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Bid rejected for Clarke


Mackem DJ said:
We have history letting players leave for buttons whereby the rest of the football world seem capable of negotiating inflated fee’s we are often only too happy to let players go on the cheap.

I can see this lad being sold for sommet shite like £12m then him costing someone like Everton, Wolves or Newcastle £45m in 18 month after a decent season in the PL :confused:
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Do we have a history of that?
 
southstander said:
Sounds like we are trying to keep him, or at least up the ante further.

”On Twitter, Romano said: "Burnley, Brentford and Crystal Palace have all submitted bids for Sunderland talent Jack Clarke.
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Frankel said:
Some players aren’t driven by money.

Clarke has experienced going to Spurs for decent dosh and not getting a look in.

Hopefully his eyes are wide open.
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It’s ok saying that when your going so where to win things at this level it’s all about earning as much as you can
 
Hope we reject them all. Tell the lad he is needed for the promotion push and if we fail next season he is free to go next summer. I know the model is to buy young and cheap and sell high. But the lad could do with another year of Championship football. Hope his agent doesn’t use it to take the piss tho.
 
Not sure I believe it tbf, fishpaste hasn’t named the club and said “around £9milluon” sounds like it’s all guess work or he’s making it up. He’s doing it for clicks and likes
 
Well this will be the first test of the 'model' and if he goes itll be interesting how the fans react.

I predict hell on.
 
Daniels said:
Hope we reject them all. Tell the lad he is needed for the promotion push and if we fail next season he is free to go next summer. I know the model is to buy young and cheap and sell high. But the lad could do with another year of Championship football. Hope his agent doesn’t use it to take the piss tho.
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That's exactly what I would say to him. Give us all you've got for another year, and if we're still in the Championship we'll accept appropriate offers next summer and you'll go with our blessing.

If we want to continue to attract top young players, we have to show them there's a potential pathway onwards if we don't meet their expectations.
 
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Mackem DJ said:
We have history letting players leave for buttons whereby the rest of the football world seem capable of negotiating inflated fee’s we are often only too happy to let players go on the cheap.

I can see this lad being sold for sommet shite like £12m then him costing someone like Everton, Wolves or Newcastle £45m in 18 month after a decent season in the PL :confused:
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Do we? I'd argue our problem is more that we haven't sold anywhere near enough players over the years, as opposed to us selling the ones we have for too cheap. The ones we have sold we normally get decent money for. It's just most of our signings have been too old/ over the hill to actually make a profit on, most have just left on free transfers or too championship clubs etc. Then anyone we did sell we've just failed to replace properly - which makes the transfer look shit.

You have to go all the way back to 2012 to get to our last ten players sold for money to PL teams (where all the money is). Of those (bearing in mind inflation in the transfer prices since 2012-2015 ish ) i'd argue only Sess and Richardson were undervalued - and one of those was because we had an unstable manager running the club who he fell out with, and the other put in a transfer request and forced our hand. The rest we've probably done well with tbh. Obviously, as I said before, with the likes of Pickford and Kaboul it was more that we wasted their money rather than getting an adequate replacement.

Our last ten sold to PL teams

Pickford to Everton - 28m
PVA to Palace - 10.5m
Kaboul to Watford - 4m
Wickham to Palace - 10m
Mig to Liverpool - 10.6m
Sess to West Brom - 7m
James McClean to Wigan - 2.3m
Elmo to Hull - 2m
Richardson to Fulham - 2m
Turner to Norwich - 1.5m
 
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