Blues Rock DJ
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shame, could have offered O'Grady as well.....deal breaker !!
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[Football] Raphael Dwamena RIP
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shame, could have offered O'Grady as well.....deal breaker !!
Don Tmatter
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Hardly, he signed for Chesterfield 2 months ago
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£8m for someone with such a slender (if impressive) track record seems a hell of a lot. I wonder if it's going to be a case of restructuring the deal - maybe that 8m was including all add-ons etc. Otherwise, you'd have to say Zurich are taking the mick a bit...
I simply can't get my head round the thought £8m is expensive, it just isn't.
He's 21.
He's 8 months into a new contract.
He's scored 30 goals in 38 'professional' games.
If he's signed & scored 10 decent goals bidding will begin at £30-40m.
We are Premier League, Raphael might only be worth £4m to Grasshoppers but the Albion, or any other Premier League side, sure as hell aren't buying any young striker on a new contract for 'only' £4m
Cowfold Seagull
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Has anyone told Chesterfield?
Bold Seagull
strong and stable with me, or...
We offered O'Grady, but their price went up for them to take him...
edit: this dim witted reply doesn't really work with [MENTION=13683]Cowfold Seagull[/MENTION]'s factual post right above it.
British Bulldog
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- Feb 6, 2006
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Not far wrong with that, look at Mbappé, one decent season at Monaco and they are talking figure's of £100m + for an 18yr old.
severnside gull
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Their owner clearly says (I paraphrase) "with TV money in the EPL we are in no hurry to sell. The price for a goalscorer will only go up."
He's not wrong!
He's not wrong!
maltaseagull
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Stephens
Ulloa??
Does that include the Austrian Ashley Barnes?
Blues Rock DJ
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that's why my post is in the past tense !!
Blues Rock DJ
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Past tense !
I can only assume the 'inflated market' bullshite doctrine has finally sunk in.
Sadly it happened on the day when the club finally said 'ah f**k it, just pay the man'.
Chinman3000
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Not sure exactly what your point is but I think it's different to mine
British Bulldog
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Baffles me why he never went on to play for their full national team? maybe he's harbouring hopes of playing for England?
saafend_seagull
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He played 90 mins today, didn't score in a 2-0 win.
Have you seen the Austrian team? He wouldn't get in!
forumwayseagull
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Scouts there supposedly..interesting to see how much we will throw at it!?
Well, firstly he doesn't play for Grasshoppers. He plays for FC Zurich. In fact Grasshoppers is the only club he's scored against that most people will ever have heard of as nearly all his goals so far were netted in Austria - and not against any of the big names.
So in that sense he's entirely unproven at anything like a decent standard.
Which is also why any comparison, as someone else was making, to Mbappe is ridiculous. He's already a star in a much bigger league, as well as the Champions League.