It is annoying that whoever has bid left it until now. Davison isn't great but he's at least a 4th striker. Just as Burstow has become 4th striker and we've loaned Davion out, he's off and we've got next to no time to replace him if he goes, very frustrating
Fair play to him, will earn an absolute wedge at Chelsea if that’s true.
Probably the worst move you can make as a young footballer though.
That's a joke surely, they've probably got the most successful academy going. Tons of players currently playing at the top level came through their academy.
Whatever the ‘substantial’ figure is, I’m sure Sandgaard would invest it in the playing squad for next season. We just have to hope that it is invested wisely.
Don’t think we will go down, so banking this money for use to build a strong team next season could be good for us.
TS: “We have got multiple Premier League teams who are fishing to see if they can do a quick deal when it comes to Burstow,” Sandgaard told the South London Press.
“We’ll see what happens. I don’t think any of them have come up to the price level that I’m expecting, considering his talent. We’re just sitting tight.
“In contrast to the past, we can sit back and wait to see if the price is right instead of panicking and selling on the last day of the window. That is not happening any more.
“There is a right value for a very talented player like Mason Burstow.
“We’ll see what happens. If it doesn’t happen now then maybe it will happen in the next year or two.”
1) JJ said our valuation has been met, the business people around the club will have done their market research to see what an acceptable price is, we’ll have to trust them on that, but I think we all agree it’ll be better than the previous owners in recent history.
2) Sandgaard never said he won’t sell youngsters, but he’s invested sizeable league one transfer fees, again the previous owners would only put a small fraction (if any) back into the squad, so it could be an exciting summer window.
3) Burstow is nowhere near the finished article, he’s clearly got an eye for goal which is a big asset but we were never ever going to see the best of him, we could easily replace him with someone much better for now, albeit Burstow could and probably will go onto greater things in 3 years or so.
4) We know full well there will be another Burstow coming through soon, we keep producing them don’t we? Maybe one day we’ll be back in a position to keep them for long or throughout their careers now they we have some owners in charge with long term objectives.
Wasn't one of the positives that we would be able to hold onto prospects and demand a better fee?
This just calls back to the Roland days of shipping a youth player out the moment a bid comes in.
We've not even had a fee suggested and people are comparing Sandgaard to Roland!
The deadline day sale of a top prospect does seem to ring a bell from Roland yes.
We’ve been doing this for decades. Way before Roland. Parker and Reid come immediately to mind, albeit Reid wasn’t a “prospect”.
Thats not correct in Parker’s case. Chelsea moved in early. The entire club fought tooth and nail for almost the entire window to keep Parker, and at least finally got Putin, sorry, Abramovic to pay full whack.
Wasn't one of the positives that we would be able to hold onto prospects and demand a better fee?
This just calls back to the Roland days of shipping a youth player out the moment a bid comes in.
We've not even had a fee suggested and people are comparing Sandgaard to Roland!
The deadline day sale of a top prospect does seem to ring a bell from Roland yes.
We’ve been doing this for decades. Way before Roland. Parker and Reid come immediately to mind, albeit Reid wasn’t a “prospect”.
Thats not correct in Parker’s case. Chelsea moved in early. The entire club fought tooth and nail for almost the entire window to keep Parker, and at least finally got Putin, sorry, Abramovic to pay full whack.
We still sold him at the end of the transfer window.
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Don’t think we will go down, so banking this money for use to build a strong team next season could be good for us.
1) JJ said our valuation has been met, the business people around the club will have done their market research to see what an acceptable price is, we’ll have to trust them on that, but I think we all agree it’ll be better than the previous owners in recent history.
2) Sandgaard never said he won’t sell youngsters, but he’s invested sizeable league one transfer fees, again the previous owners would only put a small fraction (if any) back into the squad, so it could be an exciting summer window.
3) Burstow is nowhere near the finished article, he’s clearly got an eye for goal which is a big asset but we were never ever going to see the best of him, we could easily replace him with someone much better for now, albeit Burstow could and probably will go onto greater things in 3 years or so.
They will offer him life changing wages.
I'll probably regret this, but part of me hopes it is Chelsea talking to him
We got £2m (?) for Bonne so I can’t see us taking less than £8m at a guess given potential.