CONFIRMED Andre Brooks sold to Norwich

[Rudders]

We really are Banter FC at times. Joke transfer. Cant wait for his 5 foot 4, 32 year old, replacement to be announced.
Want to wish GLTTL but I know he will score against us home and away

 

[bladesmanluke]

Am I the only one who actually is happy with this deal? I don’t think he’s all that great and doesn’t have a lot of end product for a winger at Championship level. If the deal is actually worth 8-10 million like some reports have stated we all would have taken that.

We can use that money to reinvest and bring in better players. Trust me this was a good move. Just wait.

What? No we fucking would not. It's still not nearly enough

 

[Pandev]

Furious about this. Selling one of our best prospects / players who is a local lad to another championship rival is a joke.

Norwich don’t have parachutes and are in a similar position to us!! Makes no sense

We better be spending the cash on exciting players.

Currently zero excitement for this season

 

[Berkshire Blade]

What? No we fucking would not. It's still not nearly enough

If we paid 10 million for a winger with 6 goals people would be saying it's too much

 

[LondonBlade89]

Jack Harrison wouldn't surprise me one bit. Ticks all the boxes for Wilder.

What are the boxes?

Played in England
Past his best
From a culture he understands

 

[Æthelstan]

We really are Banter FC at times. Joke transfer. Cant wait for his 5 foot 4, 32 year old, replacement to be announced.
Want to wish GLTTL but I know he will score against us home and away

If he does well against us, I think I'll just laugh. Out of pain, but still. I could see him wanting to prove a point against Wilder if they truly did not get on.

 

[Rudders]

The 'Undisclosed' bit concerns me.

We will have had our pants pulled down financially, he will be sold for two or 3 times what we have got in a relatively short space of time.

 

[CaptainMorgans]

Wilder very much back in charge.

Kalvin Phillips coming in, Riedewald released.

Andre Brooks sold to Norwich.

Probably Seriki next.

Wilder wants his boys club .

Brooks put a post on Instagram recently referencing a lack of appreciation. It was quite clear what he was referring to, we saw it all last season.

It's not everyone's opinion, but we need to move to a DoF model or similar. We can't keep letting Wilder and his mates run all things football.

It feels a shame to me, this. It doesn't feel like the right time to sell Brooks & Seriki, they're progressing very well and one more season (probably) would've seen their value increase significantly.

 

[Thrice]

Am I the only one who actually is happy with this deal? I don’t think he’s all that great and doesn’t have a lot of end product for a winger at Championship level. If the deal is actually worth 8-10 million like some reports have stated we all would have taken that.

We can use that money to reinvest and bring in better players. Trust me this was a good move. Just wait.

He's 22. And in today's market he'll be worth 20-30 million if he takes the next step.

 

[Paisley Blade]

Am I the only one who actually is happy with this deal? I don’t think he’s all that great and doesn’t have a lot of end product for a winger at Championship level. If the deal is actually worth 8-10 million like some reports have stated we all would have taken that.

We can use that money to reinvest and bring in better players. Trust me this was a good move. Just wait.

Yes. Just you.

 

[Silkblade]

He's 22. And in today's market he'll be worth 20-30 million if he takes the next step.

He won’t though.

 

[Pedro Verde]

This is worse than any McCabe sale. Even he didn't stoop this low

No its not
If you think it is you need to give your head a wobble

 

[YES Blade]

I always try to wait until the window closes to judge the transfer business. But fuck me, we’re going to need to bring in some real quality to turn this window into something decent after this bombshell.

 

[bladesmanluke]

If we paid 10 million for a winger with 6 goals people would be saying it's too much

If Cannon is 10, Brooks is 15 plus. Easy

 

[SuperSonicBlade89]

Has anyone checked to see if Kevin McCabe is still hiding in the boardroom somewhere?

He's having a quieter life nowadays...

He runs the Sheffield United underworld/deep state. Located beneath the drinks kiosks on the Shoreham Street/John Street corner.

 

[hull-Blade]

Wow just wow

 

[Pandev]

This club makes baffling decision after baffling decision.

 

[Frank the tank]

Aye but we likely have a sell on and Norwich do get a tidy sum for players they sell.

Oh that's alright then

 

[The Vicar]

Am I the only one who actually is happy with this deal?

Yes!

 

[Jimmy Fleck]

All our targets to replace him will get snapped up by more ambitious clubs (like Norwich) and we’ll end up with a 5th choice 32 year old from Peterborough.

 

[Rudders]

He won’t though.

Come on Chris, just because he stood upto you and wouldn't go drinking with you down the Banner Cross!

 

[Æthelstan]

He's having a quieter life nowadays...

He runs the Sheffield United underworld/deep state. Located beneath the drinks kiosks on the Shoreham Street/John Street corner.

He puts on a moustache whenever he wishes to walk amongst the common folk.

 

[Silkblade]

I don’t get why everyone is so mad with this? Relax!

If we bought Brooks last season for 10 million for him to start nearly every game and only scoring 6 goals out of 46 games you are telling me you’d be happy with that???

8-10 million to Norwich is daylight robbery. We can get someone way better than Brooks for that price. There’s free agents out there being released from good Premier League clubs who would do better on a free transfer.

Please just relax and see the other side to it. Have a beer in the sun man. Fuck me.

 

[Kozzy_is_my_Dad]

Put your house on sale. Start a bidding war with Elon musk, the Saudis and China. Got it. Easy. Dunno why I didn't think of that.

You must know what I mean though, and you must be being facetious??

As in, if you are willing to cash in, make it publicly know, push his name. He's a promising talent.

 

[blAdes96]

What a ridiculously stupid decision.

 

[Gin&Juice]

Only fucking club where the managers drinking buddies pipe up on social media to have a go at the club, or insinuate/spread shit Absolutely fuck all done about it as well. We’ll never progress.

 

[Colombia Blade]

This is where we are in the timeline - some clubs whose parachute payments ended:
Charlton, Portsmouth, Blackpool, Bolton, Blackburn, Wigan, Reading, Hull, Sunderland, Huddersfield, Cardiff, Swansea, Stoke, QPR, Watford, Derby, Birmingham, Wolves, Middlesbrough, West Brom

Hull and Sunderland got promoted this year, and Middlesbrough, Derby and Norwich were pushing for promotion so that at least gives us hope.

On the other hand, the majority of those teams went down to League One...

 

[Nelson1889]

Am I the only one who actually is happy with this deal? I don’t think he’s all that great and doesn’t have a lot of end product for a winger at Championship level. If the deal is actually worth 8-10 million like some reports have stated we all would have taken that.

We can use that money to reinvest and bring in better players. Trust me this was a good move. Just wait.

I'd admire your optimism with the reinvestment and on that basis would you like to invest in some magic beans I have?

 

[Kozzy_is_my_Dad]

Please just relax and see the other side to it. Have a beer in the sun man. Fuck me.

Bit of a weird time to start flirting with everyone. How is that going to help things???

 

[jt64]

I always try to wait until the window closes to judge the transfer business.

Why? Don't even try to make the "it will enable us to buy players a, b and c" argument. Look at it in a vacuum. If it is a bad transfer, then it also meant that we did not bring in players x and y, and also needed to sell player z.

Of course, it is always hard to say what to think given that the club (understandably) won't actually disclose the exact transfer fee, but if they are obliged given the deal to not do so, they could reassure they've got close to value by saying something like "an eight figure sum". Which they didn't.