It's Quiet Thread 15 - Txiki Blinders

[bondsman]

I’d be disappointed to lose Laporte. Class CB and levels above Ake.

 

[uwe rosler 28]

Laporte is worth double what we paid for him.

 

[Bobby the blue]

50 million may be enough for his right leg. Although not his best since his injury it would be madness to sell Laporte. Hope he stays, however if he does want out then he should be going for over 80 million.

 

[doobyedoobye]

50 million is from the buyers side or Laporte's camp. Makes total sense at this stage

 

[Coatigan]

So is Fernandinho having a contract faceoff with Messi? Who can leave it later and sign the extension closer to the end date.

 

[colesy]

How much would Laporte be worth, if it was us trying to purchase him now? Certainly a lot more than the 50m being spouted.

 

[Fordyboy46]

I hope by “in the region of” they mean higher than.

No mate, we literally give players away. We are shit at selling

 

[Phoenix900000]

I always find it funny that any of our players that are linked to being sold (in the media) are never higher from what we paid.

Any other team "oh 100m easy"
Us "Less than his buyout clause and he has loads of winners medals+titles and has improved as a player"

That's media logic for you

 

[Great Kompany]

I know Txiki has his days but boy O boy we suck at selling players.Be it Harrison Tosin Angelino or anyone else

The red scums made 100 millions just from the sale of Jordon Ibe Brewster Skrtel and one another.

Not to forget they sold a player to hull for 8 million and bought Robertson for 10.

Thats two million for a 90 million leftback now.

 

[waspish]

Laporte in a no Covid era be worth in the bracket of 70/80m with Covid plus the players might of asked for a move 50m is ball park!

 

[richards30]

laporte will stay one more season imo to see how things go. To be honest, although stones has been great i would love to see a dias and laporte partnership get a regular run as on paper its the perfect partnership?

 

[Centurions]

My God there's some fanny's on here. That 'rumour' of £50mill for Laporte appears to have originated from an English speaking Spanish website Football Espana. The majority of their 'journalists' are Irish or British guys who have moved to Spain and surprise, surprise, there's not a single link to the 'source'. In fact they don't even bother mentioning a source...

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[supercity88]

I hope Laporte stays. Stones had a good season, but little mistakes were creeping into his game again and I think Laporte on form is a better player. The Stones-Dias partnership has been excellent, but I think our best CB pairing would be Dias-Laporte over time.

We'll see how they get on in the Euro's as both should start. The season has been intense, and we then have the Euro's before we're back into it. We could do with having options for the next campaign because yet again it will test the strength of each squad and rotation will be key.

Laporte has been fobbed off by Deschamps and then switched to Spain and he might, mentally, just be in a position where he can't deal with being second best at his club side and also wants a switch. The price quoted is ludicrous though.

 

[nmc]

Laporte in a no Covid era be worth in the bracket of 70/80m with Covid plus the players might of asked for a move 50m is ball park!

You are right… COVID should and will bring transfer fees down…. Due to the loss of income BUT there seems to be (so far at least) no COVID effect when we look at players… only when we are linked with selling. Txiki has a job on his hands.

 

[Keeper!]

My God there's some fanny's on here. That 'rumour' of £50mill for Laporte appears to have originated from an English speaking Spanish website Football Espana. The majority of their 'journalists' are Irish or British guys who have moved to Spain and surprise, surprise, there's not a single link to the 'source'. In fact they don't even bother mentioning a source...

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Agreed about the source but there are direct quotes from the player himself that make these stories very possible.

Real and Barca both badly need CB's, Laporte would walk into both teams and be almost certainly a guaranteed starter, not sure he has any chance of the latter with us, as things stand.

The issue is could either team raise the transfer fee, again highly unlikely.

 

[vicblueman]

If true laporte may ask for a move , he should be told to knuckle down & win his place back on merit & not take the easy way out like a mard-arse .

 

[decmancity]

If Laporte wants to go he will be gone, Pep has made it very clear he doesn't want any "bad faces" around the squad. Whatever the fee, its going to be a profit in the books for us and clears a big wage.

 

[DenisLawBackHeel74]

Funny....where are they getting the £200M to pay for those players

 

[BlueMooner87]

Funny....where are they getting the £200M to pay for those players

They don't say when they want them, they will just wait until out of contract

 

[CWMCFC]

I’d be disappointed to lose Laporte. Class CB and levels above Ake.

Unfortunately there are going to be casualties when the club insists on having 2 top class players for every position.

You build a collection of players who all want to start and play the important games. Those who don't (and aren't willing to fight for their place) become unhappy and push for a move.

We've never had a squad as good as this, so it's something we're going to see more.