madras

Im not sure. If the player's agent thinks/knows others could ve interested (by which I mean alerts and sounds out, leaks direcrly and to the press) and others come in. You can try to be as quick as you want, the larger bids win . Just re read and you mean getting i reinforcements and yeah I agree. I was reaction to the often used "we were too slow for Pedro/Ekitike etc"

There's been talk about informal talks since last January. If their starting point was say a £100mill release clause, should we have agreed ?

Again. If he has as much say over transfers as we assume. Wouldn't he be equally culpable ?

Pedantic I know but not double. I had him on 140k which would widen it further.

He does like. If he'd been poor we'd have still owed him his salary and he'd have shouted loud and hard about what contracts mean if wed wanted to cut his pay accordingly. Gordons was slightly different given the way he was chased and abused by Everton fans before any mention of a move.

Yeah I explained that a couple.of days ago. Ive worked it anck of a fag packet style to about 75k. Even 100k would be short of doubling his pay.

Are wages not part of PSR ?

£ or $ ?

150 tomorrow is worth more than 150 in 3 weeks.

Remember it being a thing (didn't Ashley get Carroll to do that ?). Didnt know if it still existed due to players getting everything.

If we get what hes worth. It's a season earlier than most of us thought. Does his handing in a transfer request boost the price up ? (They used to get 10% of the fee if they hadn't didn't they ?)

No. NUFC will pay it.

As me old mam used to say "I want never gets". Tell him if he wants to leave it has to be on our terms, until then abide by your contract.

Down to the lake I fear.

They shouldn't whinge too much when someone points out their pay isn't cut and they can't be sacked if they turn out to be shit. The pendulum has swung too far in players favour and we are paying for it. This season is my first season off the 10yr deal. If my ticket had been over £600 I'd have packed in. I can afford more but can't justify it to myself.

Have we done that ? What are contracts for ? What if initial talks were held and the player's side wanted a release clause that we didn't?

Your post was worded like it was our window in particular not in general.

Dunno like. Look at the prices Gravenberch and Merino went for.

Like Ashley never happened.

I'd take that over giving in to him. If he moves he moves on our terms or he stays.

That's what Im saying, they weren't when we bought them or have those type of players stopped being out there ?

And knowing even if the career ended tomorrow you'd retire a multi-millionaire.

What about more Bruno's, Botmans, even Isaks when we signed them?

I think we could afford them, if others hadn't came in.

Hang on, if Howe wants players out of our reach then who's fault is it?