Guest LittleG Posted August 2, 2019 Share Posted August 2, 2019 16 minutes ago, owlZfan84 said: Aren't ours/Reading owners best mates too? Don't think so, they are owned by a Chinese businessman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
owlZfan84 Posted August 2, 2019 Share Posted August 2, 2019 2 minutes ago, LittleG said: Don't think so, they are owned by a Chinese businessman. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3203892/Two-Thai-brothers-fortunes-fish-sons-hooked-Sheffield-Wednesday-Reading.html Aha, their dad's are best mates. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanharper Posted August 2, 2019 Share Posted August 2, 2019 Easily worth £8m in today's market. Averaged a goal every 161 minutes in the Championship last season, McBurnie returned a goal every 155 minutes and he's just gone for £20m. Obviously he didn't sustain that over a full season as McBurnie did, but it could also be compared to £8m Callum Robinson's goal every 170 minutes who didn't play a full season either. And Gary Madine's record at Bolton after his only Championship purple patch was a goal every 247 minutes and he went for £6m in the slightly less inflated market of 18 months ago. I'd still rather sell them Rhodes for half the price though! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JOHNHARKES Posted August 2, 2019 Share Posted August 2, 2019 34 minutes ago, owlZfan84 said: If anyone is daft enough to offer us upwards of 5mill, sell. Flattered to deceive for far too long IMO. Why?? Dont see the infactuation with our fanbase on selling players lower than the current transfer rate? Why shouldn't we ask £8m for a 25 year old with promise? When he is at it he is a very good forward. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReachAround Posted August 2, 2019 Share Posted August 2, 2019 7 minutes ago, owlZfan84 said: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3203892/Two-Thai-brothers-fortunes-fish-sons-hooked-Sheffield-Wednesday-Reading.html Aha, their dad's are best mates. That article is 4 years old. They changed hands in 2017, are now Chinese owned as Littleg said. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
owlZfan84 Posted August 2, 2019 Share Posted August 2, 2019 Just now, Brownowl35 said: That article is 4 years old. They changed hands in 2017, are now Chinese owned as Littleg said. Ahh right. Yeah, anyway... 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
torres Posted August 2, 2019 Share Posted August 2, 2019 Other clubs would get £8-10m We will get £1.2m in 800 instalments 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
owlZfan84 Posted August 2, 2019 Share Posted August 2, 2019 4 minutes ago, JOHNHARKES said: Why?? Dont see the infactuation with our fanbase on selling players lower than the current transfer rate? Why shouldn't we ask £8m for a 25 year old with promise? When he is at it he is a very good forward. The big issue for me re: Joao is his application. He's been here 4 years now, and hasn't kicked on at all. It's no good him turning it on when he fancies it. Which, for me, is why we'll get no-one offering anywhere near 8mill for him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oh_weds_we_love_you Posted August 2, 2019 Share Posted August 2, 2019 4 minutes ago, alanharper said: Easily worth £8m in today's market. Averaged a goal every 161 minutes in the Championship last season, McBurnie returned a goal every 155 minutes and he's just gone for £20m. Obviously he didn't sustain that over a full season as McBurnie did, but it could also be compared to £8m Callum Robinson's goal every 170 minutes who didn't play a full season either. And Gary Madine's record at Bolton after his only Championship purple patch was a goal every 247 minutes and he went for £6m in the slightly less inflated market of 18 months ago. I'd still rather sell them Rhodes for half the price though! In an ideal world, yes. However, £4m for Rhodes will simply pay off the remaining debt to Boro and leave us with £0 to strengthen. £8m for Joao, on the other hand, will allow give Mr Chansiri £8m to give to his new manager if he wishes to do so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spookone Posted August 2, 2019 Share Posted August 2, 2019 1 hour ago, Jaydubz said: What part of him is complete please? In terms of his footballing ability, I would also say he is a complete player, h can do everything pretty well. His application isn’t what it should be, having said that Isn't he our top goal scorer per games played over the last few seasons? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spookone Posted August 2, 2019 Share Posted August 2, 2019 8 minutes ago, oh_weds_we_love_you said: In an ideal world, yes. However, £4m for Rhodes will simply pay off the remaining debt to Boro and leave us with £0 to strengthen. £8m for Joao, on the other hand, will allow give Mr Chansiri £8m to give to his new manager if he wishes to do so. We would also not have to pay his fairly substantial wages, which would also give the new man some flexibility with loans etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waddlesdiamondlights Posted August 2, 2019 Share Posted August 2, 2019 44 minutes ago, outlaw pete said: To be fair last season Joao had a very good game at Reading and scored two very nice goals. So I am not surprised Reading are looking at buying him, but I doubt they have any cash spare to buy him. So it's conspiracy then Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Womble Owl Posted August 2, 2019 Share Posted August 2, 2019 1 hour ago, Sticky belly said: Depends what they would offer i guess. He's the most complete striker we have but i'm not sure he has the right application to ever be a true success. If the money is right i would move him on too.... compared to who, Westwood? Let him go for me, he's never going to be the answer to what we need. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Thomas Posted August 2, 2019 Share Posted August 2, 2019 To be fair I’d let him go on a free just to get him off the wage bill but with a % clause in his contract against his next move, in case he suddenly discovered what graft means. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oh_weds_we_love_you Posted August 2, 2019 Share Posted August 2, 2019 1 minute ago, Spookone said: We would also not have to pay his fairly substantial wages, which would also give the new man some flexibility with loans etc. True, but despite the high salary, it's still only £2m for the year - doesn't get you much these days, even on a loan deal (Norwich paid that just to loan Rhodes last season!). If we could get £8m for Joao and Rhodes away for another season on loan for £2m, we'd be laughing! Sadly, that sort of thing doesn't happen to us! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonnyowl Posted August 2, 2019 Share Posted August 2, 2019 Get rid and use the money for Hector! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest wilyfox Posted August 2, 2019 Share Posted August 2, 2019 Probly a swap deal for Mo Barrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nbupperthongowl Posted August 2, 2019 Share Posted August 2, 2019 Interesting that this 'news' comes out the day before we play them..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jack the Hat Posted August 2, 2019 Share Posted August 2, 2019 All our players are going to Reading. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A E Neuman NYowl Posted August 2, 2019 Share Posted August 2, 2019 5 minutes ago, nbupperthongowl said: Interesting that this 'news' comes out the day before we play them..... It's all mind games, Weren't Reading being linked with Hooper a couple of weeks ago ? Probably just realised he no longer plays for us so now trying a bit of mind games regarding Joao. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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