Adam Wharton

[Claytons Left Boot]

1 hour ago, Norbert Rassragr said:

I hope he doesn't go to Real Madrid. A toxic bunch of entitled man babies with a squad full of pricks. 

You’re not a fan then? 😂 

[bluebruce]

3 hours ago, Norbert Rassragr said:

I hope he doesn't go to Real Madrid. A toxic bunch of entitled man babies with a squad full of pricks. Places like that can change a young player for the worse.

Agreed. I don't think that place suits his personality at all either.

Madrid absolutely embarrassed themselves with the petulant Ballon D'Or debacle. Never liked them as a club (always seen them as the Man U of Spain) but that really cemented how arrogant they are.

[speeeeeeedie]

4 hours ago, BlackburnEnd75 said:

The plan was always to sell him in that summer 

But instead we sold him to the first bidder that came along when other potential bidders were not in the market due to ffp.

Archie gray went that summer for north of £40million. And he's not the player wharton is.

I don't understand how people argue that we got a good price for him. A once in a generation player for our academy. 

Rovers did get a good price for him. £20m+. It was more than the fees received for Shearer, Duff, and Jones. It allowed the admin to "self fund" for a time.

The unfortunate part is that all of us could see how special he was and the fee given was a fraction of what it should have been. Cemented by the fact that less than 18 moths later he's being linked with every big club in Europe.

[Lancaster Rover]

2 hours ago, bluebruce said:

Agreed. I don't think that place suits his personality at all either.

Madrid absolutely embarrassed themselves with the petulant Ballon D'Or debacle. Never liked them as a club (always seen them as the Man U of Spain) but that really cemented how arrogant they are.

Their behaviour before and during the Copa Del Rey on Saturday night was appalling

[bluebruce]

1 hour ago, speeeeeeedie said:

Rovers did get a good price for him. £20m+. It was more than the fees received for Shearer, Duff, and Jones. It allowed the admin to "self fund" for a time.

The unfortunate part is that all of us could see how special he was and the fee given was a fraction of what it should have been. Cemented by the fact that less than 18 moths later he's being linked with every big club in Europe.

Shearer was nearly 30 years ago, that's not a valid comparison to make at all. Same for Duff really. Even comparing Jones is disingenuous, the money in the game has changed beyond recognition since then. A Phil Jones would probably have cost about 60 million or more today.

[bluebruce]

1 hour ago, Lancaster Rover said:

Their behaviour before and during the Copa Del Rey on Saturday night was appalling

I didn't see any of it, but no surprise. What did they do?

[speeeeeeedie]

1 hour ago, bluebruce said:

Shearer was nearly 30 years ago, that's not a valid comparison to make at all. Same for Duff really. Even comparing Jones is disingenuous, the money in the game has changed beyond recognition since then. A Phil Jones would probably have cost about 60 million or more today.

As far as Rovers current owners and executive staff are concerned it was a good fee. The rest of us know that it wasn't.

[Wheelton Blue]

1 hour ago, bluebruce said:

I didn't see any of it, but no surprise. What did they do?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/ckge9rp8379o

[Mattyblue]

Another glowing write up in the Sunday Times, don’t worry about it though, the fee was fine.

 

Edited Sunday at 06:30 by Mattyblue

[47er]

Another one to make us proud and sad at the same time:

https://anfieldindex.com/82014/journalist-confirms-liverpool-are-monitoring-premier-league-midfielder-ahead-of-potential-major-move.html

[roverandout]

When you've got Liverpool Real Madrid and Barcelona watching you, you know he's special 

[M_B]

On 11/05/2025 at 07:27, Mattyblue said:

Another glowing write up in the Sunday Times, don’t worry about it though, the fee was fine.

 

As with Raya, probably best to wait for the final reckoning.

[roversfan99]

I never get this argument. It would only work if we wouldnt have still negotiated a sell on with a more reasonable fee.

Desperate to sell, January window where teams dont tend to spend much, very weak negotiating power, poor fee. 

[Mattyblue]

Obviously M-B is happy enough with a regime decision.

[M_B]

There is no decision to be happy with, or otherwise. How can anyone say we have or haven't received enough money for him, until the final figure is known?

All the moaning about Raya, and we ended up with way more than the most optimistic value,if reports were correct.

[roversfan99]

Say we got £25-30m for Wharton, a sell on is now a common practice so it should have been a bigger fee and a sell on.

You cant start adding on sell on proceeds year down the line as if it was part of the main fee. It doesnt make up for the fact that we received a low fee because it should have been a higher fee AND a sell on.

[M_B]

It is a big sell on percentage by the looks of it.

Birmingham had a 5% sell on fee for Bellingham, as opposed to 15% on Wharton , but received more up front.

I don't think anyone can complain or otherwise until the final figure is known.

[Bronzed A Donis]

I recall when he was still here Tyrone's Shoelaces said his strong point was, every pass he makes has a message on it, as per the article. Spot on judgement.

[Mattyblue]

Nothing to complain about… the lad was bundled out the door as quick as feasibly possible.

[M_B]

16 minutes ago, Mattyblue said:

Nothing to complain about… the lad was bundled out the door as quick as feasibly possible.

 

So, realistically, what final figure would you be happy with?

[Mattyblue]

I won’t be ‘happy’ regardless, It’s irrelevant as the team will see zero of whatever sell on fee it is.

[M_B]

Bit of a cop out.

[Mattyblue]

Hmmm, err, £80million, why not.

Champagne corks all round for Swag-hail.

[JHRover]

Makes no material difference to Blackburn Rovers whether we got £2 million, £20 million or £200 million for him.

All it does is affect how much the regime have to find from elsewhere to keep the lights on.

As far as I am concerned the less the better, at least it is one less revenue stream and hopefully one step nearer breaking point for those responsible.

 

[Mattyblue]

Exactly, matters not what he went for in the first place, will matter not for his next move… doesn’t mean we can’t find the behaviour of the regime re bundling him out the door to the first bidder a fitting symbol of their chronic mismanagement.