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  3. Alex Scott - £25m to Bournemouth- Confirmed

    in All Things Ex Players and Managers

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    46 minutes ago, Mr Popodopolous said:

    One for @Davefevs I think but my basic understanding is that you don't just make a bid, but may lay groundwork, agents may 'sound out' agents, then obviously contractual terms, payment structure etc, probably the Manager, Financial department and Scouting department may all liaise at the Wolves end before 'push the button' and deciding whether to make an official bid.

    Did they not do all that before they made the previous official bids?

    Surely (don't call me that) the only thing to do now is haggle (see pg7) on the exact price?

     

    Fiver this post goes to 150pages before we see a done deal

     

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  9. Alex Scott - £25m to Bournemouth- Confirmed

    in All Things Ex Players and Managers

    Posted · Edited by soultrader
    i cant spell

    I think to make this transfer more fun we should incorporate the following:

    1. A sweepstakes as to how many pages this post is on, when it the deal is announced.
    2. Prize money for the winner to come from the fee
    3. Photo op will be the winner shaking hands with Alex.  Alex handing over prize money and the winner handing over bound volume of this entire post

     

     

    It could even be a TV mini series .... it would be better than Love Island

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  19. Alex Scott - £25m to Bournemouth- Confirmed

    in All Things Ex Players and Managers

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    6 minutes ago, Davefevs said:

    I guess the key thing here is understanding the difference between “discussions” and “bid” and the informal and formal elements of each.

    There will potentially be lots of informal pre-amble, and that might allow City to play one off against the other.  But there will become a point where City get to what they think is the sum / terms outcome they are after / is achievable.  It’s then up to the clubs to meet that or not.  How that gets communicated to the likes of Spurs or Bournemouth can take different forms.

    But once at that point if Spurs “bid” (what really is a bid?) what we want we are likely to accept, it can be largely irrelevant what Bournemouth do at that point.  To go back and say we’ve moved the goalposts for whatever reason, is unlikely to go down well.

    In summary:

    • whilst in “informal stages” chance your arm by trying to get as much as possible by playing clubs off against each other
    • once more “formal” don’t renege

    Now it's got existential  .... ?

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  20. Alex Scott - £25m to Bournemouth- Confirmed

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    1 hour ago, BCFC Rich said:

    I would say there are plenty of ways for it to become a bidding war. 

    In real estate here in California (obviously there are big differences in RE and player sales).

    When you are selling a property your client has a price they want, we even set a price a property is listed at.

    You don't rush any decisions, wait to see how much interest there is and once you have an offer you let everyone who has shown interest know you have an offer.

    If you think you will get more than one offer you set a deadline a few days ahead for offers. You would ask for highest and best offers by that deadline (sealed bids would be the closest UK equivalent). 

    You see what everyone offers. You can the accept the highest/offer with the best terms. Or let everyone else know what the highest offer was give them a chance to match it. 

    You can also counter one/some/all offer with higher terms that you want. 

    We also need to remember that it's not just the fee that will matter the terms will also be SO important. If someone offers $25m and someone else offers $20m + 40% sell on, that's probably going to be at least as good an offer - I think most would prefer the later. 

     

    TLDR - Plenty of ways a bidding war could happen + cash isn't the only factor. 

    Less pages on OTIB ?

     

     

  23. Jason Knight signed from Derby - Confirmed

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    6 hours ago, RoystonFoote'snephew said:

    Has Knight signed for City or Vogue? We make a steal of a signing and people are more concerned about the state of a collar on a shirt. Since when did  Bristol become such a capital of sartorial taste. 

    Apparently the next season of The Great British Sewing Bee is to be filmed in BS3

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