[Albion] Sam Baldock moves to Reading {CONFIRMED}

[Dirk Lehmann's Python]

3m tops with his injury record. Would be a lot more otherwise

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[Finchley Seagull]

Free or minimal. He is not all that

He got 12 goals for us last season in the Championship. Definitely good enough for us to ask for a significant fee, especially considering how much Reading wanted for Moore.

 

[Icy Gull]

Free or minimal. He is not all that

I am assuming you stopped going to games the year we got promoted. He is a top Championship player and a striker too, how many of those arrive on a free?

 

[Blue Valkyrie]

Free or minimal. He is not all that

Reading over value players ( see L. Moore ), so I hope Barber strikes a shrewd deal on this one.

 

[NooBHA]

I am assuming you stopped going to games the year we got promoted. He is a top Championship player and a striker too, how many of those arrive on a free?

Getting fairly large earners off the wage bill is as good as a fee and also frees up space in the 25 man squad, for potential new arrivals. I don't see his fee breaking £1m if even anywhere near that. I like him as a player too but the squad needs to progress and get better by every passing transfer window.

 

[Braggfan]

Reading over value players ( see L. Moore ), so I hope Barber strikes a shrewd deal on this one.

Well said. If Reading want Baldock they should pay through the nose after hiking up Moore's fee. I'd rather Baldock went on a free to nearly anyone else (except Palace obviously) than go to Reading.

 

[Dave the OAP]

I am assuming you stopped going to games the year we got promoted. He is a top Championship player and a striker too, how many of those arrive on a free?

Nah...everything before the prem has been expunged from my memory.

I always thought he wasn't up to it...for me he was a bit like the Barnes argument.....some think he was great nad some don't. I'm one who didn't!

He is also very injury prone.

 

[BensGrandad]

I would expect the deal to be in the regions of SB + £8-10m.

 

[Jam The Man]

Free or minimal. He is not all that

Still got 2 years to go on his contract so there will definitely be a fee involved.
Of course the club never disclose fees so I doubt we’ll ever know!

 

[lawros left foot]

I would expect the deal to be in the regions of SB + £8-10m.

They’d never pay that much for Sam, maybe 5mil

 

[Simster]

Reading fans don't seem that excited:

http://www.royals.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=184889&sid=2d64f4cb379c12bdc26b8292a541a240

He's far too good for them. I do hope he goes elsewhere and that Reading get relegated so that next year they can be looking at run-of-the-mill lower division dross signings like Adebayo Akinfenwa with genuine enthusiasm instead.

 

[Pavilionaire]

If he's off then I wish him all the best - he turned out to be a very good signing for us.

I'm surprised that a Championship club with parachute cash hasn't made a decent offer - a 1 in 3 Championship striker with good experience could net you 14/15 goals if he stays fit, and that has to be worth £4m / £5m of anyone's money.

 

[B.W.]

I would say to that awful club that you can have Sam B for a silly figure, say, £5M, or you can tie the deal up with the Moore deal, so Moore for £10M + Sam B...

 

[BensGrandad]

They’d never pay that much for Sam, maybe 5mil

Not expecting them to so perhaps I didnt make it clear as I was suggesting SB plus between 8 and 10m for Liam Moore

 

[B.W.]

If he's off then I wish him all the best - he turned out to be a very good signing for us.

I'm surprised that a Championship club with parachute cash hasn't made a decent offer - a 1 in 3 Championship striker with good experience could net you 14/15 goals if he stays fit, and that has to be worth £4m / £5m of anyone's money.

The crucial bit of your post is 'if he stays fit'... unfortunately, buying clubs know he probably won't...

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Seems to me that Baldock & Hemed would make an imaginative strikeforce signing for somebody somewhere at a lower level, either here or abroad.

 

[Icy Gull]

So Reading want to sell us a player who has no Premier League experience at a grossly inflated fee and we are going to let a striker (much more difficult to acquire than CB) who was in a promotion winning team, go the Reading for a bargain knock down price. Can anyone on here see TB going along with this?

 

[Icy Gull]

Getting fairly large earners off the wage bill is as good as a fee and also frees up space in the 25 man squad, for potential new arrivals. I don't see his fee breaking £1m if even anywhere near that. I like him as a player too but the squad needs to progress and get better by every passing transfer window.

If I didn’t think that you had some sort of ear to the ground on the Albion, I’d say bollox to your 1 million quid

 

[spence]

Didn't Reading offer about 5 million in the end for Hemed ?

Surely we should be looking around 2 million for Baldock

 

[Insel affe]

Didn't Reading offer about 5 million in the end for Hemed ?

Surely we should be looking around 2 million for Baldock

3-4 millon for Baldock and to be honest ask for 5 just because they tried to hold us to ransom.