LeeWallaceRFC 3,920 Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 20 minutes ago, DBBTB said: If McKay goes I bet we will offer Hearts about £100,000 at the end of the window for Nicholson as his replacement. In instalments, over the next few years most likely. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JCDBigBear 10,825 Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 As a club, we should be commenting in the media about such rumours and talking any rumoured transfer price up. The manky mob are constantly talking up their players and Southampton keep falling for their crap. Dembele has hardly set the heather on fire up here but you would be forgiven for thinking he was Messi judging by the Scottish media hysteria. Same with Roberts and the other so-called superstar whose name I can't even remember. Look also at the nonsense spouted about their young full back. We need to get wise about this. Watched McKay and Oliver Burke on Sunday and I know which player looked worth the £13m and it wasn't Burke. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoatbridgeBear 7,113 Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 This was a matter of time. Can't believe we ain't got him tied up longer also. To think McCoist wanted rid.. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cd true bluenose 86 Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 1 hour ago, Prso's headband said: I'd be disgusted with the board even more than I am already if they let the kid go for anything less than £6 million with his current deal. If he signs a new one, minimum £10 mill. Its high time we started banding the figures about that the tarriers do for their players. correct ? but we will probably pay up his contract and let him go for fuck all Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
danger ranger 922 Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 What, red bull Leipzig don't want him?. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianferguson 2,619 Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 McKay is at the right place for now ,he needs to play for a team who play good football and don't require him to defend, and with him not yet being good enough for the top teams his options will be limited and he'd be the first guy sacrificed when points become vital to survival at the lower clubs. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HuistraHairDo 12,490 Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 I would rather sell all the duff that surrounds Barrie tbh. for me him and foderingham are the only 2 ok maybe Miller aswell, that have upped their game from last year, he's a good talent but he's not the finished article just yet, if we hang on to him he could establish a starting place in the Scotland team and that will up his value ( I know it's Scotland but international players can demand a bigger fee). Thing is nowadays most English teams want a wing back, like Valencia at man u or even Ashley young who is being shaped into one, Alan Hutton is another good example, or our own Lee Wallace. mckay is a forward and that is it, I've seen him shirk a tackle or two, if he wants to play in the English prem he would have to learn how to defend properly. The old school left/right winger are a dying breed. Which is a shame because we've had some world class wingers over the years with Coops, Walters Henderson, McCan etc.......oh and Huistra of course. Plenty other players we could try get off the wage bill to save some pennies rather than sell a good asset imo. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
King_gazza 1,065 Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 5m & 50% sell on fee Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeparateEntityMyArse 53,722 Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 We need to be a selling club. A good fee and we should take it and reinvest. What that fee should be is subjective, but folks better get used to our better players being sold off as that's our model. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack The Flipper 5,936 Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 Not interested, I know our board wouldn't push for value for money regarding the sale so fuck it. The sooner DK is out the better, there are many forms of cancer all varying in aggressiveness - DK is just another form, Whyte was another. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bgally 452 Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 Look at Sterling at Man City,they were fucking robbed off Liverpool £50 mill for him, but anyway i think he's in the same mould as wee Barrie,good going forward can beat a man or two and they're both pretty quick. Both are shite at defending as well. Now i'm not saying Barries in the £50 mill bracket but he's got to be at least £5 mill any less and the board are wankers. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeeSS 512 Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 5 hours ago, standup said: I suppose valuations can change rapidly 7.5 is the most I will take. Most???? Are you saying you will turn down 20m!!!!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
William McBeath 2,154 Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 3 hours ago, Sportingintegritymyarse said: We need to be a selling club. A good fee and we should take it and reinvest. What that fee should be is subjective, but folks better get used to our better players being sold off as that's our model. Will be difficult, its just shite. Imagine it's to a seaside club like Southampton. TV companies have made the game a joke. Trouble is that people just seem to take it as natural so that Man City/PSG types buying the worlds best players and going for CL's is taken as sporting achievement. Games finished as a proper contest between clubs and nations. Wish their was an alternative to this structure. Something less commercially driven and make belief Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
plymouthranger 3,872 Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 we really need to stop short changing our players, 7million for McKay minimum in todays market. Is he actually worth that? No, but he well could be. However with the money down south, if an English club comes looking we need to double our valuations. The dhims will actually get 20 million for Dembele, and you're stupid if you don't think that. That's the going rate nowadays, when I lived in Plymouth I saw Yannick Bolasie play regularly, and he had about 1 good game in 10...now he's a 30+ million pound player. Accepting or even entertaining bids of say 3-4 million for our best player, is a joke, and if we do it as a club, we'll be left behind Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Basrah Bear 2,981 Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 After the tarriers game, Brenda went over to Mckay to shake hands. You could see that Brenda had singled out McKay and he was expressing the fact that Mckay had played very well. I thought then that he would be on the tom toms to his pals down south raving about Mckay, knowing he wouldn't be able to sign him. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeyserSoze 14,532 Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 3 minutes ago, Basrah Bear said: After the tarriers game, Brenda went over to Mckay to shake hands. You could see that Brenda had singled out McKay and he was expressing the fact that Mckay had played very well. I thought then that he would be on the tom toms to his pals down south raving about Mckay, knowing he wouldn't be able to sign him. Fux sake man Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaffbear 4,096 Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 In today's mad climate barrie is worth 7 or 8 .....plus 30% sell on or damn their eyes Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackrfc95 4,255 Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 I know we're a selling club etc and obviously if a ridiculous offer did come in we'd have to accept but... IMO selling the one player in our squad that has any real quality would be a massive mistake and show a complete lack of ambition. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeyserSoze 14,532 Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 And here is the fundamental flaw in our "nurturing young talent " football philosophy the Gaffer goes on about. Every young player has his price - we can get them to a point they start showing some consistency and talent then woof they are off - leaving us with the mediocrity Our young talent will always leave us so it makes it really difficult to put a decent side on the park. It's a fundamental flaw in our philosophy. For it to work it does require a level of investment to hold it all together. Investment that includes players that have the talent and experience that our young guns can actually "learn" from and are paid enough to make them content enough to stay for a while. It's really not rocket science Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junior Soprano 22,428 Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 I'm sure he has a 2 million quid clause in his contract. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junior Soprano 22,428 Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 10 minutes ago, OhW said: Where did you see that? I could be wrong but there was something in the paper when we signed windass and him having 2.5 million clause and McKay having 2 million. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaz52 11,837 Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 If the board accept a ridiculous bid for McKay then MW will walk. He's building the team round McKay IMO. If he was in green and white his current form would have him worth £10m at least. He's got potential and is already a very good player, I wouldn't take anything below £8m and I'd want guarantees that it'll be put towards the playing squad Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaz52 11,837 Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 If he has a 2 million quid clause then that shows everything that's wrong with us Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaz52 11,837 Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 This is where we need to start matching the beggars. We need to overrate him to fuck to get the largest fee possible. Make it clear we're not looking to sell him at all etc. Show interested clubs 3 min highlight reels on YouTube I'm being serious in saying I wouldn't take less than £8m cause we could get it easily if our board play their cards right. I don't want to see McKay going so soon. I think one of the clubs will be RB Leipzig, he fits their transfer policy, Burke obviously likes him, it all makes sense Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
trueblueal 2,117 Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 3 minutes ago, OhW said: I think you are wrong. I've never seen anything about a £2m release clause. Elfideldo seemed to allude to a release clause on FF. Maybe he can clear that up of he's looking in? If he does have a clause it makes a new contract all the more urgent Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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