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Jack Clarke

Whitburnmakem said:
haway then what champiship club has held onto a young player when a premier league club is in for him ? It might of even been in his contract we can’t stop him leaving if a premier league club comes in
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Loads have held on for a fee that suits the club and represents market value…not many have just bent over and taken a low ball offer…you can see that from the fees this season.
 

DoctorMick said:
Loads have held on for a fee that suits the club and represents market value…not many have just bent over and taken a low ball offer…you can see that from the fees this season.
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How much do you think we would get in the final year of his contract ?myounkeep saying loads but can’t name anyone
 
ExileBFG said:
Gonna be very interesting to see the tone of the club statement and Clarkes goodbye message.
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Couldn't give a toss TBH, it's all written by PR people. I wish him well once it's confirmed and hope he has a successful career going forward.
 
Thatheaderman said:
If they're wanted they go. Clarke was way above the others. They will go for less as not as good and Speakman will take anything half decent.
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On current performances, Clarke is better than the others. Clarke is much closer to his prime. Rigg and Jobe need to play games. They'll develop and attract bids further down the line, most probably next summer.

Clarke is 23, will be 24 in November. Has been on the books of Spurs but never kicked a ball in the premier league. At the same age, how many premier league games will Jobe and Rigg played?

In 5 or 6 years time, I bet they have both played more than 100 times in the premier league.

They have more potential than Clarke, likely to surpass him, but there is absolutely no guarantee.
 
DoctorMick said:
Loads have held on for a fee that suits the club and represents market value…not many have just bent over and taken a low ball offer…you can see that from the fees this season.
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It’s only a low ball offer in the eyes of our fans. In the entire world of football there’s not a single club that thinks Clarke is wiling to pay more than that. The choice was keeping a player who may be unhappy with being deprived of his choice and seeing his value drop further still.
 
gatopreto said:
On current performances, Clarke is better than the others. Clarke is much closer to his prime. Rigg and Jobe need to play games. They'll develop and attract bids further down the line, most probably next summer.

Clarke is 23, will be 24 in November. Has been on the books of Spurs but never kicked a ball in the premier league. At the same age, how many premier league games will Jobe and Rigg played?

In 5 or 6 years time, I bet they have both played more than 100 times in the premier league.

They have more potential than Clarke, likely to surpass him, but there is absolutely no guarantee.
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Jobe needs games 😆 he barely stopped playing last season it's Rigg who needs game time
 
BarnesPark said:
I was about to say fair play, but isn’t the lad on Twitter the one who stated that SAFC had taken all the gate receipts from the Mags game in exchange for use of the BCB?

I think he was solid treat anything he states (which is screenshotted rather than linked) with a massive ouch of Maldon.
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Google it midnight and in sure you'd see the sane info.
 
Whitburnmakem said:
How much do you think we would get in the final year of his contract ?myounkeep saying loads but can’t name anyone
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Ok…

Hull got more for Greaves and about the same for Philogene (his buy back clause amount I believe otherwise it could have been more)
Leeds have some 4 players for much more, 2 of them being for their release clauses.
Norwich have sold Sara for more.
Watford have sold Asprilla for more and rejected a bigger bid for someone else (whose name escaped me).
Thats excluding the relegated clubs cos I thought that might be unfair.
Of that list of 8 players sold this window for more than Clarke only Summerville is better.
 
"I knew when we played Ipswich last season it was a team I wouldn't of minded lining up for under a cracking manager"

It's going to hurt hearing the PR gulf get spun out as per usual. Would of hurt abit less if it was 20m + 5m add ons mind.
 
rentaghost said:
It’s only a low ball offer in the eyes of our fans. In the entire world of football there’s not a single club that thinks Clarke is wiling to pay more than that. The choice was keeping a player who may be unhappy with being deprived of his choice and seeing his value drop further still.
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What if he wasn’t unhappy? What if keeping him made us far more likely to get promoted? His value to us means an awful lot.
Other players, who aren’t as good, are going for more. If Ipswich don’t want to pay more tell them to get stuffed.
 
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