Well we loaned Zouma so Batman wasn’t an option, gabbiadini wasn’t good enough for saints or Blackburn when he was in England and tielmans didn’t exactly set the world a light at Monaco after coming from Belgium did he?
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Ademola Lookman
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Well we loaned Zouma so Batman wasn’t an option, gabbiadini wasn’t good enough for saints or Blackburn when he was in England and tielmans didn’t exactly set the world a light at Monaco after coming from Belgium did he?
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Ademola? Is that you?
Bluerover
Player Valuation: £50m
It does make sense , perfect sense tbh. Why scout the whole world for a talented young winger to develop when we already have one here? Singing baines costs us nothing and although a new back up LB would be good , brands has a budget and wage bill to balance. He knows like we do that a striker is needed and spending 10-15m on a LB that will probably play 6 games a season barring an injury to Digne , might have restricted us for funds to attract one. Delph may be 30 but he has just won the league and cost little. If that means we can get McCarthy and Morgan out the door then we are actually better off financially.
RJBOfficial
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I really don’t know what type of spell Bernard has put on this fanbase, he was a free signing remember and yet every CL or top 6 club rejected him, makes you wonder
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toffeeblue9
Player Valuation: £35m
It's a significant profit. Lookman cost about £11m and had a 4.5 (5 for accounting purposes) year contract.
With two years left on his deal, the accounts give Lookman a current value of £4.4m
We've sold him for 25m euros, or just over £22.5m on today's exchange rate
Means the accounts are going to show a profit of a touch over £18m for him - that's good going for a lad who hasn't really kicked on here (even if we all know he has talent)
Using the same methodology, we've made a profit of about £8m on Vlasic
The "net spend" is far less important to us these days than the accounting profits and losses
This is where your debate is completely flawed though.
He’s been here 12 months and inherited a total mess.
Rather than get behind him, you choose to deliberately tar him with the same brush as everything that has gone on before his arrival.
You slate him for not managing to sell players. You actually need a willing buyer, it’s not all down to Brands, something a child could understand, yet you pursue stupid bloody points like that, hence people thinking you have an agenda.
They didn’t. We just made a very very good offer. Chelsea were heavily in for him at the time by all accounts.
toffeeblue9
Player Valuation: £35m
The gripe I have with Dave's views on this subject isn't necessarily that I think his views on the players we should get in or sell are wrong, it's that he seems to think it can all be done in one transfer window, and if it isn't then it's a failure
Some players are impossible to shift because they're on fat contracts and won't accept pay cuts, this makes it hard to get players in. It's a reality that there is no magic wand to, so we need to do things incrementally. It's frustrating, but the argument that "if Brands is so good, he should be able to" is verging on pathetic. Nobody ever said he was a miracle worker, just that he seems like he knows what he is doing
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Pretty sure he will developer further getting some footy under his belt in Germany like most of the young English lads, I think we'll live to regret this. But remember playing for England cos you threw a few decent cutbacks against FC Eintracht every now and then isn't the same as playing week in week out in the Premier League.
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royalblue66
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And he's got a Mardy lip.
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