[Albion] Liam Delap - Man City

Tom Hark said:

Everything's negotiable tho eh? Especially when you're a poor boy at the EPL top table and an oil state is willing to throw you scraps

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Blue Valkyrie said:

There is not always a deal to be struck

Sometimes a selling club can be flexible - they need money to buy another player, they have 26 in their 25 man squad, they arn't that fussed about retaining the player, they have too many strikers etc. - other times there is just a price.

We should not be sucked into the myth that there is always a haggled price to sell at.

Pay the money, get the player.

Pump more barrels if too hard up.

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Tom Hark said:

No point trying to keep a player at this level if his head's already elsewhere. And Cucurella's already is. Dream move for the player. Just like BDB's was. The haggling is EVERYTHING

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Tom Hark said:

Maybe as a right-to-buy part of any Cucurella deal?

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Tom Hark said:

Highly unlikely we'll get the money we profess to want, seeing as how it's been pitched deliberately high on account of we never wanted to sell the player in the first place. But seeing as how it's pretty much a given that Catalan manager is going to get his Catalan man, and sooner rather than later, makes sense IMHO for the Albion to grab what they can from the wreckage

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Tom Hark said:

It's one thing giving a young player a place in the first team squad to fulfil some club-internal quota, thereby maybe triggering some level of contractual management bonuses. It's quite another thing to ask them to make any meaningful contribution to the EPL bottom line other than first via one or more loan spells elsewhere to further their development. IMHO, like

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Couldn't Be Hyypia said:

I agree, but if we do take loans it suggests that the youth system isn't yet producing the players we need?

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Mackenzie said:

How are his throw ins?

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