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Saturday 4th May 2024
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Championship
Old Darwen Blue
Prediction Champion 2021, 2022 & 2023
Has he not got Ray Wilkins old house in Langho?
Old Darwen Blue
Prediction Champion 2021, 2022 & 2023
Whoooosh
London lad and no doubt as ambitious as anyone with an agent to match. A good solid player at this level with obviously an eye for goal but on the down side imo he possibly doesn't have the necessary self discipline off the field but definitely doesn't possess either the pace or the first touch for a top Premier League side.
Wilpshire Blue
Senior Member
Just been to Ewood Park to give blood.
I was talking to one of the chaps that work in the reception area afterwards and he told me that a deal has already been struck to sell Dack in January for £25m. He wouldn't name the club though.
Apparently, ToMo has identified three key players that he wants to use the money on and if those deals can be agreed then he's happy to sell.
Could be a load of old cobblers but just passing it on.
I was talking to one of the chaps that work in the reception area afterwards and he told me that a deal has already been struck to sell Dack in January for £25m. He wouldn't name the club though.
Apparently, ToMo has identified three key players that he wants to use the money on and if those deals can be agreed then he's happy to sell.
Could be a load of old cobblers but just passing it on.
geedog
Senior Member
I'm not saying its not true but why would the guy on reception know all this info? I do think he will go and if we can get good money and one or more players with the cash then I'm all for that
Wilpshire Blue
Senior Member
I don’t know how he would know about it but equally why would he make it all up?
Jeeez... How many times have we been through this 'will he, won't he' shite? First heard by yours truly when Fred Pick was still in the blue and white halves and I've lost count of the number of times since. 25 m and I'd snatch their hands off! Will people never learn that we are a trading club, just the same as Accrington Stanley, Liverpool and Man Utd are? The trick as ever is to have the next star man lined up.... something which we have singularly failed to do in 90% of cases!
From wiki.... Bradley Dack's manager at Gillingham between 2015–2017, Justin Edinburgh, has described him as "the catalyst of [our] team..full of energy, he is tenacious, he has quality and he is a top player – definitely Championship quality", adding that he "probably covers more ground than any other player".[29][30]
Note he didn't mention Premier League quality.
As far as the rest of the squad Al... if they perform well for the rovers, score lots of goals etc then they too might get a dream move. It should be more of an incentive imo than a disincentive.
From wiki.... Bradley Dack's manager at Gillingham between 2015–2017, Justin Edinburgh, has described him as "the catalyst of [our] team..full of energy, he is tenacious, he has quality and he is a top player – definitely Championship quality", adding that he "probably covers more ground than any other player".[29][30]
Note he didn't mention Premier League quality.
As far as the rest of the squad Al... if they perform well for the rovers, score lots of goals etc then they too might get a dream move. It should be more of an incentive imo than a disincentive.
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Barmitzvah Boy
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£25m?
Sell him.
Sell him.
It's a theory but I've always reckoned that selling your best player is the biggest disincentive you can get. Look what happened when we sold Alan Shearer. The whole town went on a downer.
That's because TP thought Per Pederson could fill Shearers boots! If we had bought Robbie Keane back then as I'd have liked then our history might have taken a different course.
It did but let's be honest since he left the field v Wimbledon we all knew that was the last we'd see of him, didn't we? . Have you ever considered Al that if Shearer had stayed we still had without a shadow of a doubt seen the best of him and he'd still have retired 12 years ago! No way did Shearer carry same threat after he left us.
But never mind us how do you think MU fans felt when Ronaldo left? Livvie fans when Suarez packed his kit bag for Barca and Spuds when Gareth Bale left to become a Galactico? No club in this country is immune to such, they all just have to get on the front foot and get over it rather than join in with a collective weeping, wailing gnashiung of teeth and rending of clothes.
Barmitzvah Boy
Global winner of the 2021 Christmas Quiz 👊🤩🤩
‘Gnashiung’. Is that Chinese Gordon?
Barmitzvah Boy
Global winner of the 2021 Christmas Quiz 👊🤩🤩
BullocksI could say that I just stuck it in to see who can be arsed reading my posts toothy end BB!
Oooops... just did it again.
I know it happens all over the place but it doesn't stop teams going on a downer when their talisman goes so I'd prefer if Dack stayed. He won't be here for ever so it would be better if his replacement could be sorted before he is sold. I know £25 mill is too much to turn down and I wouldn't want to deny him a chance in the Prem. Wouldn't it be great if it could be with us though?
Kinda ambivalent about that Al. The money is unbelievable of course and under good management p?) could set the club up for a long time into the future (see similar clubs Burnley/Huddersfield ), would also set up the players and senior staff to boot, BUT and some might disagree here, I quite like the competition in the Championship. More like real footy, dog eat dog and not the annual battle against relegation that the Premier League has become for 2/3rds of the clubs. I know that we cannot stay in limbo forever but am I alone in preferring this standard of football?
p?) could set the club up for a long time into the future (see similar clubs Burnley/Huddersfield ), would also set up the players and senior staff to boot, BUT and some might disagree here, I quite like the competition in the Championship. More like real footy, dog eat dog and not the annual battle against relegation that the Premier League has become for 2/3rds of the clubs. I know that we cannot stay in limbo forever but am I alone in preferring this standard of football?
Wilpshire Blue
Senior Member
I would agree Drog, I'm really enjoying this season.
In a perfect world, this much-vaunted super European league would see United, City, Liverpool, Chelsea and Arsenal bugger off and then, when we get promoted, we can enjoy a more level playing field in the Prem, like all the other clubs that have to play second fiddle at the moment.
In a perfect world, this much-vaunted super European league would see United, City, Liverpool, Chelsea and Arsenal bugger off and then, when we get promoted, we can enjoy a more level playing field in the Prem, like all the other clubs that have to play second fiddle at the moment.