[Albion] Ben White Signs new deal

[Driver8]

Spoke to a Leeds United fanatic at the weekend, and he reckons we should cash in on Dunk in the summer, get White back, in his opinion, White is the better player, and will win far more England caps than Dunk.

How many times has he seen Dunk play?

 

[nwgull]

Spoke to a Leeds United fanatic at the weekend, and he reckons we should cash in on Dunk in the summer, get White back, in his opinion, White is the better player, and will win far more England caps than Dunk.

Or we could just keep Dunk and have BOTH.

 

[GT49er]

How many times has he seen Dunk play?

Does it matter? Southgate clearly doesn't fancy Dunk and appears to have no intention to include him in the team. It's not just the one person that has said White is England bound after all, is it. The only thing that might prejudice an England call up is Southgate's apparent preference for players who have come through the England youth teams..

 

[dazzer6666]

Ok maybe not £20M - but £30M+ ?

I still think it is a bit of a conundrum - Ben White is contracted until June 2022. Next summer still assuming Duffy goes - where does White fit in ? Replacing Dunk or Burn? And the big clubs will know they will be able to pick him up very cheap January 2022

Not really......given as we often play 3CBs, we really need 5 in the squad. As to who ends up as first choice, that’s Potter’s decision and based on form and tactics and will change throughout the season. I can see a ‘first choice’ 3 of Webster, Dunk and White, with Burn being first choice cover for both CB and LB (behind Bernardo who I think might keep the shirt even when Burn is fit).

 

[BensGrandad]

Not really......given as we often play 3CBs, we really need 5 in the squad. As to who ends up as first choice, that’s Potter’s decision and based on form and tactics and will change throughout the season. I can see a ‘first choice’ 3 of Webster, Dunk and White, with Burn being first choice cover for both CB and LB (behind Bernardo who I think might keep the shirt even when Burn is fit).

I hope that you are correct as regards Bernardo.

 

[Machiavelli]

It’s deluded to think Bloom isn’t looking at the transfer fees of players like Maguire and not thinking he wants to see us make profit like that from academy players. Otherwise it never becomes self funding.

I’m pretty sure Bloom himself has said he is looking at Southampton and what they’ve managed to do with their academy

I think I'm of the view that you and I are discussing different things. I know I may well be deluded, but please inform me of how I've been deluded in what I've posted?
If you read back what I actually said, you seem to be finding something implicit within it. But, in terms of what you've said in this reply, I'm not entirely convinced that we would need to sell in order for the academy to be self-funding if you factor in that academy players progressing into the 25 squad means that we don't have to buy players from elsewhere (and often their wages will be cheaper too).
FWIW, I'm not making any claims about whether Bloom expects to receive transfer fees for (our best) academy players, or not.

 

[blue-shifted]

I think I'm of the view that you and I are discussing different things. I know I may well be deluded, but please inform me of how I've been deluded in what I've posted?
If you read back what I actually said, you seem to be finding something implicit within it. But, in terms of what you've said in this reply, I'm not entirely convinced that we would need to sell in order for the academy to be self-funding if you factor in that academy players progressing into the 25 squad means that we don't have to buy players from elsewhere (and often their wages will be cheaper too).
FWIW, I'm not making any claims about whether Bloom expects to receive transfer fees for (our best) academy players, or not.

The way I see it, the academy can be self financing without big ticket player sales. It costs, (I read on here) about £3 to 5m per year and I think we can make this back by selling players who probably won't quite make the first team grade anyway. This year, or at the latest next year, we will have to make decisions, on the likes of Gyokeres, Ostigard, Baluta, Sanchez, Walton, Sanders, Molumby. Now hopefully several of these will graduate to the first team squad, but I think we can anticipate that not all will, if we sold half of them, like we have with Dreyer, we'll at least cover the running cost. Decent sell on clauses will then help to cover the costs for future years.

Then the following year, the current crop in the u23s, Cashman, Yapi, Richards, Gwargis etc (who I anticipate will largely go out on loan next season), will have to prove they are worth a squad place or be sold on.

