Mackenzie
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[Football] Ben White - Sings new FOUR year deal.
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Milano
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If and it’s a very big if Liverpool or any other club we’re offering £40m for White we’d be mad not to take it.
A striker is our main priority this summer and that money could make all the difference, we got away with it this season, we were lucky IMO.
A striker is our main priority this summer and that money could make all the difference, we got away with it this season, we were lucky IMO.
Stato
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- Dec 21, 2011
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Should the club decide to sell Shane it would be interesting to see which Premier League club would want a fearless, dominant in the air, relentlessly hardworking giant who loves defending and is loathed by Blackburn fans.
- Remember how penny-pinching they were over Dale Stephens Tony? Tell them we want Dwight McNeil.
Assuming the club believes in White and there's not been a single word from them to suggest otherwise, in one years time £40m will look like Tony got mugged off.
How many times do you think that's happened over the years?
LamieRobertson
Not awoke
So true
Deluded Leeds especially that Grundy fella on Twitter (prize knob).
GT49er
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TBH, I think most of them do. It is, of course, good fun for us to post links to a few knobheads, but I think most Leeds fans - like #Yorkshireman - are well aware of the situation.
Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo
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- Oct 4, 2003
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They wanted the original loan deal to come with an option to buy, but we told them where to go. I really don't see why after an impressive season in the Championship we'd suddenly want to sell him. Our most promising youngster and possibly better than Lewis Dunk was at the same age.
GT49er
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Good post - but you've got option 2 completely wrong - option 2 would be us selling him to a top PL side with a loan back to us, not you.
I think Duffy might well leave this summer to get game time elsewhere - he's been more or less a bit-part player for us this season. I expect White's ambitions will be a little higher than just replacing him!
It's so funny how they think Leeds have a say in White's future.
Leeds fans are unbelievable stupid.
I bet if we play them next season, or White plays against them next season, they will relentlessly boo him.
nwgull
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He wouldn't be able to be loaned to us or any other PL side in the same transfer window, apparently.
I agree with your prediction that Duffy will be sold once the season has concluded, and White will sign a 4 year deal, presumably with a significant salary increase in line with our regular starters. He is an ideal player for GP's style of playing out from the back and will certainly give Webster competition for his place in a 2-man central defence.
We are bloody good at recruiting and developing central defenders, aren't we?
course. if you ain't wearing our white shirt it doesn't matter who you are or what you did. 
loads of factually inaccurate shite from both sides on here, in 15 years some folk are still peddling same agenda, it is almost comforting in a way!
liverpool or whoever would be bonkers to spend 40mil on an unproven 22 year old, different if he's had a season or two scrapping around in the lower reaches of the PL and proven himself, he hasn't. he's been playing luton on a tuesday night who shouldn't even be in the same sentence as liverpool, man city et al. he's done a decent job at leeds but ben white at the back is not what is needed to stay up in pl.
loads of factually inaccurate shite from both sides on here, in 15 years some folk are still peddling same agenda, it is almost comforting in a way!
liverpool or whoever would be bonkers to spend 40mil on an unproven 22 year old, different if he's had a season or two scrapping around in the lower reaches of the PL and proven himself, he hasn't. he's been playing luton on a tuesday night who shouldn't even be in the same sentence as liverpool, man city et al. he's done a decent job at leeds but ben white at the back is not what is needed to stay up in pl.
Green Cross Code Man
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course. if you ain't wearing our white shirt it doesn't matter who you are or what you did.
loads of factually inaccurate shite from both sides on here, in 15 years some folk are still peddling same agenda, it is almost comforting in a way!
liverpool or whoever would be bonkers to spend 40mil on an unproven 22 year old, different if he's had a season or two scrapping around in the lower reaches of the PL and proven himself, he hasn't. he's been playing luton on a tuesday night who shouldn't even be in the same sentence as liverpool, man city et al. he's done a decent job at leeds but ben white at the back is not what is needed to stay up in pl.
Good post and nice to see you back [MENTION=3003]Starry[/MENTION]
Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo
Waxing chumps like candles since ‘75
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That appears to be true. https://www.premierleague.com/news/464747
There are ways around the rule, like if Liverpool really wanted him (and wanted to make sure no-one else could come in for him) but wanted him to have a years experience in the PL then we could agree a deal that saw him move at the end of the 20-21 season.
GT49er
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?
I'm sure I can remember cases where a player has been sold, and immediately loaned back.
Edit: Just seen post above.
hampshirebrightonboy
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- Sep 3, 2011
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Mad? Unless we have ambitions of being a top ten club.
Just stumbled across this:
But the Reds have been told they must pay more than £35m if they want to sign Brighton's 22-year-old English defender Ben White, who has impressed during a loan spell in the Championship with Leeds United this season. (Football Insider)
But the Reds have been told they must pay more than £35m if they want to sign Brighton's 22-year-old English defender Ben White, who has impressed during a loan spell in the Championship with Leeds United this season. (Football Insider)
GT49er
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That might be acceptable (with add-ons), but only if a workaround is applied so that he plays a season for us and doesn't join Liverpool until 2021.
Yorkshireman
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- Jun 28, 2020
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You have a weird hatred of a club hours from Brighton. Have a word with yourself.
Perhaps - my thinking was on the lines of White's rapid development with us so far and the fact that he's pretty happy here. Can understand why he'd go back to Brighton but it wouldn't make much sense if he wasn't going to start.