Plus a long-term commitment of 6-7m a year in wages to a player who has struggled enormously for both fitness and goals the last three seasons, which is an incredibly risky commitment for anyone, including ourselves. It's not exactly a snap your hand off deal.
Chukwuemeka is more of a CAM though isn't he? Not sure he solves what the manager wants.
No, but bigger clubs can afford it. Especially if the transfer fee is low. It's why I think he'll go, but the club would be delighted at this stage to come out with more than £12m imo. Reckon we'll deal at £15m.
All seems to be people making things up to me. No one knows what we offered and there has been several versions from different sources as to why the Newcastle deal fell through.
I don't think they'd take 12m, I don't think it justifies the disruption of losing your starting number 9. You've got to weigh up the money v the much bigger hit if we fail to replace and increase our chance of relegation. 15m would be the absolute minimum for me but I'm not sure the club do a deal for much less than 20. If anything the price should be increasing nearer the deadline not decreasing.
Yeah. Club are desperate for cash though. Think it will happen personally.
Common knowledge really that he was offered parity with top earner pickford on 130k which is probably too much...he will make less when going on a free next season but will have a significant signing on fee bonus which he wouldn't really get with us.
You wouldn’t know a decent player. All those BabyBels have rotted your brain.
Good to see you agree with me. I’ve had enough of blaming my hangovers on BabyBels to the missus.
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