Quote Originally Posted by Young_Nudger View Post
I can’t see the Barnsley directors willing to pay £10 million.
If Dane Murphy is saying it’s a reasonable price I’d guess at more like £3m.
So we buy Dike for 3 ...... and Everton among others are willing to pay 17.
If we put Dike on a 2 year contract with a wage bill of 3 per year - then if we don’t get promotion by next summer we sell him.
Fee 3 + wages 3 = 6.
There maybe a sell on clause of 20%.
Dike is young and only going to get better - but if we sell him for 17.
Then that’s a nice £8.8 million profit.
With the added bonus of having the services of Dike for a full season.
A player that could easily make all the difference from finishing 7th in the league - to finishing 2nd in the league !!!
A win - win scenario.
Have you never listened to interviews by the owners Nudger. They won’t gamble financially with how the club is run, the club will be run within its means. No crazy spending that could come back and bite the club. What if he is a half season wonder, scoring goals against Luton doesn’t guarantee you’ll turn into a £18m striker.

For me he started to get sussed out by other clubs at the end of the season and didn’t look anything special