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https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/19498868.blackburn-rovers-boss-sends-message-adam-armstrong-suitors/

Mowbray basically telling PL sides to just get on with it. If you want him you know how much he will cost. We obviously like him as have bid before, but do we like him enough to pay what they want? Big decision as if we don't it seems a direct rival will.

Interesting Nixon report about Nketiah as thought Brighton seemed nailed to get Edouard. He will certsinly leave Celtic this window as like with Ings they can't afford to lose him for free.

Don't see anything in Nat Phillips. He certainly isnt good enough on the ball to play as a no6 as well and if Vestergaard goes we won't replace with a starter IMO as Salisu will (has) obviously come in.

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4 minutes ago, Dusic said:

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/19498868.blackburn-rovers-boss-sends-message-adam-armstrong-suitors/

Mowbray basically telling PL sides to just get on with it. If you want him you know how much he will cost. We obviously like him as have bid before, but do we like him enough to pay what they want? Big decision as if we don't it seems a direct rival will.

Interesting Nixon report about Nketiah as thought Brighton seemed nailed to get Edouard. He will certsinly leave Celtic this window as like with Ings they can't afford to lose him for free.

Don't see anything in Nat Phillips. He certainly isnt good enough on the ball to play as a no6 as well.

Stop taking the piss trying to get him on the cheap. Fair comments. If it was other clubs doing it to one of our players we’d be the same.

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5 minutes ago, Dusic said:

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/19498868.blackburn-rovers-boss-sends-message-adam-armstrong-suitors/

Mowbray basically telling PL sides to just get on with it. If you want him you know how much he will cost. We obviously like him as have bid before, but do we like him enough to pay what they want? Big decision as if we don't it seems a direct rival will.

Interesting Nixon report about Nketiah as thought Brighton seemed nailed to get Edouard. He will certsinly leave Celtic this window as like with Ings they can't afford to lose him for free.

Don't see anything in Nat Phillips. He certainly isnt good enough on the ball to play as a no6 as well and if Vestergaard goes we won't replace with a starter IMO as Salisu will (has) obviously come in.

Hopefully what Nixon is saying about Brighton being after Nketiah leaves us in pole position for Edouard.

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2 minutes ago, davefizzy14 said:

Hopefully what Nixon is saying about Brighton being after Nketiah leaves us in pole position for Edouard.

Said this before, but The Athletic reporter for Brighton has been pretty consistent that they aren’t in for Edouard. 

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No chance is Nketiah worth £20m, he has eight senior goals and three of those were in the Championship. Madness.

Sander Berge’s name was mentioned on here previously and he was Sheffield United’s standout player tonight. A clear level above the Championship, but not sure he’s the type of midfielder we’re looking for. Certainly not a Romeu/Wanyama.

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3 minutes ago, HarvSFC said:

No chance is Nketiah worth £20m, he has eight senior goals and three of those were in the Championship. Madness.

Sander Berge’s name was mentioned on here previously and he was Sheffield United’s standout player tonight. A clear level above the Championship, but not sure he’s the type of midfielder we’re looking for. Certainly not a Romeu/Wanyama.

I wonder if he’s a back up plan if a big offer for JWP comes in…

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The transfers of Mane and Daka show how the price baseline has risen in the PL. Same club, similar age, similar record (Mane's better, in fact), neither in the final year of contract. We paid just under £12m for SM and Leicester paid £23m for Daka. So, where attacking players are concerned, we're pretty much priced out of buying hot prospects even from second-tier leagues.

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5 minutes ago, verlaine1979 said:

The transfers of Mane and Daka show how the price baseline has risen in the PL. Same club, similar age, similar record (Mane's better, in fact), neither in the final year of contract. We paid just under £12m for SM and Leicester paid £23m for Daka. So, where attacking players are concerned, we're pretty much priced out of buying hot prospects even from second-tier leagues.

That ignores how Salzburg's brand profile has increased over the intervening years, its well known to be an absolute top class talent factory these days, whereas mane was perhaps the first top player (and maybe the best). Also daka had 3 years left on his contact, mane didn't and was able to force a move... 

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Now can people stop going on about Abraham we have no chance and never did

Atalanta board have a meeting scheduled in London with Chelsea in the next 48 hours to ask for Tammy Abraham as main target. Price tag around €40m. Arsenal and West Ham interested too 🔵 #CFC

Atalanta gonna bid for Tammy if Inter will ask for Duván Zapata as Lukaku replacement.

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13 hours ago, Saint Matty 76 said:

Madueke has 2 in 30 minutes against Ajax in the Dutch Super Cup, including an absolute worldie.

I think he's way out of our league already, mind.

He is way out of our league. PSV have seen Dortmund buy young English players for little and sell them for big money and know that if Madueke has a good season, one of the big clubs will do them a ridiculous offer.

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3 minutes ago, ErwinK1961 said:

Backing off… because we have moved onto someone better? (Yeah right)

Or backing off because it’s getting too expensive for us / we’ve been told he’d prefer Palace?

