January Transfer Window

[ramAnag]

DT reporting that striker Sam Cosgrove - currently on loan at Plymouth and who did for us back in the autumn - could be used as a ‘make weight’ as part of a deal to enable Brum to sign Bielik. Just sayin’.

Did well at Aberdeen and is having a decent season at Plymouth but not really done much elsewhere. Thoughts?

[swaledale]

DT reporting that striker Sam Cosgrove - currently on loan at Plymouth and who did for us back in the autumn - could be used as a ‘make weight’ as part of a deal to enable Brum to sign Bielik. Just sayin’.

Did well at Aberdeen and is having a decent season at Plymouth but not really done much elsewhere. Thoughts?

That has been said not to be true. I'm not surprised, Bielik must be worth what £5 million? Have to be a bloody good league 1 striker for that!! I don't think Brum can afford him.

To be fair to the guy he has kept fit lately, but we cannot afford him on our current wages budget.

[ramAnag]

That has been said not to be true. I'm not surprised, Bielik must be worth what £5 million? Have to be a bloody good league 1 striker for that!! I don't think Brum can afford him.

To be fair to the guy he has kept fit lately, but we cannot afford him on our current wages budget.

I did say ‘make weight’, Swale. Clearly a striker who has never succeeded at anything higher than League One/Scottish level isn’t going to be any more than a small part of a deal involving any exchange for a player of Bielik’s quality.
There again it could all be nothing more than ‘paper’ - or whatever the DT calls itself these days - talk, but this is the sort of ‘wheeler dealing’ we have to specialise in these days.

P.S. Seems like it was just badly researched ‘paper talk’ as, having already played for Birmingham and Plymouth this season the EFL wouldn’t sanction a third move anyway.

[swaledale]

I did say ‘make weight’, Swale. Clearly a striker who has never succeeded at anything higher than League One/Scottish level isn’t going to be any more than a small part of a deal involving any exchange for a player of Bielik’s quality.
There again it could all be nothing more than ‘paper’ - or whatever the DT calls itself these days - talk, but this is the sort of ‘wheeler dealing’ we have to specialise in these days.

P.S. Seems like it was just badly researched ‘paper talk’ as, having already played for Birmingham and Plymouth this season the EFL wouldn’t sanction a third move anyway.

Ture, I only ever scan the DET's regurgitated crap, but in the same piece it said Brum unlikely to afford Bielik anyway.

[MadAmster]

That has been said not to be true. I'm not surprised, Bielik must be worth what £5 million? Have to be a bloody good league 1 striker for that!! I don't think Brum can afford him.

To be fair to the guy he has kept fit lately, but we cannot afford him on our current wages budget.

rA posted a report from the DT where Cosgrove is mentioned as a "make weight". Just for the sake of argument, let's go on the premise that Bielik is worth £5M. Let's also say Cosgrove is worth £1.5M. That would mean we'd get £3.5M PLUS Cosgrove in exchange for Bielik. Nobody has mentioned Bielik/Cosgrove being a straight swap whu do you appear to think that?

Since joining Brum on Jan 31st 2021 he has had 71 appearances for Brum and also out on loan to the Shrews, the Wombles and the Gargoyles and has managed a massive 10 goals in that time. Now, I remember us signing Blackman on the back of 1 good season at Reading with the rest of his career being somewhat less than average. Are we so desperate to sign a striker that we'll risk another unproven journeyman? I hope not.

[swaledale]

rA posted a report from the DT where Cosgrove is mentioned as a "make weight". Just for the sake of argument, let's go on the premise that Bielik is worth £5M. Let's also say Cosgrove is worth £1.5M. That would mean we'd get £3.5M PLUS Cosgrove in exchange for Bielik. Nobody has mentioned Bielik/Cosgrove being a straight swap whu do you appear to think that?

Since joining Brum on Jan 31st 2021 he has had 71 appearances for Brum and also out on loan to the Shrews, the Wombles and the Gargoyles and has managed a massive 10 goals in that time. Now, I remember us signing Blackman on the back of 1 good season at Reading with the rest of his career being somewhat less than average. Are we so desperate to sign a striker that we'll risk another unproven journeyman? I hope not.

Its irrelevant anyway, Brum can't afford to pay anything for Bielik! Also do we need another Striker? No!