CONFIRMED Rhian Brewster

[S15Blade]

We needed a starting striker, 20 mill isn't rediculous for a starting PL striker. If it gets to 25mill you'd assume reasonably that we'd have stayed in the Prem and he'd have contributed to that.

Really worried at the alternatives. The best of the Championship will have gone and we'll be left with nothing.

 

[Bladeinleeds]

People seem to forget that the budget was already depleted before Covid because of it being used to help fund Sander... which to me at the time was a fair gamble.

we were never going to have the funds Liverpool want.

Why were we even in for him then? It’s strange, we must have had an idea about what he’d cost.

why stay involved if we weren’t prepared to pay that? Move on get someone in and use the loan to improve Us further imo.

 

[Large Mendonca]

I’ll tell you what baffles me is why we have kept in this chase for as long as we have....

Hopefully because it's a smokescreen for another bid, somewhere..............

 

[EddieColquhoun]

At £19m initial fee it's a 195% of the initial fee. Reguilon is, as you say 208% of the initial fee, not massively different in my book % wise.

I worked the percentage out on the full fee because if Brewster had not hit any of the add-on clauses to the initial fee it's doubtful Liverpool would want to buy him back.

 

[Bladeinleeds]

Hopefully because it's a smokescreen for another bid, somewhere..............

Hope so - because if we only ever had say 10-15 mil to spend it was a waste of time when they became willing to sell.

 

[ben1987]

I’ll tell you what baffles me is why we have kept in this chase for as long as we have....

the word has always be Liverpool are likely to sell to pay for outgoings, there has always been serious / semi serious interest from lots of PL clubs. How did we think we were going to pull this off for substantially less than £19m - that never looked likely in this climate when ooo Watkins of going for 28m.

We must have know what the rough cost would be. So We are either preparing to match the bid or we have wasted months on this when we could have been perusing other targets??

we don’t know how long wilder has actively tried to push this deal through for or how much effort has actually gone into it though do we?

it could have been an enquiry lodged with 10 others at the same time.

I find it very unlikely that this was the only deal we were trying to push through.

 

[Antarctic Monkey]

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Palace have responded to his availability, made a bid and will bag him within a week?

We must be more decisive, put the readies up or ask for a price and if it’s too much move on.

We’ve been fannying about and will be 2 games into the season without a new striker

 

[TONY_TONY_AGANA]

Remember not so long ago when we used to sing that Chris Porter was off to Brazil? I do.

 

[Bladeinleeds]

we don’t know how long wilder has actively tried to push this deal through for or how much effort has actually gone into it though do we?

it could have been an enquiry lodged with 10 others at the same time.

I find it very unlikely that this was the only deal we were trying to push through.

I guess.

but 20m is the going rate for a PL striker. Wilder has mentioned him a couple of times, I don’t understand what we are doing if we didn’t have that or nearly that which we could pay for him.

seems like a waste of everyone’s time To me. We know the fee and we’re either willing to match it or we weren’t (no judgement).

we could have had another target through the door in that time

 

[Billyblade]

I think we never thought about buying him.
I think our interest was a loan

 

[Houso]

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Palace have responded to his availability, made a bid and will bag him within a week?

We must be more decisive, put the readies up or ask for a price and if it’s too much move on.

We’ve been fannying about and will be 2 games into the season without a new striker

I'd say this isn't the situation at all.

We'll have made some sort of bid sometime ago. The likelihood is that it never met what Liverpool wanted, or at least they've sat on the bid until they know the full picture. Now Palace come in with a bid, we'll either match it (if we surprisingly have the cash), offer an attractive counter bid or back out.

It's the hand we're dealt when we simply don't have the cash. We're a small club in this division with only one season's EPL income behind us. We're always going to be at risk of missing out on players and in my opinion, since we've come up we've done some incredible business given our restrictions.

 

[Cerberus Blade]

Why were we even in for him then? It’s strange, we must have had an idea about what he’d cost.

For the same reason that I go looking around in Maserati, Ferrari and Bugatti showrooms.

 

[Dublinblade]

this thread is a bedwetters paradise. Chill out, if we get him we get him if we dont we got for other options. Balogun, Iwobi on loan, Grant etc we either have the money or we dont its nothing to do with lack of ambition and a striker will be brought in. The short memories on some in here is staggering, talking like 25m is a drop in the ocean. Before last year 4M was our record transfer in.

We have the 6th highest net spend in the premier league since we came up, Covid has screwed us for 20m and counting. Get a grip people

 

[GrayBlade]

The window shuts on October 5th doesn’t it? IF we don’t sign Brewster who’s to say we won‘t sign somebody who will perform better than he will. He’s a kid untried at PL level. Nobody knows how many he’d score in our system this season just like nobody knows how we’ll perform this season with a different new striker.

Its just negativity for the sake of it at this stage, let’s see what‘s happened when the dust’s settled.

 

[Houso]

I guess.

but 20m is the going rate for a PL striker. Wilder has mentioned him a couple of times, I don’t understand what we are doing if we didn’t have that or nearly that which we could pay for him.

seems like a waste of everyone’s time To me. We know the fee and we’re either willing to match it or we weren’t (no judgement).

we could have had another target through the door in that time

What if Liverpool had hinted they'd be willing to loan him out (with an end fee and future buy back) assuming no one else came in for him? This was looking a possibility until Palace came in for two games into the new season.

 

[brownblade]

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Palace have responded to his availability, made a bid and will bag him within a week?

We must be more decisive, put the readies up or ask for a price and if it’s too much move on.

