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So we’re getting about £2 million... let’s hope we use half that to use on signing a couple of replacements. Fair enough if they use the other half to make up for what we’ve lost due to Covid
Quote from: Retdon1 on January 12, 2021, 07:18:45 pmSo we’re getting about £2 million... let’s hope we use half that to use on signing a couple of replacements. Fair enough if they use the other half to make up for what we’ve lost due to Covid Personally, I'd be happy if we brought in a youngster with potential and banked the rest of the money...
Are people expecting a permanent signing to replace Ben or would you be happy with an ambitious loan ?
Brannigan from Oxford or has some1 already poached him
I'd be happy with a loan of the calibre of Smith or Sims, but I'd really like us to sign the next Ben Whiteman permanently (yes I know Ben started out on loan, you know what I mean). We do need to start building up our own, we haven't done that since DF was here really.
Of course this is all speculation but as we've said previously, as disappointing as it is, we have to be prepared for it to happen sooner or later.If a club matches the value that in his terms/agreement then you can't change the goalposts and breach that agreement. That is tantamount to standing in a players way. There won't be many League One players with such a high a release clause I would guessSome may debate the value that triggers his ability to talk to other clubs but you have to consider, he may not have signed his new contract in the first place and could be walking away for free and/or joining Barnsley for much less than his worth. Had he not signed a new contract, the same folk would be up in arms about that too. We may have never got Ben, or Cameron John for example, without these sell on clauses in the first place. What min fee would you say would be right for Cameron John??These matters are never as straightforward as we think.
Quote from: MachoMadness on January 12, 2021, 07:37:13 pmI'd be happy with a loan of the calibre of Smith or Sims, but I'd really like us to sign the next Ben Whiteman permanently (yes I know Ben started out on loan, you know what I mean). We do need to start building up our own, we haven't done that since DF was here really.Ravenhill?
I'd be happy with a loan of the calibre of Smith or Sims, but I'd really like us to sign the next Ben Whiteman permanently (yes I know Ben started out on loan, you know what I mean). We do need to start building up our own, we haven't done that since DF was here really.
Quote from: MachoMadness on January 12, 2021, 06:33:52 pmHoden intimating we're getting more than £1.5m for him. LH also says...From what I've been told over the past week or so, there is a confidence Rovers will be able to act quickly in bringing at least one player in once the Whiteman deal is fully confirmed. A possibility - and I stress the word possibility - before the weekend
Hoden intimating we're getting more than £1.5m for him.
I think it's about right. Wellens Stock and Mills Sharp all proven at championship level. Went for similar ish
Quote from: Padge_DRFC on January 12, 2021, 07:08:49 pmI think it's about right. Wellens Stock and Mills Sharp all proven at championship level. Went for similar ishAll of those were at least 8 years ago. Wellens and Mills left in 2009! There’s a lot more money swimming around in the Championship these days, Covid aside.
Say, for example, Whiteman’s agent engineered the move, and Rovers rejected the initial bids, perhaps said agent advised his client that withdrawing his services might force a move, and he did that last weekend... That casts Whiteman in a different light, and not a very good one. Bit of a tw@t really.