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Berahino in January for £25m?

Berahino in January for £25m?

  • Yes

    Votes: 21 36.2%

  • No

    Votes: 37 63.8%
  • Total voters
    58
indianspur said:
anyway Pulis sees Berahino as a wide forward primarily, so Lambert and Rondon will battle it out for the lone striker role. Makes sense.
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No not really as they had just bought Callum McManaman to play out wide with their other new signing Sebastian Blanco.

Peace just had a brain fart! Dont make any sense.
 
indianspur said:
WBA director of football administration gives insight into Berahino saga
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http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/spo...west-bromwich-albion-official-gives-10016963?

I had one enquiry from a club I won't name right at the start of June
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I'm having trouble reconciling this with this

Tony Pullis said:
There's loads of stuff going on in his mind and there are loads of clubs, not one but 15
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http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/...eaving-with-15-clubs-interested-10468380.html
 
do you think Peace would have treated any other manager better? would he have sold berahino to Man U for less?
 
Raziel said:
No question Levy makes mistakes, we have direct view for 11 years of that.

The problem with saying we failed and it was embarrassing for WBA & Spurs comes down to

- WBA & WBA alone chose to make their side of the story public, which in turn gave their player encouragement to be public with his frustrations

Re Levy failing to deliver, there is a very interesting reporter interview on the Hotspur America podcast, synopsis

- Berahino was not Spurs #1 target (as identified by Poch/Mitchell/etc.), it was Ings, which is why we bid high and early (funny how that is counter the Levy late/low ball theory) to have chance to speak to Ings before anyone else. Turns out he was set on Pool and it didn't work out.
- Berahino was an alternative option, but no one in the club felt we couldn't do without him
- Based on him being alternative choice, club comfortable without him, the end of window plays out much more sensibly, a player we can use, ticks a lot of boxes, we bid multiple times, make a best effort but when it becomes clear the selling club is either not going to sell or is simply trying to fudge us, we walk away.
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Danny Ings to Liverpool was done in January, everyone knew...Levy is not stupid nor deaf, neither are Mitchell and Poch.
 
StephenH said:
No not really as they had just bought Callum McManaman to play out wide with their other new signing Sebastian Blanco.

Peace just had a brain fart! Dont make any sense.
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not in the same class as Berahino
 
indianspur said:
Danny Ings to Liverpool was done in January, everyone knew...Levy is not stupid nor deaf, neither are Mitchell and Poch.
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Mate, we bid 12M to get the chance to talk to him, the bid was accepted, we talked, player chose otherwise (predetermined or not)

Point = Berahino was not our #1 target, the point that people seem to fixate upon when saying "well if he was the only man Poch wanted we should have paid whatever it takes" ... when actually he in fact was an alternative ...
 
Raziel said:
Mate, we bid 12M to get the chance to talk to him, the bid was accepted, we talked, player chose otherwise (predetermined or not)

Point = Berahino was not our #1 target, the point that people seem to fixate upon when saying "well if he was the only man Poch wanted we should have paid whatever it takes" ... when actually he in fact was an alternative ...
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Ings had agreed to join Liverpool, it was his dream:) we could have bid 50 mill but we still wouldnt have got Ings.....
 
Finney Is Back said:
This is where we disagree. We didn't give them plenty of time to find and spend the money. Our only bid that was close to being for an acceptable amount came with only a few hours of the transfer window left. I have been led to believe that our bid was £14 million up front and another 9 to 11 million in instalments (which I would say was a very good price for us and a reasonable price for WBA). I think if that bid had been on the table (and left there without being revised) with a few weeks of the window left then a deal would've been very likely to have been completed. WBA had very little to gain from accepting that deal at 4pm on the 1st September and they couldn't go out and speculatively buy players earlier in the window in the hope that Levy would up his £12 million over 5 years (or whatever the initial lowball bid was)
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They knew we were interested, and they knew how much we were willing to spend well in advance of the transfer deadline. It's not as if they are new to transfers. Regardless of when the final bid was coming in, they knew we would put in a bid given the fact we had bid in the past. They had ample time to decide and feel out what other areas of their team they wanted to reinforce, even from when the first bid went in.

I think to assume that you would only start to look for replacements once a bid that is acceptable to you is received is not the way a football club would do business. It didn't stop us from buying Bale's replacement before he left, and it doesn't stop a whole host of clubs from sorting out replacements in advance of when they get the cash windfall. Indeed, some even prefer to do it this way as they don't want prices to be hiked up.
 
indianspur said:
they wanted to use the Berahino money to strengthen other parts of the team, bit like how we spent the Bale money
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so why were they not working on these deals then, why did Pulis go home, why were they not lined up for when the Berahino deal was confirmed and they knew they could spend the money

occams razor suggests they bought in advance expecting money from Berahino later
 
Raziel said:
Mate, we bid 12M to get the chance to talk to him, the bid was accepted, we talked, player chose otherwise (predetermined or not)

Point = Berahino was not our #1 target, the point that people seem to fixate upon when saying "well if he was the only man Poch wanted we should have paid whatever it takes" ... when actually he in fact was an alternative ...
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anyway, Ings joined Liverpool in May?

even if he was the number one target (would be stupid if so as ive pointed out) we had plenty of time to sign the 2nd target
 
galeforce said:
so why were they not working on these deals then, why did Pulis go home, why were they not lined up for when the Berahino deal was confirmed and they knew they could spend the money

occams razor suggests they bought in advance expecting money from Berahino later
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its a chain......West Brom are waiting for Spurs, the clubs West Brom are wanting to buy from are waiting for West Brom, there are clubs waiting for the clubs waiting for West Brom and so on.............

how can they all have their own deals in place by the final few hours of the window.....its simply ridiculous
 
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