Offer in for Brooks...

[Ldn_Rd_Blades]

I got told by someone at the club that Liverpool had bid over £10m months ago. This was reported at the time IIRC.

I'm guessing the reason this is in the paper now is united are letting the news he's going out slowly to soften the blow.

 

[HillmortonBlade]

If we sell him Wilder will be off. Is McCabe willing to risk this?

Really?? Wilder will leave This club (stated as a fact) if we sell DB?

I'm finding that exceptionally hard to believe truth be told. The going gets tough, and Tufty gets going? Not in my understanding of the man.

 

[Maidenhead]

IF (and it's a big if) we are going to be looking at £10m+ for him I would genuinely sell in Jan buy a £5m striker and £5m centre mid and start nurturing some more of the youth to come through. We need a proper CM and another forward more than we need a flair player at the moment.

And what are you going pay these new lads with?

Half of Brook's wage each?

It does bug me when people seem to think that the only cost in signing a player is a transfer fee.

 

[BushBlade]

Just one example among a great many though, isn't it? Lenihan at Blackburn as another one close to hand (not that that's necessarily worked out for them, or would have for us, with him being out injured all season).

Can't say I see £10m as being a special fee for him in the current climate & given the vast wealth swilling around. Would far rather the board waited till the summer & reassessed. Clubs know of his raw talent - his value's not going to go down. But, if he progresses with us, we could be looking at much more in the near future (as well as not looking like a dickhead of a club who sell whenever a Big Boy shows the first sign of cosying up to us).

No, it's one example of many that are basically the same. Blackburn were quoted as wanting £5m for Lenihan.

Who's actually said we've accepted £10m? No one. Because we haven't.

 

[Sean Thornton]

I got told by someone at the club that Liverpool had bid over £10m months ago. This was reported at the time IIRC.

I'm guessing the reason this is in the paper now is united are letting the news he's going out slowly to soften the blow.

October

 

[sufcboy95]

No chance at £10m!

 

[Razor1967]

Anything around £15 million and I'd sell, in honesty.

And where do you think this money would go??

 

[Pollingtonblade]

And what are you going pay these new lads with?

Half of Brook's wage each?

It does bug me when people seem to think that the only cost in signing a player is a transfer fee.

They can use the Walker or Maguire money. Or the Murphy money, Beattie, McDonald, Deane (twice)

 

[ForgeBlade]

Not bothering to read all 7 pages of this, but calling it as more clickbait from a shit excuse from a paper, in cahoots with the pigs, to try and unsettle our squad.

 

[robbiez666]

Anything around £15 million and I'd sell, in honesty.

Throw in a few add ons (caps/sell-on clause) and it would be foolish not to take it.

 

[Tom Bott]

My understanding is that the Premier League Club is Arsenal. The deal is £10 million and he is loaned back for the rest of the current season.

Is understanding the same as knowledge or more akin to gossip on the grapevine ?

Tony Currie has just said on RS that Brooksy is worth 20 million, if it's been on the BBC it must be true.

 

[Tom Bott]

IF (and it's a big if) we are going to be looking at £10m+ for him I would genuinely sell in Jan buy a £5m striker and £5m centre mid and start nurturing some more of the youth to come through. We need a proper CM and another forward more than we need a flair player at the moment.

What wages do 5 million pound players command ?

Piss the rest of the team off if you bring someone in who wants £ 20/30 grand/week.

 

[Kozzy_is_my_Dad]

Please United, tell them to fuck off. If we have any ambition we have to hold on to him, in the context of the currently missing Fleck and the longer-term absence of Coutts.

 

[HodgysBrokenThumb]

What wages do 5 million pound players command ?

Piss the rest of the team off if you bring someone in who wants £ 20/30 grand/week.

This is just one reason why the January Window is for small improvements, not re-shaping the whole structure. Suddenly going from a tight-knit, modestly paid squad to one containing highly paid stars is not likely to work. If things go well, the summer breaks are the time move things on to a higher level. 'Spend big in January, repent at leisure' is a Portuguese proverb.

