Marc Guehi

[LFEE]

2 hours ago, Kid Icarus said:

 

Yeah. Despite him having around 18 months left on his contract he's just come out of the Euros as arguably the best player in the team that reached the final and were favourites. It's still a lot, but you can totally understand it from Palace's point of view. 

You can totally understand Palace’s point of view as they will rightly embrace the UK press narrative of the tournament and want top dollar (£65m)

 

Truth is he wasn’t the best player nor even the best centre half (thought Stones had the best tournament of the defenders).

 

So it depends which side of the fence you sit on.

 

I still feel we value him at £52m max and if we get desperate add ons for £55.

 

Going to be a fascinating last 3wks to the window as we play cat and mouse with our fairly limited budget it seems chasing two positions possibly.

[Kid Icarus]

4 minutes ago, LFEE said:

You can totally understand Palace’s point of view as they will rightly embrace the UK press narrative of the tournament and want top dollar (£65m)

 

Truth is he wasn’t the best player nor even the best centre half (thought Stones had the best tournament of the defenders).

 

So it depends which side of the fence you sit on.

 

I still feel we value him at £52m max and if we get desperate add ons for £55.

 

Going to be a fascinating last 3wks to the window as we play cat and mouse with our fairly limited budget it seems chasing two positions possibly.

 

I'd put good money on it that if you polled everyone he'd be at least top 3 and have a very good shout for 1st.

 

Agree on the valuation though, we don't seem to budge a great deal on our valuations and if it means waiting then so be it.

[Disco]

Haggling over how much the they get upfront more than anything I reckon. 

[LFEE]

44 minutes ago, Kid Icarus said:

 

I'd put good money on it that if you polled everyone he'd be at least top 3 and have a very good shout for 1st.

 

Agree on the valuation though, we don't seem to budge a great deal on our valuations and if it means waiting then so be it.

No I wouldn’t disagree about scraping into the top 3.

 

Think Stones, Pickford and Palmer would’ve pipped him but I’d say it’s fair to say he made it into top five. Top three if you give him the allowance he was a relative novice.

 

However you flip that and if you put it to a vote England to a man were awful including their manager.

 

So I think you’d agree also the bar was set very low for him to stand out?

[Bimpy474]

I think the wait is so they can secure his replacement first, nowt wrong with that. I'll hazard a guess it'll be green lit once they know their transfer is for definite.

[TheBrownBottle]

25 minutes ago, LFEE said:

No I wouldn’t disagree about scraping into the top 3.

 

Think Stones, Pickford and Palmer would’ve pipped him but I’d say it’s fair to say he made it into top five. Top three if you give him the allowance he was a relative novice.

 

However you flip that and if you put it to a vote England to a man were awful including their manager.

 

So I think you’d agree also the bar was set very low for him to stand out?

The back line weren’t fucking awful.  The problems started when the ball reached midfield. 

[Kid Icarus]

30 minutes ago, LFEE said:

No I wouldn’t disagree about scraping into the top 3.

 

Think Stones, Pickford and Palmer would’ve pipped him but I’d say it’s fair to say he made it into top five. Top three if you give him the allowance he was a relative novice.

 

However you flip that and if you put it to a vote England to a man were awful including their manager.

 

So I think you’d agree also the bar was set very low for him to stand out?

Your opinion is your opinion obviously, but maybe not necessarily a widely held one: 

 

Point being, not that you're wrong, but that Palace's valuation makes sense. 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited August 10, 2024 by Kid Icarus

[Scoot]

5 hours ago, Jack27 said:

Chelsea already have

 

Link?

[gazza ladra]

The only thing I could find

 

https://www.football365.com/news/chelsea-deal-newcastle-blow-as-interest-grows-in-65m-swap-deal-to-suit-crystal-palace

[Gawalls]

40 minutes ago, gazza ladra said:

The only thing I could find

 

https://www.football365.com/news/chelsea-deal-newcastle-blow-as-interest-grows-in-65m-swap-deal-to-suit-crystal-palace

He was at Chelsea and left so why would he want to go back? I genuinely think if he had the one from us and them we have a great chance of getting him to agree.

[Guest]

Maybe we're playing 4D chess, smoking Chelsea out so they no longer need Tosin and they send him here on loan/Free.

[RodneyCisse]

5 hours ago, TheBrownBottle said:

The back line weren’t fucking awful.  The problems started when the ball reached midfield. 

Aye, every ball to Rice went back to Trippier or Stones, which in turn went to Trent, which then went to Rice, which went to Saka, which then went to Walker, then Stones, then Guehi back to Rice.

[Dr.Spaceman]

It must be so easy to compete with Chelsea for non-elites these days though. Keegan would have a field day discussing the merits of coming up here over signing for them.

[WilliamPS]

15 minutes ago, Dr.Spaceman said:

It must be so easy to compete with Chelsea for non-elites these days though. Keegan would have a field day discussing the merits of coming up here over signing for them.

There’s probably about 50,000 reasons to sign for Chelsea over anyone else, every time 

 

And every young player believes they can break into the first team 

[black_n_white]

5 minutes ago, WilliamPS said:

There’s probably about 50,000 reasons to sign for Chelsea over anyone else, every time 

 

And every young player believes they can break into the first team 

Yep, for a footballer it’s a no brainer, 8 year contract on mega money and to live/stay in London. It doesn’t seem to matter how many players you’ll be competing against either.

[KaKa]

1 hour ago, gazza ladra said:

The only thing I could find

 

https://www.football365.com/news/chelsea-deal-newcastle-blow-as-interest-grows-in-65m-swap-deal-to-suit-crystal-palace

 

Tosin already given up on and getting messed about 

 

What an absolute clown joining that mess of a club man.

 

[Gawalls]

12 minutes ago, KaKa said:

 

Tosin already given up on and getting messed about 

 

What an absolute clown joining that mess of a club man.

 

To be fair football365 have been having digs at us all summer

[Toonjam88]

1 hour ago, Gawalls said:

To be fair football365 have been having digs at us all summer

They are a awful source 

[sushimonster85]

I honestly keep forgetting they exist. Which is wild given it was my go to footy site up till about 5/6 years ago. 

[The Prophet]

From the Ronny. If true, it suggests the reporting is well behind...

 

 

[Joelinton7]

6 minutes ago, The Prophet said:

From the Ronny. If true, it suggests the reporting is well behind...

 

 

Do we need a run up or something 

[George Bailey]

57 minutes ago, Joelinton7 said:

Do we need a run up or something 

Of Bob Willis proportions by the sounds of it.

[The Prophet]

 

[SUPERTOON]

2 minutes ago, The Prophet said:

 

The lack of urgency sums up our window tbh.

[Sibierski]

Schar injured and we’re pissing about with this transfer. Just get it done. Should’ve been done already and rolled out for 30 mins this weekend. 

 

Would even say we should sign Chalobah. Got 3 CBs, one is aging and now got an injury, other is aging and probably get injured, 3rd is a regular injury.