Elliot Anderson (now playing for Nottingham Forest)

[Deuce]

5 hours ago, RUHRLYASLEEVESUP said:

If he had stayed here, he would of been one of the best impact subs (60 mins) in the Premier League I think 

He’d be starting for us at this point.

[Heron]

Looking excellent

[Ben]

5 minutes ago, Heron said:

Looking excellent

 

Aye, i reckon him Rice and Jude will start the first game 

[Crimson Cardigan]

He’s so good man. It’s hard to take, still.

[vexred]

£120M for him would be crazy. 

[Weezertron]

Can I get this lad erased from my mind a la Eternal Sunshine.

 

 

 

Edited Wednesday at 20:57 by Weezertron

[duo]

23 minutes ago, vexred said:

£120M for him would be crazy. 

Such a mistake not putting in some sell on clause - Forrest took us to the cleaners.

[Geordie Ahmed]

4 minutes ago, duo said:

Such a mistake not putting in some sell on clause - Forrest took us to the cleaners.

 Selling him was the mistake but once we did that we were never getting a sell on clause inserted, we were selling from a position of weakness

[vexred]

8 minutes ago, duo said:

Such a mistake not putting in some sell on clause - Forrest took us to the cleaners.

 

Said that ages ago but people told me we weren't in a position to do that, which I thought was bs. 

[The Prophet]

2 minutes ago, vexred said:

 

Said that ages ago but people told me we weren't in a position to do that, which I thought was bs. 

 

We weren't, we were desperate.

[duo]

****king sucks that a club with 115 charges for cheating (let's call a spade a spade) - gets to spend £120mil on a player we had to give away just to comply with these bollocks rules.

[80]

The mistake was PIF not doing the land purchase fiddle that summer rather than waiting a couple of years. A totally different pathway would've opened up.

[Joe1984]

2 minutes ago, duo said:

****king sucks that a club with 115 charges for cheating (let's call a spade a spade) - gets to spend £120mil on a player we had to give away just to comply with these bollocks rules.

The system works as intended...

[Hanshithispantz]

We should have listened to those Bristol Rovers fans.

[TheBrownBottle]

19 minutes ago, 80 said:

The mistake was PIF not doing the land purchase fiddle that summer rather than waiting a couple of years. A totally different pathway would've opened up.

The mistake was PIF handing over the running of the club to who they handed it over to - balancing the books is pretty basic stuff, we would have known from January on what was liable to happen that season, and we were already out of the CL.  It was a small-scale version of Ridsdale, only with the capital behind us not to worry about it.  PCP absolutely deserved to lose their contract to manage the club, irrespective of folks getting misty-eyed about them. 

[Crimson Cardigan]

At least he won’t now go to Man U, which shouldn’t even be an option for any self respecting Geordie. And I can get back to wishing him well in a vague wishy washy sense, rather than actively being angered every time he’s on the screen.

[TheBrownBottle]

4 minutes ago, Crimson Cardigan said:

At least he won’t now go to Man U, which shouldn’t even be an option for any self respecting Geordie. And I can get back to wishing him well in a vague wishy washy sense, rather than actively being angered every time he’s on the screen.

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Lee Clark signed for the Mackems.  I don’t see what signing for Man Utd does in those terms. 

[gdm]

1 hour ago, vexred said:

 

Said that ages ago but people told me we weren't in a position to do that, which I thought was bs. 

People were right. We weren’t in a position to do that, that’s the harsh reality of it. Whether you like it or not. Christ we were that fuckin desperate we had to take forest keeper, give them £20m for the privilege and then proceed not to give him a single minute in the team but wait there while we haggle a sell on percentage.

 

how do some people still not understand the shit we were in?

 

 

Edited Wednesday at 22:26 by gdm

[Joe1984]

2 minutes ago, gdm said:

We weren’t that’s the harsh reality of it. Whether you like it or not. Christ we were that fuckin desperate we had to take forest keeper, give them £20m for the privilege and then proceed not to give him a single minute in the team but wait there while we haggle a sell on percentage.

 

how do some people still not understand the shit we were in?

Because we're 'The Richest Club In The World' and 'Deluded Geordies' etc etc. 

 

All that fun media nonsense basically... 🤣

 

 

Edited Wednesday at 22:26 by Joe1984

[Likelylad]

He’s a good midfielder. 120m is genuinely ridiculous. 

[gdm]

Tongue firmly in cheek you could argue it wasn’t a bad deal with this Everton ruling if we failed PSR we could be facing legal battles for winning the cup and getting in to Europe. Saved ourselves millions  

 

in all seriousness tho if we hadn’t sold Anderson we’d have got a points deduction which would have meant no CL and the £60-£70m revenue and all the additional sponsorship revenue so we may lament the poor fee we got for him but we made up for it in CL money 

[vexred]

11 minutes ago, gdm said:

People were right. We weren’t in a position to do that, that’s the harsh reality of it. Whether you like it or not. Christ we were that fuckin desperate we had to take forest keeper, give them £20m for the privilege and then proceed not to give him a single minute in the team but wait there while we haggle a sell on percentage.

 

how do some people still not understand the shit we were in?

 

 

 

 

You can think that it was the best we could've done in the situation we were in. I don't.  

[gdm]

9 minutes ago, vexred said:

 

You can think that it was the best we could've done in the situation we were in. I don't.  

It’s largely accepted that PSR window ends at end of June? Anderson signed for Forest on 30th June. There was no haggle room. Forest had us by the balls so much so we had to over pay for their keeper. We paid £20m for him a year after Forest paid £4.5m for him and we’ve no interest in playing him which speaks volumes. What you think we could have done better I’ve no idea. We had 1 day to do that deal or fail PSR. 

It should never have gotten that desperate but that’s an entirely different argument . 

 

 

Edited Wednesday at 22:46 by gdm

[TheBrownBottle]

29 minutes ago, vexred said:

 

You can think that it was the best we could've done in the situation we were in. I don't.  

 

20 minutes ago, gdm said:

It’s largely accepted that PSR window ends at end of June? Anderson signed for Forest on 30th June. There was no haggle room. Forest had us by the balls so much so we had to over pay for their keeper. We paid £20m for him a year after Forest paid £4.5m for him and we’ve no interest in playing him which speaks volumes. What you think we could have done better I’ve no idea. We had 1 day to do that deal or fail PSR. 

It should never have gotten that desperate but that’s an entirely different argument . 

 

 

 

There is nowt we could’ve done by the point that Anderson was sold - time was up.  Some of us said it at the time, but the obvious fact was that we’d massively overreached with the previous summer’s signings and really should’ve been offloading someone either the summer before or in advance of the window - obvious candidates would have been Willock, Wilson and Almiron, though a Joelinton or a Gordon would’ve immediately plugged the £30m hole in the accounts.

 

This was the transfer policy which ‘was not fit for him purpose’.  The combination of a manager who was blind to reality and refused to sell, and a board who were clearly not across the books.  

[KaKa]

49 minutes ago, Likelylad said:

He’s a good midfielder. 120m is genuinely ridiculous. 

 

Here's one thing I know for certain.

 

If Anderson was at Newcastle performing the way he has been at Forest, and starting for England alongside Rice, people would be demanding at LEAST £150 million from Man City and saying £120 million wasn't enough.