa. I could even see him sitting in alongside Casameiro and making Man U better. Someone will get a proper player for around £40m I reckon.

It's a Saudi Newcastle tax if ever I saw one, that. They were linked to him. every player newcaslte are linked with will see £10-15m added to their asking price.
 
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