ClaphamFox Posted 5 August 2022 Share Posted 5 August 2022 1 minute ago, Col city fan said: Moving back to the real world… I have a sneaky feeling if they offered it, we’d accept 70 mill Not a chance. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrispinLA in Texas Posted 5 August 2022 Share Posted 5 August 2022 Just now, Col city fan said: Moving back to the real world… I have a sneaky feeling if they offered it, we’d accept 70 mill 10m less than then Maguire! 8m more than Cucurella! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pliskin Posted 5 August 2022 Share Posted 5 August 2022 2 hours ago, An Sionnach said: Rodgers said he is not going , so if the club sold him anyway , Rodgers would be in an impossible situation. This is my stance. Surely if they sell him this will potentially damage the relationship with Brendan… Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ClaphamFox Posted 5 August 2022 Popular Post Share Posted 5 August 2022 (edited) 7 minutes ago, CrispinLA in Texas said: 10m less than then Maguire! 8m more than Cucurella! Exactly. Selling Fofana for £70m given his ability (which is significantly more than Maguire ever had), the length of his contract, Chelsea's desperation for a CB the fact that they've just paid £62m for Cucurella would be a horrendous bit of business, and I just can't see the club sanctioning that. Edited 5 August 2022 by ClaphamFox 9 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Col city fan Posted 5 August 2022 Share Posted 5 August 2022 9 minutes ago, CrispinLA in Texas said: 10m less than then Maguire! 8m more than Cucurella! As I’ve said before, the markets not as it was. I don’t want us to sell Fofana! But I think 70 could make us think very hard, especially after the broken leg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biggles22 Posted 5 August 2022 Share Posted 5 August 2022 Chelsea will be back in for Fofana. They’ll properly test our resolve with something around the $80m mark. If the club accept, it will indicate finances are more of a concern than first thought as this might well strain the BR relationship to breaking point. Hope I’m wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
splinterdream Posted 5 August 2022 Share Posted 5 August 2022 2 minutes ago, Biggles22 said: Chelsea will be back in for Fofana. They’ll properly test our resolve with something around the $80m mark. If the club accept, it will indicate finances are more of a concern than first thought as this might well strain the BR relationship to breaking point. Hope I’m wrong. I'm not surprised, without fofana its going to be another very difficult season 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fox1norfolk Posted 5 August 2022 Share Posted 5 August 2022 1 minute ago, Biggles22 said: Chelsea will be back in for Fofana. They’ll properly test our resolve with something around the $80m mark. If the club accept, it will indicate finances are more of a concern than first thought as this might well strain the BR relationship to breaking point. Hope I’m wrong. We have to get out of the habit of selling our best players and making our competitors stronger and making ourselves weaker. Except in the case of Mr Maguire. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrispinLA in Texas Posted 5 August 2022 Share Posted 5 August 2022 6 minutes ago, Col city fan said: As I’ve said before, the markets not as it was. I don’t want us to sell Fofana! But I think 70 could make us think very hard, especially after the broken leg How do you justify Cucurella going for 62m? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post GingerrrFox Posted 5 August 2022 Popular Post Share Posted 5 August 2022 3 minutes ago, Fox1norfolk said: We have to get out of the habit of selling our best players and making our competitors stronger and making ourselves weaker. Except in the case of Mr Maguire. We will keep selling our best players but when it suits us and for the most money possible. That’s the business model and fans need to accept that. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dahnsouff Posted 5 August 2022 Share Posted 5 August 2022 (edited) 5 minutes ago, Fox1norfolk said: We have to get out of the habit of selling our best players and making our competitors stronger and making ourselves weaker. Except in the case of Mr Maguire. Why? It is absolutely a crucial way of working for clubs such as ourselves! A club with such a low revenue compared to the fat clubs has to make significant money somehow, we cannot get to their level of revenue in the short term, if ever. Also these prospects such as Wes will always see us a stepping stone, and to prevent that means they do not come in the first place. Its disappointing at times, but it is required 100% Edited 5 August 2022 by Dahnsouff 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dahnsouff Posted 5 August 2022 Share Posted 5 August 2022 2 minutes ago, CrispinLA in Texas said: How do you justify Cucurella going for 62m? I am sure Brighton fans justify it the same way we justified selling Harry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chelmofox Posted 5 August 2022 Share Posted 5 August 2022 4 minutes ago, Fox1norfolk said: We have to get out of the habit of selling our best players and making our competitors stronger and making ourselves weaker. Except in the case of Mr Maguire. It’s our model! The idea is to make money on them and find the next versions. Or did you really think Fofana would be here for 5 years? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dahnsouff Posted 5 August 2022 Share Posted 5 August 2022 Just now, Chelmofox said: It’s our model! The idea is to make money on them and find the next versions. Or did you really think Fofana would be here for 5 years? I actually still have Mahrez still locked in my shed, what Man City have is a cheap knock off 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dannythefox Posted 5 August 2022 Share Posted 5 August 2022 4 hours ago, Sly said: Unfortunately, as great a servant as he was, he looked lost when he came back. He’d be cheap, would play and bags of experience. One more injury and we’re done down the right side. