by ferrarilover » 20 Jan 2011, 23:39
Gulliball wrote:Manset is going to Crystal Palace:
http://www.thisiscroydontoday.co.uk/eag ... ticle.html
Fee is meant to be in excess of 500k.
Rotherham have turned down a seven figure bid for Le Fondre, and have set a 2m price tag on him.
Exeter are up the road getting big fee after big fee.
We have a number of talented young players, and getting decent fees for them is the only way we're going to grow as a club, as our attendences and budget aren't anything special in this division. Who was the last player we managed to sell for a big fee - David Graham in 2004? Benyon will score around the same number of goals this season if he stays, maybe more, so if we can't even get the 215k we got for him then we'll be going backwards.
Roberts wasn't interested in the club, and the 95k for Jamie Ward was a travesty. But the board at the moment have no excuses for not getting the full value of the squad. What's the point of building a young squad, young manager etc and then giving them away before we've progressed.
Hardly surprising, I did warn you, I did, but would you listen, NO, you just wanted to pick on my choice of adjective!
Benners is younger than ALF, and has just 4 fewer goals so far this season. Clubs are all over him because he gets a disproportional amount of the headlines. A little like Darren Bent, who would have guessed that over a certain time frame (which I can't remember or be arsed to look up) he is just one goal behind joint leaders Drogba and Rooney with 81 goals. I nearly soiled myself in protest when I heard the fee for Bent, then I realised that he is a much better player than I thought he was, it's just he doesn't get the headlines, for whatever reason. On this principle, if ALF is subject to bids in excess of £1m, Benyon MUST be 'bite your arm off, thank you very much' value at £250,000.
Matt.
[quote="Gulliball"][color=#FF0000]Manset is going to Crystal Palace:[/color]
http://www.thisiscroydontoday.co.uk/eagles/crystalpalace/Eagles-closing-Bulls-young-French-striker/article-3124757-detail/article.html
Fee is meant to be in excess of 500k.
Rotherham have turned down a seven figure bid for Le Fondre, and have set a 2m price tag on him.
Exeter are up the road getting big fee after big fee.
We have a number of talented young players, and getting decent fees for them is the only way we're going to grow as a club, as our attendences and budget aren't anything special in this division. Who was the last player we managed to sell for a big fee - David Graham in 2004? Benyon will score around the same number of goals this season if he stays, maybe more, so if we can't even get the 215k we got for him then we'll be going backwards.
Roberts wasn't interested in the club, and the 95k for Jamie Ward was a travesty. But the board at the moment have no excuses for not getting the full value of the squad. What's the point of building a young squad, young manager etc and then giving them away before we've progressed.[/quote]
Hardly surprising, I did warn you, I did, but would you listen, NO, you just wanted to pick on my choice of adjective!
Benners is younger than ALF, and has just 4 fewer goals so far this season. Clubs are all over him because he gets a disproportional amount of the headlines. A little like Darren Bent, who would have guessed that over a certain time frame (which I can't remember or be arsed to look up) he is just one goal behind joint leaders Drogba and Rooney with 81 goals. I nearly soiled myself in protest when I heard the fee for Bent, then I realised that he is a much better player than I thought he was, it's just he doesn't get the headlines, for whatever reason. On this principle, if ALF is subject to bids in excess of £1m, Benyon MUST be 'bite your arm off, thank you very much' value at £250,000.
Matt.
