James Tarkowski

[weller54]

31 minutes ago, urban.spaceman said:

Which kinda gives me hope that we can wade in at the last minute with a lowball offer and get him for £10m and a packet of quavers. 

Optimistic..

Think we'd have to come up with a box of cheese and onion.

[The People's Hero]

1 minute ago, HighPeakFox said:

Ric, are you soothing yourself with reassuring self-talk?

Contract with player done; just got to finalise things with the club

 

That should be our defensive shopping done.

[StanSP]

Even if he doesn't end up joining us, I don't get how joining West Ham is a progressive move with where the 2 clubs are at the moment? 

Very unhappy fans, little stability, poor stadium (although in relation to Turf Moor it's probably better), a reportedly disjointed team after Diangana was sold. The only plus, and compared to Burnley as a location I guess it's a big one, is that he's moving back down to London where he was when with Brentford. Just the other side. 

 

Maybe he has a desire to be back in London who knows. Just in terms of footballing career it's a backwards move. West Ham have been underwhelming in last few seasons.  'we're gonna qualify for Europe this season!' nah you're not, you're gonna be in a relegation battle or top of the bottom half at best

[Ric Flair]

3 minutes ago, HighPeakFox said:

Ric, are you soothing yourself with reassuring self-talk?

Reading between the lines and what I've heard.

[Guest Lcfc82]

25 minutes ago, martyn said:

Hard to know whether we should go for Tarkowski or Fofana, there's merit in both.

 

Obviously Soyuncu is most likely to leave out of him and Evans, so a new young gun to come in would make sense and it first our recruitment model, but then, Evans is missing for 3 games, and his injury record (although decent at Leicester) is patchy, and he's getting older, so a 27/28 year old experienced head coming in also would be a logical move.

 

Perhaps go for Fofana now, and then look at experienced CB's next summer?

If we’re planning on playing 3 at the back then we should be in for both in my opinion. 

 

[Leicester_Loyal]

Tarkowski may as well stay at Burnley another season then move for a cheaper fee next summer, this will get him much higher wages. I think we'll end up with Fofana, otherwise he would never have followed us all those weeks ago.

 

In order for WHU to keep bidding, there must be some interest from Tarkowski.

[Scotch]

48 minutes ago, The People's Hero said:

Contract with player done; just got to finalise things with the club

 

That should be our defensive shopping done.

Really? I've been convinced that the Fofana deal was far more likely. 

[moore_94]

9 minutes ago, Foxy_Bear said:

Really? I've been convinced that the Fofana deal was far more likely. 

Puel has apparently just said in an interview that Fofana is staying if you check that thread

[moore_94]

As expected

 

 

[FoxesWalk]

1 minute ago, moore_94 said:

As expected

 

 

I’m not sure why he would want to go to West Ham tbh, arguably a backwards step, sideways at best (well, assuming he isn’t just giving up on his aspirations and is only out for a bigger payday now) 

Edited 10 September 2020 by FoxesWalk

[The People's Hero]

15 minutes ago, Foxy_Bear said:

Really? I've been convinced that the Fofana deal was far more likely. 

I was talking about Fofana - sorry

[The People's Hero]

5 minutes ago, moore_94 said:

Puel has apparently just said in an interview that Fofana is staying if you check that thread

Yeah Puel doesn't want him to go, but the player wants the move and its all sorted if we can get them to actually accept a bid.

 

To be fair, its quite an important part of a transfer.

[Scotch]

2 minutes ago, The People's Hero said:

I was talking about Fofana - sorry

Makes way more sense. Cheers for the info. 

[Steve Earle]

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Edited 10 September 2020 by Steve Earle
wrong quote

[Steve Earle]

12 minutes ago, moore_94 said:

As expected

 

 

Ours for £31m + up to £4m in add-ons then. If we want him...

[moore_94]

 

[Leicester_Loyal]

Yeah anything north of 35m is just ridiculous, steer well clear. We'll come back to him next summer when he has a year left on his contract.

[urban.spaceman]

17 minutes ago, moore_94 said:

 

#FreeTarkowski.

 

Burnley without Tarkowski is no club.

[dannythefox]

If we are interested put a 31M bid in and try and get him to force a move like some of the big clubs do to us. West Ham isn’t really a step forward is it but he might try and force it if it’s us.

[sphericalfox]

Wait a year and get him half-price.

[Will1981]

https://westhamfans.org/content/tarka-offer-£33-million-seals-deal

 

Burnley asking for £33m.

[Guest Col city fan]

Can’t agree with people on this one

If we can get Tarkowski for 33 big ones, I’d get him

[Raw Dykes]

2 hours ago, moore_94 said:

Puel has apparently just said in an interview that Fofana is staying if you check that thread

He's probably just trying to get a few more quid out of us. We'll probably get linked to another CB to make them think they're about to miss out.

 

I think we'll probably get him eventually.

[Les-TA-Jon]

2 hours ago, The People's Hero said:

Yeah Puel doesn't want him to go, but the player wants the move and its all sorted if we can get them to actually accept a bid.

 

To be fair, its quite an important part of a transfer.

So the deal to sign him is all done, other than the minor detail that the club haven't accepted our bid? 

[moore_94]

At this point West Ham are just making themselves look even more stupid than they already are, imagine bidding at least 3 times for a player who doesn’t even really want to join you