Josip Juranovic

At the end of the day I’m happy for him to go for £15m - £20m if it means we spend that amount on transfers.

No one would’ve anticipated an offer like that this summer for anyone so it’s a free hit to invest in the squad and ensure 3-4 title wins, and the subsequent champions league qualifications that should entail.

 

We won’t get more than we did for Tierney, the age he is will * that.

 

Yes and no.

You need to cross reference that with how the player reacts.

If he’s going to be * off at us denying him a move of a lifetime, and half arses it, then he’ll be worth much less than £17million next year I can assure you.

Bearing in mind a huge selling point for joining us for foreign players is the ability to use us as a stepping stone, and I can guarantee the board will be hammering home that point to potential targets at all times.

They’ll be doing it as we speak with Bernabei and Vinicius Souza.

 

I think all this will be for nothing though. I suspect Atletico will only want to pay a much smaller fee, like less than £10m.

There’s no way Juranovic could expect us to accept that kind of fee, but hopefully it would motivate him to keep playing well since he’s clearly appearing on radars.

 

Exact way we should be approaching it. If * start offering £12m-£14m to unsettle him and try and make it prolonged and get him unsettled demanding a move, shut that down immediately.

 

I keep hearing people say that, but look at what Atletico paid in July 2019 for Trippier who was 28 going on 29 in a few months. £19m for him. Last year Spurs paid £26m for the Brazilian RB Emerson. We own the Croatian RB on a 4 year deal. A good negotiator would do £25m+.

 

Aye that’s the crux of it for me mate, if they come in with a serious offer - £20m odd, then I’d accept. Good money for his age and if we don’t accept it, his head will go down, naturally it would go down. Would take a special mentality not to.

But if we can say to him, look they offered £10m that’s * insulting for a player of your calibre, they’re at it. At that point everything goes our way. So it depends on the calibre of club, and money on offer. As obvious as that sounds.

 

If he’s here after a good CL showing and a good World Cup showing then we can easily do that mate, easily. Right now, a lot of clubs will be thinking it’s more of a gamble.

 

Jura isn’t going to half * it this year and put his position in the Croatian WC team in jeopardy. He’s not going to half * it in his chance to play in the Champions League. Not going to happen.

 

You would have said the same of Ajer, Christie, Edouard, Ntcham etc all putting their heart and soul into winning the 10, and getting themselves a move to a big club with that particular notch under their belts, but naw...

If Juranovic decides to chuck the towel in, he will.

If we get an offer of £20m I'd bite their hand off.

 

Would rather keep him but what annoys me about it all whether we get 5mil or 25mil we will spend 2mil on a replacement or say well we have Ralston and find some nobody to back him up.

If I thought we could get around 20mil and we would actively use a good part of the funds to reinvest I would drive him away myself

 

Ajer is the best example, because he ended up trying harder than anycunt his last season and was by far POTY for me. However, that attitude happened when we played AC Milan, who we denied him a move to, and Paolo Maldini who’s the technical director there came out and praised him, talked up why they liked him and talked up how good a club Celtic is for him as well. Then it was like a switch turned in his head, and it was the best season for us he had.

He gave him that impetus and desire back. Not us.

 

He could still be playing in the World Cup and Champions League on 5x his current wages.

Plus, our main selling point to players is the ability for exposure and the chance to move on.

If we’re telling players that when trying to convince them to sign then we have a duty to come to a consensus.

A £25million or * off stance serves no purpose and only alienates current players and potential future signings. We need to be a place where talented players want to come to forward their careers.

 

He had a very good Nations League. He’s not that big of a gamble.

Besides, Tony Ralston, you should be banned from this discussion because of your conflict of interest

 

Indeed.

It's not some new age thing this some footballers ending up with their heads down or worse when a move to a "big" club fails to materialise or is kyboshed by their current club.

I think - same as you - Juranovic would be the type a guy to take the nip.

 

We haven't been linked with any RBs yet.

 

Hope he doesn't go/want to go just yet and that Atletico have another other target's lined up before him..

Think he'll have a massive season for us if he stays. Just one more ya wee *..