rodders0223 Posted October 16, 2020 Share Posted October 16, 2020 25 minutes ago, YouUnastanFren said: Definitely a shitbag negotiation tactic from Sullivan and Gold. Brentford won't fall for it. There's a reason Dean didnt give his blessing to go all out and get him. Think we just found it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwi1890 Posted October 16, 2020 Share Posted October 16, 2020 6 minutes ago, Loxstock92 said: how do you even fail a medical as a pro footballer?! Unless you’ve got a current injury how does it work, I’m clueless to the process Gareth Bale passed his medical and he had a knee injury 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abdulaziz1 Posted October 16, 2020 Share Posted October 16, 2020 1 minute ago, rodders0223 said: There's a reason Dean didnt give his blessing to go all out and get him. Think we just found it. He went for him last season, but we weren’t prepared to spend what they wanted for him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Posted October 16, 2020 Share Posted October 16, 2020 (edited) 11 minutes ago, Adam2003 said: I mean I hope for the lad it’s nothing like this but I remember a player in Spain having a heart defect picked up in a medical and having to immediately retire. You never know what blood tests or a different exercise test can throw up, same as any of us. Asa Hartford also didn't move to Leeds in 1971, because they found during his medical that he had a hole in his heart, he returned to WBA and later moved to Manchester City. It is his 70th birthday next week. Edited October 16, 2020 by John 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodders0223 Posted October 16, 2020 Share Posted October 16, 2020 2 minutes ago, abdulaziz1 said: He went for him last season, but we weren’t prepared to spend what they wanted for him. Yet we sanctioned bigger fees in both windows for other players. Dean clearly didnt want to go big on the guy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam2003 Posted October 16, 2020 Share Posted October 16, 2020 4 minutes ago, rodders0223 said: There's a reason Dean didnt give his blessing to go all out and get him. Think we just found it. That was my immediate reaction as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam2003 Posted October 16, 2020 Share Posted October 16, 2020 3 minutes ago, abdulaziz1 said: He went for him last season, but we weren’t prepared to spend what they wanted for him. If that is true, I still can see a situation where we might take a £15m gamble on a long-term injury risk but shy away from a £30m gamble. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abdulaziz1 Posted October 16, 2020 Share Posted October 16, 2020 1 minute ago, rodders0223 said: Yet we sanctioned bigger fees in both windows for other players. Dean clearly didnt want to go big on the guy Could be that we were preparing to spend 30m only in one player. Everyone would have agreed that it should be a striker as they’re the most expensive. Add to that the fact that Watkins is really good so for us he’s a much better deal than Benrahma. Add to that having Grealish and Barkley made us in a much better position. I don’t think Smith doesn’t want Benrahma rather we needed to spend elsewhere. Maybe the board will be looking and getting someone in January without panicking and after monitoring how the season go. Wether we’ll have something to achieve or not. If January came and we were challenging for European places then we’d be mental not to gamble and invest in quality additions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abdulaziz1 Posted October 16, 2020 Share Posted October 16, 2020 5 minutes ago, Adam2003 said: If that is true, I still can see a situation where we might take a £15m gamble on a long-term injury risk but shy away from a £30m gamble. Yes that’s definitely true. We offered thrm around 14m, and ready to go upto 18m. But they wanted nearer to 25m. Wether it was a board decision or Smith wasn’t really pushing for it I’m not sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Posted October 16, 2020 Share Posted October 16, 2020 4 minutes ago, Adam2003 said: If that is true, I still can see a situation where we might take a £15m gamble on a long-term injury risk but shy away from a £30m gamble. I think that may well be how West Ham viewed the medical. I bet when they booked the medical, they said, "make sure you find something doctor". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaVilla Posted October 16, 2020 Author Share Posted October 16, 2020 2 minutes ago, John said: I think that may well be how West Ham viewed the medical. I bet when they booked the medical, they said, "make sure you find something doctor". Drive that price down........ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Willard Posted October 16, 2020 Share Posted October 16, 2020 5 minutes ago, John said: I think that may well be how West Ham viewed the medical. I bet when they booked the medical, they said, "make sure you find something doctor". Gets the fans off their back for not trying to sign a player too. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abdulaziz1 Posted October 16, 2020 Share Posted October 16, 2020 21 minutes ago, rodders0223 said: Yet we sanctioned bigger fees in both windows for other players. Dean clearly didnt want to go big on the guy Not straight forward as that, Benrahma approach was until the end of the window. We didn’t have time to keep waiting and as we saw with Watkins it takes long to negotiate with Brentford. We’ve only spend more than that on Wesley (striker). By the time we pushed for Benrahma we already had Trez and Anwar, we thought we might outmuscle them. But they sold Maupay who gave them a good money. When he got Traore he clearly wanted him to be a backup for forward too. I don’t think Smith was serious in Benrahma this season, but last season he definitely wanted him, and we were almost down failing to get someone with his caliber. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LockStockVilla Posted October 16, 2020 Share Posted October 16, 2020 Says deal to West Ham still on. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Silvers Posted October 16, 2020 Share Posted October 16, 2020 14 minutes ago, MaVilla said: Drive that price down........ AEG + 10m or fak orf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted October 16, 2020 Share Posted October 16, 2020 53 minutes ago, gwi1890 said: Gareth Bale passed his medical and he had a knee injury we signed Downing with a broken leg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiwivillan Posted October 16, 2020 Share Posted October 16, 2020 24 minutes ago, LockStockVilla said: Says deal to West Ham still on. Holy **** this is boring now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted October 16, 2020 Share Posted October 16, 2020 12 minutes ago, Zatman said: we signed Downing with a broken leg clean though wasn't it, muscle or ligament damage has a much higher chance for repetition that said there's definitely a lot fish as **** about west ham and their "attempts" at signing players but over the summer its growing increasingly fishy over this guy too, huge transfer fee, huge wage demands, now the injury, linked to Chelsea, us for ages, leeds, palace, west ham...now its an 11th hour drive the price down to scrape a transfer job theres a bit of a stink around it all for me, im not going to be disappointed that we didn't get him (unless of course he hits ballon dor form) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted October 16, 2020 Share Posted October 16, 2020 18 minutes ago, Zatman said: we signed Downing with a broken leg We did break it though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted October 16, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted October 16, 2020 3 hours ago, AVFCforever1991 said: I'm shocked this thread is still here, didn't he sign for west ham? Wwooooohhhhh yeah. Close the thread! Close the thread! Close the thread! Close the thread! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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