Jamie-H 1,322 Posted August 8, 2020 Share Posted August 8, 2020 (edited) 11 minutes ago, Changing Times said: Downing was a vanity project for Gibson. The others we signed at a point that we had about £50m extra income from TV revenue and while we were flogging some of the players we'd just signed as well. If you want a good comparison then try Scott McDonald 🙂 Scott McDonald 3.5 million in a fee and then over 4.5 million in wages because Gibson backed Strachan to the hilt and gave him a 30k a week contract! https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/middlesbrough-fc-set-give-scott-5165585 We have made horrendous signings made awful financial decisions that have castrated us for years on end but barring injury I don't see the risk or financial peril that Hoilett/Moore/Hall will bring us I see 2 28 year olds who could be the lynchpins of the team for the next 3 seasons and we could be getting a creative standout who recently got promoted with 20 G/A in a league season in this market that kind of player would cost us an absolute fortune. Link to post Share on other sites
LBP 3,012 Posted August 8, 2020 Share Posted August 8, 2020 Saw we got Hoilett, Moore and Roberts and kept Fletch and Britt Who would you most like to see start Link to post Share on other sites
BoroJake 2,331 Posted August 8, 2020 Share Posted August 8, 2020 2 minutes ago, LewisBoroPalfrey said: Saw we got Hoilett, Moore and Roberts and kept Fletch and Britt Who would you most like to see start I’d prefer fletcher up top personally 3 Link to post Share on other sites
cyprusboro 21 Posted August 8, 2020 Share Posted August 8, 2020 14 minutes ago, BoroJake said: I’d prefer fletcher up top personally Same here, think he is capable of improving Link to post Share on other sites
Hendrie_7 1,068 Posted August 8, 2020 Share Posted August 8, 2020 On 7/17/2020 at 2:48 PM, Hendrie_7 said: I hope we wouldn't want him but it wouldn't surprise me at all if we did, same with Jordan Jones or Hogg at Huddersfield if they go down. You know we love a local lad and the fact Reach has played for us before just makes him more desirable. Should've put money on this... Link to post Share on other sites
Old Codger 3,039 Posted August 8, 2020 Share Posted August 8, 2020 if we are going down that route, can I mention that the word is that Lee Cattermole has been seen wandering around...out of contract...lets get the old band back together.........or maybe not, although we probably could field an ex-boro XI that would still be competitive 1 Link to post Share on other sites
ManBearPig 1,833 Posted August 8, 2020 Share Posted August 8, 2020 To be fair, all of the players who we have been linked with so far make sense. I don’t think we’ll see many mercenaries come to Boro for a pay day, which I’m pleased about. Touch wood; all the signs seem positive so far in terms of who we’ve been linked with Link to post Share on other sites
scotty189 925 Posted August 9, 2020 Share Posted August 9, 2020 What was the nixon story then? Link to post Share on other sites
boronutter 149 Posted August 9, 2020 Share Posted August 9, 2020 hopefully we will have some news this coming week. Link to post Share on other sites
Smogzilla 7,385 Posted August 9, 2020 Author Share Posted August 9, 2020 2 hours ago, scotty189 said: What was the nixon story then? Unless someone has picked up the paper this morning, he'll probably be blabbing on twitter about it fairly soon. Link to post Share on other sites
mj south 610 Posted August 9, 2020 Share Posted August 9, 2020 15 minutes ago, Smogzilla said: Unless someone has picked up the paper this morning, he'll probably be blabbing on twitter about it fairly soon. My guess would be that we're interested in signing Hoilett Link to post Share on other sites
BoroYorkie 94 Posted August 9, 2020 Share Posted August 9, 2020 (edited) 2 hours ago, scotty189 said: What was the nixon story then? He’s put it on Twitter now . It’s just that we want Gibson on loan. Norwich also interested. Link to post Share on other sites
clappy1974 9 Posted August 9, 2020 Share Posted August 9, 2020 Boro want Ben Gibson on loan only. Link to post Share on other sites
TeaCider24 12,403 Posted August 9, 2020 Share Posted August 9, 2020 Wow, what a revelation. 4 Link to post Share on other sites
Redcar Rioja 5,872 Posted August 9, 2020 Share Posted August 9, 2020 Surely it would make more sense for Burnley to accept that its a bad job and sell him for whatever they can get in order to further minimise their losses while people still remember Ben as a Footballer and not some stateless footballing refugee confined in a Durham Hotel? 1 Link to post Share on other sites
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