Pearce

[WTF11]

Bournemouth reported as having tabled a £2m offer for Pearce. Would you take it or leave it?

[Ozwhites]

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??

[Marley past ghosts]

Bournemouth reported as having tabled a £2m offer for Pearce. Would you take it or leave it?

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 ?.

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 .

[joellufcprice]

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.

[CLIVETHELEEDSFAN]

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

[jimmybn]

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

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

[Ozwhites]

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.

[Billyni]

So how come we can convince dozens of foreign youngsters to sign for us and we cant do the same with Pearce?

[WTF11]

So how come we can convince dozens of foreign youngsters to sign for us and we cant do the same with Pearce?

Buy cheap, that was last years "strategy". Hopefully lessons learned, we will see.

[WTF11]

So how come we can convince dozens of foreign youngsters to sign for us and we cant do the same with Pearce?

The players you refer to would have been cheap to get to Leeds, even though for them it was probably a big pay day. The loan deals for Lassogga and Pennington wouldn't have been converted into transfers (even if they were waling on water, which neither are) unless they were prepared to take big wage cuts.

Pearce has had the attention of PL clubs, and that means a wage deal in the £000s/week bracket. If you were his age, and someone offers you £20-30k/week and the prospect of PL exposure (not to say regular starts), compared to whatever Leeds may or may not have put on the table, playing in a side that is currently made up of mainly not very good cheap imports, some home grown talent, and a few really good players who are also probably looking at their options, what would you do?

To be attractive to Pearce and others who are having the PL "rule" passed over them, the club needs to show by its actions, not just warm words and some boardroom soft shuffle, that they mean to do whatever it takes to get promotion. Otherwise those who can leave just might, and those that no-one wants will make up next seasons 1st team.