And we should. His fee can assist with this clubs finances for a decent period and give MR the chance to spend some decent cash now and in January. If all these clubs are interested, we should be holding out and playing hard ball.All the murmurings have been along the lines of us holding out for more money although to be fair that seems to be coming from his agent and GIMOC whose info is always negative on King.
Someone mentioned it earlier, but he has list a lot of credibility recently. His rumours are no longer exclusive or that groundbreaking, the theory was that agents were sick of how much he was charging them.I find the wording of his tweets about Vik strange. Last couple have been focussing on the fee being too high “despite being out of contract in 2024”.
Maybe I’m reading too much into it but I don’t think I see his other tweets using such language
I think I’ve said before an extra million or two is a huge difference for us but also if we need the money in before we spend there’s a balance to be struck in terms of getting players in in good time. Having said that, I think there will be a lot of players out of contract looking for clubs late on but again you want them in early ideally and to have your pick, not just what’s left over.And we should. His fee can assist with this clubs finances for a decent period and give MR the chance to spend some decent cash now and in January. If all these clubs are interested, we should be holding out and playing hard ball.
For years we've been pushovers when it comes to selling players. That needs to change.
How's it Dougs fault? He's likely trying to get the best value for the club. The clubs might not be meeting a fair valuation. For years, and there's been numerous instances, we've all accused the powers that be of totally underselling our players (bar Borrowdale...Still not sure how we got a fee for him...).
This default position of everything being DKs fault is a bit strange when there's numerous reasons why the delay might not be our end and we don't know all the details.
I’d like to think he has someone advising him about footballing matters in the background somewhere - hopefully not wishful thinking!Yeah not a massive fan of pretending we don’t know TBH. Vik says it, the ITKs say it, every newspaper says it. At some point if it walks like a Doug and looks like a Doug, it’s a Doug.
Ive backed King on various other things, I just think he’s a noob owner with a singular focus on squeezing every penny and doesn’t realise the realities of transfers. Like Sisu when they first came in and fucked up the likes of Westwood.
£17m is a very fair price for Vik. We clearly don’t have the interest at £20m. It’s very noble to try and get as much as possible but we are skint and have a squad that desperately needs players. I just think he’s playing this badly.
Or alternatively, if he's going to hold out he needs to advance funds to Robins so it doesn't hold anything upYeah not a massive fan of pretending we don’t know TBH. Vik says it, the ITKs say it, every newspaper says it. At some point if it walks like a Doug and looks like a Doug, it’s a Doug.
Ive backed King on various other things, I just think he’s a noob owner with a singular focus on squeezing every penny and doesn’t realise the realities of transfers. Like Sisu when they first came in and fucked up the likes of Westwood.
£17m is a very fair price for Vik. We clearly don’t have the interest at £20m. It’s very noble to try and get as much as possible but we are skint and have a squad that desperately needs players. I just think he’s playing this badly.
Yeah not a massive fan of pretending we don’t know TBH. Vik says it, the ITKs say it, every newspaper says it. At some point if it walks like a Doug and looks like a Doug, it’s a Doug.
Ive backed King on various other things, I just think he’s a noob owner with a singular focus on squeezing every penny and doesn’t realise the realities of transfers. Like Sisu when they first came in and fucked up the likes of Westwood.
£17m is a very fair price for Vik. We clearly don’t have the interest at £20m. It’s very noble to try and get as much as possible but we are skint and have a squad that desperately needs players. I just think he’s playing this badly.
Or alternatively, if he's going to hold out he needs to advance funds to Robins so it doesn't hold anything up
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And that’s it in a nut shell just rumour and speculation with nothing really said by the main players King, Robins or Gyokeres for that matter, lot of 2+2 coming to 5 at the moment, Vik is back on the 7th I believe let’s see what happens then.We have no idea what Sporting have offered us for Vik. It’s all rumour talk. For all we know they’ve offered £10m. Everyone seems to know what the difference is in getting the deal done apparently shrug
Is there a chance he could stay and extend his contract by a year, just asking like before I get shot down
The Westwood thing was buried amongst SISU fuckupability.Yeah not a massive fan of pretending we don’t know TBH. Vik says it, the ITKs say it, every newspaper says it. At some point if it walks like a Doug and looks like a Doug, it’s a Doug.
Ive backed King on various other things, I just think he’s a noob owner with a singular focus on squeezing every penny and doesn’t realise the realities of transfers. Like Sisu when they first came in and fucked up the likes of Westwood.
