James McAtee | Agreement with Forest - £30m overall

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Barcon said:
Make it 30 + 5 + a buy back clause and a sell on clause and you and I have a deal.
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My guess is Forest wouldn’t go ahead with a buy back clause unless at a very high value. Strategy seems to be to sell 2 big players in every 3 year period and the sums would have to work.

Loads of our players seem to have sell-ons though.

I do think we’ll come back with another bid - clearly we’re really after him.
 
ManchesterForestFan said:
My guess is Forest wouldn’t go ahead with a buy back clause unless at a very high value. Strategy seems to be to sell 2 big players in every 3 year period and the sums would have to work.

Loads of our players seem to have sell-ons though.

I do think we’ll come back with another bid - clearly we’re really after him.
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tbf they seemingly agreed to 60 for Gibbs White and they paid 40 odd for him, as it turns out perhaps the 60m wasn't as easy to trigger as expected but gives a base to start from.

Things could have changed but if Forest want him ahead of the others they may well want to be quick, I am sure there bid today has got other clubs speaking. Unless the lad had committed himself to Forest, I wont be surprised to see a few more clubs place bids this week.
 
Mcfcok1971 said:
He'll never be good enough to be a regular starter in that team
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3 years ago Gibbs-White joined Forest having scored just 1 goal in 68 games for Wolves and then 11 on loan in the Championship for Sheffield Utd. 3 years later and he’s worth £60 million and an England international. No reason why McAtee can’t have a similar level of development if he leaves to get regular football somewhere.
 
Damanino said:
yes, 35/40m easily minimum.

Forest paid 35m for Anderson to Newcastle last summer. they now try to low ball us...
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Anderson was very good for forest though and is PL proven + longer contract. I think people here expect too much. 30M would already be good for a player who has done nothing in the PL with 1 year left.
 
Cobra said:
3 years ago Gibbs-White joined Forest having scored just 1 goal in 68 games for Wolves and then 11 on loan in the Championship for Sheffield Utd. 3 years later and he’s worth £60 million and an England international. No reason why McAtee can’t have a similar level of development if he leaves to get regular football somewhere.
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That's my point,he's not good enough at the level were at
 
King Jay said:
Anderson was very good for forest though and is PL proven + longer contract. I think people here expect too much. 30M would already be good for a player who has done nothing in the PL with 1 year left.
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At the time Anderson had experience playing for Bristol Rovers on loan (had a decent season there) and the odd Newcastle game. If Forest have paid £35m for him, then that's the starting point for McAtee if they want him.

Hes got plenty of interest, they don't pay up then get him to sign an extension and loan him for a season.
 
IrishBloodEnglishHeart said:
At the time Anderson had experience playing for Bristol Rovers on loan (had a decent season there) and the odd Newcastle game. If Forest have paid £35m for him, then that's the starting point for McAtee if they want him.

Hes got plenty of interest, they don't pay up then get him to sign an extension and loan him for a season.
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Easier said than done. McAtee doesn’t need to extend if he wants to leave anyways. Again the contract situation changes everything. No club is going to pay that much when he is free next season. The club has to sell him now and clubs like forest know that
 
Want a player cheap = okay, but when you sell him for a vastly inflated profit, we will have half, thank you.
 
I wonder if it was rejected not because of the fee but the add ons.

Price has been reported as 25m for a long time now jumped up to similar as palmer according to recent reports.

Maybe us saying fuck you to Forest but he has a year left in his deal so can’t be too fussy. We should put a buy back in though not just a sell on.
 
IrishBloodEnglishHeart said:
Didn't he score in the Super Cup Final and the Charity Shield a few weeks before we sold him?
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He did. However, much like McAtee last season, he rarely affected games outside of scoring. It seems odd saying that, because scoring & not conceding are the two most important aspects of the game, but for both McAtee & Palmer, their positions at City under Pep required them to control games, dictate the pace, create goal scoring opportunities & assists, & of course score.

When you remove the goal scoring aspect, can anyone really say that either Palmer or McAtee controlled games, dictated the pace & created many opportunities for others to score? I always felt that's why neither would make it here under Guardiola.
 
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ninjamonkey said:
Ideal situation would be a new contract and a good loan, I do believe he has the talent to play here, he just needs to find that next gear. At the minute he plays a bit too safe, seems happy to be a part of the machine when a player like him should be demanding the ball constantly and looking to be the man to make a difference. Its the same thing Foden suffers from too imo.

If hes decided he wants to go then our hands are tied, should have never let him get to a year left on his contract. Anything less than £40m even with a year remaining is poor business when you look at the market.
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How many times are we going to send him out on loan? He is a good player but not good enough to take us back to the top. We should try to squeeze another 4 or 5 million out of Forest and be done with it.
 
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