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[Albion] Adam Webster *** Signed on 4 year deal ***
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Return of the Rev
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3 4 1 2 ?
Oi! Keep my pin number out of it!
Return of the Rev
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Kalimantan Gull
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By signing a ball - playing centre half to play in a progressive 3-4-3? Yeah
HastingsSeagull
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Strikes me as the ideal, realistic signing if we want a back 3. 25M does sound too much but would we realistically get him for 15M? Think back to when we were in the Champ and talking about loosing Dunk for about 15M. Nobody wanted to take that but there would have been pressure on the club to consider it, and the market has gone up quickly since then.
Might be a case of holding out and the player wanting to move, then settling more in the middle, around the 20M range. Exact figure likely affected by how much money is upfront, are there clauses etc.
Might be a case of holding out and the player wanting to move, then settling more in the middle, around the 20M range. Exact figure likely affected by how much money is upfront, are there clauses etc.
B-right-on
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Only 5? Improvement on our back 9 last season.
BUTTERBALL
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£25m is absolute madness for a player who's never set foot in the Premier League and played only for Portsmouth, Ipswich and Bristol City, none of whom really achieved very much when he was there.
I thought Clarke for £5m was a tidy bit of business as his value is almost certain to go up rapidly and he looks to have great potential. This seems mental at the fee mentioned, if we are going to spend £25m surely we should spend this on a proven goalscorer? This isn't a value proposition, Bristol City probably can't believe their luck!
I thought Clarke for £5m was a tidy bit of business as his value is almost certain to go up rapidly and he looks to have great potential. This seems mental at the fee mentioned, if we are going to spend £25m surely we should spend this on a proven goalscorer? This isn't a value proposition, Bristol City probably can't believe their luck!
pastafarian
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Hmmm chatting to my Bristol City chum today (he is actually quite sensible on these matters) Webster is destined for PL football, and def deserves at least a £20m price tag.
That is not to say of course that £25m is inflated because transfer fees are ridiculous anyway............but he is very rated anyway as a centre back......well at least by city fans.....which doesnt really help anyway
On what basis do you come up with that?
lizard
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Similar quality of player? Neither have top flight experience. With our current squad I'd see them as 4th and 5th choice CB's.
Anything more than £10M and we've been royally mugged. £20M+ for an unproven lower league CB is crazy money.
Just my opinion.
junior
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I think you're getting you fees confused with those of 4/5 years ago...
If you think that top Prem CB's are costing £80mil these days then £25mil seems quite realistic to me for a top Champ defender.
I also think you're very naive if you think we'll get a proven goalscorer for £25mil.
Bladders
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Agreed, a good goal scorer will be north of £50 mill
a proven one .............well the selling club can make up any figure they want
Left Footer
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Everything got ****ed up the day Liverpool spent 75 million on VVD.
Some would say good business as he has transformed their defence, on the other scale clubs now use this as a yardstick.
Some would say good business as he has transformed their defence, on the other scale clubs now use this as a yardstick.
Fair enough.
You obviously don't know that much about Webster and are probably a wee bit out of step with what the wider football world thinks, including our own management.
I understand Matt Clarke may go out on loan to gain further experience whilst Webster is a very highly rated young player that GP et al appear to be pretty keen on and ,according to rumour, are prepared to pay a substantial fee for. If signed, he would not be going out on loan, but would be an integral and important part of the squad and I would venture to say that he would very soon become an automatic choice for the team.
As far as transfer fees are concerned, valuations have gone mad, as have wages, and everything else connected with the higher echelons of professional football. It is the world we live in, but if we want to attract the best players, you have to pay the going rate.
The club presumably feel that Clarke would benefit from playing regular football at a level he hasn't yet experienced, and if he does well, his value will increase and he will also be in a better position to challenge for a place in the team here.As far as Webster is concerned, he has regularly played at a higher level than Clarke and was voted City's Player of the Year, last season. He has been widely tipped as a Prem player and is obviously a few steps ahead of Clarke in his development. If fees continue at the present level or even increase, he may well turn out to be a bargain, either for us or some other club if we don't sign him.
P.S. Graham Potter is also untried in the top flight, but he was the kind of manager the the Board and Ashworth believed could help establish the Albion as an attractive footballing side capable of holding their own in the Prem. They obviously didn't feel the same about Hughton.
Look to the future, you may enjoy it!
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Neymar?
Left Footer
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Strikers or midfielders have always gone for more than defenders, VVD tipped the scale.
Albumen
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Ferdinand was £30m 17 years ago. I'd say VVD is easily the best in the world, nobody should be surprised at the price now.