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  • Atletico Addick
    Atletico Addick Posts: 5,843
    In reality VG under this ownership is inept. Previously it was a good scheme, now it's pretty much payment for very little, a raffle and some priority to away games which are dwindling. Sad to say it as in it's prime it was an ingenious idea. RD funds the academy and RD reaps the benefits, wrong outlook? Perhaps, but in this modern day where football is at an all time price high, you don't want to fork out on something almost unnecessary, in my opinion.
  • Addickted2U
    Addickted2U Posts: 3,080
    What the club did wrong in this case was not announce a new signing by the end of yesterday - Bauer? - to soften the blow a little.
    Then given him the number 24, as has been conjectured, and a sodding big clue that Jordan Cousins was tying up a new contract.
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,733
    What I don't understand is given that a number of clubs were interested, why there we not little sweetners like loan players- loan back of Joe etc... I can understand fee if a clause in contract but surely the buyer has to work a bit or have we got the worst negotiators in the league? The other possibility as that we are not being told the full story and the deal could turn out to be much better than it looks right now.
  • Dave2l
    Dave2l Posts: 8,871
    We so should have held out till January and gave Gomez more 1st team action to play better and influence the 1st team but I guess it's easy to say that objectively when it's not my money and investment.

    What's concerning is that the squad is rather thin at the moment in defensive positions.

    I suppose that was highlighted this time last year so having enough faith we will get the players in by august.
  • Huskaris
    Huskaris Posts: 9,853
    MuttleyCAFC said:

    What I don't understand is given that a number of clubs were interested, why there we not little sweetners like loan players- loan back of Joe etc... I can understand fee if a clause in contract but surely the buyer has to work a bit or have we got the worst negotiators in the league? The other possibility as that we are not being told the full story and the deal could turn out to be much better than it looks right now.

    It depends but I read that they triggered a release clause? If that's the case Liverpool don't have to do a thing other than stump up the £3.5m
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 57,830
    What I really hope is that Roland's shop window approach to young talent doesn't bank on us discovering a Joe Gomez every 1-2 years.

    Because we won't.
  • oohaahmortimer
    oohaahmortimer Posts: 34,162
    edited June 2015
    AFKABartram said:

    What I really hope is that Roland's shop window approach to young talent doesn't bank on us discovering a Joe Gomez every 1-2 years.

    Because we won't.

    No one is that footballingly stupid , surely !!
  • kings hill addick
    kings hill addick Posts: 5,781
    AFKABartram said:

    What I really hope is that Roland's shop window approach to young talent doesn't bank on us discovering a Joe Gomez every 1-2 years.

    Because we won't.

    No we won't but Southampton seem to have done so don't they?
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,733
    But what if Millwall had offered £3.5 million and triggered the clause? Unless the contract stated that Gomez had complete choice – then the cost of any sweetner that a club may have felt they needed to give to us would have been part of his deal. What we don’t know was how hardball Gomez and his agent were, when agreeing the new contract. Maybe the club had no option. Maybe they didn’t negotiate well enough. We can’t know.
  • Jensenwasclass
    Jensenwasclass Posts: 835
    Man bursts into church and guns down nine innocent, peaceful people. - American problem not ours!

    Three English women and their nine children leave the country to join a Jihadist state in Syria. - Good riddence!

    The Eurozone on the brink of a damaging, Greek debt crisis. - So what!

    Anti-austerity protesters marching on the nation's capital tomorrow. - Just left wing mob + Charlotte Church and Brand!

    Plane stowaways dropping out of the sky over West London. - Should have worn a parachute!

    Charlton trouser three and a half million quid for a teenager. - Undisclosed, still a disappointment!

    Yep, I can see why you're upset. - I'm upset too (we are all entitled to our different opinions)

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  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 37,987
    You're about to get more flags than Augusta.
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,357
    kings hill addick said:

    AFKABartram said:

    What I really hope is that Roland's shop window approach to young talent doesn't bank on us discovering a Joe Gomez every 1-2 years.

    Because we won't.

    No we won't but Southampton seem to have done so don't they?
    blame Les Reed ..
  • The_President
    The_President Posts: 14,280
    3m(or supposedly more) for JG, and 8m (maybe more) for Mings, hmmm. Methinks we have been shafted....again. !?

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