Get the price right and we can do a bogof deal on Ajayi and Vaulks
Get the price right and we can do a bogof deal on Ajayi and Vaulks
Ajayi is a clumsy but loveable beanstalk of a defender and occasional midfielder. The beauty of his game is his unpredictability. "Is he going to **** up?" is the question we all ask ourselves whenever the ball goes near him. He likes that extra touch, to put his size 13 foot on the ball before playing a killer pass. Sometimes that extra touch gets him in trouble. Ajayi desperately sprinting after the player he's just lost the ball to is a familiar sight.
Thankfully he has the ability to win it back.
He is without doubt a championship player and I'll be delighted if he stays with us, but if the inevitable happens then we should be looking for upwards of £2.5m. Had we stayed up last season, we might have got £4m.
Mine too Biglad, but history tells us that we're not the type of club that can get that kind of money for our players. We should be looking for it, but I'll be very surprised if we get it.
Didn't we have to pay Huddersfield 50% of the transfer fee to Huddersfield though?
That makes a big difference.
I understand fans' frustration when we get less than they think a player is worth. However we should look at it from RUFC's viewpoint.
If, for example, we turn down a bid of say £2 million for Vaulks, because we think he may be worth more than that to Cardiff, we are effectively paying £2 million plus wages for a player for one season in league 1. Can we afford that?
What we need is a bidding war between 2 or more clubs - we never seem to get that (as far as we know)
we did but its still 1.8 that cardiff had to pay. not exactly a bargain for a player who has spent as much time on the treatment table as on the pitch. so not all rotherham players go on the cheap. agard is prob another one in the same category 900k for a league one striker. think we did well infact i think we did very well from these 2