CONFIRMED David Brooks to Bournemouth

[nopigfansintown]

Nobody gets so little out their acadamy talent than United. In terms of game time and money.

The academy is doing very well in subsiding the loss making parts of the club.In May 16 Kevin McCabe said "the club was well in profit". Since then we've sold Adams,Ramsdale, DCL, Reed and possibly now Brooks.

 

[bladesmanluke]

Precisely the reason I’m happy to keep my season ticket money pocketed until well after early bird deadline.

 

[LJBlade]

Which isn’t remotely possible.

Fucking good one United

Yep, I feel Wilder is about to drop a bollock with this one. It would be impossible to replace a player like Brooks, even with the money we’ll receive

 

[itsinyerblood]

Bournemouth taking our best players on the cheap.

Never change United.

Who else are they taking?

 

[HeCanDoMagic]

Think we now know why there’s been so little incomings.

Which leads me to believe that Wilder has sanctioned this move.

Wilder obviously considers he’s got more chance of promotion with extra transfer money and no Brooks rather that’s existing budget with Brooks.

 

[LJBlade]

YAWN.

It would have just been quicker for you to admit you don’t have an answer, it’s not like it’s the first time you’ve made yourself look silly.

For what it’s worth I wouldn’t agree to sell Brooks for £12m but then I’m not the manager

 

[Luke1993]

£12 million plus Lys Mousett on loan.

 

[Blade58]

Could do with CW's view on this to clarify and put us out our misery so to speak

 

[HeCanDoMagic]

£12 million plus Lys Mousett on loan.

Is that fact or your preference?

 

[North East Blade]

Apparently https://www.thestar.co.uk/sport/foo...ve-sheffield-united-for-bournemouth-1-9225105

 

[BushBlade]

I’m not sure why Brooks would change agent if he wasn’t looking to move.

If Spurs or Liverpool are wiling to offer more than £12m then I can’t see why senior people at the Lane wouldn’t be contacting them. It’s not realistic to think that the two tight fuckers who own the club don’t want to maximise his price.

If we sell him for £12m then it’s because no fucker is prepared to pay more.

 

[iBlade.]

Bournemouth. The least attractive Premier League club since.......

Barnsley.

From Brooks point of view Bournemouth this is an ideal move. Even if not glamorous, Bournemouth are now fairly well established as a low ranking Premiership side. He has a decent chance of getting a start down there and if he does shine (no guarantees that he will) he will attract interest from Premiership teams with an even bigger pedigree.

 

[Pollingtonblade]

Same old Blades, first sniff of money.

Trust all this will be added to Wilders budget plus Brooks wages he was on?

Or was this the budget all along?

 

[Luke1993]

Is that fact or your preference?

I wouldn't say it's a preference because I've only seen bits of Mousett, though he does look decent. I think that would be a relatively good deal. Plus a 20-25% sell on clause.

 

[LS16Blade]

In today's football, Premier League clubs basically start at £10-15m for players. Even turd clubs like Bournemouth drop those sort of sums without even flinching. Those sort of fees are basically what gets thrown around on any old run-of-the mill squad player. The top 5 or 6 clubs, meanwhile, are now in a world where the starting point seems to be £35-40m.

Sheffield United has never lived in the real world, however. We laugh at Barnsley for being the land that time forgot, but in terms of football finances, we're no better.

£12m is a paltry sum in today's market. Absolutely pathetic. It certainly can't be classed as "silly money" unless the connotation of 'silly' is the opposite i.e. silly because it's a giveaway. It doesn't set the club up financially and it doesn't give us any particular muscle in the transfer market. Watch the sums of money that other Championship clubs throw around in coming weeks on Premier League failures or Championship specialists from rival clubs.

Frankly, this better not be true.

 

[AdamSufc1997]

haha mccabe at it again mccabe please sell the club to someone who actually wants this club to go forward

 

[mosbolad]

Let me be the first to say............

GLTTL

 

[North East Blade]

If it was the budget all along I’ll take 10 mil I thought it was less

 

[Luke1993]

I’m not sure why Brooks would change agent if he wasn’t looking to move.

If Spurs or Liverpool are wiling to offer more than £12m then I can’t see why senior people at the Lane wouldn’t be contacting them. It’s not realistic to think that the two tight fuckers who own the club don’t want to maximise his price.

If we sell him for £12m then it’s because no fucker is prepared to pay more.

I do think spurs might have something to say about this before it ends either way.

 

[bromtom]

What happened to none of the players in my plans are going anywhere and no-one wants to leave?

Pinch of salt and all that but ffs if true.

Just what we need up front, no Brooks. Unless we're spending whatever we get for him on a replacement (which we won't) we've no chance of getting anyone near his quality.

We'd be absolutely mental to get rid.

 

[Danetheblade]

If this rumor is true. That's a disgraceful amount of money to accept.

 

[Rob86]

Probably the most surprising thing in this window for me will be if we keep him.

I fully expect him to leave even if this is BS. It doesn’t matter how big we think we are, Ricky has summed up my thoughts - it is fucking Bournemouth - Wolves had it with Afobe a couple of seasons back, same thoughts with their fans.

Cash rich club so double your money, 5 year deal, any serious injury and your still ok for life, nice place to live, I think he’ll get game time, so if he was to go to a club, they are the right one for him IMO.

With the price, I’m not so sure they are stealing him for £12m - only if that is cash plus a sign on fee and not ‘a deal worth £12m’. He’s had 3 good performances - Pigs, Wolves & Leeds and not much else. The Maddison lad has played regularly for Norwich in the Championship, is only a year older, a striker so more expensive and not an international because he is English. If Brooks were English the international tag would be taken off.

 

[Dec]

People quickly forgetting that Brooks wasn't actually very good last season, excepting that game and a couple of other moments.

What if he failed to stake his claim for a starting place again next season? Would there be the same interest from Premier League clubs?

If Wilder thinks it's right to sell, he will have other stuff lined up that makes it worthwhile doing so. Just like when he chose to sell Adams and DCL, who also had potential relative to the league we were in.

 

[SwitchBLADE Smiles]

We've been robbed if it's anything less than £20 mill for a 20 year old full international forward...

 

[North East Blade]

Who’s played a handful of games

 

[Sean Thornton]

This fee the experts on here say he's worth. )15 - £20m. Where are the higher bids?

I never got an answer to the same question about Jug Ears or C-L .

 

[AdamSufc1997]

12m is an absolute disgrace, should have been 20+

 

[Danetheblade]

Disgrace is true. Absolutely shambolic accepting such a paltry offer. Standard united though. Expected him to be leaving. But not for absolute peanuts.

 

[Bladey]

Never believe theat rag, probably just taken straight from one of those Twitter accounts who's uncle's dogs brothers cat is ITK.

Wouldn't want to tell for less that 15m+add-ons. Championship goals, young, full international cap and English to top it off

 

[Bookers Mullet]

oh well, another promising talent goes, we can now look forward to six months of haggling with a league 2 club over 100k for his replacement.

This club really does know how to kick its fans in the bollocks