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lcfc sheff Posted 5 August 2022 Share Posted 5 August 2022 5 minutes ago, CrispinLA in Texas said: How do you justify Cucurella going for 62m? It’s certainly made me reevaluate what fofana is worth: 21 years old, was gonna be in the France team in the summer if it wasn’t for his wedding, quick and progressive with the ball etc etc. if Cucurella is £62m fofana has to be £90m minimum. No question. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leicester_Loyal Posted 5 August 2022 Share Posted 5 August 2022 30 minutes ago, Col city fan said: Moving back to the real world… I have a sneaky feeling if they offered it, we’d accept 70 mill The only way 70m would have been accepted is with some sort of deal with Colwill IMO, like him coming here for a season on a loan with them paying his wages and then we have an obligation to buy next summer at a slightly marked down price. Just a straight up 70m definitely isn't going to be enough, I think at 75m we'd start to come round to the idea, but would still take a few more mill in order for us to accept. Roughly 80m is the magic number for me, especially as we rejected 62m outright. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spiritwalker Posted 5 August 2022 Share Posted 5 August 2022 2 minutes ago, dannythefox said: He’d be cheap, would play and bags of experience. One more injury and we’re done down the right side. He’d struggle to get in a bottom of the championship team. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
An Sionnach Posted 5 August 2022 Share Posted 5 August 2022 1 minute ago, Dahnsouff said: Why? It is absolutely a crucial way of working for clubs such as ourselves! A club with such a low revenue compared to the fat clubs has to make significant money somehow, we cannot get to their level of revenue in the short term, if ever. Also these prospects such as Wes will always see us a stepping stone, and to prevent that mens they do not come in the first place. Its disappointing at times, but it is required 100% It would be a lot better to boost our development squad potential. Chilwell made a clear £50 million only a couple of years after succeeding Fuchs and KDH must already be a £25 million player. The more we promote the better , some can be moved on for a 100% profit. Our market successes are years ago now and my guess , at best after the sell on fee , we clear £35 million with Fofana, if we sell him now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coolhandfox Posted 5 August 2022 Share Posted 5 August 2022 27 minutes ago, Pliskin said: This is my stance. Surely if they sell him this will potentially damage the relationship with Brendan… Did he say the same about Chilwell? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Col city fan Posted 5 August 2022 Share Posted 5 August 2022 10 minutes ago, CrispinLA in Texas said: How do you justify Cucurella going for 62m? That’s been pretty much the only surprising fee I’ve seen so far this window. Would Chelsea go that massive for Fofana? We all hope so, but there’s generally a ceiling Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_77 Posted 5 August 2022 Share Posted 5 August 2022 2 minutes ago, Spiritwalker said: He’d struggle to get in a bottom of the championship team. Seriously. Simpson was great but he couldn’t even get in the Bristol City XI recently. What a ridiculous suggestion. 😂 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
splinterdream Posted 5 August 2022 Share Posted 5 August 2022 13 minutes ago, Fox1norfolk said: We have to get out of the habit of selling our best players and making our competitors stronger and making ourselves weaker. Except in the case of Mr Maguire. To be fair when we have sold our players the result has mostly made us stronger, the only exception Mahrez and Kante, following these sales I'd like to think the club learned a lesson and evolved to become stronger. I just cannot see fofana being sold, it just doesn't strengthen us at all unless the fee is so large and we have another player lined up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dahnsouff Posted 5 August 2022 Share Posted 5 August 2022 5 minutes ago, An Sionnach said: It would be a lot better to boost our development squad potential. Chilwell made a clear £50 million only a couple of years after succeeding Fuchs and KDH must already be a £25 million player. The more we promote the better , some can be moved on for a 100% profit. Our market successes are years ago now and my guess , at best after the sell on fee , we clear £35 million with Fofana, if we sell him now. No argument on making use our own development to fund future purchases, facility and brand development. Fofana I am unsure on, just cannot Chelsea have the gall to buy Wes after recent outlays, but owner hubris is pretty evident in football club owners!! Part of me thinks he will injure himself again which is probably muddying my thinking. Still think there is a price which we will entertain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
st albans fox Posted 5 August 2022 Share Posted 5 August 2022 (edited) 9 minutes ago, coolhandfox said: Did he say the same about Chilwell? Yes This is what he said today Other departures? “I hope not. These players are not for sale. We need to move players out but it’s not getting rid of everyone and certainly not our best assets. It’s something the club are very strong on. James and Wesley are training very well and working hard for our game on Sunday.” Prices that could prompt sales? “That’s down to the club. For me, I concentrate on football.” I have emboldened what I think is important brendan is stating the club position. If it changes then it changes. He’s not setting himself against the club. Edited 5 August 2022 by st albans fox 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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