Patrick Bamford

[MINIBARCELONASAINT]

Not too sure if I could've posted this elsewhere, feel free to lock or remove if you don't deem it worthy.

 

The u-18 player who scored 4 goals past us in Notts Forest win against our u-18s in the FA Youth Cup last week has gone to Chelsea for a fee of £1.5m. I'd like to hope we could demand a much greater fee than that if we had a boy with this talent and judging on the Chamberlain fee, I think we do.

[S-Clarke]

The difference with this kid is that he'd never played a first team game, so his value is never going to be huge - there's no justification for it to be huge.

 

Forest couldn't really reject £1.8m for a 15 year old who has never played a first team game - they need the money too.

 

With us, Chamberlain had been in the first team setup for a year or so - and was a key part in our promotion playing almost 40 times over the season. This is why we could demand a much higher fee for him. (and we're financially sound, so we dictate, which helps)

[Saint Garrett]

Very surprised that he's not been given a chance in the first team looking at how they've done this year...

[SuperMikey]

He was quality last wednesday, had all the attributes to make a very good striker. If he can add a passing aspect and better movement to his game he'll be a good Prem striker. Good in the air, good finisher, good strength.

[MINIBARCELONASAINT]

  S-Clarke said:

The difference with this kid is that he'd never played a first team game, so his value is never going to be huge - there's no justification for it to be huge.

 

Forest couldn't really reject £1.8m for a 15 year old who has never played a first team game - they need the money too.

 

With us, Chamberlain had been in the first team setup for a year or so - and was a key part in our promotion playing almost 40 times over the season. This is why we could demand a much higher fee for him. (and we're financially sound, so we dictate, which helps)

 

I agree on most, but he's 18 and had made two substitute appearances in the Championship.

[spyinthesky]

I remember a lad we had in the Youth squad many years ago by the name of Peters??

 

Scored goals for fun and look a bright prospect.

 

Lost his way, ended up at Brentford and from there to obscurity

 

You can never tell at that age

[Mowgli]

  S-Clarke said:

The difference with this kid is that he'd never played a first team game, so his value is never going to be huge - there's no justification for it to be huge.

 

Forest couldn't really reject £1.8m for a 15 year old who has never played a first team game - they need the money too.

 

With us, Chamberlain had been in the first team setup for a year or so - and was a key part in our promotion playing almost 40 times over the season. This is why we could demand a much higher fee for him. (and we're financially sound, so we dictate, which helps)

 

Yes but didn't Arsenal offer £4m for Shaw before he made his first team debut?

[Doctoroncall]

His contract was up at the end of the season Forest offered him a new terms twice but he rejected them. When you get to the stage of offering highly rated teenagers (inc Morrison) £10 to £15k a week starting salary the likes of Forest are going to struggle to keep the talent especially with this new compensation system.

[Fitzhugh Fella]

  S-Clarke said:

The difference with this kid is that he'd never played a first team game, so his value is never going to be huge - there's no justification for it to be huge.

 

Forest couldn't really reject £1.8m for a 15 year old who has never played a first team game - they need the money too.

 

With us, Chamberlain had been in the first team setup for a year or so - and was a key part in our promotion playing almost 40 times over the season. This is why we could demand a much higher fee for him. (and we're financially sound, so we dictate, which helps)

 

 

I thought he had a couple of sub appearances recently?

[St Chalet]

He was playing for Cotterill, zero chance of making even an empty bench if his Portsmouth tenure was anything to go by.

[Itchen_block4]

Easier to sell him than to sell a first teamer who might help to keep them up. Silly move from a football perspective, but there you go.