Smoggydownsouth 1,621 Posted February 16, 2020 Share Posted February 16, 2020 9 hours ago, Changing Times said: What a rubbish piece of gossip, it's the equivalent of today's game but in ITK form. You could at least make something good up to keep us entertained 🙂 Sorry CT. Even my battery is drained with life as a club currently Link to post Share on other sites
northern boro 446 Posted February 16, 2020 Share Posted February 16, 2020 Link to post Share on other sites
TLF10 4,440 Posted February 16, 2020 Share Posted February 16, 2020 14 minutes ago, northern boro said: 8 figure sum minimum. Next... Link to post Share on other sites
Borodane 6,246 Posted February 16, 2020 Share Posted February 16, 2020 3 hours ago, TLF10 said: 8 figure sum minimum. Next... Haha. Tbh I think we will do well to get more than 4 million for him. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
BillyWoofs_shinpad 1,884 Posted February 16, 2020 Share Posted February 16, 2020 On 2/15/2020 at 6:21 PM, wilsoncgp said: Remember when we bought Bola and Dijksteel in the summer to play in those positions? Remember when we replaced Gibson with Flint? It's fine to say we can replace them, their position in the squad is replaceable, of course it is, we could re-sign Martin Cranie to cover all those positions. But that's not effectively replacing them. Selling Fry and replacing him with any old centre-back represents a bad overall recruitment process. Our dealings for a long time have shown that we can't seem to spend money effectively. So it'll be a while before I can just look at selling any of our young players as 'a good bit of business'. 30 million for the three of them, then bring through the next ones, that’s the current business model. Link to post Share on other sites
wilsoncgp 9,228 Posted February 16, 2020 Share Posted February 16, 2020 19 minutes ago, BillyWoofs_shinpad said: 30 million for the three of them, then bring through the next ones, that’s the current business model. No it isn't. If it was, we wouldn't have bought the 3 lads we did this summer, nor the keeper we bought this January. We'd have Brynn in with the first team squad on match-days rather than Stojanovic. We'd have kept Reading rather than signed Bola. We'd be playing Wood rather than loaning and talking to the press about signing Moukoudi 'if the price is right'. Link to post Share on other sites
Smoggydownsouth 1,621 Posted February 17, 2020 Share Posted February 17, 2020 The friend story in the EG today is possible job role within academy next season... asked about issues over returning to early etc and was told they weren't aware of any ongoing issues...then again they may not even know. Link to post Share on other sites
nunthorpered 1,920 Posted February 17, 2020 Share Posted February 17, 2020 Don't know if this counts as other boro stuff, but media saying Barcelona are trying to get Braithwaite hahaha Link to post Share on other sites
TeaCider24 12,395 Posted February 17, 2020 Share Posted February 17, 2020 Ravel Morrison is off to play for Jamaica for the first time next month, he might actually get some game time. Link to post Share on other sites
Borodane 6,246 Posted February 17, 2020 Share Posted February 17, 2020 1 hour ago, nunthorpered said: Don't know if this counts as other boro stuff, but media saying Barcelona are trying to get Braithwaite hahaha Yeah I just read that. Barca can bring in one player outside the transfer window due to their injury crisis, and apparently their new coach wants someone who can play striker and wide left. Hope we inserted a decent sell on clause considering we took a big hit on his fee. I can't imagine Leganes are going to let him go cheaply considering they are in a relegation battle and Barca have the funds and are pretty desperate. Link to post Share on other sites
DurhamRed 2,043 Posted February 17, 2020 Share Posted February 17, 2020 6 hours ago, nunthorpered said: Don't know if this counts as other boro stuff, but media saying Barcelona are trying to get Braithwaite hahaha Just seen this well hopefully his ego can be massaged now if he gets the move. As when he was here it was clear he had a inferiority complex and saw the club below him. I blame Pulis though as he didn't help one bit and a firing Braithwaite did get us to the top of the championship until he pulled a sulky as he didn't move until January. But he just needed Pulis to love him abit of man management skill but Pulis saw him as being on mega bucks and not putting the effort in to earn the wage so went public causing Braithwaite to get even more angry. I don't understand the benefit of Pulis coming out and destroying a player publicly also half of it was fake news anyway. As I reckon Braithwaite questioned Pulis at times in training so they were at lockerheads. Link to post Share on other sites
Borodane 6,246 Posted February 18, 2020 Share Posted February 18, 2020 Do anyone know if we have a sell on clause for Braithwaite? It looks like he is joining Barca imminently and they are ready to pay his release clause which is thought to be around 16 million pounds. That's roughly 10 million more than we sold him for iirc, so you'd hope we inserted a decent clause to counter the fee that was significantly lower than what we paid. What a profit for Leganes though in only 7 months. Link to post Share on other sites
BoroAbroad 321 Posted February 18, 2020 Share Posted February 18, 2020 29 minutes ago, Borodane said: Do anyone know if we have a sell on clause for Braithwaite? It looks like he is joining Barca imminently and they are ready to pay his release clause which is thought to be around 16 million pounds. That's roughly 10 million more than we sold him for iirc, so you'd hope we inserted a decent clause to counter the fee that was significantly lower than what we paid. What a profit for Leganes though in only 7 months. Shows what can happen if you put a player in the shop window. Another fine example of MFC 'business'. Link to post Share on other sites
BillyWoofs_shinpad 1,884 Posted February 18, 2020 Share Posted February 18, 2020 35 minutes ago, Borodane said: Do anyone know if we have a sell on clause for Braithwaite? It looks like he is joining Barca imminently and they are ready to pay his release clause which is thought to be around 16 million pounds. That's roughly 10 million more than we sold him for iirc, so you'd hope we inserted a decent clause to counter the fee that was significantly lower than what we paid. What a profit for Leganes though in only 7 months. Oh I expect so, don’t you? 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Borodane 6,246 Posted February 18, 2020 Share Posted February 18, 2020 27 minutes ago, BillyWoofs_shinpad said: Oh I expect so, don’t you? I can't tell if you're ironic but yes I'd expect we did. We sold a player for less than we paid to a team in the top spanish league. I'd expect us to demand a clause in the event that he should do well so we could recoup some more money. Leganes also got an interntational player for a price they could afford. That said Leganes cuold easily have refused knowing that we were desperate to get rid of him and couldn't afford to keep him. We weren't exactly in the best position. Link to post Share on other sites
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