Say goodbye to Brooks

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Pinchy said:
Utterly predictable and increasingly tiresome.

Let's hope he's rubbish in future, eh?

In fact, at the risk of deflating the ever increasing mania, he did one or two clever things; he's a talent, but he wasn't great tonight.
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Boooooo. Hisssssss ;)
 
I would be gutted if we sold him. And not, "oh I wish we could have had him a little longer" gutted, as in he already looks one of the very best we have produced: along the lines of Walker, Jags and Maguire - such is his potential. We should be accepting nothing at all ideally, and where absolutely necessary only accepting absolutely silly amounts of money. We simply HAVE to keep hold of him. He’s in the right place here to learn, with a side playing the right way, at a club where there’s a buzz about the place, with the right manager and chance to grow and play regular football.

McCabe - DON'T YOU F*CKING DARE.
 
Stood out last night due to his pace and ability to beat a man (we don't have anyone else with either asset), however his final ball and decision making was pretty poor.
We need to keep him in best interests of the team and financially. He's worth a few million now and even if he doesn't dramatically develop, we'd still get a similar amount at the end of the season. Alternatively, he could have a cracking season and be worth 5 times the amount he is now. In addition, we are a little short on numbers and losing a player of his ability now, doesn't give Wilder much chance to replace him.
 
Pinchy said:
Utterly predictable and increasingly tiresome.

Let's hope he's rubbish in future, eh?

In fact, at the risk of deflating the ever increasing mania, he did one or two clever things; he's a talent, but he wasn't great tonight.
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I don't normally agree with pinky, but the usual crap comes out from most. Some people need to start enjoying life just a little. He won't be sold this side of the transfer windows so shut up with the usual moanatone shit, and yes I did spell moanatone right
 
But we can't stand in his way
He will sulk and throw a strop bringing the entire club to its knees.

He might even do his future prospects a world of good by refusing to play for us

We owe it to him to let him join a good club and therefore any fee we get is a bonus
 
JJBlade said:
But we can't stand in his way
He will sulk and throw a strop bringing the entire club to its knees.

He might even do his future prospects a world of good by refusing to play for us

We owe it to him to let him join a good club and therefore any fee we get is a bonus
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Doubt he'll sulk, doesn't seem to be that type, also it's not in his interest.

We could let his contract run down and then I assume we'd get compensation at a tribunal as he's so young and come through our Academy.

We don't owe it to him to let him join a good club.

The club will do what's right for the club and will only let him go for a fee so big that will benefit the club. If he's potentially worth multiple millions then doubt he'd sign a contract unless we make him the best paid player at the club and I really doubt we'd offer him anything in the £20K a week bracket.

It's a big problem in football, the financial gap between the PL and Championship is too big meaning unless a Championship club has a rich benefactor willing to gamble paying out massive wages then PL can cherry pick all the best players. All a Championship club can do is demand a massive transfer but then that means the player demands a massive salary.
 
I can't see brooks being sold because he's not quite the finished product?. I M O. He's got loads of potential and he needs to stay here so that he becomes an even better player under Wilder and knill. In wilder we trust. Utb
 
Liverpool blade said:
I can't see brooks being sold because he's not quite the finished product?. I M O. He's got loads of potential and he needs to stay here so that he becomes an even better player under Wilder and knill. In wilder we trust. Utb
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I agree, can't see any club making a big bid this month.
Think we'll have him for at least this season.

The truth is that Brooks has done nothing at all, in fact he's never started 1 game in league football.
He's a novice but is clearly talented and has massive potential.
So you can bet some PL clubs will be keeping tabs on him.
 
JJBlade said:
But we can't stand in his way
He will sulk and throw a strop bringing the entire club to its knees.

He might even do his future prospects a world of good by refusing to play for us

We owe it to him to let him join a good club and therefore any fee we get is a bonus
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I disagree, we should keep him to his contract and force him to play for us. Players always do their best when they're at a club they don't want to play for.
 



Pinchy said:
Utterly predictable and increasingly tiresome.

Let's hope he's rubbish in future, eh?

In fact, at the risk of deflating the ever increasing mania, he did one or two clever things; he's a talent, but he wasn't great tonight.
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Thought the same. Nowt special tonight. Takeaway all the hype and he wouldn't have stood out for me.

For all the shots he had never made the keeper dive.

One good run.

He was by no means poor, but wasn't head n shoulders above anyone
 
Sheffsteel said:
I agree, can't see any club making a big bid this month.
Think we'll have him for at least this season.

The truth is that Brooks has done nothing at all, in fact he's never started 1 game in league football.
He's a novice but is clearly talented and has massive potential.
So you can bet some PL clubs will be keeping tabs on him.
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DCL did nothing at all, doesn't stop PL clubs taking a punt of them for next to FA.
 
He stood out to some Leicester fans on the 'view from' !
 
Youth development is like an iceberg. Most of us just see the 10% above the surface. It's a whole world of its own, an entire industry employing a huge number of coaches and scouts.

The top ones will have known about Brooks when he was at City, when he joined us and every step from there to where he is now. They'll have known about DCL. The kids that recently played in the tournament in Ireland will be on databases kept by clubs and scouts.

The fact the game was on TV means nothing.
 
Posted this ages ago in another DB thread but this is still my take on things:

Ron_Justice said:
One huge question here - why are people assuming that patterns of the past will continue with CW at the helm? Has the last 14(?) months taught us nothing? CW is cut from a different cloth. Everything he says and does is as if it's coming from an aggregate of the comments on this very forum. Yes, he let Ramsdale go and DCL had his head turned, but neither of those were a Walker or Maguire - PL class waiting to explode. CW knows his shit and has already shown his cards in keeping Brooks at the lane. He's seen something and wants to be part of Brooks' future and want Brooks to be part of ours. In Wilder, we trust ;)
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Lawrence said:
we already have money to burn
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Burning £3.76 won't last you very long...

