[Albion] New Ben White Rumour

1066familyman · Apr 15, 2021

I remember the good times said:
Why have we become a selling club? We should be looking at keeping our best players and building around them. PB said Europe in 5 years, was that the Albion or just our current players?

Have we become a selling club?

The players who are most likely to attract big money are still with us, and signed on long contacts aren't they?

I'm thinking Dunk, Bissouma and White here.

I confess to losing track of football in the last year though, so I may be missing something.

albionalbino · Apr 15, 2021

Couldn't Be Hyypia said:
They paid the premium for very young talent. So I don't think that you're disproving my point. Open to being proved wrong though.

PSG pay Neymar about £30 million a year. I think they can afford Ben White.

Biscuit · Apr 15, 2021

They can have Webster AND White for £120 million. I think that's reasonable.

BBassic · Apr 15, 2021

Biscuit said:
They can have Webster AND White for £120 million. I think that's reasonable.

And they have to take Jahanbaskh as well.

Badger Boy · Apr 15, 2021

BBassic said:
And they have to take Jahanbaskh as well.

It's funny, Stoke fans didn't rate Eric-Maxim Choupo-Moting at all. Since leaving them he's played for PSG and Bayern Munich.

A1X · Apr 15, 2021

Un de mes amis l'a rencontré en vacances et a dit qu'il était désespéré d'aller au PSG

Machiavelli · Apr 15, 2021

Farehamseagull said:
Yep.

And might be cheaper for me too as my son has a White Albion shirt (his favourite player) and an Mbappe PSG shirt so I could maybe find a way of taking the 3 and White off the Albion shirt and replacing Mbappe on the PSG one! Much rather this than Liverpool or United!

I think you've just solved our problems in one stroke. Sell White to PSG, and we get Mbappe. Job's a good 'un. WERE WIN.

zefarelly · Apr 15, 2021

A1X said:
Un de mes amis l'a rencontré en vacances et a dit qu'il était désespéré d'aller au PSG

Un de mes amis l'a rencontré en vacances et a dit qu'il était une maison de merde

macbeth · Apr 15, 2021

If selling white is what it take for us to raise enough funds for that striker, then so be it.

nwgull · Apr 15, 2021

1066familyman said:
Have we become a selling club?

The players who are most likely to attract big money are still with us, and signed on long contacts aren't they?

I'm thinking Dunk, Bissouma and White here.

I confess to losing track of football in the last year though, so I may be missing something.

There are currently about 4-5 clubs on the planet that aren’t selling clubs. PSG are one of them; we aren’t.

Sheebo · Apr 15, 2021

I remember the good times said:
Why have we become a selling club? We should be looking at keeping our best players and building around them. PB said Europe in 5 years, was that the Albion or just our current players?

Selling club? The last player we sold that we clearly didn’t want to was Ulloa - we’ve not sold one player in the prem era that has felt like a big loss! I’m sure we will have to, but we have been the exact opposite of a selling club! You’re basing that on every rumour coming true I feel.

JBizzle · Apr 15, 2021

nwgull said:
There are currently about 4-5 clubs on the planet that aren’t selling clubs. PSG are one of them; we aren’t.

Every club is a selling club if the numbers are right or the player wants to leave and their contract situation demands it. Do PSG want to sell Mbappe? No. Does Mbappe want to go to Madrid? Seemingly so. It'll be interesting to see what comes of that.

Only occasionally are players unsellable (Messi at Barcelona for example)

Iggle Piggle · Apr 15, 2021

What percentage of any fee we get will Leeds get?

Farehamseagull · Apr 15, 2021

Machiavelli said:
I think you've just solved our problems in one stroke. Sell White to PSG, and we get Mbappe. Job's a good 'un. WERE WIN.

Yes! If this doesn't happen now then I am Potter, Winstanley, Barber and Bloom OUT!

GT49er · Apr 15, 2021

I remember the good times said:
Why have we become a selling club? We should be looking at keeping our best players and building around them. PB said Europe in 5 years, was that the Albion or just our current players?

Of course we're a selling club. And a buying club. It's like being on the housing ladder - you buy one, sell it on for a profit and buy a bigger/better one, sell on for a profit ... and rinse and repeat.

vagabond · Apr 15, 2021

HastingsSeagull said:
Wow that would be much better than selling him to a direct rival. Nice bit of global publicity too. Price would have to be right but is the one player I’d be accepting big bid for if I was Uncle Tony.

Not for me. Only his first season in the PL and he’s performed very well, I expect him to go up another level next season and is a cemented part of our first team.

Granted, if silly money is offered that’s different. But that applies to all of our players.

AlastairWatts · Apr 15, 2021

Iggle Piggle said:
What percentage of any fee we get will Leeds get?

I don't think any - wasn't he on loan there? (Remember 'our player' etc)

1066familyman · Apr 15, 2021

nwgull said:
There are currently about 4-5 clubs on the planet that aren’t selling clubs. PSG are one of them; we aren’t.

Can you list the players we've developed and then sold to 'bigger' clubs for profit. I can't recall any of note so far off the top of my head.

As I said though, I'm woefully out of touch now and may have missed a few.

I do agree with you though. Pretty much every club is a 'selling' club, to varying degrees.

Publius Ovidius · Apr 15, 2021

AlastairWatts said:
I don't think any - wasn't he on loan there? (Remember 'our player' etc)

Woooooosh

1066familyman · Apr 15, 2021

sheebo said:
Selling club? The last player we sold that we clearly didn’t want to was Ulloa - we’ve not sold one player in the prem era that has felt like a big loss! I’m sure we will have to, but we have been the exact opposite of a selling club! You’re basing that on every rumour coming true I feel.

Exactly!

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