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[Albion] New Ben White Rumour









Badger Boy

Badger Boy

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Jan 28, 2016
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Ben White has been fantastic and consistently so all season. Any suggestion otherwise is revisionism or just plain wrong in my opinion.
 








W

Wardy's twin

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Oct 21, 2014
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nwgull said:
He’s literally put the most likely reason in the post that you quoted.
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Not sure it says why Stoke thought it was a good idea to let him go for nothing only that the contract was cancelled by mutual consent or have i missed something?
 








nwgull

nwgull

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Jul 25, 2003
13,861
Manchester
GT49er said:
Still no reason for giving him away - get a few bob for him; better than nowt.
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He was on 64K a week. The burden of employment costs of over 3.5m per year for a player that didn’t want to be at Championship Stoke are good enough reason.
 




Publius Ovidius

Publius Ovidius

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Jul 5, 2003
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giveusfalmerplease said:
can we stop being stupid with the French please - I'm sure there is a rule about messages needing to be in English
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GT49er

GT49er

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Feb 1, 2009
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Gloucester
1066familyman said:
In terms of keeping a player, they mean nothing, aside from the fact that if a club decides to sell, the selling club gets a better deal than if the player's contract was coming to an end.

We both know that. I'm not sure what your point is?

My original point was how are we a 'selling club', when our current three biggest assets haven't gone anywhere yet, and are all on long contracts.

That's not to say we won't sell any of them btw. I don't have a crystal ball. But the current situation, and indeed our selling history since being back in the top flight, suggests we are anything but a selling club.

I think the clue is in the thread title.
Rumour alone doesn't make us a 'selling club' right now.
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The only reason we're 'not a selling club', as you put it, is that nobody's offered us £40 or £50M plus for any of our players.The biggest offer we've ever had was a paltry £25M or so for Ben White, which wasn't enough. If they'd offered us double that (£50M with add-ons) I personally have no doubt that we'd have done the deal.
 


Eeyore

Eeyore

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Apr 5, 2014
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GT49er said:
The only reason we're 'not a selling club', as you put it, is that nobody's offered us £40 or £50M plus for any of our players.The biggest offer we've ever had was a paltry £25M or so for Ben White, which wasn't enough. If they'd offered us double that (£50M with add-ons) I personally have no doubt that we'd have done the deal.
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The papers were wrong, as usual. It was £30m. Bielsa confirmed that himself later on.
 






Eeyore

Eeyore

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GT49er

GT49er

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Gloucester
Brighton Lines said:
The papers were wrong, as usual. It was £30m. Bielsa confirmed that himself later on.
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£25M or so - never heard of add-ons, sell on clauses etc?




..........and what's that got to do with nobody ever offering us £40 - £50M plus for any of our players? They haven't .........................
 


1066familyman

1066familyman

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Jan 15, 2008
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GT49er said:
The only reason we're 'not a selling club', as you put it, I'd that nobody's offered us £40 or £50M plus for any of our players.The biggest offer we've ever had was a paltry £25M or so for Ben White, which wasn't enough. If they'd offered us double that (£50M with add-ons) I personally have no doubt that we'd have done the deal.
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And as one of our ex managers famously said....

'If my granny had balls she'd be my grandad.'
 








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