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Walham Green Blue said:
Glad to see him go for that sort of money. You’ll struggle to find many CFC fans who are sad to see him go. He’s too flaky for us and I suspect the same will apply at Arsenal. Of course you are entitled to think differently.
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Flakey in comparison to the other 17 wingers you have who scored 7 goals last season?

Current Chelsea model is to flip players though. So £20mill profit on a player your bought for £30mill is decent.

I don't think there's anyone apart from Palmer in that 56 man squad youd be sad to let go to be fair.
 
Gilbert.. said:
Agents having a field day with these release clauses. I mean i'm of the opinion if a player wants to go there's little point in keeping them but for the selling club it immediately takes away any negotiating. Maybe 60m at the time seemed high for gibbs white and nobody would touch him at that price. But Forest have had to sit on their hands and do nothing. Cant do anything more to the point. Are these clauses fully implemented by Agents? And are they common knowledge or has the agent tipped off levy in this example.
Will there come a point where every club just goes ok the release clause is 800m.
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Football careers are short, MGW gets an offer from a CL side he is going to want to go - realistically he isn’t going to get that at Forest.

The clause gives him that out option and I’ve no doubt his agent has been having quiet words about it given he is on CL clubs radars currently.

Clubs have the 1 year extension in contracts to protect player value, relegation clauses, etc - it’s only right the players have similar. The problem here is that it was set too low - but then Eze’s is only £8m more
 
SAFCInPeace said:
Henderson off to Brentford. Annoying, as I think he offered exactly what we need.

We can be quite ideological at times, and it looks like we’re really pressing ahead with the youth policy.
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To think on the flip (good) side though, that's 6 points guaranteed for the RS against Brentford considering the amount of ex-players there (4 now I think including Henderson).
 
kenada_blue said:
Flakey in comparison to the other 17 wingers you have who scored 7 goals last season?

Current Chelsea model is to flip players though. So £20mill profit on a player your bought for £30mill is decent.

I don't think there's anyone apart from Palmer in that 56 man squad youd be sad to let go to be fair.
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I just don’t understand why Arsenal keep buying Chelsea’s hand me downs - how many have gone onto have great careers at Arsenal?

Havertz, Jorginho, Luiz, Willian, Sterling on loan - surprised they haven’t made a move for Mudryk yet despite the ban
 

kenada_blue said:
Flakey in comparison to the other 17 wingers you have who scored 7 goals last season?

Current Chelsea model is to flip players though. So £20mill profit on a player your bought for £30mill is decent.

I don't think there's anyone apart from Palmer in that 56 man squad youd be sad to let go to be fair.
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Palmer, of course, although our late season recovery was not remotely dependent upon him. He was almost incidental. Here are those I’d be sad to see go:
Cucerella
Reece James
Our entire midfield ( at least those involved last year) minus Dewsbury-Hall- a nice lad, but not quite up to it.
The new signings obviously.
 
Creek said:
Football careers are short, MGW gets an offer from a CL side he is going to want to go - realistically he isn’t going to get that at Forest.

The clause gives him that out option and I’ve no doubt his agent has been having quiet words about it given he is on CL clubs radars currently.

Clubs have the 1 year extension in contracts to protect player value, relegation clauses, etc - it’s only right the players have similar. The problem here is that it was set too low - but then Eze’s is only £8m more
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I get all that but what benefit is there to the selling club. When gibbs white signed from wolves the agent must have put the buy out clause in. No doubt Forest will probably use it on some other club. Same with all clubs. If its there and it benefits them they'll use it. But it seems all agent driven. So you might aswell set a ridiculous price as insurance. But then would gibbs whites agent have accepted that when he was signing for forest from wolves.
I suppose every club uses it so no real sympathy for forest. But Agents are holding a great hand.
 
Creek said:
Definitely, Forest could be in amongst it as well now. You can tell the “other 14” did well last year as they are getting the guts ripped out of them this summer - although it should be “other 13” as Newcastle can’t be preyed upon anymore.