The thing that is different about our youth policy now, as opposed to the rest of the time I've been supporting, is that the ones who fall a bit short are still worth decent money.

 

[Blue Valkyrie]

Well we've now sold on Mateju, Normann and Dreyer - which should at least start to pay back the academy costs.

 

[dazzer6666]

Well we've now sold on Mateju, Normann and Dreyer - which should at least start to pay back the academy costs.

Spot on..... the obvious model is produce a stream of players, of which some make the grade with us (very few in all likelihood) and some are good but just not quite up to scratch for us and get sold on (only needs a couple of £3-5m players a year for the academy to be self-funding) and we save huge sums by not having to spunk £20m every time we need a first team player in (if we’d needed to go to the market to get a Connolly or an Alzate for example).

We’ll still be in the market for first-teamers for certain positions as we continually upgrade the squad but as the academy continues to develop over time it should become a less frequent occurrence.

 

[BensGrandad]

What did we pay for Alzate from Leyton Orient?

 

[Blue Valkyrie]

What did we pay for Alzate from Leyton Orient?

100K well spent.

 

[timbha]

Not really......given as we often play 3CBs, we really need 5 in the squad. As to who ends up as first choice, that’s Potter’s decision and based on form and tactics and will change throughout the season. I can see a ‘first choice’ 3 of Webster, Dunk and White, with Burn being first choice cover for both CB and LB (behind Bernardo who I think might keep the shirt even when Burn is fit).

So you don’t fancy Balogan and Bong as first choices??

 

[Icy Gull]

100K well spent.

I find it quite ironic that Alzate’s youth manager at Orient was John Gregory of Gareth Barry fame who he tried to steal for a pittance whilst at Villa. What goes around comes around.

 

[Psychobilly freakout]

I find it quite ironic that his youth manager at Orient was John Gregory of Gareth Barry fame. What goes around comes around.

Ah you changed it, and within the allotted timescale permitted before the vultures could swoop and castigate you for not knowing the difference between Gareth Barry and Gareth Bale....

No one will ever know.....

 

[Icy Gull]

Ah you changed it, and within the allotted timescale permitted before the vultures could swoop and castigate you for not knowing the difference between Gareth Barry and Gareth Bale....

No one will ever know.....

Well that do now, thanks for that

 

[Guinness Boy]

I think I'm of the view that you and I are discussing different things. I know I may well be deluded, but please inform me of how I've been deluded in what I've posted?
If you read back what I actually said, you seem to be finding something implicit within it. But, in terms of what you've said in this reply, I'm not entirely convinced that we would need to sell in order for the academy to be self-funding if you factor in that academy players progressing into the 25 squad means that we don't have to buy players from elsewhere (and often their wages will be cheaper too).
FWIW, I'm not making any claims about whether Bloom expects to receive transfer fees for (our best) academy players, or not.

Indeed. Any Academy player becoming a first teamer not only saves a transfer fee on someone like Webster but their wages will already be within our structure.


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[Psychobilly freakout]

Well that do now, thanks for that

You’re very welcome.....

PS: Well they do now, not Well that do now....

You need a stiff drink me thunks....

 

[Icy Gull]

Your very welcome.....

PS: Well they do now, not Well that do now....

You need a stiff drink me thunks....

FFS, I think I need to quit drinking not start

And if we are going to get pedantic “You’re very welcome” NOT Your very welcome

People in glass houses etc

 

[AZ Gull]

Well we've now sold on Mateju, Normann and Dreyer - which should at least start to pay back the academy costs.

According to Danish press reports (which, of course, you can take with a pinch of salt, although I have no particular reason to disbelieve them) Dreyer was purchased for approximately £2 million and sold for approximately £850k, so that particular transaction won't be paying back anything.

 

[AZ Gull]

What did we pay for Alzate from Leyton Orient?

100K well spent.

While the Evening Standard DID report the fee as £100k, there was a poster on a Leyton Orient forum (who broke news of the signing the day before it was officially reported) who suggested that the fee was around the £400k mark (with, quite probably, a sell-on clause).

Still great business for us, of course.