We’ve been fannying about and will be 2 games into the season without a new striker

FFS. Yeah we're fannying about! All we had to do was put in a bid and hand him the kit! Jeeeeeeeez

 

[RMBlade]

I think we'll get him.

SKY Sports also own a bookies. Just saying

They don’t

 

[BadgersBigToe]

Not 12 though is it

Had the other one scrambled yesterday morning

 

[Bert]

I guess.

but 20m is the going rate for a PL striker. Wilder has mentioned him a couple of times, I don’t understand what we are doing if we didn’t have that or nearly that which we could pay for him.

seems like a waste of everyone’s time To me. We know the fee and we’re either willing to match it or we weren’t (no judgement).

we could have had another target through the door in that time

In that case we should buy a PL striker rather than Brewster.

 

[Bookers Mullet]

It's a shame, but we move on. No point getting wound up about it, we don't yet have the budget to compete with established premier League sides.

 

[ben1987]

I guess.

but 20m is the going rate for a PL striker. Wilder has mentioned him a couple of times, I don’t understand what we are doing if we didn’t have that or nearly that which we could pay for him.

seems like a waste of everyone’s time To me. We know the fee and we’re either willing to match it or we weren’t (no judgement).

we could have had another target through the door in that time

I reckon we were probably willing to pay 20 million for him. But in the present climate it might have been fter a season long loan so long as we’re still in the division.

say 2 million loan fee,18 million next season. 35 buy back within 3 seasons.

by which time hopefully COVID will have fucked off, our revenue will have increased again and we’d have another seasons tv money int bank.

We must have had positive responses from club and player at some point or it would have been dead in the water weeks ago.

 

[BadgersBigToe]

Don’t know what people are complaining about the buy back

A 12m profit would still be one of our best ever sales figures wouldn’t it. More than we got for brooks for example.

Don’t see that as an issue at all.

And if he helped keep us in the EPL for 3 yrs it would definitely be worth it

 

[Antarctic Monkey]

I'd say this isn't the situation at all.

We'll have made some sort of bid sometime ago. The likelihood is that it never met what Liverpool wanted, or at least they've sat on the bid until they know the full picture. Now Palace come in with a bid, we'll either match it (if we surprisingly have the cash), offer an attractive counter bid or back out.

It's the hand we're dealt when we simply don't have the cash. We're a small club in this division with only one season's EPL income behind us. We're always going to be at risk of missing out on players and in my opinion, since we've come up we've done some incredible business given our restrictions.

My point is that we were probably waaay below the asking bid from Liverpool and have been twiddling our thumbs. Palace have matched Liverpool’s asking and could quickly clinch the deal.

If we hadn’t/haven’t the funds move on more quickly. We can’t afford to get in a bidding war, so make the best offer more quickly.

I know agents try to ramp up the interest, but if we’d made a £16/17M initial offer a fortnight ago it ‘could’ have given us a decision either way?

 

[Antarctic Monkey]

FFS. Yeah we're fannying about! All we had to do was put in a bid and hand him the kit! Jeeeeeeeez

Like Palace have?

 

[Houso]

My point is that we were probably waaay below the asking bid from Liverpool and have been twiddling our thumbs. Palace have matched Liverpool’s asking and could quickly clinch the deal.

If we hadn’t/haven’t the funds move on more quickly. We can’t afford to get in a bidding war, so make the best offer more quickly.

I know agents try to ramp up the interest, but if we’d made a £16/17M initial offer a fortnight ago it ‘could’ have given us a decision either way?

Sorry to sound snippy, but did you read my post?

 

[Antarctic Monkey]

Sorry to sound snippy, but did you read my post?

Probably not properly!

I’m apoplectic with rage...

 

[EddieColquhoun]

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Palace have responded to his availability, made a bid and will bag him within a week?

We must be more decisive, put the readies up or ask for a price and if it’s too much move on.

We’ve been fannying about and will be 2 games into the season without a new striker

This forum is blessed to have so many experts on multi-million pound business deals.

 

[Latters]

I don’t know much about Brewster other than what’s been said or shared in this thread so I’m not going to be slitting my wrists if we don’t get him. What I do know is we’ve been chasing him for a number of weeks now. If we ultimately do not get him, this approach has been a mistake. Every game we go into without our new striker signing we’re at a disadvantage.

I’m not upset that we can’t compete with other Premier League clubs when it comes to finances. They’ve been here longer than us and have earned more prize money. What I do find slightly frustrating is that we will have gone into at least the first two games of the season in a position whereby we aren’t as strong as we could be. With the league likely to be a tight one, we can’t afford to be giving teams a two game start, plus any time it takes the new signing to bed in, before we get up to strength. If it’s apparent we aren’t in a strong position to make a signing, move on and get the next one on the list done.

 

[HeCanDoMagic]

My point is that we were probably waaay below the asking bid from Liverpool and have been twiddling our thumbs. Palace have matched Liverpool’s asking and could quickly clinch the deal.

If we hadn’t/haven’t the funds move on more quickly. We can’t afford to get in a bidding war, so make the best offer more quickly.

I know agents try to ramp up the interest, but if we’d made a £16/17M initial offer a fortnight ago it ‘could’ have given us a decision either way?

All clubs who showed an interest in Brewster have had to wait for Liverpool to conduct other business, whilst also waiting for a decision on whether they would 'a' let him go at all and 'b' on what terms they would let him ago.

Liverpool added Thiago and Jota over the weekend and hey presto this morning things begin to happen.

No fault of ours.

 

[Vikkster]

Fuck this, I'm off to the Balugun thread.