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13 minutes ago, Davefevs said:

Fulham didn’t offer City more money than Villa, Villa were Championship, Fulham Premier League, don’t forget.  I very much suspect the winner was Bryan / Fulham, not City, ie the attractive offer was for Bryan only!

We could indeed….but once we accept an offer, it’s very unlikely we’d renege on that - that is the point.

So let’s change the scenario to be aligned to what you’re suggesting.  Spurs are in talks with us, we know Bournemouth are interested too (pipeline).  At some point in those individual discussions (it is not an auction house where the other clubs know who’s bidding and what they’re bidding), City are gonna name their price and terms.  Spurs meet the price and terms.  We aren’t going to go back to Bournemouth and increase the price and terms for them to see if they nibble, we’ve already told them the terms.  They will see very quickly where this is going.  They ain’t gonna offer more, because they know we will do the same to Tottenham and on it goes…or in fact it won’t go on and on…because both clubs will refuse to go higher than the original agreed fee and terms or pull out and our club’s reputation will be in tatters.

I’m not sure “concrete” and “bids in the pipeline” really go together!

Concrete + bids in the pipeline /=/ we're confident that x team will put a bid in for y price. I'm no expert in transfer negotiations but for Mr Lansdown to mention "supply and demand" it seems, to me at least, to suggest that clubs will compete with each other, and offer more money. With some reconciliation, I do agree that it won't be a 'bidding war' or an 'auction', as in, several clubs won't keep trying to outbid each other, with City accepting bids, but I believe that we will reject offers, potentially even over 25m, if we believe we can get more elsewhere.

No mention of Rovers in his bio (can you actually blame him?), has added England though.. with his 1 cap

17 minutes ago, Monkeh said:

That's not how a bidding war works, if any club came in with 25 million we'd accept it, why then would another club come in with more money?

In order for a bidding war to start we'd have to reject the offer of 25 million, and as we've set that as his price we wouldn't reject that bid,

 

Lansdown added: "We've quoted £25m in the past, I really don't know where it goes. It's supply and demand, isn't it? If there are lots of clubs interested in him, then the value goes up. source

We haven't set 25m as our price, so we could easily reject 25 million if we know there are concrete bids in the pipeline from multiple clubs.

20 hours ago, RedRaw said:

If £25 million is met, the only bidding war will be who will pay him the highest wages

20 hours ago, bcfc01 said:

Not really.

If Spurs for example (or a number of EPL clubs) come in at the same price, where's he gonna go ?

 

If Spurs came in for the same money, he’d obviously go to Spurs, so Bournemouth could then offer 27, 28, 30m, hence starting a bidding war.

4 minutes ago, Jose said:

Likes to spend money doesn’t he. Looking at 4.5M on Hirst who they had on loan at the tail end of last season. 

The more spent the more take home in commi$$ion 

8 minutes ago, johnbytheriver said:

Jason Knight (footballer) - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Knight_(footballer)

Jason Paul Knight (born 13 February 2001) is an Irish footballer who plays as a midfielder for EFL Championship club Bristol City and for the Republic of Ireland

Wiki jumping the gun a bit here!

7 minutes ago, Tomo said:

Squad number 38

Literally anyone can edit Wikipedia

They really are exceptional

"There is one thing that has been overlooked in the report it said the argument started with the doormen and then the women got involved.
If the women hadn't got involved none of this would have happened I think there's a lot more to this than meets the eye."

1 hour ago, Miah Dennehy said:

I still stand by what I said in my original post btw, there are many, many crimes, committed by all sorts of people, not just footballers and the hypocrisy of the lynch mob knows no bounds, but that's all part of the modern world I'm afraid, along with vacuous meaningless statements put out by corporations, including football clubs, whenever they feel like they should be 'being seen' to be doing something. It's all incredibly depressing. Oh, and one more thing that got my goat, although it could just be me overthinking things. The welcome to Rovers post that was put out for Jevani Brown showed him in the kit with his kids. I don't think I have ever seen a welcome pic like that before, the cynical among us may be tempted to believe that was an attempt to portray him as a 'family man' and that sort of shite really does piss me off.

I don't think Rovers are any better or any worse than any other club at this sort of bollocks. Jevani Brown has been punished by the courts and not one of us will ever really know the circumstances behind what happened that night, but he isn't the first and he certainly won't be the last to be involved in something like this.

 

I know what I think

6 minutes ago, Son of Fred said:

Didn't we sign Simpson ??

 

I'm sure we did.

whataboutism

“Not defending him but think people are overlooking the part where she has pulled his hair after he'd spat but before he slaps her. 

He doesn't deserve to be kicked out of football for the offence committed so we move on and let him rehabilitate. If it happens again it's game over for him.”

Absolutely mental club, happens again? That’s two guilty pleases in 3 months.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-66134479.amp

Spat at and slapped a woman, leaving bruises on both sides of her face, signed anyway, scum club.

10 minutes ago, pillred said:

I reckon owning Bristol City is not exactly a money spinner well for the last 125 years anyway, if SL wanted a cheaper hobby he could always set fire to £20 notes.

Accurate, if Elon Musk saw £500 on the floor it wouldn’t be worth his time to pick it up 

9 hours ago, BCFCGav said:

This is more what Madrid need. Bellingham is a fab signing but midfield was probably their strongest area prior to his joining, it certainly is now.

With Benzema gone they need to consider attack, if they can bring in Mbappe and a more central player that's one hell of a front line along with Vinicius.

Disagree, Klose Modric & co are past it IMO, Vinny Jr is top #3 LW in the world and Mbappe is not a necessity 

1 hour ago, Robbored said:

Seems impressive but anything under 5 is a fail and comes with advice on how to increase your score. The Agency will then carry out a surprise visit to assess whether or not the original advice had been put in place.

I only know because one of our local bowls club scored only 3 and were not allowed to prepare food on the premises….On the surprise revisit they scored a 5 I’m happy to say.

 

A 5 is actually quite difficult to get and does require the highest standards

1 hour ago, GeoTheCiderHead said:

I was told from someone who used to run a pub that you lose 2 stars straight away if you can’t provide necessary paperwork even if you have the cleanest establishment possible. 

You get an instant fail without adequate paperwork 

RIP, we’re their first home game of the season too

The full range that we currently have in store, just looks a bit crap doesn't it

Even in the photos you can see dirt/bits of string on the hats..

If i wanted to be really critical, whoever edited the photo has done a really poor job too, choppy outline where it has been cropped.

7 minutes ago, miketh2nd said:

Shows how much the in the know really know... 

about as much as the club 

https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/transfers/premier-league-transfer-news-epl-cristiano-ronaldo-shirt-sales-fee-net-worth-contract-how-long-a8456191.html

Can anyone link me to the page where you can post objections/support? Their site is playing up on mobile.

15 minutes ago, petehinton said:

Really really lovely kitchen

The clock is off centre though 

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We could just keep him? On a free (if one person quotes me re compo) & relatively low wages I assume, wouldn’t be the worst to have as backup, assuming he isn’t a toxic personality.