I think he's all but gone. On a loan to buy arrangement to Dynamo Kiev I think. Weird as he was so highly rated at one point behind doesn't seem to have done anything much yet.
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[Albion] New Ben White Rumour
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I think he's all but gone. On a loan to buy arrangement to Dynamo Kiev I think. Weird as he was so highly rated at one point behind doesn't seem to have done anything much yet.
bluenitsuj
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What a load of bollocks
neilbard
Hedging up
- Oct 8, 2013
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albionalbino
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Just noticed his price to join PSG has suddenly gone to 3/1. New favourites to sign him.
Skybet/Oddschecker.
Skybet/Oddschecker.
Jim Van Winkle
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Je m’appelle Benjamin Blanc
HastingsSeagull
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Wow that would be much better than selling him to a direct rival. Nice bit of global publicity too. Price would have to be right but is the one player I’d be accepting big bid for if I was Uncle Tony.
Plus he wouldn’t have to move; he could get the ferry everyday.
You’d hope it would be €50m+ for M. Blanc
Can't see him going abroad. There is such a premium on English players because of the HGP rules, that they are typically not seen as value for money by clubs outside England.
I must have imagined Dortmund signing Sancho and Bellingham then
maresfield seagull
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- May 23, 2006
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Those signings I believe were effectively little more than compensation payment s Hence fantastic value for money
Where as BW would be a proper purchase
Oops Sancho 8m
Bellingham 22.75 m ��
Yep.
And might be cheaper for me too as my son has a White Albion shirt (his favourite player) and an Mbappe PSG shirt so I could maybe find a way of taking the 3 and White off the Albion shirt and replacing Mbappe on the PSG one! Much rather this than Liverpool or United!
Could we do a p[art ex with PSG for a striker ? not the diving Brazilian one though
Knocky's Nose
Mon nez est retiré.
Football is a business, and Uncle Tony is a businessman at the end of the day. If a super-power rich club wants to dig deep and pay the silver, off he toddles - with our best wishes. Good for the Albion, and good for Ben as he'll get a massive pay rise.
Official Old Man
Uckfield Seagull
Why have we become a selling club? We should be looking at keeping our best players and building around them. PB said Europe in 5 years, was that the Albion or just our current players?
I'm not sure selling 1 or 2 of our best players, to big clubs makes you a 'selling club'
Realistically almost every club is a selling club. Manchester United sold Ronaldo to Real Madrid, Liverpool sold Coutinho to Barcelona, Chelsea sold Hazard to Real Madrid, etc. If a player wants to go and a big club is prepared to pay a lot of money then it's very hard not to sell.
They paid the premium for very young talent. So I don't think that you're disproving my point. Open to being proved wrong though.
Perkino
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We have to sell all the time we cannot compete for titles otherwise we become a club that talented youngsters will avoid joining. The trick is to sell to a top side for a high price and hope that the player becomes a regular so we can claim the credit for developing their career and encourage others to take a similar route.
Almost all superstars come from a small club and get signed young following game time at a club brave enough to play them. We are planning to maximise this route and must allow players to leave around 24/25 with 100+ games and plenty of potential to still improve making them £50m+ players