200k for Lynch

[Deano's Invisible Pants]

The headline says that Forest want Lynch on the cheap (at 200k). The Forest fans don't rate him and while he has good ability on the ball, I think he's massively over-rated too. So would you take a couple of hundred grand for him?

Forest hoping to sign Lynch on the cheap From The Argus)

 

[NMH]

I'd pay Forest 200,000 to take him off our hands.

 

[BUTTERBALL]

His early form with us when he broke into the team was excellent, but he did not look the same player after injuries and at left back - he makes Mayo look world class.

£200k is a fair price for a player with a lot to prove. He will either make us look absolutely stupid if we accept it or it will look like Forest have been stitched up!

 

[Knotty]

Difficult to make an informed judgement as haven't seen him play for ages.

Two to three years ago I would have confidently predicted that he would be worth at least £2m now. However, I thought last season he was disappointing. Not bad, but just he didn't seem to have progressed the way I had expected. He was nowhere near our best player.

Coupled with the comments about his attitude from other players, I have doubts that he is, or can be, as good as some think. (Forest fans' comments are interesting.)

However, the ideal scenario for me would be for him to come back to us and realise his potential of a couple of years ago.

 

[Deano's Invisible Pants]

Difficult to make an informed judgement as haven't seen him play for ages.

Two to three years ago I would have confidently predicted that he would be worth at least £2m now. However, I thought last season he was disappointing. Not bad, but just he didn't seem to have progressed the way I had expected. He was nowhere near our best player.

Coupled with the comments about his attitude from other players, I have doubts that he is, or can be, as good as some think. (Forest fans' comments are interesting.)

However, the ideal scenario for me would be for him to come back to us and realise his potential of a couple of years ago.

Agree with this to an extent, but 200k in the bank could give us greater scope to strengthen in the summer.

 

[Knotty]

Agree with this to an extent, but 200k in the bank could give us greater scope to strengthen in the summer.

I agree but if Joel could re-capture some of his early potential, he would be worth far more to us than anyone we could buy for £200K.

 

[Mendoza]

He doesnt want to be with us, so it is easy money. Take it, and use it to add to our squad of 11 contracted to next season

 

[Knotty]

He doesnt want to be with us, so it is easy money. Take it, and use it to add to our squad of 11 contracted to next season

How does he feel now that MA has gone?

 

[Brighton Breezy]

Get a new manager FIRST.

Then get them all to sit down like adults and work out how to rescue the situation.

Then get Lynch in the first team alongside Elphick.

 

[strings]

I wouldn't take it.

My reading of the situation is that at the end of last season Lynch was worth more than £200,000. However he has had an indifferent season at Forest and, off the back of that, Forest want to get him on the cheap. They will probably argue that they have already paid one years' worth of wages and £25,000 for the season long loan and therefore they have already paid in part (of sorts) for the player.

I would wait before the managerial situation is clearer before making a decision. However, this does go to show that it will be important to get a pernament manager in place within a couple of weeks of the season ending.

 

[Brighton Breezy]

Exactly Strings.

Any decision on playing staff should be made by whoever will be managing the team next season.

 

[Knotty]

However he has had an indifferent season at Forest

That's the most worrying bit.

For all the potential, and hyping of him on here, he has not really performed for a struggling Championship side.

I would love him to come back to us and prove he is the star we thought he was going to be, but I have my doubts.

 

[Brighton Breezy]

He has played well enough for TWO different managers at the City Ground to keep playing him...

 

[Springal]

Let him go, pays for McNulty!

 

[8ace]

I'd take it and add a sell-on fee just in case, a third or a half if possible.

 

[scooter1]

In the poll I said no, but having read the points above and with the very real threat of relegation looming i'd probably take the money and put a sell on clause in.

However if we can stay in this league i'd like to see him back here playing well in our colours, repaying some of the years of nurturing that this club put in, and then he can f*** off for a much higher fee having fulfilled some of that potential

 

[SeeGoals]

I didn't realise Forest were in the Championship relegation zone (with Southampton and Charlton), shows how much notice I take.

Just had a look on the Forest Official website here's a link to the Lynch Bio:

http://www.nottinghamforest.co.uk/page/ProfilesDetail/0,,10308~31848,00.html

 

[Knotty]

He has played well enough for TWO different managers at the City Ground to keep playing him...

We've got players that THREE managers have played and they are considered rubbish by some fans!

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Would take it, with a modest sell on. Seems a fair price.

 

[HP Seagull]

There is no way I would take £200,000 for Lynch. He is under contract with us for another two years, and his potential suggests he is worth more than that.

Forest are quite clearly trying to get him on the cheap, and they probably think we will roll over because he seemingly doesn't want to play for us anymore. We should not be taken for mugs and should not ask for less than £500,000 in my opinion.