NorthernOwl Posted July 2, 2017 Share Posted July 2, 2017 2 hours ago, MuddyFunkster said: If he does go it will be for a decent price, surely? Nobody is irreplaceable and if we lost Lees and brought in Ayala and Hanley I wouldn't be too concerned. Only issue is that Lees knows what we are all about. I would personally be gutted if he left. Continuity with a few quality additions is the way forward. Lees has been one of our most consistent performers for the last 3 years. I wouldn't want us to enter the new season with a completely new CB partnership. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthernOwl Posted July 2, 2017 Share Posted July 2, 2017 28 minutes ago, WayneTheOwl said: IF we went into the new season with Hutch & Loovens as our starting CH's then you can forget promotion or even play offs at that! Totally agree. Plus its fair to say neither Hutch or Loovens can manage 46 games. CB is the one position you don't want to be chopping and changing and Lees is the only one we have who can play every game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pod9 Posted July 2, 2017 Share Posted July 2, 2017 Burnley want Tom Lees for £5m..... And i wanna moonwalk son, but it's just not happening! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevtheowl Posted July 2, 2017 Share Posted July 2, 2017 Just now, Pod9 said: Burnley want Tom Lees for £5m..... And i wanna moonwalk son, but it's just not happening! Quote from one of the best programs ever UTO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salmonbones Posted July 2, 2017 Share Posted July 2, 2017 People forget, it's not just about the money. I think we are all in agreement that Lees is one of the best CB's in this division. He's had a few seasons with us now and barring one injury period, seems like he is pretty fit and consistent. Why get rid of a known quantity, to replace with an unknown quantity? We needs CB's in as it is. For me, even if the fee is inflated (What is inflated? £9m, £12m?) I think it's a kind of gamble we don't need to be making unless Lees is actively saying "Sell me I want to go" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owlinmad Posted July 2, 2017 Share Posted July 2, 2017 The majority of top flight clubs have watched Tom Lees over the last couple of seasons, including Arsenal who have watched him in just about every game he has played. How many have come in for him ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salmonbones Posted July 2, 2017 Share Posted July 2, 2017 1 minute ago, Owlinmad said: The majority of top flight clubs have watched Tom Lees over the last couple of seasons, including Arsenal who have watched him in just about every game he has played. How many have come in for him ? I would imagine that more than 50% of approaches for players are never reported personally. Put into the mix half of those reported are fake, the fans pretty much aren't generally in the loop until such a time an agreement is made to transfer a player, at which point it's obviously in the public eye. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest timrud Posted July 2, 2017 Share Posted July 2, 2017 I don't know anybody who under-rates him Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shez owl Posted July 2, 2017 Share Posted July 2, 2017 We should not stand in the way of a young player getting a shot at the big time, but it has to be on our terms and with huge money. He is one of our biggest assets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluesteel Posted July 2, 2017 Share Posted July 2, 2017 Would be a disaster to lose him. My worry is that he will want to go Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoyCroppersHair Posted July 2, 2017 Share Posted July 2, 2017 Anything around 10 million they can have him, we could get 2/3 quality centre backs with that money Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orlando_Trustful Posted July 2, 2017 Share Posted July 2, 2017 1 hour ago, Morepork said: Out of interest which two CB's would you sign for 8 million (only got dollar signs on this keyboard...) serious question. Maybe one good one, and one average one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sage owl Posted July 2, 2017 Share Posted July 2, 2017 1 hour ago, Morepork said: Out of interest which two CB's would you sign for 8 million (only got dollar signs on this keyboard...) serious question. Keogh & Hanley ?. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
parkfieldowl14 Posted July 2, 2017 Share Posted July 2, 2017 49 minutes ago, Owlinmad said: The majority of top flight clubs have watched Tom Lees over the last couple of seasons, including Arsenal who have watched him in just about every game he has played. How many have come in for him ? Good Question.I'd say so far not one PL club has made a serious offer for TL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bouncing Owl Posted July 2, 2017 Share Posted July 2, 2017 Tom Lees won't be going. I'm pretty confident he doesn't want to go and we won't sell. In my opinion, he is an excellent and dependable defender and has been one of the best centre halves in the Championship over the last 3 seasons. Only Dunk, Michael Keane, Ayala, Lascelles have been better than him over the last few years. We need to find the long term centre half to play next to him, not sell him. Preferably a leader as I'm not sure Tom is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulrs Posted July 2, 2017 Share Posted July 2, 2017 1 hour ago, Owlinmad said: The majority of top flight clubs have watched Tom Lees over the last couple of seasons, including Arsenal who have watched him in just about every game he has played. How many have come in for him ? Arsenal have watched him 100 times and still haven't made their minds up? Who's doing their scouting?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulrs Posted July 2, 2017 Share Posted July 2, 2017 1 hour ago, salmonbones said: People forget, it's not just about the money. I think we are all in agreement that Lees is one of the best CB's in this division. He's had a few seasons with us now and barring one injury period, seems like he is pretty fit and consistent. Why get rid of a known quantity, to replace with an unknown quantity? We needs CB's in as it is. For me, even if the fee is inflated (What is inflated? £9m, £12m?) I think it's a kind of gamble we don't need to be making unless Lees is actively saying "Sell me I want to go" This exactly. You can get a good fee but why gamble on an unknown quantity? If you have a consistent performer of quality you should keep them unless they demand to go or you get a ridiculous offer, which for me would be something north of £10m. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fred mciver Posted July 2, 2017 Share Posted July 2, 2017 Given his new contract deal, I'd say a few clubs have come in for Lees, probably from EPL. If Brum paid £3.5 mill to Barnsley for that cart horse, we are looking at least £9 million to a club that's about to pocket £30 million for a former Man Utd reserve stopper. But Hanley and Lees would be brilliant together at Hillsborough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramone Posted July 2, 2017 Share Posted July 2, 2017 Excellent CB. We'd be much worse off if we sold. Unless the player wants to leave, I can't see him leaving. We won't sell, we don't need to sell. There's only 4 players in our team that I would happily wish on their way for Premier League football and they are Tom Lees Kieran Westwood Kieran Lee Sam Hutrchinso We'd make a killing on them 4 as well and they cost us a grand total of £0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pickledegghiderman Posted July 2, 2017 Share Posted July 2, 2017 Does anyone know if he has a sell on clause to leeds? If so we might not get all of the money for any transfer deal. If we only end up with say 5 million from any transfer then i would say keeping him is the best option Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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