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Alexandre Mendy (transfer rumour)

Father Jack Hackett said:
Because he is the one they think will answer our problems. If that French Journalist he any information, we undervalued him with our offer
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We will get him but we will pay what we value him at. Loads of DoFs on here just saying pay them what they want, class let’s lay over the odds for everyone that’s worked well in the past
 

johnny kayo said:
Clarke £25 mill
Ballard £15 mill
Hume £10 mill
Ekwah £10 mill
Neil £20 mill
Rigg £20 mill
Roberts £5 mill
Patterson £15 mill
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Not sure Speakman can take credit for the 3 from the acacemy mind. You also have to take into consideration the others supposedly have massive sell on fee's from their previous clubs.
 
RGZ said:
honestly, if we stuck to the model properly i'd at least try to make one of those sales that help us reinvest. If we could get a decent fee for ekwah just to help get a CF in i'd be taking it
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But having got 10m last season for Stewart, an alleged decent amount for Lihadji and small amount for Gooch and we're desperately trying to shed wages of players on decent amounts like Batth, Gooch, Pritchard which we eventually done, what makes anyone think further sales will mean larger investment?

The sticking point, until something massive happens, is wages.

Instead of a decent half proven striker or even a gamble on someone highly rated with a really good record from lower down or a foreign league we got more and more 1.5m to 2m, maybe even 2.5m gambles. Even Rusyn's record is chequered. And whilst every signing is a gamble if you're resigned to spending an absolute max of 2.5m and probably less than 18k wages when you've sold about £13m of players, it is just a gamble.
 
johnny kayo said:
We will get him but we will pay what we value him at. Loads of DoFs on here just saying pay them what they want, class let’s lay over the odds for everyone that’s worked well in the past
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Not a single person is saying do that for everyone. This player, however, has been out like number one and seemingly sole target since June so they obviously rate him and this is the team that hoyed £5m or so at Rusyn, Hemir and Mayenda.
No-one is saying give them stupid money but what is the going rate for a starting striker at this level - £3m or so?
 
Wonder what Charlton would take for Leaburn?

Had that hamstring injury that kept him out and has been back in training all summer. Looked very familiar to Ross Stewart in his style of play and ia only 20. Think he may have went for around 5m before his injury so maybe there's a deal to be done?

Risky, but I think at the low level of transfer fees were looking at, any signing is going to come with a higher percentage of risk attached.
 
Father Jack Hackett said:
I’d have snapped their hands off for Ekwah’s
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35% to whu though allegedly.

Makes sense why were not exactly sticking to what people think the 'model' is when bids come in. We were aware of buy back clause with Cirkin - who knows what % some like him, Ekwah, Alese, Ballard, even Clarke have in which has allowed us to get some of them on the relative cheap from PL clubs.
 
johnny kayo said:
We will get him but we will pay what we value him at. Loads of DoFs on here just saying pay them what they want, class let’s lay over the odds for everyone that’s worked well in the past
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Almost as if they can't remember being in league one.

However if we only bring a loan striker in it is disgusting from the club and shows they have zero ambition.
 
Father Jack Hackett said:
Not a single person is saying do that for everyone. This player, however, has been out like number one and seemingly sole target since June so they obviously rate him and this is the team that hoyed £5m or so at Rusyn, Hemir and Mayenda.
No-one is saying give them stupid money but what is the going rate for a starting striker at this level - £3m or so?
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I’m happy to wait for value for money I’m in the minority like 😂
 
Banks said:
Almost as if they can't remember being in league one.

However if we only bring a loan striker in it is disgusting from the club and shows they have zero ambition.
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I remember it very well and it wasn’t solely the Will Grigg transfer that kept us there for 4 years by any stretch of the imagination.
The reason we ended-up there in the first place was because the owner pulled the plug and we tried to rebuild a squad for the Championship for a couple of million quid.