Probably money related, which looking at the fees around, is about 10m more than he’s worth so fair enough I guess. 
 

We’ll never know, but if he was our number 1 target (which it looks like), It would very disappointing to miss out on him. Especially to a relegation rival. 
 

FWIW, I think palace will do pretty well this season. In his shoes, I think I’d be preferring that move as well. 

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Probably money related, which looking at the fees around, is about 10m more than he’s worth so fair enough I guess. 
 

We’ll never know, but if he was our number 1 target (which it looks like), It would very disappointing to miss out on him. Especially to a relegation rival. 
 

FWIW, I think palace will do pretty well this season. In his shoes, I think I’d be preferring that move as well. 

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15 minutes ago, SuperSAINT said:

 

If Armstrong is our No1 target, this is pretty poor bearing in mind we have £28m for Ings. Need to pull something pretty special out of the bag if we are going to lose out on Armstrong over a couple of mill.

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19 minutes ago, Sir Ralph said:

If Armstrong is our No1 target, this is pretty poor bearing in mind we have £28m for Ings. Need to pull something pretty special out of the bag if we are going to lose out on Armstrong over a couple of mill.

Maybe he was our number one target until we had the money to pay for someone better.

We were targeting him before the ing approach.

Surely the extra money adjusts our plans.

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Armstrong is getting better by the minute, people seem to think we are chasing a 20 goal guaranteed goal machine with PL experience. He has a price and is a risk, the club I can only assume is being careful.

Im as frustrated about it as anyone but I exect we will get Sorloth as nobody else wants him lol

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If we blow the entire Ings income on a single player, it needs to come with more guarantee of success than Armstrong IMO. As we saw with Adams, lots of goals in the Championship doesn’t mean the same in the EPL.

 

I suspect the club know the Ings money is our only money, so want to bring multiple players in rather than spend it all on one. 

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9 hours ago, verlaine1979 said:

The transfers of Mane and Daka show how the price baseline has risen in the PL. Same club, similar age, similar record (Mane's better, in fact), neither in the final year of contract. We paid just under £12m for SM and Leicester paid £23m for Daka. So, where attacking players are concerned, we're pretty much priced out of buying hot prospects even from second-tier leagues.

Lots of players going cheap (by comparison as well). Demari Gray, Ryan Gould, lots of decent frees too...

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I never understand why we don't buy before we sell - as soon as we sell a player like Ings or Vestergaard and need to replace them the price of the replacement goes up.  It  doesn't really help that we have no real strength in depth and thus a player who is ready to step up and replace them.  Ideally you do that and then buy a younger cheaper player with potential to fill out the squad.

I guess with Salisu we already have Vestergaard's replacement as the left centre back but I sometimes wonder why we didn't sign Kristoffer Ajer for example to replace Vestergaard in the squad before we are forced to sell him.

Maybe money is the problem - needing money to come in before we spend it out - but I thought that was what the loan was for.

Armstrong is overpriced with 1 year on his contract at 20-25M.

Edouard at £20M is a risk at the Scottish Premiership is really equivalent to League 1 in standard and competition so you have to judge the player on European games, internationals and youthful potential.

Nketiah at £20M is also overpriced with 1 year on his contract - but although we got a good fee for Ings it has set a high bar in terms of transfer fee and put prices up elsewhere.  Maybe a buyback deal like we did for Livramento would lower the price.

I not particularly enamoured by the Sorloth rumours given his failure at Palace - surely Hoppe from Schalke would be a cheaper and better long term bet.

I thought Obafemi, Long, Valery, Elynoussi and Djneppo would all have been moved on by now - either permanently or on loan - none of them are good enough. 

 

 

   

 

 

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42 minutes ago, FarehamSaintJames said:

Could use some of the Ings fee to pay off RH and bring someone else in, any other manager would’ve been sacked with our record second half of last season.

We had 12 fit first team players in January, in November we topped the league briefly, and in 2020 we had a top 4 points return. Of those things, you'd judge (and sack him) for the form with the injury ravaged squad? To each their own... 

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1 hour ago, RobM said:

If we blow the entire Ings income on a single player, it needs to come with more guarantee of success than Armstrong IMO. As we saw with Adams, lots of goals in the Championship doesn’t mean the same in the EPL.

 

I suspect the club know the Ings money is our only money, so want to bring multiple players in rather than spend it all on one. 

I get that we may not want to spend the full 25m on a one striker. The current reported offers are much lower though, which makes it odd we'd back off at that point.

First and foremost we need to buy a frontline striker that can deliver immediately & be careful we don't spread the money too thinly across too many purchases.

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46 minutes ago, FarehamSaintJames said:

Could use some of the Ings fee to pay off RH and bring someone else in, any other manager would’ve been sacked with our record second half of last season.

Who decent is going to want to come into a club with our squad and no money? Be very careful what you wish for.....

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