[Albion] Dunk to Leicester City?

[hans kraay fan club]

I think people are being very quick to assume Balogun "is not Premier League quality". He might not be as good (consistent) as Dunk is right now, but why can't he become more consistent with more games?

Leon Balogun is THIRTY ONE years old! He isn't a rookie with load of potential to improve. Some of his errors (see WBA away, or the Madagascar goal at the AFCON) are way beyond 'sloppy' and into the realms of shambolic.

 

[Stat Brother]

This. Duffy, Clarke, Balogun and Burn, in my opinion, will not be good enough. Two of them have never kicked a ball in the Premier League, the other loves a mistake. Too much of a burden for Duffy.

I wouldn't get too pissy pants over it.

After all this is The Albion, they could put a shirt on the light blue 'seat', play that at centre back, and it'll be worth £35m in 12 months time

 

[Nixonator]

Sinking feeling this is going to happen now.

Maguire is very probably going to Utd, and then our only remaining hope is for Tony to price Dunk so high Leicester go back to Tarwoski instead.

This is much more likely than you think.

1) We haven't been forced to sell a player in years
2) Lewis is happy and will get a bumper contract and the captaincy if he stays
3) His current contract is a long one
4) Leicester will receive a record windfall, and they seem like a club spending pretty carelessly already

This all points towards Tony setting the price very high, perhaps even up to 80% of the Maguire transfer. They could walk away just as easily as they could pay up.

 

[spence]

This. Duffy, Clarke, Balogun and Burn, in my opinion, will not be good enough. Two of them have never kicked a ball in the Premier League, the other loves a mistake. Too much of a burden for Duffy.

This.

 

[the right footed denilson]

This. Duffy, Clarke, Balogun and Burn, in my opinion, will not be good enough. Two of them have never kicked a ball in the Premier League, the other loves a mistake. Too much of a burden for Duffy.

Someone with pace and composure too. With the wrong partner Duffy could become a liability.

 

[LamieRobertson]

£25m + will buy us a top quality striker and the other £20m a replacement for Dunky. On balance of probability, we'll be better off.

Top quality striker for 25m....where?

 

[LamieRobertson]

I thought it was all about attack this season anyway

 

[TSB]

I can't see Dunk as a Diva. He's settled here, he's happy, and he won't be spitting his dummy if he stays in my humble opinion.

I think the time he refused to play in order to engineer a move may be before you begun supporting the club.

...

But I think this is a different Lewis compared to 2014.

 

[schmunk]

I wouldn't get too pissy pants over it.

After all this is The Albion, they could put a shirt on the light blue 'seat', play that at centre back, and it'll be worth £35m in 12 months time

I'm not sure we're allowed cars on the pitch...

 

[Blue Valkyrie]

It was in the thread concerning the centre back we almost got from Reading.
His name escapes me, which is odd because he was deemed to be on a par (with add ons) as our £45m rated Dunky.

Liam Moore.

 

[Nixonator]

£25m + will buy us a top quality striker and the other £20m a replacement for Dunky. On balance of probability, we'll be better off.

Unless we adjust our salary cap, we can't afford strikers in the 25M+ region which is going to make it very difficult to spend this potential money.

We still have 60-70M left of our annual PL windfall available, add in another 50M and where/who on earth are we going to spend this on?

 

[TSB]

I'm not sure we're allowed cars on the pitch...

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That looks grey to me.

 

[pishhead]

....and what about Everton and Wolves?
I think some people are going a little overboard about Leicester. I would be surprised if they finished ahead of either of these two, let alone Arsenal.

Those clubs weren't mentioned. I just think at the moment Arsenal seem like a club in disarray. FWIW I think Everton will have a decent season and Wolves will always be one Jorge Mendes sulk away from having a decimated team.

 

[perseus]

I thought it was all about attack this season anyway

Yep, Dunk is looking like our best attacker!

 

[ewe2]

Tony Bloom is a PROFESSIONAL gambler. The word flutter isn't in his vocabulary, I would imagine, except to describe what butterflies wins do.

Then it is looking like a professional gamble........

 

[DarrenFreemansPerm]

Currently debating with a foreign Liverpool fan on twitter, he believes Dunk is only worth £10m-£15m as that’s what Transfer Market value him at. Imagine using something like that as a reference point.

 

[Stat Brother]

Those clubs weren't mentioned. I just think at the moment Arsenal seem like a club in disarray. FWIW I think Everton will have a decent season and Wolves will always be one Jorge Mendes sulk away from having a decimated team.

That's the thing for me.

It's all a bit of an unholy alliance, that is just doomed to end in failure.
You can't have all the money in one hand and all the power in another.

 

[Stat Brother]

Currently debating with a foreign Liverpool fan on twitter, he believes Dunk is only worth £10m-£15m as that’s what Transfer Market value him at. Imagine using something like that as a reference point.

Are you sure it's not a Spurs fan?

 

[Napper]

£25m + will buy us a top quality striker and the other £20m a replacement for Dunky. On balance of probability, we'll be better off.

Andone , Murray , Locadia , Hemed ( likely to go ) , Connolly

Can't see another striker coming in.

Possibly covered at the back now as well . Clarke may even of been the man , we don't know.

TB will get some return on his investment though , cant begrudge him that

 

[LamieRobertson]

Are you sure it's not a Spurs fan?

Can’t be BG he doesn’t do twitter