Dirk Lehmann's Python
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3m tops with his injury record. Would be a lot more otherwise
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[Albion] Sam Baldock moves to Reading {CONFIRMED}
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Finchley Seagull
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He got 12 goals for us last season in the Championship. Definitely good enough for us to ask for a significant fee, especially considering how much Reading wanted for Moore.
Icy Gull
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I am assuming you stopped going to games the year we got promoted. He is a top Championship player and a striker too, how many of those arrive on a free?
Blue Valkyrie
Not seen such Bravery!
Reading over value players ( see L. Moore ), so I hope Barber strikes a shrewd deal on this one.
Getting fairly large earners off the wage bill is as good as a fee and also frees up space in the 25 man squad, for potential new arrivals. I don't see his fee breaking £1m if even anywhere near that. I like him as a player too but the squad needs to progress and get better by every passing transfer window.
Braggfan
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Well said. If Reading want Baldock they should pay through the nose after hiking up Moore's fee. I'd rather Baldock went on a free to nearly anyone else (except Palace obviously) than go to Reading.
Publius Ovidius
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Nah...everything before the prem has been expunged from my memory.
I always thought he wasn't up to it...for me he was a bit like the Barnes argument.....some think he was great nad some don't. I'm one who didn't!
He is also very injury prone.
BensGrandad
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I would expect the deal to be in the regions of SB + £8-10m.
Jam The Man
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Still got 2 years to go on his contract so there will definitely be a fee involved.
Of course the club never disclose fees so I doubt we’ll ever know!
lawros left foot
Glory hunting since 1969
They’d never pay that much for Sam, maybe 5mil
Reading fans don't seem that excited:
http://www.royals.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=184889&sid=2d64f4cb379c12bdc26b8292a541a240
He's far too good for them. I do hope he goes elsewhere and that Reading get relegated so that next year they can be looking at run-of-the-mill lower division dross signings like Adebayo Akinfenwa with genuine enthusiasm instead.
http://www.royals.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=184889&sid=2d64f4cb379c12bdc26b8292a541a240
He's far too good for them. I do hope he goes elsewhere and that Reading get relegated so that next year they can be looking at run-of-the-mill lower division dross signings like Adebayo Akinfenwa with genuine enthusiasm instead.
Pavilionaire
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- Jul 7, 2003
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If he's off then I wish him all the best - he turned out to be a very good signing for us.
I'm surprised that a Championship club with parachute cash hasn't made a decent offer - a 1 in 3 Championship striker with good experience could net you 14/15 goals if he stays fit, and that has to be worth £4m / £5m of anyone's money.
I'm surprised that a Championship club with parachute cash hasn't made a decent offer - a 1 in 3 Championship striker with good experience could net you 14/15 goals if he stays fit, and that has to be worth £4m / £5m of anyone's money.
BensGrandad
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Not expecting them to so perhaps I didnt make it clear as I was suggesting SB plus between 8 and 10m for Liam Moore
B.W.
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- Jul 5, 2003
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The crucial bit of your post is 'if he stays fit'... unfortunately, buying clubs know he probably won't...
Tom Hark Preston Park
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- Jul 6, 2003
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Seems to me that Baldock & Hemed would make an imaginative strikeforce signing for somebody somewhere at a lower level, either here or abroad.
Icy Gull
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So Reading want to sell us a player who has no Premier League experience at a grossly inflated fee and we are going to let a striker (much more difficult to acquire than CB) who was in a promotion winning team, go the Reading for a bargain knock down price. Can anyone on here see TB going along with this?
Icy Gull
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If I didn’t think that you had some sort of ear to the ground on the Albion, I’d say bollox to your 1 million quid
Psychobilly freakout
HellBilly
3-4 millon for Baldock and to be honest ask for 5 just because they tried to hold us to ransom.