Brooks

[Nicolaus_Copernicus]

35m on Solanke + Ibe. 3 goals (all from Ibe) in 112 PL appearances. Would love to see our fan's reactions if they played for us.

....and yet, there's something about him that tickles my fancy.

 

[Nonamedhorse]

Rather have Wilson from them.

 

[bromtom]

35m on Solanke + Ibe. 3 goals (all from Ibe) in 112 PL appearances. Would love to see our fan's reactions if they played for us.

Sold Moose for between £6-10m and he's got 5 on his tod.

 

[LondonBlade89]

Apologies, I was being pedantic.

No need to apologise. I actually even considered changing the language when I posted it! But didn’t in the end.

 

[alcoblade]

We undervalued him. £50 million pound player.

So did hundreds of other clubs who didn’t think he was worth anywhere near that.

 

[Bladesman]

If Brooks does get sold for a few quid then we are due some cash.

 

[Cheesebored]

So did hundreds of other clubs who didn’t think he was worth anywhere near that.

Whoosh.

 

[FriethBlade]

35m on Solanke + Ibe. 3 goals (all from Ibe) in 112 PL appearances. Would love to see our fan's reactions if they played for us.

And Townsend...forgot about him too !!!!

 

[bromtom]

If Brooks does get sold for a few quid then we are due some cash.

If they go down you have to imagine Brooks and Ramsdale will get sold. Could come in handy.

 

[Bladesman]

If they go down you have to imagine Brooks and Ramsdale will get sold. Could come in handy.

 

[alcoblade]

Whoosh.

Fair play. But I’ve heard some seriously suggesting similar numbers.

 

[Ldn_Rd_Blades]

A Huddersfield season ticket holder said Billing is a lazy player. No thanks!

This one rates him, box to box with both feet.

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[Birley Blade]

Anyone who wouldn’t take Brooks back is talking shit, when he drives forward with the ball he’s dangerous. Exactly the type of player we’ve not got.

 

[Houston_Blade]

Anyone who wouldn’t take Brooks back is talking shit, when he drives forward with the ball he’s dangerous. Exactly the type of player we’ve not got.

I’d have him back. £5m max. He cost £11m and has played a handful of games since.

 

[Birley Blade]

I’d have him back. £5m max. He cost £11m and has played a handful of games since.

Taking into consideration his fitness levels, games played and how injury prone he is your valuation is about bang on. But, if he returned to us exactly how he’d left he’d be a first team starter for me all day long.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Anyone who wouldn’t take Brooks back is talking shit, when he drives forward with the ball he’s dangerous. Exactly the type of player we’ve not got.

Does he fit our flat 3 model?

 

[Danny Blade]

I think AFCB would want their money back at least, probably a lot more. If they are relegated that puts them in a weaker negotiating position perhaps?

If we do become interested in re-signing him once the window opens we'd have to hope we are the only serious club bidding for him as I reckon AFCB would prefer to sell him to a club other than us. Because if they were to sell him to us we obviously and quite rightly would be asking for his sell on percentage to be deducted from the transfer fee.

I know we don't really play with the attacking free role anymore but if we could get him back I think we easily could revert back to that formation while knowing we've got a Premier League quality player in Brooks to play in it. Even though he's had lots of time out injured since he left us, if ever he is out injured for us we know we've still got the formation we've played all this season that we potentially could revert to if needed.

 

[Birley Blade]

Does he fit our flat 3 model?

We won’t play a flat 3 forever, we need attacking options. I can’t name one player of ours who can pick the ball up and run with it, with an exception of Fleck. I’d play him up top tbh I reckon he’d do a job over what we’ve already got.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

We won’t play a flat 3 forever, we need attacking options. I can’t name one player of ours who can pick the ball up and run with it, with an exception of Fleck. I’d play him up top tbh I reckon he’d do a job over what we’ve already got.

I disagree mate, the flat 3 has been the biggest fundamental change that is responsible for our success this season. The shape is perfect for us and we don't really have a place for that Duffy/Brooks type player.

 

[Birley Blade]

I disagree mate, the flat 3 has been the biggest fundamental change that is responsible for our success this season. The shape is perfect for us and we don't really have a place for that Duffy/Brooks type player.

