Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread

[Villan82]

Can we offer them £50m for the pair, Watkins and Benrahma?

[hilts_coolerking]

Warkins £28m rising to £33m.

If that's true, it's an insane amount of money for a championship player.

Much less than we would have wanted for Grealish had we not been promoted.

True, but Grealish has a far more impressive pedigree than Watkins, and would have been an anomaly in the Championship.

[aj2k77]

Watkins plus King for approaching £50m makes me nauseous but they'll make us 10x more threatening, add work rate and trickery. They keep us up and they've paid for themselves. Add in each place being worth £2m+ and moving from 17th to 12th is £10m paid back straight away and players looking at your as growers rather then relegation dog fight material.

It's a lot of money but it has to be spent if we are going down the route of British based players this Summer. It makes me wonder why we were fucking around with Wilson.

[Drummond]

Maybe the Wilson thing was to show Brentford we had other options.... I reckon we held out for £25m for Watkins and then had to cough up the rest when it fell through.

Who knows though.

[eamonn]

Its a bit embarrassing how we're still signing players like under Xia four years ago. Overpriced Championship stars.

We should have signed Toney and loaned him out to Brentford for a season. Would save us a packet when we go after him next summer.

[Clampy]

Maybe the Wilson thing was to show Brentford we had other options.... I reckon we held out for £25m for Watkins and then had to cough up the rest when it fell through.

Who knows though.

Or we maybe wanted both but like you said, who knows?

[Legion]

Exactly. No-one does.

[sickbeggar]

well whatever way you look at it, Dean has put all his eggs in the Watkins basket. Lets hope this season's hopeful punt is a better bet than the last two attempts.

[aj2k77]

Watkins will help us press from the front, his work-rate is brilliant. No more Samatta lolloping around half-hearted yards away from defenders pretending he's closing them down. Get King in and that's a very fluid front 3 if Grealish is playing with them.

That leaves a Keeper and a centre Mid.

[brontebilly]

Brentford have pulled our pants down yet again, we would be far better advised getting in their negotiating team instead on Benhrahma! Watkins looks a player with real potential but as others have said is under huge pressure to deliver now with that fee.

[hilts_coolerking]

It makes me wonder why we were fucking around with Wilson.

Cheaper, PL experience, England international.  I'm not a massive fan but you can see the sense in it.

[eamonn]

Reported sizeable sell-on to Exeter may have meant digging deeper for the extra few mill.

[Clampy]

Reported sizeable sell-on to Exeter may have meant digging deeper for the extra few mill.

Hadn't thought of that actually.

[Sexual Ealing]

well whatever way you look at it, Dean has put all his eggs in the Watkins basket. Lets hope this season's hopeful punt is a better bet than the last two attempts.

Well, Dean, the Head of Recruitment, the Sporting Director and the CEO have.

[Chris_Jephcott]

To be honest... 28 million rising to 33 million.

What are we getting? There are some who would have argued that Grealish was undervalued at 20 million when Spurs put their bid in. I would for sure. We had a knowledge that Jack would be a real talent but had very little premier league experience.

Watkins is another one from this camp. I’ve seen him play and believe that he’s been the same as Jack was in the Championship. Time will be the judge but I believe that he’ll cut it in the premier league. If he turns out half as good as the expectation is, then we will have had a bargain.

It does feel like we’re having our pants pulled down a bit. But I reckon that he’s got enough potential and enough promise to really make a difference for us.