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Bid rejected for Clarke

Ironically given our transfer policy we don't need a massive transfer fee as we don't pay out massive transfer fees for players nowadays.

But yeah Clarke is £20m for starters, and if they want him it's paid in one lump. And would Clarke even want to go to Burnley?
 

Ilios said:
When we were selling our house we had someone come for a viewing, love it, come back for a second viewing, still love it, and tell us they'd be in touch very soon with an offer.

Offered 10% under the asking price. I said 'no' immediately, don't even need to speak to my wife as that's absolutely nowhere near acceptable. 24 hours later, 2nd offer was about 2k higher 😄. Go away and stop taking the pi55.

This is Burnley, except Burnley are offering about 40-50% below asking price.
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And now everyone can see Burnley will keep coming back with new offers, nobody is going to accept their first bid.
 
Roker Scoreboard said:
Ironically given our transfer policy we don't need a massive transfer fee as we don't pay out massive transfer fees for players nowadays.

But yeah Clarke is £20m for starters, and if they want him it's paid in one lump. And would Clarke even want to go to Burnley?
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I don’t think any deals are done in one lump these days.
 
TBF we don’t know if the club have indicated to Burnley how much they want for Clarke or even if he is available or not. They might just be rejecting the offer without any dialogue. I do think the club should hold out for £20m but Burnley would be daft to offer what they think he’s worth straight away,
 
Roker Scoreboard said:
Ironically given our transfer policy we don't need a massive transfer fee as we don't pay out massive transfer fees for players nowadays.

But yeah Clarke is £20m for starters, and if they want him it's paid in one lump. And would Clarke even want to go to Burnley?
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It's true what you say but to balance the books or for the owners to make money, I'd rather sell one player for big money than a few for smaller amounts.
 
If ‘The Model’ is to buy young players with potential, with the intention of selling them on for profit, that would involve discussing this plan with players and their agents as they are brought in to the club. It’s a selling point, or otherwise it doesn’t do what the club want it to do. Refusing to sell Clarke unless an offer is too-good-to-refuse would give the wrong impression to the young players being looked at for next season and beyond. A huge bid would be great, but we need to recognise SAFCs role in trading players against a backdrop of presenting themselves as a development club (for now).
If Clarke is available, get the right price early in the window and use him as an example to the next player. A year or two of trading like this, then play hardball as the squad develops and improves.
 
The Pietaster said:
If ‘The Model’ is to buy young players with potential, with the intention of selling them on for profit, that would involve discussing this plan with players and their agents as they are brought in to the club. It’s a selling point, or otherwise it doesn’t do what the club want it to do. Refusing to sell Clarke unless an offer is too-good-to-refuse would give the wrong impression to the young players being looked at for next season and beyond. A huge bid would be great, but we need to recognise SAFCs role in trading players against a backdrop of presenting themselves as a development club (for now).
If Clarke is available, get the right price early in the window and use him as an example to the next player. A year or two of trading like this, then play hardball as the squad develops and improves.
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He’s not available. The end.
 
The Pietaster said:
If ‘The Model’ is to buy young players with potential, with the intention of selling them on for profit, that would involve discussing this plan with players and their agents as they are brought in to the club. It’s a selling point, or otherwise it doesn’t do what the club want it to do. Refusing to sell Clarke unless an offer is too-good-to-refuse would give the wrong impression to the young players being looked at for next season and beyond. A huge bid would be great, but we need to recognise SAFCs role in trading players against a backdrop of presenting themselves as a development club (for now).
If Clarke is available, get the right price early in the window and use him as an example to the next player. A year or two of trading like this, then play hardball as the squad develops and improves.
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Dear me.
 
I said earlier. We see him as one of our top players who can be with much more in the future if we decide to sell. At the moment Burnley are offering us around a £4/5m profit on our outlay/sell on fee. It’s just miles and miles off to suggest we take a fee anywhere near Burnley’s insult.
 
HettonSAFC said:
I said earlier. We see him as one of our top players who can be with much more in the future if we decide to sell. At the moment Burnley are offering us around a £4/5m profit on our outlay/sell on fee. It’s just miles and miles off to suggest we take a fee anywhere near Burnley’s insult.
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We should tell those smoke grilled whoppers to go do one.
 
The Pietaster said:
If ‘The Model’ is to buy young players with potential, with the intention of selling them on for profit, that would involve discussing this plan with players and their agents as they are brought in to the club. It’s a selling point, or otherwise it doesn’t do what the club want it to do. Refusing to sell Clarke unless an offer is too-good-to-refuse would give the wrong impression to the young players being looked at for next season and beyond. A huge bid would be great, but we need to recognise SAFCs role in trading players against a backdrop of presenting themselves as a development club (for now).
If Clarke is available, get the right price early in the window and use him as an example to the next player. A year or two of trading like this, then play hardball as the squad develops and improves.
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Do promotion ambitions get a look in ?
 
HettonSAFC said:
I said earlier. We see him as one of our top players who can be with much more in the future if we decide to sell. At the moment Burnley are offering us around a £4/5m profit on our outlay/sell on fee. It’s just miles and miles off to suggest we take a fee anywhere near Burnley’s insult.
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if the offer is still 9m not even sure we'd turn a profit. rumour was it was 3m-4m initial rising up to 10m for spurs (which is what they paid for him iirc) so we might need to sell him for more than 10m to even make a profit.

we shouldn't accept anything under 20m imo
 
Twisted said:
if the offer is still 9m not even sure we'd turn a profit. rumour was it was 3m-4m initial rising up to 10m for spurs (which is what they paid for him iirc) so we might need to sell him for more than 10m to even make a profit.
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Less than 1m initially according to the Athletic article with Speakman
 
genewolf said:
Less than 1m initially according to the Athletic article with Speakman
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:eek:

tremendous deal then. haven't read that article due to paywall.

can still imagine (maybe even more so given then tiny initial pay out) that it has a boatload of add ons, old davy hotspurs always seems to get deals that recoup their losses
 
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