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RevidgeBlue

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  1. I have no idea whatsoever the point you are trying to make. The only figure I've seen quoted in relation to the deal is £7m therefore it is reasonable to assume we will end up having to pay a fairly large sum eventually regardless of whether none, some or all of any performance related clauses are triggered.
  2. No - one on here knows whether his fee is rising to a total of £7m including performance based add ons, or £7m plus add ons. So let's not pretend we do. The fee isn't even the issue for me. The issue is it's a largish fee, whatever the exact figure may be, yet he hasn't been given a proper chance.
  3. All this talk about BB's fee being more reasonable because it is spread out in installments is a complete red herring. Everyone's fees are structured like that, it's not as if we would have to pay up front for anyone else yet somehow managed to get BB on the never never. It has to be paid eventually. Don't think he's as bad as people make out though. He's never been given a chance.
  4. Roy, Roy, is that you, I thought you went to Forest! ?
  5. Because I go to the games. Why would I have any interest in ifollow? How did you not know 4000 holes came from the famous Beatles song? ? We'll have to agree to disagree on Gallagher. If he was that good, Birmingham would have signed him permanently or at least extended his loan.
  6. It's fairly worrying he needs another new contract at all. As our best player he should have at the very least been put on parity with our other top earners when he got his new deal last summer.
  7. Can't imagine we were on live TV very often the season we were relegated, so basically you've hardly ever seen him play, apart from on goal highlights shows, but are criticising me for pulling his stats off Wikipedia! ?
  8. How many times did you see him play in the flesh when he was here?
  9. You may be right, but if we adopt that point of view permanently, we'll never improve. "Alan Shearer? Nah, it'll upset the others!"
  10. Did you miss the 18 career goals bit? Gallagher's a Jack of all trades, master of none. Unless he's improved significantly since his time here and by the looks of his Birmingham spell he hasn't.
  11. Bell's been doing really well recently. That'd be spending money that doesn't really need to be spent and diverting money away from far more pressing needs ie a top striker and centre back (or tying down Rodwell) for me.
  12. Really? I'd see it as the opposite of a statement of intent and a sign we weren't going anywhere for the forseeable future. Unless he was coming in as the long term Graham replacement alongside a number one star striker. 18 career goals in 109 appearances. Meh.
  13. No. It's not happening is it? Still was nice to dream what our team might have looked like for 24 hrs!
  14. Isn't it far more risky NOT to try anything? Clubs are allowed to lose £39m over a 3 year period under FFP and we currently lose about £15m p.a. anyway so if we just tick over and do nothing we'll fall foul of the rules in 2 years anyway! I don't see a stellar signing of BA or someone similar as a particular risk as long as we could sell them again for no less than what we paid for them if required. What we can't afford to do is lash out big money on another Brereton who doesn't even feature. As far as wages are concerned I'd say there's no way our top earners are only on 15k p.w., I'd say £25k at least so if BA came in on say £40 k p.w and we lost a couple of fringe players off the wage bill it would be like another "normal" signing with someone else needing to make way if the wage budget won't stand it and it's a case of one in one out. The problems are: potentially upsetting the wage structure and the fact that people I think should have been offloaded to make way for better players have all been handed new contracts. Nevertheless if we are creative enough and make the right choice of player then potentially it's the difference between sleepwalking into FFP or giving ourself a genuine shot at promotion.
  15. Sharpe doesn't know very much does he? Hate it when reporters put the word "understood" before everything they write. Means they can write any old rubbish and even if it it turns out to be absolute nonsense they can still claim it's what they've been told.
  16. Absolutely over the moon with Chappers coming back as long as he hasn't been brought in simply to sit on the bench or go out on loan. Once match fit, could you imagine Chapman and BA in tthe starting line up? We'd look a completely different proposition and the play offs wpuld become a realistic possibility as opposed to a bit of a pipe dream.
  17. I even got the post wrong when I typed it. See the edited version. Probably end up signing no - one! ?
  18. Might have got our wires crossed there. I was talking about Graham v Gallagher not Gallagher v BA. I don't really want us to bring Gallagher in permanently. If we're spending a lot on a striker I'd hope we'd bring someone a lot better in. Might be ok on loan until the end of the season for the sake of bringing an extra body in but with no real expectation of challenging for the play offs.
  19. Not much in it ability wise. Gallagher's far younger so overall is the better option of the two but neither would be the players to fire us to promotion imo.
  20. You can't question what either Rhodes or Gestede did for the Club while they were here imo. What they have done since leaving isn't our problem. If you could GUARANTEE anyone coming in could perform like they did for us you'd snap the selling Club's hands off be it BA or anyone else.
  21. This. We'll be going nowhere if we sign Gallagher imo. And he won't be particularly cheap either.
  22. Oh do give over. BA is many times the player Graham is. I think if we were rumoured to be after Messi people would be saying "he'll have to bide his time on the bench until Graham retires!" It's 27th of January and we haven't signed anyone yet so I won't believe anything until it happens but if BA does come it would tend to corroborate what I was told about a sizeable war chest always having been available this window. Would inagine BA is first choice and Gallagher sloppy seconds if we fail to get him. Really hope we don't end up committing a sizeable amount to landing Gallagher.
  23. Looks like Im in a minority of one on this but he really isn't. He's had it imo. Couple of decent flick ons and everyone appears to think he's had a worldie because we won 3-0. If the result hadn't gone our way I suspect everyone would have a far less rose tinted viee of his extremely limited contribution.
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