[Albion] Where is Alexis going? (Liverpool - for an undisclosed fee...)

[Originunknown]

No complaints here. He would have gone on a free had we not got the contract with the clause in place. Sure, now it looks like he has gone for a 'cheap price' but my god we would have been frustrated if a world cup winner had walked out the door for nothing.

Precisely, we hedged our bets and protected our asset at the time.

 

[beorhthelm]

Of course it is. But as fans we want the best for the club, so it's very disappointing to see us being shafted like this.

we're not being shafted. you're being taken in by a dubious source.

 

[One Teddy Maybank]

Suddenly TB doesn’t know what he’s doing.

Come on people, there are complexities and details with contracts we don’t know about. Let’s not start suggesting he’s dropped a clanger.

I don’t think that’s the case, as clearly he does generally, well 99% of the time, but it’s only natural for supporters to query the reported numbers.

As per your second para, what we don’t know is the contract complexities, which are likely to take it to £55m (I would hope).

As for the reliance on media/social media, basically largely guesswork IMO.

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

we're not being shafted. you're being taken in by a dubious source.

Then the club needs to come out and refute it.

Optics are a thing.

 

[RandyWanger]

On the anniversary of Hyypiä appointment, we sell Mac for 'cheap' ... proof we don't always get it right.

 

[trueblue]

I just don’t see how Naylor says 55m and fabrizio 35m , none of it makes sense

Transfer figures often reflect where the information is coming from to keep the fans happy. Buying club wants it to look a good deal. Selling club wants it to look like they got a fair whack.

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

On the anniversary of Hyypiä appointment, we sell Mac for 'cheap' ... proof we don't always get it right.

We signed a guy for 7m who went on to help us secure Europa League football, we prevented him from leaving on a free and instead got a big 'ol transfer fee whilst integrating new young midfielders to help soften the blow.

Yeah. Absolute clanger.

 

[Weststander]

I don’t think that’s the case, as clearly he does generally, well 99% of the time, but it’s only natural for supporters to query the reported numbers.

As per your second para, what we don’t know is the contract complexities, which are likely to take it to £55m (I would hope).

As for the reliance on media/social media, basically largely guesswork IMO.

Is that your cat, what's their name?

 

[Dave Fishwick]

Romano is clearly lying for clicks.

When you have real journalists, the BBC etc reporting somewhere between £45m-£55m, even if we say the club are briefing Naylor to give a higher figure, surely you go with the reputable and trusted journalists rather than some twitter aggregator chancer

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

We signed a guy for 7m who went on to help us secure Europa League football, we prevented him from leaving on a free and instead got a big 'ol transfer fee whilst integrating new young midfielders to help soften the blow.

Yeah. Absolute clanger.

We didn't get a big fee though at 35 million.

In PL money terms that's an amount that's not even close to being big for a player of that talent level.

We just paid 30 million for a championship player.

 

[SteveU]

Relax, we have NOT sold Mac for £35m

 

[cjd]

Does it ever occur to people that no matter what fee actually is......it is better for it to be estimated low. Any player we want to sign if we ( I mean Tony ) have £75 million burning a hole in our pockets, we are going to get shafted in that direction.

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

Romano is clearly lying for clicks.

When you have real journalists, the BBC etc reporting somewhere between £45m-£55m, even if we say the club are briefing Naylor to give a higher figure, surely you go with the reputable and trusted journalists rather than some twitter aggregator chancer

He’s not technically lying even if there were add ons - which are not guaranteed.

He’s maximising clicks as knows that 35m may sensationalise the situation (if there are add ons) could also be true

 

[ukpolska]

Romano is clearly lying for clicks.

When you have real journalists, the BBC etc reporting somewhere between £45m-£55m, even if we say the club are briefing Naylor to give a higher figure, surely you go with the reputable and trusted journalists rather than some twitter aggregator chancer

You are right Dave and this, again, has been stirred up by that idiot Fabrizio Romano who makes an assumption and then spams it everywhere and later confirms his own assumption as fact, and the crazy thing is that people are sucked in by it.

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

We didn't get a big fee though at 35 million.

In PL money terms that's an amount that's not even close to being big for a player of that talent level.

We just paid 30 million for a championship player.

It's more than 0

Which was the alternative.

 

[gripper stebson]

What seems to have happened with online fans of big clubs is that they seem to care more about transfers than actual results.

It's mental.

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

Imagine how many emails Barbers received in the last hour, reminding him that Mac is a World Cup winner

 

[Icy Gull]

I don’t think that’s the case, as clearly he does generally, well 99% of the time, but it’s only natural for supporters to query the reported numbers.

I am still fuming as to where the Cup Final money went

 

[Weststander]

Romano is clearly lying for clicks.

When you have real journalists, the BBC etc reporting somewhere between £45m-£55m, even if we say the club are briefing Naylor to give a higher figure, surely you go with the reputable and trusted journalists rather than some twitter aggregator chancer

I'm thinking the same, dramatically stating a different number to anyone else's, to draw everyone in.

 

[banjo]

Good luck Mac, thanks for your time with us.