2024/25 Jarrad Branthwaite

[trueblue84]

Aye - I can't ever remember Keane getting injured, it's mad.

You'd think he'd suffer frequent neck injuries, watching the ball fly in the net with the alarming frequency it does when he plays.

 

[GoldenToffee]

You'd think he'd suffer frequent neck injuries, watching the ball fly in the net with the alarming frequency it does when he plays.

We know he suffers PTSD but funnily enough it doesn't stop him from being available for selection week in week out.

 

[Caso01]

Who is he and what’s his name(apart from the Bobble)?

I know his name is mick that’s all

 

[Carlito]

Hopefully, out just long enough for Dyche to get sacked.

 

[Caso01]

If you think club staff are ringing or talking to me to tweet stuff before publications then you are being incredibly naive. This story was going around from about 2pm and pretty much every publication had it from around 5:30pm. Football is a small world and as usual, I went at the same or similar point to when it was about to break

Any indication on how serious/how long mate ?

 

[Blue Willy]

Red Echo saying a late fitness test and maybe starting. Not long til we find out though

 

[Neiler]

Do it Dan!

 

[Blue Willy]

Guesswork?

 

[Raino85]

Soon as the takeover happens the Bobble is not gonna be getting any info whatsoever mate, TFG will clean house.

His source is either from the Comms team or the medical/physio team. As they're two constants that haven't changed with managers... Both would be privy to team news and medical news.

Sack the lot as they are better at leaking info than doing their own jobs

Agree, don't see what he gets from leaking news that ACTUAL journalists will give us pretty much the same time or earlier

 

[mahermi1]

Do it Dan!

That is simply because they have to, as the Liverpool's and Man United's of this World claim that Branthwaite is dying to join them when they offer him ridiculous amounts of money which they and only a few others can afford to, due to PSR. To be honest it's like us doing it to a Championship club.

 

[GoldenToffee]

Do it Dan!

Any new contract will probably include a release clause for him imo. Better off keeping him on his current deal for another 12 months - it's not as if we'll be keeping him until 2027 anyway is it, plus we retain full control over his inevitable sale as it stands.

 

[bluestevon]

Any new contract will probably include a release clause for him imo. Better off keeping him on his current deal for another 12 months - it's not as if we'll be keeping him until 2027 anyway is it, plus we retain full control over his inevitable sale as it stands.

Mate, outside of footy manager games, release clauses are almost unheard of in this league.

 

[Neiler]

That is simply because they have to, as the Liverpool's and Man United's of this World claim that Branthwaite is dying to join them when they offer him ridiculous amounts of money which they and only a few others can afford to, due to PSR. To be honest it's like us doing it to a Championship club.

Think this is a mindset we have to get out of, particularly with a potential reboot of the club by TFG, i know its become a bit of joke term by the headbangers in the Dyche thread - but this is an area we can really show "ambition".

At some point if we have ambition - we have to stop selling out best players and build around them.

Give him a 6 year contract on 180k a week and say you are captain in two years and you are the rock this club will be built on.

We need to get out of the mindset that we have to sell - we may have different resources when TFG come through the door.

I liken it Kane and Spurs they built a club around him, CL football, New Ground etc - by keeping their best plater - until the natural time came for him to leave and were compensated.

If you want to be taken seriously as a big club, you have to act like one.

Would Norway sell us Salah, Utd Fernandes, City Rodri, VIlla Watkins, Newcastle Isak, Chelsea Palmer - you take my point.

 

[mahermi1]

Think this is a mindset we have to get out of, particularly with a potential reboot of the club by TFG, i know its become a bit of joke term by the headbangers in the Dyche thread - but this is an area we can really show ambition.

At some point if we have ambition - we have to stop selling out best players and build around them.

Give him a 6 year contract on 180k a week and say you are captain in two years and you are the rock this club will be built on.

We need to get out of the mindset that we have to sell - we may have different resources when TFG come through the door.

I liken it Kane and Spurs they built a club around him, CL football, New Ground etc - by keeping their best plater - until the natural time came for him to leave and were compensated.

If you want to be taken seriously as a big club, you have to act like one.

Would Norway sell us Salah, Utd Fernandes, City Rodri, VIlla Watkins, Newcastle Isak, Chelsea Palmer - you take my point.

Yeah love us to be able to do that mate, but every player has a price, Ronaldo United to Real Madrid for example. If Branthwaite would accept that or near to it I would agree. But the Uniteds and Livetpools etc, would just offer even more..

 

[Neiler]

Yeah love us to be able to do that mate, but every player has a price, Ronaldo United to Real Madrid for example. If Branthwaite would accept that or near to it I would agree. But the Uniteds and Livetpools etc, would just offer even more..

Its a combo of will of the player and that ambition mate. But that's were good administration earn their stripes. Other thing is you can flat out just say no here your here until .............if he signs a new deal. Many would say you cant keep an unhappy player - Levy did it with Kane, Fulham did it last year with Paulinha. Brighton did it with Cacedio. It adds +++ pounds.

If nothing else you become an unwilling seller and you should always want to be an unwilling seller.

Its something we will have to overcome if you have genuine ambition and want to progress.

I think we as a club and a fan base have been conditioned into being very passive about it and now have a low threshold for selling our best players - i remember an administration being overturned here partly due to selling Duncan Ferguson.

We have to ask ourselves as a club do we want to act like Palace or Brighton and be a feeder club or do we have actually have a crack at it and act like a top six club. Look at Spurs they dont sell their players to Top 6 clubs anymore.