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3 minutes ago, The Prophet said:

I'd probably keep him, unless it's an incredible offer. Adds depth across LCB and LB.

For me, he's someone who has value, that plays in a position we have good cover, and we need to sell to ever be able to spend. He's probably the most logical person to sell. If we just keep hold of him and never play him his value is going to go down and down. And I actually think he's a good player (though has been pretty bad for us so far).

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3 minutes ago, The Prophet said:

I'd probably keep him, unless it's an incredible offer. Adds depth across LCB and LB.

Understand the sentiment, but we have to start selling players (unless we finally start getting in sponsors). 

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To take it seriously, I'd leave that one up to Howe re: what he thinks he can do with Kelly long term. We also can't start to think of Targett as serious backup yet. It does sound like one to file under the 'good sellers' category, though.

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Kelly has to be seen as a long term replacement for Burn. I'm sure we would sell at a decent fee, but would take more than £10m. Just because we signed him on a free doesn't mean we have to give him away. Could easily get £15m considering he's only 25 and was highly rated at Bournemouth.

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1 hour ago, Keegans Export said:

if we get his £100k/week off the books

All articles state the salary is above that and several state  £150,000 per week.  Given he was a free, i tend to believe it is at least >£100,000. He seems to have demonstrated his versatility in his brief minutes with us but not necessarily his ability.  Would take £10M in a second. 

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4 minutes ago, TRon said:

Kelly has to be seen as a long term replacement for Burn. I'm sure we would sell at a decent fee, but would take more than £10m. Just because we signed him on a free doesn't mean we have to give him away. Could easily get £15m considering he's only 25 and was highly rated at Bournemouth.

As its widely known I'm no fan of Burn, but he's head and shoulders (quite literally) better than anything Kelly has shown

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2 minutes ago, TRon said:

Is it possible he's not a shit defender based on a couple of mistakes made early in his career at Newcastle?

 

 


Yeah he is not shit. I still think there’s more to come from him even though he is very unlikely to be top quality. 

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Just now, gjohnson said:

As its widely known I'm no fan of Burn, but he's head and shoulders (quite literally) better than anything Kelly has shown

 

 

Yeah, that's why I said long term replacement for Burn who is what - 33 now?

 

In any case I already said I think we see Kelly as an asset same way as Chelsea probably saw Tosin. Free signing who can probably be moved on for a fee down the line if someone comes in.

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6 minutes ago, Troll said:

 

:lol:  Isn't that exactly what we did with Boumsong?

 

Aye and it was investigated for being dodgy. Soyuncu going for 10m makes sense considering he's turkish and a regular in the national team. I'd be shocked if Kelly gets a £10M bid from a Turkish team, but we'll see.

 

 

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38 minutes ago, The College Dropout said:

Don't like CBs that can't win headers.

 

Unless a baller like Schar and he wins enough in the air.

 

 

He does seem weak in the air from what I've seen so far, but I assume we bought him on Howe's recommendation. I doubt Howe would buy a CB who was weak in the air so I am thinking there must be more to him than we've seen so far.

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