Wolves, Forest, Burnley, West Ham, Leeds, Sunderland, Brentford and Bournemouth - that’s your bottom 8 I think. Everton and Palace have good managers so will be mid table/pushing Europe. Fulham are well equipped for mid table. Then the rest fighting it out for the top spots with Brighton to fall short like they usually do
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Obviously yous are going to disagree, but I think at this point in time if you have Forest in there you have to have yourselves and Palace as well. You lost so many players in the summer and haven't really replaced them yet. Palace have european football (probably) and a tiny squad - and could well lose Eze.

I think the likes of West Ham, Forest, Bournemouth, Palace and yourselves have the spending power (and presitigue) to bring in good squads though. So I await the end of the window to really make judgements.
 

Alan Whittle said:
@SAFCInPeace Would you have wanted Henderson? I must admit that when I heard he was leaving Ajax I simply assumed that he was joining Sunderland.
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Yeah 100%. We have a squad with an average age of 23 and I think about four PL games between them.

Aside from being a local lad who came through the academy and has been at basically every big final we've played since he left (when Liverpool games allowed). He brings in leadership, media training, off the field experience, can coach the younger lads etc. And jsut commercially it would have been a good move.

I wouldn't want us offering him game time (I'd want him behind the three new CM's we've signed) or high wages though. So if that didn't align with his goals, then I'm not gutted he didn't come here.

The lack of experience thing does worry me, we're quite ideological in our approach and have had the youngest squad in the division for the last three seasons - which I think has been to our detriment in the past. I do worry that naivety is going to hurt us this season - but who knows what the rest of the window brings (loans etc.)
 
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SAFCInPeace said:
Obviously yous are going to disagree, but I think at this point in time if you have Forest in there you have to have yourselves and Palace as well. You lost so many players in the summer and haven't really replaced them yet. Palace have european football (probably) and a tiny squad - and could well lose Eze.

I think the likes of West Ham, Forest, Bournemouth, Palace and yourselves have the spending power (and presitigue) to bring in good squads though. So I await the end of the window to really make judgements.
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I’m a Spurs fan not Everton. I don’t see Everton having any problems though, Moyes running Everton well on a budget goes together like Laurel and Hardy, Morecambe and Wise, etc.

They will be tough to beat and with the new stadium opposing teams will be unsettled. Comfortably mid table I think
 
Gilbert.. said:
I get all that but what benefit is there to the selling club. When gibbs white signed from wolves the agent must have put the buy out clause in. No doubt Forest will probably use it on some other club. Same with all clubs. If its there and it benefits them they'll use it. But it seems all agent driven. So you might aswell set a ridiculous price as insurance. But then would gibbs whites agent have accepted that when he was signing for forest from wolves.
I suppose every club uses it so no real sympathy for forest. But Agents are holding a great hand.
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I think it’s just standard these days and a follow on from the Bosman ruling. It’s mandatory to have a buy out clause in Spain - that’s how PSG got Neymar.

Supposedly Bellingham and Trent’s buy outs at Madrid are 861m euros - but who leaves Madrid for a bigger club? Forest on the other hand were happy landing MGW and £60m probably seemed decent at the time
 
Creek said:
I’m a Spurs fan not Everton. I don’t see Everton having any problems though, Moyes running Everton well on a budget goes together like Laurel and Hardy, Morecambe and Wise, etc.

They will be tough to beat and with the new stadium opposing teams will be unsettled. Comfortably mid table I think
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Above Spurs again, or does your patronising head patting not extend to self reflection?
 
Bedfordblue said:
Was just coming here to post exactly the same.
Proper Main Character behaviour.
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What world is player that left that club over a year ago joining a club in the south got anything to do with Jota? Honestly not asking a contentious question, is it?

Am I missing some empathy here? Was he maybe not in the frame of mind to announce it? Cos you can do that and still not offend anyone. I’d like to think I’m quite impartial when it comes to reading stuff like this but I agree - he defo comes off as a main character in someone else’s story.
 

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