Our next keeper ?

[ClaretinBudapest]

Whilst 40 million plus would be good money I still think it?s a mistake at this time - I honestly believe this lad could be the next big thing - he?s an amazing knack of stepping in and reading the game and on top of that he doesn?t go to ground a lot and has pace and strength - if it goes how I think it might I reckon 60 70 million would be nearer the mark in time.

And he seems bulletproof Army.He never gets injured which looking at some of our other players is a miracle.

[ClaretinBudapest]

Word coming out of Turf Moor is ALK have put a price of 40 million quid on Trafford's head and this time it's take it or leave it.

His value would shoot up if Tommy Tuchel would give him a game.

Sounds about right BT.Everton paid 30m for T-Rex 8 years ago so 40m sounds logical with inflation.If the Geordies want him then squeeze every last barrel of oil out of them.

[ballcock]

Whilst 40 million plus would be good money I still think it?s a mistake at this time - I honestly believe this lad could be the next big thing - he?s an amazing knack of stepping in and reading the game and on top of that he doesn?t go to ground a lot and has pace and strength - if it goes how I think it might I reckon 60 70 million would be nearer the mark in time.

It would be madness to sell, has like you say if he has a good season he could be in the 60_70 million bracket

[The Bedlington Terrier]

It would be madness to sell, has like you say if he has a good season he could be in the 60_70 million bracket

The problem we have ballcock is that ALK & Pace have set the enterprise up on the philosophy of "player trading". They knew from the get-go we could never sustain the debt from "usual operations", so attempting to make large sums on individual player transfers had to be their modus operandi. Sir Outwood mentioned the 25 million quid sale of Chris Wood to Newcastle as being the precedent. I'm sure it was sinkov who at the time said without that amount of money coming in the whole enterprise would probably have gone under.

Like SD always said, "Fine Margins" and if 40 million is put on the table, Esteve is gone.

[barrie_burn]

The problem we have ballcock is that ALK & Pace have set the enterprise up on the philosophy of "player trading". They knew from the get-go we could never sustain the debt from "usual operations", so attempting to make large sums on individual player transfers had to be their modus operandi. Sir Outwood mentioned the 25 million quid sale of Chris Wood to Newcastle as being the precedent. I'm sure it was sinkov who at the time said without that amount of money coming in the whole enterprise would probably have gone under.

Like SD always said, "Fine Margins" and if 40 million is put on the table, Esteve is gone.

Nothing has changed since I started following BFC in the mid 1950's.

[sinkov]

Nothing has changed since I started following BFC in the mid 1950's.

That smell of piss has gone that used to emanate from the Gents at the back of the Bee Hole End.

[outwoodclaret]

That smell of piss has gone that used to emanate from the Gents at the back of the Bee Hole End.

Not gone from the recollection of those supporters who frequented the Bee Hole End. It lingers in the memory bank of the senses.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Not gone from the recollection of those supporters who frequented the Bee Hole End. It lingers in the memory bank of the senses.

I remember standing in the queue at the top of the Bee Hole End for a brew from the snack cabin and nearly gagging from the smell of a heady mixture of old and new male urine coming up from the gents' bog.