Wesley Fofana

[moore_94]

9 minutes ago, Abrasive fox said:

Except man city in the January window?

They didn’t, Man City offered a package deal worth up to £65m (£50m and Roberts worth £15m) but we at the time were asking for £80m cash only so Man City pulled out and were unwilling to match what we wanted

 

We then softened our asking price in the summer and he left when they offered £60m, if anything we probably still ended up selling him for less than we wanted

[Max Power]

Didn’t Man City finally bid for Mahrez on deadline day so we had no time to sign a replacement and thus asked for £90m? 

[Guest Chocolate Teapot]

1 minute ago, Max Power said:

Didn’t Man City finally bid for Mahrez on deadline day so we had no time to sign a replacement and thus asked for £90m? 

Yes after telling him in the summer if a club made an offer around that he could go. The circumstances are different slightly but every club is doing what saint etienne has done and we're no exception.

[Max Power]

Just now, Abrasive fox said:

Yes after telling him in the summer if a club made an offer around that he could go. The circumstances are different slightly but every club is doing what saint etienne has done and we're no exception.

Not blaming St. Etienne - especially if we haven’t yet matched the asking price. Still time in the window but I fancy we might move on to other targets on the list. 

[Sharpe's Fox]

If we are at point where we are bidding €29 million, as reported, then Puel going to the chairman with a point he only wants dedicated players and a list of players he wants to sign with the money would probably end it at a stroke. I am convinced if it was West Ham or Leeds putting in the offers he would do just that but he has double standards for us.

[moore_94]

Just now, Sharpe's Fox said:

If we are at point where we are bidding €29 million, as reported, then Puel going to the chairman with a point he only wants dedicated players and a list of players he wants to sign with the money would probably end it at a stroke. I am convinced if it was West Ham or Leeds putting in the offers he would do just that but he has double standards for us.

I can’t really blame him for being vindictive because I most certainly would be as well in the same scenario 

[Ian Nacho]

Can’t see it myself. 

[foxfanazer]

3 minutes ago, Sharpe's Fox said:

If we are at point where we are bidding €29 million, as reported, then Puel going to the chairman with a point he only wants dedicated players and a list of players he wants to sign with the money would probably end it at a stroke. I am convinced if it was West Ham or Leeds putting in the offers he would do just that but he has double standards for us.

Don't blame him 

[Sharpe's Fox]

Just now, moore_94 said:

I can’t really blame him for being vindictive because I most certainly would be as well in the same scenario 

I am towards him mate. I admitted 20 pages back he lives rent free in my head. This transfer saga has given me 'Nam flashbacks to 2018.

[StanSP]

8 minutes ago, Abrasive fox said:

Yes after telling him in the summer if a club made an offer around that he could go. The circumstances are different slightly but every club is doing what saint etienne has done and we're no exception.

Yeah but fans can't grasp the concept it's allowed to happen to us as well

 

[Sambiasso]

Is he really worth around 30m? Seems expensive for someone who has so little experience.

[lcfc sheff]

Well if we don’t get him, we’ll get Tah... and judging by that leap in quality signing if we don’t get Tah we’ll go for Van Dijk! 

[Scotch]

2 genuine questions and an opinion to add to this topic....

 

Question 1, Do we actually know for sure that the club set a price for him and then went back on their word once we met it or is it just paper talk? 

 

Question 2, what makes anyone so sure that he's worth £27m+ when hes had about 20 first tem games? That's over one million for every game hes played. 

 

And my opinions..  

 

I personally don't buy the hole, "I'm a victim" card he is playing. We were first linked with him in April, around the same time he signed a new deal. If he really wanted this move, then he shouldn't have signed a new contract. 

[Wortho]

2 minutes ago, lcfc sheff said:

Well if we don’t get him, we’ll get Tah... and judging by that leap in quality signing if we don’t get Tah we’ll go for Van Dijk! 

We don't want Van Dijk he's pony

[Danny280995]

Been pissing about to long to get this player, valuable time wasted 

[goose2010]

10 minutes ago, Danny280995 said:

Been pissing about to long to get this player, valuable time wasted 

Valuable time wasted by people of here you mean? 

[Happy Fox]

Would anyone take Chris Smalling? I think if we can get him for the right price it would be a bargain he is far better than Maguire!

[SecretPro]

Literally couldnt care less about this anymore. Dragged on and turned into the most boring transfer in history. Bin it off and move on.

[Dahnsouff]

Just now, SecretPro said:

Literally couldnt care less about this anymore. Dragged on and turned into the most boring transfer in history. Bin it off and move on.

So if it suddenly started moving and he was reported on a plane heading here for a medical this afternoon, (links posted by Liam), and he was caught on twitter by Big Daddy, you wouldn`t be a little bit excited.....

 

...just a little tiny bit.. 

[Wolfox]

1 hour ago, surrifox said:

Harry conducted himself in exemplary fashion during the negotiations ( in public at least). I think a lot of people dislike the fact that he appears to have gone full Man U tw@t since he left 

Apart from the bit around our dead chairman promising he could leave that summer… The agent would have got that from somewhere…

[surrifox]

We spent ages trying to sign Aranguiz back in 2015 . That was a massive bore fest and we settled for signing someone called Kante  instead 

[surrifox]

2 minutes ago, Wolfox said:

Apart from the bit around our dead chairman promising he could leave that summer… The agent would have got that from somewhere…

True but it wasn’t done in public and it wasn’t to the clubs detriment on the fee 

[SecretPro]

5 minutes ago, Dahnsouff said:

So if it suddenly started moving and he was reported on a plane heading here for a medical this afternoon, (links posted by Liam), and he was caught on twitter by Big Daddy, you wouldn`t be a little bit excited.....

 

...just a little tiny bit.. 

Then I might get a little more enthusiastic, but this is the stuff of fantasy.

[honeybradger]

4 minutes ago, surrifox said:

We spent ages trying to sign Aranguiz back in 2015 . That was a massive bore fest and we settled for signing someone called Kante  instead 

Wasnt aranguiz supposed to be the cambiasso replacement?

[Dahnsouff]

1 minute ago, SecretPro said:

Then I might get a little more enthusiastic, but this is the stuff of fantasy.