[Albion] Dunk to Leicester City?

[LamieRobertson]

A conditional offer was put forward and rejected. No idea why Naylor is claiming zero contact to date, unless he is playing with word semantics, or in return for his privileged contact access to Club he has been asked to chuck out a smokescreen.

Shouldn’t you stick to transfers in....oh hang on

 

[TSB]

A conditional offer was put forward and rejected. No idea why Naylor is claiming zero contact to date, unless he is playing with word semantics, or in return for his privileged contact access to Club he has been asked to chuck out a smokescreen.

Another opportunity for Wedgee to embarrass himself pretending to have inside info (as well as being a millionaire, obvs)

 

[Nixonator]

A conditional offer was put forward and rejected. No idea why Naylor is claiming zero contact to date, unless he is playing with word semantics, or in return for his privileged contact access to Club he has been asked to chuck out a smokescreen.

Just stop.

 

[dazzer6666]

A conditional offer was put forward and rejected. No idea why Naylor is claiming zero contact to date, unless he is playing with word semantics, or in return for his privileged contact access to Club he has been asked to chuck out a smokescreen.

Here we go again......................

 

[GT49er]

The point that is missed is that we are under no obligation to give Leicester Value For Money.

In fact, it is the opposite. They need to give us an Offer We Can't Refuse.

Exactly - they can't expect to get a king's ransom for Maguire and then replace him with a player almost as good for half the price, and pocket the rest. The higher they push the price for Maguire (if somebody actually pays it) the higher the price for his replacement. If that is Dunk, we should settle for nothing less than 75% of what Leicester get for Maguire.

Is Dunk worth it? Is Maguire worth it? No idea - but the numbers being bandied around seem ridiculous to me anyway. But - is Dunk worth 75% of what Maguire is worth? Absolutely, in spades.

 

[bhafc99]

This thread is now closing in on 1000 posts, and starting to challenge the legendary likes of Jonathan Callieri, Michael Owen and Andrei Kanchelskis...

Good work Team NSC!

 

[GT49er]

Totally understand where you are coming from. I think the best example I can think of was Andy Carroll's move to Liverpool a few years ago. Liverpool only paid £35m for him because they had just received £50m for Torres and Newcastle rightly held out for the money.

If Leicester want Dunk and he wants to go that's fine, but if they receive a huge wedge for Maguire then we need to hold out for a significant portion of it.

Thank you - exactly what I was getting at - and the Torres - Chelsea - Carroll - Liverpool deal is exactly the one I was thinking of as an example. I'm not saying Dunk is or is not worth £X million. The point is, he is 'worth' a high percentage of what Leicester get for Maguire.

 

[chaileyjem]

Exactly - they can't expect to get a king's ransom for Maguire and then replace him with a player almost as good for half the price, and pocket the rest. The higher they push the price for Maguire (if somebody actually pays it) the higher the price for his replacement. If that is Dunk, we should settle for nothing less than 75% of what Leicester get for Maguire.

Is Dunk worth it? Is Maguire worth it? No idea - but the numbers being bandied around seem ridiculous to me anyway. But - is Dunk worth 75% of what Maguire is worth? Absolutely, in spades.

Does this sort of speculation just carry on and on and on even if reporting has now confirmed that Leicester have no intention of replacing Dunk with Maguire, who by the way , is still a Leicester player.

 

[Bozza]

Maguire, who by the way , is still a Leicester player.

He won't be when the transfer window closes, that much is clear.

 

[Blue Valkyrie]

Does this sort of speculation just carry on and on and on even if reporting has now confirmed that Leicester have no intention of replacing Dunk with Maguire, who by the way , is still a Leicester player.

22 more days, maximum.

 

[GT49er]

Does this sort of speculation just carry on and on and on even if reporting has now confirmed that Leicester have no intention of replacing Dunk with Maguire, who by the way , is still a Leicester player.

To be fair, I did include the word 'if' in my post!

And furthermore, I'm inclined to treat the word 'confirmed' with intense suspicion right up to the nanosecond the window slams shut!

 

[chaileyjem]

He won't be when the transfer window closes, that much is clear.

Probably but it looks like Utd (and presumably City) are still a long way from being prepared to come up with the ££ to match Leicester's eye popping valuation.

 

[chaileyjem]

To be fair, I did include the word 'if' in my post!

And furthermore, I'm inclined to treat the word 'confirmed' with intense suspicion right up to the nanosecond the window slams shut!

Ha ! three more weeks then

 

[seagullwedgee]

In football finance terms, which is of course totally detached from the real value of real things in the real world, I don’t think £75m plus £15m potential add-ons is too big a price for Maguire. Provided that the PL does not reach the implosion point where TV revenue starts to plateau or fall, in the period in question. Liverpool paid £75m for VVD, have had several great seasons of performance and progress, and the asset is potentially worth 1.6x times what they paid for it. On that basis, and all other ‘football finance’ angles being equal, I can quite see and understand one of the Mancs paying the 75+15 for Maguire.

 

[Nixonator]

In football finance terms, which is of course totally detached from the real value of real things in the real world, I don’t think £75m plus £15m potential add-ons is too big a price for Maguire. Provided that the PL does not reach the implosion point where TV revenue starts to plateau or fall, in the period in question. Liverpool paid £75m for VVD, have had several great seasons of performance and progress, and the asset is potentially worth 1.6x times what they paid for it. On that basis, and all other ‘football finance’ angles being equal, I can quite see and understand one of the Mancs paying the 75+15 for Maguire.

Football finance isn't the only thing that's detached from the real world.

 

[seagullwedgee]

Yep, thanks for that.

 

[Bridcutt]

"Asked by Sky Sports News about potential replacements should Maguire leave, Rodgers added: "The club have been very good. If we lose him, we'd have a number of targets we'd look at."" from https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/49012117

It's obvious Dunk is a target, it's obvious United want Maguire. Has anything happened yet? No so there's nothing to say unless Maguire does go to United

 

[zefarelly]

Whilst Maguire is clearly pretty good, as is Dunk on a good day, neither of them are in the same class as VVD, who can actually play football as well as defend. My gut feeling is none of them are going anywhere, unless there's a funny five minutes!

 

[Box of Frogs]

Does this sort of speculation just carry on and on and on even if reporting has now confirmed that Leicester have no intention of replacing Dunk with Maguire, who by the way , is still a Leicester player.

And BTW - TalkSport this morning suggested Cahill to replace Dunk as a possible option!

 

[Albumen]

In football finance terms, which is of course totally detached from the real value of real things in the real world, I don’t think £75m plus £15m potential add-ons is too big a price for Maguire. Provided that the PL does not reach the implosion point where TV revenue starts to plateau or fall, in the period in question. Liverpool paid £75m for VVD, have had several great seasons of performance and progress, and the asset is potentially worth 1.6x times what they paid for it. On that basis, and all other ‘football finance’ angles being equal, I can quite see and understand one of the Mancs paying the 75+15 for Maguire.

He's only been there a season and a half.
£150m+ now I'd say. He has absolutely everything. Macguire, not even half the player.