Wilder often changes the shape second half to accommodate for more attacking presence. Brooks is an ideal substitution, think back to when he used to make an appearance around the 75th minute mark. He caused no end of trouble for opposition defenders. He’s exactly what we lack, someone who can create something out of nothing. We need that, we rely a lot on walking it into the net and sometimes it just ain’t gonna happen.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Wilder often changes the shape second half to accommodate for more attacking presence. Brooks is an ideal substitution, think back to when he used to make an appearance around the 75th minute mark. He caused no end of trouble for opposition defenders. He’s exactly what we lack, someone who can create something out of nothing. We need that, we rely a lot on walking it into the net and sometimes it just ain’t gonna happen.

He's injured an awful lot of the time. That puts me off as well.

 

[Birley Blade]

He's injured an awful lot of the time. That puts me off as well.

I’m not necessarily all about Brooks, I just think we’d benefit massively from that type of player when we’re struggling as a team.

 

[Kozzy_is_my_Dad]

 

[More Bladier than thou]

We undervalued him. £50 million pound player.

Correction. We didnt. None of us thought that little of him, only Mcabe did. And we all know how he liked to sell sell sell. I think allof us can agree that Brooks was worth double at least.

 

[bromtom]

If he came back I'd play him behind Moose. That'd be lethal.

He's probably worth £20m now though, even with his limited games. You only have to make a few good passes in the Prem and your price goes up £1m.

I don't know who'd be in for him if Bournemouth go down, maybe Spurs but they're skint apparently, and I can't see City, Newton Heath, Chelsea, Liverpool, Leicester going for him as they've already got players like him. Chelsea could if Pedro and Willian leave I suppose.

I don't think he'd want to go to another midtable team like Palace or Burnley and I can't see him going to a promoted team.

Bournemouth might loan him out I suppose in the hope that they'll come straight back up.

 

[Houston_Blade]

Correction. We didnt. None of us thought that little of him, only Mcabe did. And we all know how he liked to sell sell sell. I think allof us can agree that Brooks was worth double at least.

£100m?!

He was worth £11m, that’s what we were offered.

 

[Ginger Gnome]

In our current formation, Brooks would play in the McGoldrick role, not in the midfield 3. Most of his best performances in League 1 were as the second striker rather than in Duffy's role.

The way some people talk you'd think he'd barely played for Bournemouth. He's missed all of this season up to now due to a serious injury, but his reputation is based more on last season when he was playing most weeks in the PL than a few promising appearances for us two divisions lower.

 

[CentralQuay]

If he came back I'd play him behind Moose. That'd be lethal.

He's probably worth £20m now though, even with his limited games. You only have to make a few good passes in the Prem and your price goes up £1m.

I don't know who'd be in for him if Bournemouth go down, maybe Spurs but they're skint apparently, and I can't see City, Newton Heath, Chelsea, Liverpool, Leicester going for him as they've already got players like him. Chelsea could if Pedro and Willian leave I suppose.

I don't think he'd want to go to another midtable team like Palace or Burnley and I can't see him going to a promoted team.

Bournemouth might loan him out I suppose in the hope that they'll come straight back up.

Out of interest, where do you consider Sheffield United to be in the grand scheme of the league?

 

[LardSardine]

In our current formation, Brooks would play in the McGoldrick role, not in the midfield 3. Most of his best performances in League 1 were as the second striker rather than in Duffy's role.

The way some people talk you'd think he'd barely played for Bournemouth. He's missed all of this season up to now due to a serious injury, but his reputation is based more on last season when he was playing most weeks in the PL than a few promising appearances for us two divisions lower.

Minor point but Brooks didn't play in league one for us. He made his debut in our first Championship season.

 

[bromtom]

Out of interest, where do you consider Sheffield United to be in the grand scheme of the league?

I'd say midtable, that's where we'd hope to stabilise for a few years. You look at Palace, Burnley, Watford (except this year), Southampton. Good teams on their day, competitive. We're around there I'd say but have a manager a level above those.

With a few more players and a headwind aiming to be upper midtable/Europa like an Everton.

If we get it this season that would accelerate things.

In getting Brooks we're in the same bracket as Palace and Burnley for his career, it's a shallow diagonal step, but we might have an advantage if we went after him because of his history with us and his family being near.