Reply With QuoteReject it. No doubt we wouldn't have thought twice about it in the past, but if this 49s deal is fair dinkum, it sort of defeats the purpose. Spend the money to buy players to build us up...and then sell one of our promising up and comers??
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Bournemouth reported as having tabled a £2m offer for Pearce. Would you take it or leave it?
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Reject it. No doubt we wouldn't have thought twice about it in the past, but if this 49s deal is fair dinkum, it sort of defeats the purpose. Spend the money to buy players to build us up...and then sell one of our promising up and comers??
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you do ask some daft questions fella , the kid is 20 year old and one of the few players at the club, who are are any good . if we sell him for a paltry 2 million quid , who do we replace him with, another no hoper from the outskirts of europe ?.Originally Posted by WTF11
if you want promotion you dont sell your better players , but unfortunately we know this regime will cash in on any player of value. that is why promotion under radrizaani and orta is a pipedream .
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2m compared to 7/8m value if he has a good season next year. No brainer really.
If Bates was in charge his bags would already be packed.
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Gotta keep him, I think we would get more for him as he's under age, the England youth cap boosts his price for us if worse comes to worse, he won't play regular in the pl, he ain't ready for that yet
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He holds all the cards . Keep reading articles saying he's just signed with us but still might leave ? Don't think that's the case is it ? He's still
soon to be out of contract and dithering on an offer from us and others last I heard .
Young uns tend to snap the hand off when offered their first proper 1st team contract . Hold up suggests he's off
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If he passionately wants to leave, well that is a completely different scenario, as it asks the question whether it is worthwhile keeping him in that frame of mind. But simply responding to the original question if it was the club's choice, then I still think they should say no at this stage. You ciuld well be right though Jimmy with the delay to re-sign.
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So how come we can convince dozens of foreign youngsters to sign for us and we cant do the same with Pearce?
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Buy cheap, that was last years "strategy". Hopefully lessons learned, we will see.
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Not really what i was getting at WTF. Sort of meant, that if we can make the club attractive to others, why can't we make it attractive enough to keep Pearce?
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