Joe Gomez rumours (ed. Signed for Liverpool)

paulie8290 said:

Greenie Junior said:

paulie8290 said:

Sky Sports News don't normally report the wrong figures tho and its them saying £3.5 M

Charlton wont say a price, no-one associated will say a figure and you have to wonder why

just seen Olly Groome tweet that £3.5M is wrong, how does he know, and why wont he tell us the real price then.


Unfortunately with nothing coming from the club I am starting to believe it could be as little as £3.5M

Fucking hell. Is there anything between your ears paulie?

Greenie Junior said:

paulie8290 said:

Sky Sports News don't normally report the wrong figures tho and its them saying £3.5 M

Charlton wont say a price, no-one associated will say a figure and you have to wonder why

just seen Olly Groome tweet that £3.5M is wrong, how does he know, and why wont he tell us the real price then.


Unfortunately with nothing coming from the club I am starting to believe it could be as little as £3.5M

Fucking hell. Is there anything between your ears paulie?

Sorry but with nothing coming from the club, as fans what are we supposed to believe
if it really was undisclosed Sky Sports would say that, they always do

but they are not, they are saying it is £3.5M, sky sports would not say that without some proof otherwise they could be in trouble from the club, they are not stupid and will have researched it before putting a price

What do you mean if it were undisclosed? Neither club has disclosed it, so it is undisclosed.

Good luck joe

Still can't come to terms with the way football is run. I think it's shit. Had the kid since his was 10 and within 20 games his gone. I think I almost prefer it when they take them like Defoe and Palmer least that way we don't get to see their potential taken away from us. Yes the money isn't as good but this feels worse.

It's nothing against the player or the club. It's football in general that's crap.

stonewallpenalty said:

North Lower Neil said:

Think he could do better than Liverpool by the way, recently they've signed a lot of youngsters, loaned them out then they've gone nowhere - the likes of Coates, Ilori, Borini, Aspas etc.

Think he'd have been better off at Arsenal or United if they were options.

Fair point but what about the emergence of Sterling and Ibe. I think if he is good enough he will get his chance even if loaned out for a year or two.

True, those two have done well.

Just think Arsenal for example have done better by youngsters, the likes of Ramsay, Chambers, Oxlade-Chamberlain etc, and United have given Smalling and Jones a lot of chances even if they haven't progressed as they should have.

Hope Liege get a good striker from it...

;-)

Whether it is £3m, £6m or £10m surely the expectation is that we will spend every penny of that on transfers.

So, in the hope it was say £6m, I would expect us to now buy three £2m players which will make far more of an impact than an unproven youngster - hopefully a la Lepoint, Thuram and Nego.

The club and Joe have handled it as well as could be possibly hoped for really - best wishes to young Joe, even though I'm gutted we won't see more of him at the Valley.

Now let's see who we bring in over the next few weeks. We may look back in 20 years time when we're selling a player who hasn't even been born yet and say "ah, but remember when we sold Joe Gomez and that helped fund the squad that took us back to the Premier League in 2016?"

hudson-son-son said:

People refusing to believe every media outlet because they suggest that we have a bad deal, but more than happy to agree with someone at the club who will want to keep fans happy by saying we got a good deal. Hypocrisy is incredible.

It's not just Olly Groome denying the 3.5m figure.

Good Luck Joe. Lovely words of thanks from him.

Callumcafc said:

hudson-son-son said:

People refusing to believe every media outlet because they suggest that we have a bad deal, but more than happy to agree with someone at the club who will want to keep fans happy by saying we got a good deal. Hypocrisy is incredible.

It's not just Olly Groome denying the 3.5m figure.

Thing is only a handful of people actually know the figure .. and they aint spilling the beans .. me ? .. I'm assuming £3.5 million, the reported price for the escape clause to come into operation

Whether the fee was £3.5m or £35m, it's Staprix revenue and won't have any impact on how much is spent signing players for us IMHO.

The Red Robin said:

Good luck to him. The club and Joe have handled this brilliantly. I hope he fulfills his potential.

Olly Groome on Twitter:

@ShoreRobert I can confirm Robert, that reports of a release clause were total nonsense.

Then why not have a bidding war ?

All the top teams were interested, that's what you would do.
Joe can then tweet, my dream has come true to play for Man Utd, Arsenal, Chelsea, Man City,Barcelona and "Leicester".
Perm any 1 from 20.

I keep being told we're selling from a position of strength.(Not skint anymore)
If the figure doesn't reach 10 million in the next couple of years someone needs to explain why from the club.
Don't care if we have to pay an extra 10k because clubs know how much we got for Joe.
CAFC shop at Poundland not Harrords.

3.5m clause was leaked by Liverpool to keep their fans happy.

The bin dippers are currently peed off with their club for spending 6 or 7 or 8 million on youngsters season after season.

And although that policy doesn't seem to have changed, they've put the 3.5m clause out there to make Joe sound like less of a gamble than previous signings.


That is my interpretation of the situation.

Fanny Fanackapan said:

Henry Irving said:

Paulie, people lie, the media lie, people make things up and the media make things up.

Maybe Sky are lying or maybe Olly is lying but I know which one I choose to believe

New mantra...

In Olly we trust.

I'd trust Olly with my life.

Not my wallet though : - )

paulie8290 said:

People happy to say Sky and BBC are lying because Olly Groome works for the club and he should know

sorry but how do we know the club have not told Olly Groome to put it out there that the it was more than £3.5M just to keep fans happy.

Believe who you want, but I am more inclined to agree with people who don't care about trying to keep Charlton fans happy and try to stick to the facts about football

Sky and bbc do not know the facts ...it is undisclosed!

Jesus people wetting there pants about the price of a player ffs get a grip .Good luck Joe from the moment I saw you play i knew we wouldn't be able to keep hold of you .You conducted yourself in the proper manner all the best.