Brooks Bid

[mancunianblade]

Us and Brooks are playing this well at last. Clubs has finally realised we can hold onto a player for even an extra 6 months, in that time his value can only increase and in the mean time he can help us go up. if his performances carry on and his potential is realised the clubs who were at the bottom end of the PL table will be replaced by ones at the top and if he moves the tag of development player will become first team member.

In an dream world we keep him he becomes our Ryan Giggs and in makes a load of European appearances in the red and white in reality he will move on in the summer for best part of £20m and people will still complain its 20% of what we could have got for him.

As it stands we hold all the cards and we're playing a blinder I must say.

 

[Blade58]

I’m arguing with myself about this for feck’s sake
Whatever the facts are that we don’t know, we do know is that he’s just got his first Senior goal & has just signed a belting contract for a young lad that is good for him & the club.
Both of those things mean that when the sniffers come, and they will, they’d better bring a shit load of cash.
Me - think he’s going nowhere in January.

CW says he's going nowhere in Jan then he isn't

The Prince hasn't said they have to back CW's ambition for nothing

The board know the score. They know he's ambitious. They also know his worth to the club

 

[blade too long]

dont get how anyone can think Wilder would leave us
its ludicrous
he can do no better than stay here and get us in the prem

if he does it he will become the first manager ever to do from level 4 to 1 in consecutive seasons
how can a prem team lure him away from the place he wants to be

he wants this job here , hes ecstatic about being here
taking 3, 4 or 6 times as much money is not even an issue
its job satisfaction , hes adored here, go somewhere else hes exposed to getting results at all costs
with a squad he didnt assemble and fans with nothing but contempt for him if theres no instant success

its a vocation to wilder getting us to the prem , not just a job

 

[Yewsman]

£20m is the new minimum for Brooks.

I'm confident our owners will see it that way too.

The other thing is what would we do with £20 mill? All our best signings have cost nothing - Fleck, Wright, Duffy, Bash, Coutts(?), Stevens or very little - Freeman, Baldock, JOC, Leon, Lundstram. Even Stearman was a modest fee. Would CW/AK want to go shopping for players who cost £10 mill and would want wages that are out of line with the current wage structure and risk destroying the team spirit? Would a £10 mill striker actually be better than Leon or Billy? Look at that German guy that Leeds had up front. Don't know how much he cost or what wages he is on but I bet both are a lot and he was frankly completely useless.
I hope and think we will certainly keep Brooko at least until the summer. Loving the ride!
UTB

 

[itsinyerblood]

I'm just repeating what other posters have said - there's no point being vague about the chances of promotion, we're (for the moment) top of the Championship, we're playing out of our skins, when necessary we can scrap with the best this division has to offer, so if the Premiership is within our grasp why would Wilder consider selling such a wonderful talent? We have Brooks for a further 4 years, so there's no need to panic. Of course, you could look at Southampton and follow their lead, where selling gifted young players became the norm as they had such a good academy that they could afford to off-load established players, but we're not quite in that league, at least yet.

What our current success will do is provide us with a gloss that is attractive to young footballers regionally and nationally. No matter what the Man City's, Spurs, or Chelsea's of this world feel is theirs as of a right, there'll always be a surplus of young talent eager to be accepted and wanting to take the chance of becoming a first team player. No doubt our academy, which is already established, will look to up their ambitions should we get promoted.....but I'm straying from the topic of this thread, the prospect of becoming a Premiership club will appeal to the ambitions and career potential of everyone connected with the Blades, and young Brooks will very much be central to these ambitions. If we achieve promotion we won't be going there for a jolly, for a quick-take-the-money-and-run outing, we'll want to earn the right to remain there the following season, and within this ambition Brooks can grow and progress. We have great players already, imagine what being in the Premiership will enable us to bring to the club? Wilder's ability to spot good footballer's is excellent, so why would that suddenly stop once we're a dedicated Prem team?

I know I may seem to be getting ahead of myself, but why not dream? Isn't that what being a supporter is meant to involve? After all, we've had 6 fucking seasons wasting away in the lower rungs of the Football League, so why not think about what could be. Wilder wants to manager in the Premiership, so why not with the Blades? If you doubt any of this then consider, it was 14 months ago that the mighty Blades were bottom of Division 1, and now, after one small miracle followed by another, here we are, currently top of the Championship. Later today or tomorrow we may have to hand that crown to a lesser club, but we've shown we're as good as we want to be, and that, after all, is what ambition is all about. UTMB!

 

[Lil red rooster]

No one wants to see our best players leave, but we all know that there are only 1 or 2 clubs in the world that don't sell their best players. Even Barcelona sold Neymar!

My biggest issue with United is that we get a £1m bid and think we've ripped off the buying club. Hopefully that is changing and if Brooks does leave we might be able to get a fee of £8m - £10m.

if we sell brooks for 8 to 10 poxy million I'll be bloody apoplectic .

 

[raimond]

We've had some great young players come through, Jags, the Kyles, Maguire, definitely the young Tonge & Woodhouse, but never anyone remotely with his potential.

He's bloody ridiculous isn't he. He's got to be by far the biggest prospect in English football. I know we get excited, but this isn't bollocks being spoken about like Diego & Jordan Slew, he's young Giggs or Rooney good.

He's in the perfect position with us riding the crest of a wave with a genius in charge, adding 500k to his value every time he plays. Bollocks to say he'd be a squad player at Liverpool or whatever, the big boys'll all be after him & want him playing.

Like others have said, keep him & see what happens. He'll go for daft money when he goes. Potential to be big on a world stage that feller, crazy to think we've got all this going on & him n'all

 

[JohnDenver]

We've had some great young players come through, Jags, the Kyles, Maguire, definitely the young Tonge & Woodhouse, but never anyone remotely with his potential.

He's bloody ridiculous isn't he. He's got to be by far the biggest prospect in English football. I know we get excited, but this isn't bollocks being spoken about like Diego & Jordan Slew, he's young Giggs or Rooney good.

He's in the perfect position with us riding the crest of a wave with a genius in charge, adding 500k to his value every time he plays. Bollocks to say he'd be a squad player at Liverpool or whatever, the big boys'll all be after him & want him playing.

Like others have said, keep him & see what happens. He'll go for daft money when he goes. Potential to be big on a world stage that feller, crazy to think we've got all this going on & him n'all

It’s a shame Wales didn’t make the World Cup in that regard. A couple of good games there a player’s value goes crazy.

 

[Carlton Blade]

And we nearly loaned him to the worst team in the football league Thank fuck he had a good pre season

 

[YES Blade]

if we sell brooks for 8 to 10 poxy million I'll be bloody apoplectic .

At this moment in time I think £8m - £10m is about the right value. Brooks is showing great potential but he's still only made 14 appearances with the majority of those being from the bench and has 1 goal.

Come January/May we could be looking at £20m+ but at the moment he isn't worth that. The key is to keep him as long as possible and turn that potential into a proven talent.