Totally agree. If no one else comes in soon then they will come back to the table or they get spooked if we agree a deal somewhere else. They cant afford to have a depreciating asset on their books in the championship.
Branthwaite also 4 years older and far more PL proven, and on the cusp of the England squad. It's funny, if you look at the Saints' boards over the last 24 hours, they are fuming that Everton have agreed to a £50m buy option on Grealish next year...
He could also play a year in the championship bring home less goals or asists then Tom Fellows and where does that leave them. Remember Sadio Berhino - never got his move to Spurs after a big bid and his career never recovered.
Could also do his...
Branthwaite has a release clause in his new deal.
Thats an acknowledgement by everyone, that at some point someone higher in the food chain is going to come in for him and we wont stand in his way if he wants to go. What we've done is...
Giving the wording from Romano he's deffo getting fed the Mcatee story from Forest. His here we go expected soon tweet is now half a day later - forest optimistic a deal can be done in the next 24/48 hours.
See others which suggests forest...
Its brinkmanshop mate and the posititions are as i describe above. Both teams are using time as a leverage - Southampton to flush out other interest and to make us blink as they know we need a right winger.
We know they will have an objective of...
Simply.
Its the food chain, we can value Branthwaite at £80 mill because we are a big pemerement PL club.
Southampton cant look for £80 mill for Dibling because they are now a Championship club and hes a championship player.
The higher up...
That’s exactly what I think to mate, I think Southampton are waiting for another club to come in which would solidify their demands or maybe even an escalation. If that happens I don’t think we’d be sucked in - I think we have a value here.
Our...
He also has two years on his contract as well, if you don’t sell him this window, you have an unhappy player, who will run down their contract and you are loosing prob 10 mill every 6 months on him not being sold. You loose all your leverage and...
…..they are in the Championship and likely have a player who wants to leave :oops:, big difference when a player doesn’t want to play for you anymore. Branthwaite signed a new deal for us.