 

[Kozzy_is_my_Dad]

Not really.

It would never be £15million up front, we'd be under immense pressure to spend whatever we did get up front within the restraints of the transfer window, and anybody we'd want would get another 0 slapped on the end of their price tag because everybody would know we've just cashed in.

No point in selling. Unless Brooks wishes to force a move through, he'll be staying put.

Exactly this. The money would be no use to us with immediate effect. Say no united.

 

[The Fox]

No doubt at sometime he will grace the PL with us or someone else and be referred to as " ex Man City " by commentators

 

[DifferentClass]

I’m not turning my ad blocker off.

Sites which force you to do that can get utterly wankered IMO. You're not gonna die because someone didn't turn their adblock off!

 

[Tom Bott]

Time for someone to invent the adblocker, blocking, unblocker App.

 

[sheffielder]

Can’t we just ban the star

 

[TJB.]

Hardly a resounding 'no'.

Up to the board to prove that the club really has turned a corner in terms of holding on to our talent. It'd be heartbreaking to resort back to 'same owd' after the times we've had since Wilder took charge.

 

[stringer]

I genuinely thought that most posters had more common-sense than to accept a rumour for anything more than what it is. I wouldn't mind if CW or Kev had been the source for such bollocks, but that's exactly what this is, bollocks. So lads and lasses, will those who've allowed themselves to be taken for a ride do all of us a favour, calm down will ya?

 

[TJB.]

 

[I should coco]

They can use the Walker or Maguire money. Or the Murphy money, Beattie, McDonald, Deane (twice)

Yes, it's all sat in a big tin marked "New player purchase cash".

Fortunately for us the Money Tree has paid all the wages and covered all the losses over the last 20 years.

 

[Esablade]

Yes, it's all sat in a big tin marked "New player purchase cash".

Fortunately for us the Money Tree has paid all the wages and covered all the losses over the last 20 years.

How does that affect the upcoming transfer window/possible sale of Brooks?

 

[HodgysBrokenThumb]

Stir with an unsubstantiated rumour which can only unsettle him...and they wonder why we don't like them

Fine to not like an article based on a rumour, though it does now seem that the story is true, and it has aroused great interest. But I don't get this as part of 'The Star is biased against us' conspiracy. James Shield wrote this item, and today he has written a piece in admiration of how CW and United have transformed a squad of little value into one worth many millions of pounds, with very little outlay. I just don't see the conspiracy, even if there are individual items we don't like. S6 come in for much more criticism at the moment.

 

[I should coco]

How does that affect the upcoming transfer window/possible sale of Brooks?

It doesn't.

The Brooks money will go in its own shiny new tin.

The Money Tree will continue shelling out for dull stuff like wages.

HTH

 

[Esablade]

It doesn't.

The Brooks money will go in its own shiny new tin.

The Money Tree will continue shelling out for dull stuff like wages.

HTH

Bottom end Champ/League 1 wages and fee's...

 

[Moan? Nope-I saw Longhorn]

Bottom end Champ/League 1 wages and fee's...

Which is where we've been for best part of last decade

 

[Esablade]

Which is where we've been for best part of last decade

Yep, ‘think Burton’.

 

[South Bucks]

Fine to not like an article based on a rumour, though it does now seem that the story is true, and it has aroused great interest. But I don't get this as part of 'The Star is biased against us' conspiracy. James Shield wrote this item, and today he has written a piece in admiration of how CW and United have transformed a squad of little value into one worth many millions of pounds, with very little outlay. I just don't see the conspiracy, even if there are individual items we don't like. S6 come in for much more criticism at the moment.

I understand what you mean and I'm not saying conspiracy its just that at this time of year we want Brooks focused on winning games and not being distracted by this stuff which can all go on behind closed doors with no one else needing to know until clubs have agreed a fee in Jan and need to talk to the player. If the stir had our interests at heart as a priority it might do this but understandably for them it appears to just want stories regardless of consequences.