Matt O'Riley

Really we should be buying his replacement before he goes anyway. Even if we somehow keep him it's obvious he'll be here for a maximum of 1 more year. Buy them, bed them in, and be ready for once. It would probably even work out cheaper in the long run as fees seem to only going up anyway.

But we won't as spending money on another wage, regardless of whether the player would actually be great cover, would be a waste...

 

At this point he will be away it sounds like Atalanta are at least getting towards our ball park in terms of bids. There has been long standing rumours Matt fancies the move, I think a deal will be done.

I just hope we get Engels in as his replacement and strengthen the other areas we need too.

 

I am hoping we keep him this season, but I can see this going into the last week or even days of the transfer window.

The club better be ready to get his replacement in if that happens.

 

I've given up on these "maybe they'll stay just until..." transfers. They always go through at the last minute. I'd imagine the club knows that too, given the talk of them letting the agent discuss terms. We should just stonewall on the terms and look at replacements/strengthening and be set for the last day

 

The club probably knows the minimum they will get for him now and could start budgeting around that. If the guy from Ausburg comes in that seems like a solid replacement. But it's not just an O'Riley replacement we need to budget for, we need a LB and a CB too (probably more but those 2 prioritise winger or 3rd striker for me).

 

I hope that’s the case, we have someone lined up, but we have been lacking doing that in the past.

 

Gonnae be a hard one to take when this big ride goes.

Hopefully this guy were after from Germany is a good one as if not Matts loss will be well felt on the park.

 

IF Engels is the replacement i am VERY happy. He will rip the league the * up.

 

Rejected 5th bid, 21m with add ons.

 

We should really be wanting £25million, £5million in add ons that are guarenteed like if he ever plays in a final for them or qualifies for the CL or plays over 50 games or whatever plus 10% of what they sell him for.

Go to want in the end about £35million. Should never be going when we aren't going to get over £30million.

£25million guarenteed, £5million more in a year or two thats near enough guarenteed then £5million more if he is sold by them for like £50million+ at some point is acceptable.

 

21.5 million rejected. Tell them to either hit the target we want or * off. There getting 50 million plus for koopermeins ffs.

 

They're taking the * for me..

 

Imagine someone trying to out Lawell, Peter Lawell.

 

Why are we even entertaining this now?

They're clearly offering derisory bids in the hope that O'Riley becomes unsettled and we have no choice but to accept.

Can see them doing this over the next week or so and we cave in at £25m, which isn't enough as I've said countless times on here already.

We got £25m for a crocked Tierney 5 years ago.

Jota went for £25m last Summer.

O'Riley is better and has much more development in him, more than Tierney and Jota did when they left.

£30m up front with a sell on clause. No add-ons. If he is their number 1 target, we hold all the cards here. Need to act like it!

 

Luckily Lawwell is coordinating with them so we won't have time to sign a replacement.

 

This is what worries me is they slowly keep upping their bid until we finally accept it 10 seconds before window closes and we get nobody in to replace him.

This Belgian boy looks ready made but doubt he will hang around for us.