With regards to Brooks, hold out for £10 million & get him back on a 2 year loan, offer £2.5 of that to Backburn for Lenihan, £2.5 + Brayford for Irvine at Burton. Then pick up a decent striker for the remaining £5 million, should be more then enough for Wells at Huddersfield...











... easy this management lark :)
 
BushBlade said:
The top ones will have known about Brooks when he was at City, when he joined us and every step from there to where he is now. They'll have known about DCL. The kids that recently played in the tournament in Ireland will be on databases kept by clubs and scouts.
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A good point and when he joined us from City we weren't the only show in town, but maybe other clubs just didn't fancy him? Our academy has a well deserved reputation, so it is easy work to just come and watch our yoof games.

There may be one or too wishing they'd put a cheeky £500k bid in before the U20 WC, but he is now very much on the radar nationally and probably internationally. If we did make it clear we were considering offers, then I'd be very disappointed if we couldn't get a bidding war going and either secure him on a loan back, or some other genuine young starlet (thinking more Tammy Graham than Twiss / Coffie / O'Halloran).
 
Jesus_was_a_Blade said:
With regards to Brooks, hold out for £10 million & get him back on a 2 year loan, offer £2.5 of that to Backburn for Lenihan, £2.5 + Brayford for Irvine at Burton. Then pick up a decent striker for the remaining £5 million, should be more then enough for Wells at Huddersfield...
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You can't do 2 year loans.

If we get £10m Blackburn will know that and will hold out for their preposterous £5m.

Wells wanted to leave Udders to play in the Prem. He was on £10k/week (their self imposed max last season) but turned that down so presumably wants at least £20k/week. For a 4 year deal; £20k x 52 x 4 +13.8% NI = £ 4.7m.
That doesn't leave a lot of change from your £5m transfer kitty, does it?

Jesus_was_a_Blade said:
... easy this management lark
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Spending other people's money? Nothing easier.
 
Scooter_mcgavin said:
DCL did nothing at all, doesn't stop PL clubs taking a punt of them for next to FA.
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Yeh agree but a PL club bid 1 million for DCL when we were desperate for money and being in league 1 we were desperate for instant promotion, planning for the future was low in the priorities.

Now we're in the Championship we can easily afford to refuse 1 million bids for talented Academy players.
Also now that the club is no longer wasting away in league 1, we can now think about planning for the future.

It would take a big offer to prize Brooks away and I doubt any PL would offer massive sums for someone that is so untested and done so little to date.
 
Jesus_was_a_Blade said:
Burning £3.76 won't last you very long...

With regards to Brooks, hold out for £10 million & get him back on a 2 year loan, offer £2.5 of that to Backburn for Lenihan, £2.5 + Brayford for Irvine at Burton. Then pick up a decent striker for the remaining £5 million, should be more then enough for Wells at Huddersfield...
... easy this management lark :)
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Agree that's the type of offer that would probably see him go.

If this happened tomorrow, a £10 million transfer with a 2 year loan back would that be seen as a good deal by our fans? As you say we could strengthen the whole squad with £10 mill and we'd still have Brooks for 2 years.
 
I should coco said:
You can't do 2 year loans.

If we get £10m Blackburn will know that and will hold out for their preposterous £5m.

Wells wanted to leave Udders to play in the Prem. He was on £10k/week (their self imposed max last season) but turned that down so presumably wants at least £20k/week. For a 4 year deal; £20k x 52 x 4 +13.8% NI = £ 4.7m.
That doesn't leave a lot of change from your £5m transfer kitty, does it?



Spending other people's money? Nothing easier.
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Okay 18 months then, pretty sure that's what Roberts (Man City > Celtic) went for.

Wells was only a suggestion, the are other good strikers out there that £5 million would get you. But it depends on the player, are they willing to take a pay cut or maybe drop down a division in order to get 1st team football. Or are they happy getting splinters in the arse every week for a healthier bank balance. Not saying there's anything wrong with that, but some guys I'm sure would prefer to be playing week in week out.
 
highgreenintokyo said:
These are your contributions to this thread. I'm sorry, but I never get all these "must be a pig" "fuck off to hillsborough" comments. If you disagree, and can't be arsed to back it up, can't you just say you disagree? I think maybe you'd be happy on one of the Facebook "banter" pages to be honest.

For what it's worth, I don't really agree with shiposwaistline post (although full disclosure I haven't seen tonight's game, yet-it's about 7am here and I've just got up). From what I've seen so far, he's an exciting player, who makes things happen, but needs time and patience and support to realize his potential. I think he'll get that best here.
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"She doth protest too much, me thinks". New member from high green, backing up Pig scum? I smell yet more Pig shit. Last night sure flushed the fuckers out en mass! Having said that, they've not had a chance to infiltrate properly since CW came in, have they?
 
Offering him 20k+ p/w is far from a ludicrous suggestion.

In fact it could be a no brainer to do so.

If he's got less than 2 years on his contract, it could be the difference between getting £5m or £15m for him. And being able to see him in our shirt for another 2 years rather than another 6 months.
 
nopigfansintown said:
It's the club's job to get our best players (particularly young players) on long contracts and sell them at the right time, for the right price. If they don't manage to do this they are in negligent, or worse, in dereliction of duty to the club.The performance of staff in this area should be monitored, just as we monitor the performance of playing staff.
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Absolutely spot on. They better be fully aware of this. It seems to have been a significant failing in recent times.
 



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