Bristol City bid SIX MILLION POUNDS for Palace strker

[LlcoolJ]

Not sure how this fits in with Lansdown's quotes here:

http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/Bristo...gets-Premier/story-26338789-detail/story.html

"I always invest in this football club and I invest a lot. But the key is to get value for money and we've definitely got value for money with this lot. We will have to look again now that we are up for next season and I will have to keep investing."

Lansdown highlights Brentford as an example of a club which has bought wisely and adopted a sustainable financial model while remaining competitive in the Football League's top division.

Promoted from League One as runners-up to Wolves last season, the Bees are one spot outside the Championship play-off places and pushing hard to reach the Premier League for the first time.

Lansdown said: "You have to invest your money wisely and in younger players, who are going to develop and add to their value. That is what Brentford have done and it is a good model for any team going up (from League One).

"We did that last time to start with and then got it wrong to be honest. But this time will be different and we will continue doing what we have done this year with the aim of getting stronger and stronger. Hopefully, we can build a side to get us to the top of the Championship and then into the Premier League at some time in the future.

 

[Guinness Boy]

NO ONE wants to GO to Bristol CITY!

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[Bakero]

NO ONE wants to GO to Bristol CITY!

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Surely Brentford are not happy with this. Maybe they could offer to top up the wages Bristol are offering him.

 

[Triggaaar]

As my girlfriend would say - oh my f**k

Should there be punctuation there? For example: Oh my! Fu*k?

 

[Triggaaar]

Not sure how this fits in with Lansdown's quotes here:

"I always invest in this football club and I invest a lot. But the key is to get value for money and we've definitely got value for money with this lot. We will have to look again now that we are up for next season and I will have to keep investing."

Lansdown highlights Brentford as an example of a club which has bought wisely and adopted a sustainable financial model while remaining competitive in the Football League's top division.

Promoted from League One as runners-up to Wolves last season, the Bees are one spot outside the Championship play-off places and pushing hard to reach the Premier League for the first time.

Lansdown said: "You have to invest your money wisely and in younger players, who are going to develop and add to their value. That is what Brentford have done and it is a good model for any team going up (from League One).

"We did that last time to start with and then got it wrong to be honest. But this time will be different and we will continue doing what we have done this year with the aim of getting stronger and stronger. Hopefully, we can build a side to get us to the top of the Championship and then into the Premier League at some time in the future.

So he likes Brentfords model of buying young, low cost players who have potential, and selling them for a fortune to a club with more money than sense, and he wants to emulate it by buying their players for a fortune?

 

[Count Otto Black]

cant see any £6million 'rated' player wanting to go to bristol

 

[Johnny Byrne superstar]

NO ONE wants to GO to Bristol CITY!

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Brizzle City fans must be miffed

 

[glasfryn]

cant see any £6million 'rated' player wanting to go to bristol

COG might

 

[Johnny Byrne superstar]

COG might

I don't think they'd want to overwhelm the fans with such a quality acquisition!

 

[Count Otto Black]

COG might

hardly £6m rated tho either

 

[glasfryn]

hardly £6m rated tho either

tongue was firmly in the cheek

 

[Barham's tash]

Some plonker on Twitter reckons we've now waded in to get him...

https://twitter.com/tnc_fleague/status/634431244508508161

 

[albionite]

Some plonker on Twitter reckons we've now waded in to get him...

https://twitter.com/tnc_fleague/status/634431244508508161

Not sure if I should laugh or not. Hopefully no one starts a new thread on this or it will attract all the Nigel's out of the woodwork.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Some plonker on Twitter reckons we've now waded in to get him...

https://twitter.com/tnc_fleague/status/634431244508508161

What a gibbon. Can't begin to fathom how desperate some people must be for attention to set up an account pretending to be an agent, solely to go on fishing trips via Twitter.

 

[greyseagull]

Some journalist just tweeted the Gayle story too. It must be true; he has 26k followers. Ooooohhh....

 

[albionite]

Some journalist just tweeted the Gayle story too. It must be true; he has 26k followers. Ooooohhh....

Can't see us giving those £8m for gayle even if he was worth that much.

 

[Foolg]

Emanuele Giulianelli just tweeted that we've enquired.

Writer for FIFA weekly, FourFourTwo, La Gazetta dello Sport. Would be weird for him to tweet it if nothing in it at all, given most of his tweets are regarding 'higher profile' clubs.

 

[northstandsteve]

No thanks.Doubt he would be interested anyway.

 

[ThePaddy]

I doubt he'd be interested but it'd be a fantastic signing for your lot. If you lot played 2 up front he'd probably end up getting 25+.

 

[casbom]

IF we were even contemplating this and paying £6m to £8m for him then I hell yeah! Four strikers of Hemed, Bobby, Baldock and Gayle would be quite something!