My entire point is that these have identified him as the answer so they evidently believe he is worthy a decent amount - otherwise what is the point and he clearly won’t be the answer.
johnny kayo said:
I’m happy to wait for value for money I’m in the minority like 😂
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I’m not the club accountant mate and just want RLB to have the best possible chance of getting results on Saturdays. If this lad has been identified as the one to help do that, get him in.
As I say though, I’m not saying throw stupid money at him but evidently rate the late and see him as the perfect fit.
 
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Coeus said:
Why would it be naive to continue to do something that has worked?
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It has worked in some case, but more often than not it isn't sustainable to keep finding players for £1m and turning them into £10m+ players.
If you keep buying cheap, at some point you will be left with a squad full of misses

Our last few transfer windows showed that. Only Jobe has been a success, the rest have offered nothing. If you then sell some of your better players you're asking players to step up who have previously offered very little
 
Nathan Gunn said:
It has worked in some case, but more often than not it isn't sustainable to keep finding players for £1m and turning them into £10m+ players.
If you keep buying cheap, at some point you will be left with a squad full of misses

Our last few transfer windows showed that. Only Jobe has been a success, the rest have offered nothing. If you then sell some of your better players you're asking players to step up who have previously offered very little
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As opposed to buying expensive, having a squad full of misses and no room to manoeuvre?

It's worked well on the whole, that's why we have players we can sell, worked far better than we have operated previously, financially at least.

Why you would want to change that after having it work, seems a bit odd to me.
 
RGZ said:
I still think Mendy will be here, just might be on deadline day 🤣
from RLB right now in his presser - "we work hard on it (striker situation) and im confident we will do it"
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Sounds like it may have advanced a bit over the weekend with Mendy after those comments. He seemed a bit coy on Thursday but those quotes seem a lot more reassuring.
 
johnny kayo said:
I’m happy to wait for value for money I’m in the minority like 😂
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I agree to a degree, but the whole ambition of a football club is to surely be successful. The season is only 38 games and we are already one in.

If the ultimate aim is promotion like they have said, There has to be a degree of flexibility in terms of what we are willing to pay for that success. We cannot wait any longer or it's going to become a detriment to the overall end goal. We got away with it on Saturday after Mayenda missed that sitter but we could easily be sitting on a point rather than three, and thats against a shite Cardiff side.

Someone made a good analogy on here the other day saying you wouldn't walk into a bar, be told the price of a beer has gone up £1.00 and you just stick the old price down and wonder why no beer has yet appeared for you. We either pay the money, give them an ultimatum (which in my opinion should be this week of our maximum offer) or simply move onto a different target.
 
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Super Ted said:
I agree to a degree, but the whole ambition of a football club is to surely be successful. The season is only 38 games and we are already one in.

If the ultimate aim is promotion like they have said, There has to be a degree of flexibility in terms of what we are willing to pay for that success. We cannot wait any longer or it's going to become a detriment to the overall end goal.

Someone made a good analogy on here the other day saying you wouldn't walk into a bar, be told the price of a beer has gone up £1.00 and you just stick the old price down and wonder why no beer has yet appeared for you. We either pay the money, give them an ultimatum (which in my opinion should be this week of our maximum offer) or simply move onto a different target.
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I’m all for investment but they might be asking silly money none of us know and the pay them what they want argument is just silly
 
johnny kayo said:
I’m all for investment but they might be asking silly money none of us know and the pay them what they want argument is just silly
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That's my point though, I'm not saying we should just pay them what they want but we have to put a deadline on them with what our highest offer is.

What happens if we believe we can still get him up to deadline day and they actually stand firm in what they're asking for, We just end up with nowt? It needs resolving this week at the latest.
 
Super Ted said:
That's my point though, I'm not saying we should just pay them what they want but we have to put a deadline on them with what our highest offer is.

What happens if we believe we can still get him up to deadline day and they actually stand firm in what they're asking for, We just end up with nowt? It needs resolving this week at the latest.
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Chill Ted we will get him
 
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