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West Brom have played this phenomenally well to be fair.
Also, the whole leave it late and the price will come down never really works. We negotiated forever on both Soldado and Lamela and ended up paying the asking price both times. Same goes for us selling Bale.
Ultimately this seems pretty simple, if Berahino is a far in a way your #1 target then pay the extra 3 million. If not, move to the next option (assuming we have one).
Also, the whole leave it late and the price will come down never really works. We negotiated forever on both Soldado and Lamela and ended up paying the asking price both times. Same goes for us selling Bale.
Ultimately this seems pretty simple, if Berahino is a far in a way your #1 target then pay the extra 3 million. If not, move to the next option (assuming we have one).
They do love a good statement.
Not worth it, spend £25 on Austin and Pato instead
I don't know. I don't speak Puerto Rican but both my Dad's do. I'll ask
They have just done what everyone does as far as I can see. Hold on to the last minute and see who blinks.
Are they going to release a statement every day?
I agree, like I've said before, we'd be doing the same if it were Kane.
I think we should call their bluff though. Release a statement saying we aren't interested and bid for Austin. I think they are ready to sell, just trying to get as much as they can. If we were to pull out and look elsewhere I think their chairman would suddenly realise he is going to be left with an unhappy player, 4 strikers who all want to playing 1st team football in a 1 striker Pulis system and having spent a lot for the club of their size with no money coming in.
They have so far. I wonder if Berahino's gone on strike yet?
Meh, I wouldn't be surprised if we were encouraged to stage our bids out like this (plus it only makes decent business sense to jump in £3m-odd amounts than double that!).this is fucking maddening £25 m just fucking pay the asking price Levy
All a fucking pantomime that WBA are making public shamelessly.
By the end of the week, it'll be an accepted £25m bid, and the narrative will be that we 'made the West Brom board an offer that couldn't be turned down, particularly with the player having requested a move'.
Unless they reject £25m. I'm genuinely scared about what this place will turn into if that happens...
Levy has put the club in a very difficult situation trying to be a smart arse and now we only have 1 striker!
He either needs to swallow his pride and get this deal done asap or move on and find a new striker for us asap.
He either needs to swallow his pride and get this deal done asap or move on and find a new striker for us asap.
I think the problem is that Levy's underestimated how much striker prices have inflated with the new TV money. He's of the opinion "a 15 million pound player is still a 15 million pound player" and all the other clubs are like "weeeeeeeeee, I just got a credit card!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!".
We're paying the price for trying to be reasonable in an unreasonable market.
We're paying the price for trying to be reasonable in an unreasonable market.
One more thing; I think we can all see that 'not on our agenda' is painfully obvious business speak when talking about selling Berahino.
It's been Jeremy Pearce's repeated sentiment, and it's a wonderful turn of phrase that doesn't explicitly rule out a sale.
'We don't want to sell our best player' isn't exactly revolutionary, is it?
It's been Jeremy Pearce's repeated sentiment, and it's a wonderful turn of phrase that doesn't explicitly rule out a sale.
'We don't want to sell our best player' isn't exactly revolutionary, is it?
We can't afford to wait another 2 days to bid 25m - something needs to be done now. I wouldn't be surprised if Levy fucks them off and looks elsewhere. He has been made to look like a fool.
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