pikerman 1,121 Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 Come on guys be fair, our Tony was down to his last couple of millions and needed the percentage of sales fees that Steve had promised him. Link to post Share on other sites
Borodane 6,301 Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 But now that we are at it, I don’t think you’ll find anyone who thinks it was good to buy Britt, Braithwaite and fletcher and thus having to sell bamford. But as it were we became victims of our own terrible recruitment and wasting money and appointing horrible managers so had to look at sellable assets. At the time we banked 10 million for a player who at that time didn’t look like anything but a decent championship striker. Even last season plenty of Leeds fans were frustrated with him and I’ve been asked multiple times if we couldn’t just take him back. At the time I though the deal was very good but obviously now it looks like a bargain for Leeds. I didn’t think he’d ever be such a successful premier league striker. But the bamford love in every time he does something good is very tiresome. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
TheJew 2,938 Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 1 minute ago, edinboro said: The mistake was signing Fletcher and Braithwaite making Bamford the easy one to sell. Bonkers but made financial sense. Yea, agree as well. Thanks Gary and Steve. Link to post Share on other sites
BillyWoofs_shinpad 1,884 Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 Just now, TeaCider24 said: So does every man and their dog. We've all repeated that same point over and over for years now. That’s because we haven’t had a decent striker since him. Maybe one day we’ll sign one and we’ll all forget about Bamford. Link to post Share on other sites
sanddancer 1,967 Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 8 minutes ago, BillyWoofs_shinpad said: That’s because we haven’t had a decent striker since him. Maybe one day we’ll sign one and we’ll all forget about Bamford. To be fair I think it will be a very, very long time before we find a player of his caliber at the right price. Of course I’m biased because I liked Bamford and I just could not see why the club could not see his potential and value. if he was with the current team I believe we would be in the playoffs, but it’s just another club cock up we have witnessed all to often and we move on. 2 Link to post Share on other sites
ABH 470 Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 50 minutes ago, DurhamRed said: We should never of sold Bamford We should of never signed him 1 Link to post Share on other sites
estonpidge 1,449 Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 IF the team had gotten to Wembley on time, Bamford et al may never have left....But they didn't. Link to post Share on other sites
GrimsbyBoro 1,968 Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 This Bamford love in feels a bit revisionalist. I could be wrong but I don’t recall it when he signed for us or when he left. Link to post Share on other sites
Blanco 4,917 Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 Just now, estonpidge said: IF the team had gotten to Wembley on time, Bamford et al may never have left....But they didn't. Hail King Kranky Link to post Share on other sites
LinoJo3 3,191 Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 43 minutes ago, TeaCider24 said: It's very easy to get over. He was happy to leave, the club were happy to sell. He's not coming back, but there are hundreds of Middlesbrough fans lighting a candle every time he scores. I got the comments when it just happened, but people are still bringing up the exact same points when he scores 3 seasons later. What gets my goat up is that we as a club (specially under pulis) criminally under valued bamford. After relegation he should have been our main striker, why oh why did we blow £30m on 3 extra central strikers? Imagine the creative players (that we ACTUALLY needed) we could have bought for that! Then pulis rocked up and tried to shove bamford out wide, playing him centrally as the last resort before dropping him for our most important game of the season. Even a good section of fans didn’t ever seem to rate him. We totally wasted the most talented striker we’d had in years, not only was he superb at the lone striker role (something that’s hard to find) but he also liked the club AND the area. It’s not as if he’s just bloomed out of nowhere, it was plainly obvious he was our best striker and the so called ‘experts’ at the club ruined it. 3 Link to post Share on other sites
estonpidge 1,449 Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 Just now, Blanco said: Hail King Kranky That was criminal. Link to post Share on other sites
Blanco 4,917 Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 Just now, estonpidge said: That was criminal. It certainly was @estonpidge Link to post Share on other sites
BillyWoofs_shinpad 1,884 Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 Just now, GrimsbyBoro said: This Bamford love in feels a bit revisionalist. I could be wrong but I don’t recall it when he signed for us or when he left. I can’t think of many on here who wanted Bamford to leave. Maybe there were, but I always rated him ahead of Britt and thought it was the wrong decision. Then again I was against Britt signing at the time, so maybe I was biased. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
LinoJo3 3,191 Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 3 minutes ago, GrimsbyBoro said: This Bamford love in feels a bit revisionalist. I could be wrong but I don’t recall it when he signed for us or when he left. Just because the vocal majority thought it was a good deal doesn’t mean plenty of us knew it was suicide by the club. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
mendieta420 1,008 Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 1 minute ago, LinoJo3 said: Just because the vocal majority thought it was a good deal doesn’t mean plenty of us knew it was suicide by the club. suicide seems a bit of a stretch Link to post Share on other sites
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