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They should, but Turnbull has yet to play a full season of football; £5m is absurd. Anyway, that figure has seemingly been plucked out of thin air. I think that Motherwell would bite our arm off for £3m, so £2.5m sounds like a reasonable enough estimate from the BBC.

 

£3mil with 20% sell-on and he's ours right away, no doubt about it. If he's someone we desperately want, don't * about with it.

 

I'd rather pay more initially, and have a lower, or ideally no, sell-on fee.

 

Whatever happens we better not keep lowballing them and end up losing him to someone that knows he's worth 2/3m

 

Their chairman on record saying they are looking for "far more" than their record fee (1.7m). Going to take a fair bit to get him - several clubs down south interested.

Folk in here sounding like Lawwell. If we think he's going to be a player why not pay the appropriate fee? Should have met the asking price for Mcginn lets not get burnt again.

Scott Brown was best part of 5 mill 12 year ago. This boy has scored 15 goals from midfield this season and is a teenager. What would we be saying if Henderson had done that ?

 

Aye 5m is too much, even Motherwell know that. No harm in trying to start a bidding war though.

Expect him to go for 3m tops if a few clubs enter the race.

 

Definitely. My FM brain saw that and went mad at the thought!

Hope we wrap this up quick and don't leave it months for an English club to swoop in.

 

Who? I have lost count of the number of people who have said pay whatever price Motherwell demand, provided it's reasonable.

How do you know that the asking price is £5m?

 

Hopefully after Fletcher

McCarthy


McGinn


Lawwell has learned his lesson.

History does not suggest this though.

 

Aye, it's imperative that we act quickly and decisively here. He's a real talent.

 

To be fair mate, 34 appearances including 31 starts (while it isn’t exactly every available game) is a pretty full season for a 19 year old.

 

Fair enough. The point stands though.

 

I suggested they want nearer 5 based on their chairmans comments that they want far more than their record fee . Depends what your definiton of " far more " is. Anyway I would be suprised if he goes for less than 3 .

 

Aye, we definitely shouldn’t be jumping in with £5m from the get-go. I think £3m buys him (even with no add-ons involved) anyway, but if it did come to £5m or losing out, I think we’d be daft to risk another McGinn/McCarthy situation.

 

He actually said " we will only consider offers significantly more than our record fee (1.7m) "

 

I think we will get him for around £2m if we move soon.

But there will be a lot of competition in that centre/attacking midfielder position and so i wonder if someone will be making way...

 

I think that almost double that would qualify as 'significantly more'.

 

I saw 1.2m and just thought, aw * Peter. He is such a penny pinching *. Odds of us actually wrapping this up are slim with him at the table. Other Scottish clubs must be sick of talking to him.

Edit: clear up that no official bid has been made, afaik.

 

Hopefully , and hopefully it is us that stumps up the dollar.

 

Have we actually bid for him?