The Daily ITK Discussion Thread - 28th September 2020

[philll]

Probably depends on tomorrow's game. Win and it's an extra £15m. Don't sweat just yet.

But what if we don't win?

 

[Breezer]

This makes me far less confident that we’ll get it done. 10m is a big difference.

They’re not getting 50 million from anyone else.
Are Inter going to keep a player that’s not part of Contes plans when they have an offer of 40 mill on the table. They’d be very stupid.

 

[wpd659]

They’re not getting 50 million from anyone else.
Are Inter going to keep a player that’s not part of Contes plans when they have an offer of 40 mill on the table. They’d be very stupid.

Inter have a payment due this week. So we was hoping they would blink first. We are confident but might need to wait to see what money is coming in and compromise.

 

[hutchiniho]

It’s the ‘not going to budge’ part that’s a worry for me.
Maybe the digging of heels will work.
Maybe we don’t have another £5m to spend. But normally here we would see a meet in the middle negotiation if he’s the best option. Not take it or leave it. End of.
I know we’re not Man City to put the asking price straight up regardless but I would prefer to hear dialogue continues with Inter.
Get this done and move onto the proper Centre Forward.

 

[SecretLemonadeDrinker]

Buckle up, lads.

It’s the ‘not going to budge’ part that’s a worry for me.
Maybe the digging of heels will work.
Maybe we don’t have another £5m to spend. But normally here we would see a meet in the middle negotiation if he’s the best option. Not take it or leave it. End of.
I know we’re not Man City to put the asking price straight up regardless but I would prefer to hear dialogue continues with Inter.
Get this done and move onto the proper Centre Forward.

In any negotiation / auction, you have to know the price beyond which you cannot or are not prepared to go. Maybe we’ve maxed out with our latest offer?

 

[Archibald&Crooks]

Seeing as we've just had two examples hot on the heels of each other, just a reminder that Media stories go in the player threads.

We keep it that way because if we didn't and knowing how some of you are, pretty soon this would be the media story discussion thread and then the stories from everywhere thread.

 

[EQP]

Probably depends on tomorrow's game. Win and it's an extra £15m. Don't sweat just yet.

Add in the proposed sale of Foyth, CCV, Rose etc and we should have enough to reach the preferred price.

 

[Andrew Fineberg]

Dragon:

In talks with psg re dele they want loan we want loan with option to buy at steep number chance dele stays

ten mill apart on skriniar we made v good offer we will not budge

striker situation changes by hour , last hour was wood or king next could be Milik or benfica or Celtic boys

I do not think we will see a signing until Monday everything will be last min now

That's disappointing regarding Skriniar, but then we still have time left and Levy has to do what's right for the club. We ave already spent over £60m and with a striker also on the horizon, would could be looking at spending over £100m (even if it's loan to buy) and that's after a huge amount that was spent last year.

I would be surprised if Burnley let Chris Wood go at this late stage, as he is still a regular first team player for them and unless they can get a replacement in quickly, then it's probably unlikely, but again, that's just an outside point of view.

I always thought we'd wait until after Thursday, even with the outgoings, so we could use some of those fringe players for the large amount of games we had. Then we could sign off on a number of deals from Friday.

 

[swarvsta]

Add in the proposed sale of Foyth, CCV, Rose etc and we should have enough to reach the preferred price.

The ITK has already stated that we won’t be increasing our bid. Outgoings are unlikely to change that.

It sounds like it’s a bid of £40m, which is definitely a more than fair price. Why should we be held to ransom?

Why do some fans just want us to pay whatever asking price is demanded? Baffles me.

 

[thebenjamin]

The ITK has already stated that we won’t be increasing our bid. Outgoings are unlikely to change that.

It sounds like it’s a bid of £40m, which is definitely a more than fair price. Why should we be held to ransom?

Why do some fans just want us to pay whatever asking price is demanded? Baffles me.

because they want the team to win more football matches?

 

[Trix]

From my understanding our offer is close to the number inter told his agent he could go for.

It's a watch this space one imo as wages etc are agreed-ish in principle.

As for King, I'm told he's the back up option and as such we've been talking. No rush on this one though, so will exhaust other avenues before it comes to that.

 

[Snarfalicious]

From my understanding our offer is close to the number inter told his agent he could go for.

It's a watch this space one imo as wages etc are agreed-ish in principle.

As for King, I'm told he's the back up option and as such we've been talking. No rush on this one though, so will exhaust other avenues before it comes to that.

Like that. Thanks for the info!

 

[gerishep]

The ITK has already stated that we won’t be increasing our bid. Outgoings are unlikely to change that.

It sounds like it’s a bid of £40m, which is definitely a more than fair price. Why should we be held to ransom?

Why do some fans just want us to pay whatever asking price is demanded? Baffles me.

Maybe they're the types how like maxing out their credit cards.

 

[BringBack_leGin]

From my understanding our offer is close to the number inter told his agent he could go for.

It's a watch this space one imo as wages etc are agreed-ish in principle.

As for King, I'm told he's the back up option and as such we've been talking. No rush on this one though, so will exhaust other avenues before it comes to that.

The rollercoaster that is 30 September 2020 continues...

Cheers Trix ?

 

[Wsussexspur]

From my understanding our offer is close to the number inter told his agent he could go for.

It's a watch this space one imo as wages etc are agreed-ish in principle.

As for King, I'm told he's the back up option and as such we've been talking. No rush on this one though, so will exhaust other avenues before it comes to that.

Makes sense King being the back up option given the deadline to sign EFL players is middle of October. Assume we are concentrating efforts on signing other strikers from abroad first of all and if they don't come off always have the fall back of King which we are under less pressure to sort out by Monday... Well unless someone else comes in for him.

 

[SpursTillIDie1882]

Thank trix, im really happy with the club are doing the below part

As for King, I'm told he's the back up option and as such we've been talking. No rush on this one though, so will exhaust other avenues before it comes to that.

 

[sausage]

because they want the team to win more football matches?

I assume the maths/logic is being missed here.

Say you have x million pounds, where x is your budget for two players. What do you assume will happen if you pay whatever a team quotes for one of them?

 

[thebenjamin]

I assume the maths/logic is being missed here.

Say you have x million pounds, where x is your budget for two players. What do you assume will happen if you pay whatever a team quotes for one of them?

None of us know squat about the club's budget for the transfer window.

 

[gerishep]

I think I'll hold off on the tattoo.

 

[glacierSpurs]

I would now also start to worry about outgoings. Seems more difficult to let go of some for that few millions lesser than to say we can increase that few millions in our bids to get what we want.