£17m is a very fair price for Vik. We clearly don’t have the interest at £20m. It’s very noble to try and get as much as possible but we are skint and have a squad that desperately needs players. I just think he’s playing this badly.
I wouldn’t rule that out at all, let’s be honest nowadays length of contract doesn’t really tie players down.Is there a chance he could stay and extend his contract by a year, just asking like before I get shot down
And you would think King can get his hands on a few million short term, plus the fact in many cases we wouldn’t put all the money up front anyway.Well as I’ve said the word in Jan was if the right player is there so is the money. So you’ve got to ask what the hold up is.
Of course maybe the holdup is Robins still trying to work out what to buy like when you get birthday money as a kid.
Hopefully common sense will prevail. This can't go on into next week and risk the success of the training camp - I don't believe it will for what it's worth. Knowing the cost of everything and the value of nothing is no way to run a club.Yeah not a massive fan of pretending we don’t know TBH. Vik says it, the ITKs say it, every newspaper says it. At some point if it walks like a Doug and looks like a Doug, it’s a Doug.
Ive backed King on various other things, I just think he’s a noob owner with a singular focus on squeezing every penny and doesn’t realise the realities of transfers. Like Sisu when they first came in and fucked up the likes of Westwood.
£17m is a very fair price for Vik. We clearly don’t have the interest at £20m. It’s very noble to try and get as much as possible but we are skint and have a squad that desperately needs players. I just think he’s playing this badly.
To be honest it looks like Sporting are that desperate to sign him they'll still be there even if we wait a short time and see what we can get.
Most of the "ITK"'s have been disgruntled weirdos like GIMOC so i'd take what they say with a pinch of salt.
Yeah not a massive fan of pretending we don’t know TBH. Vik says it, the ITKs say it, every newspaper says it. At some point if it walks like a Doug and looks like a Doug, it’s a Doug.
LOL if Doug gets that he's a better negotiator than I gave him credit for. I appreciate people would rather get the money in now so we can start signing, but this isnt the case of a few extra hundred thousand, this is a few million and will make a massive difference.
I'll be glad when it's all over so there are no more tweets about how Coventry are a team nobody's heard of who should give the player away and be thankful to do so, Sporting are the third team in the three-team farm league, and posts arranging cagematches to determine whether a hypothetical sell-on can be counted part of a transfer fee.
Even with the 8 first team players we have, the season can't start quick enough
That’s were the problem lies Doug has no money reliant on the sale of Vik, it does not bode well for the future of the clubOr alternatively, if he's going to hold out he needs to advance funds to Robins so it doesn't hold anything up
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That’s were the problem lies Doug has no money reliant on the sale of Vik, it does not bode well for the future of the club
Who says there’s no money.That’s were the problem lies Doug has no money reliant on the sale of Vik, it does not bode well for the future of the club
And we should. His fee can assist with this clubs finances for a decent period and give MR the chance to spend some decent cash now and in January. If all these clubs are interested, we should be holding out and playing hard ball.
For years we've been pushovers when it comes to selling players. That needs to change.
LOL if Doug gets that he's a better negotiator than I gave him credit for. I appreciate people would rather get the money in now so we can start signing, but this isnt the case of a few extra hundred thousand, this is a few million and will make a massive difference.
I think the issue is, if reports are true that Gyokeres doesn't want to go to the prem, it significantly narrows our pool of buyers which you are right in saying that his valuation is going to have to be adjusted.The issue is, there isn't a club at present that is willing to pay above £20m for Gyokeres. If the reports are indeed true, at some point he'll to read the room and reevaluate his valuation to suit the interest received.
If the article is right he wants 25m Euros which would be around £23m pounds. £5m extra I can understand why Doug's playing hard ball. the issue, as Kenilworth mentioned, is that nobody wants to pay this outside of England (or even in England from what we have seen.)Not like Doug to be charging top dollar for something that isnt worth what he thinks is it............................
We need Vik gone and quick. So what if we don't get the 20 he wants, the offer of 18 million and 35% sell on is more than good enough for someone who can fuckoff for free next season. Its halting all our plans for the rebuild as it stands
If the article is right he wants 25m Euros which would be around £23m pounds. £5m extra I can understand why Doug's playing hard ball. the issue, as Kenilworth mentioned, is that nobody wants to pay this outside of England (or even in England from what we have seen.)
It's obviously not an ideal situation, is it?It’s clear that king is either unwilling or not able to use the funds of Gyokeres sale until the funds are realised
What if Gyokeres plays hardball and stays for the next season and this drags on for another 4 weeks?
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