General Jan transfer window

The fees will be “undisclosed“ as always.

if Shandon goes for £2.25 million, the club have been taken for mugs. His talent is with at least £4-5 million. The add ons will need to be unfuckinbelievable.
What makes you think 4 to 5 million? He has potential, but has not played many first team games (about 30) and has had long inconsistent spells, plus two bad injuries. How many players from our league go for 4 to 5 million? We need to be realistic. 3 million is a good deal, plus the add ons.
 
Essentially both are happy here but want to test themselves. If they wanted to stay, they wouldn't be leaving as they cannot be forced to leave. Both want to further their careers so they DO want to leave.
Baptiste has aspirations to play for England and he won’t achieve that by staying here.
Too many people been playing Champ manager and FIFA and need to grasp a little reality.

which of course was unlikely given the position we are in yeah right..we've been fed bullshit and poor Robbo has had to defend it no wonder he sounds so pissed off
 
You can tell your boss tomorrow that you’re leaving for a better job. These guys can’t! They have to be allowed to leave
 
What makes you think 4 to 5 million? He has potential, but has not played many first team games (about 30) and has had long inconsistent spells, plus two bad injuries. How many players from our league go for 4 to 5 million? We need to be realistic. 3 million is a good deal, plus the add ons.

from the Brentford forum.
Shandon Baptiste (21) is one of the best young talents in League One at the moment.

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Creating chances
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Pace to counter-attack
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Ability to control the game
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Likes to dribble

He would be some signing.
 
Its being reported that they have both gone for 3m. So baptiste for 2.25m. robbo is saying we recieved more than quoted as a pr exercise imo to try and appease us.
 
People need to stop and have a think about the window as a whole.

Fosu - nothing we could do once the release clause was met. You cannot moan about the board.

Baptiste - good player, but important for our team? With a fully fit squad he wouldn't start IMHO. He is young and drifts in and out of games. We were best with Gorrin, Branaghan and Henry. We also have Kelly, Hanson, Sykes and Thorne in the middle. The quoted 3 million is good. Not many players from League 1 go for that amount!

We have also signed Brown and Holland. Both will be very good in the second half of the season.

If we can sign a RB and Forward we will have had a very good window.

But it is not 3m for Baptiste?
 
Just to throw it out there...Brentford were meant to sign Baptiste before his injury so it’s not great shock they have come back in for him. Fosu has a release clause so not much the club can do if it’s activated. I have a feeling Fosu may regret this move though IMO.

no need for some of the dramatics from some fans. Especially towards the owners. The makes losses every year and there has been a lot of investment gone into the club so I don’t blame tiger recouping some of the money.
 
It sounds more like c.£4m to me, but regardless, selling now could only be justified if it was an absolutely silly high figure.

KR said it will take a few weeks for things to settle down. We have 9 games in the next 4 weeks = season over. That is the price we will pay for letting them go now.

And yes everyone knows Fosu was £750k release clause. DI’d you realise Browne, Holland and Kelly will be leaving at the end of the season?

And we only signed Fosu this last summer. We'll sign players in the summer.

Maybe, this will galvanise the existing players, we don't know.
 
which of course was unlikely given the position we are in yeah right..we've been fed bullshit and poor Robbo has had to defend it no wonder he sounds so pissed off
Disagree entirely, he didn’t sound pissed off at all. Disappointed yes, but not pissed off.
Go and have a cup of tea and take a deep breath.....you’re working yourself up!
 
Wow - utter disbelief in some of the comments on here. We are a seeming club; that’s the model. Everyone was fine when we were doing well then as soon Asa we have a blip the normal forum idiots crawl out of the woodwork. Pathetic, embarrassing and shows a total lack of understanding as to where we are as a club.

Baptiste young, unproven and injury prone, Fosu inconsistent with a release clause.

Let’s judge where we are this time tomorrow!
 
horseman said:
um he clearly said the players did not want to go

Essentially both are happy here but want to test themselves. If they wanted to stay, they wouldn't be leaving as they cannot be forced to leave. Both want to further their careers so they DO want to leave.
Baptiste has aspirations to play for England and he won’t achieve that by staying here.
Too many people been playing Champ manager and FIFA and need to grasp a little reality.

Exactly this, Robbo was doing his best in a difficult position. Image the uproar if we just had NMW giving us this news. I believe he means neither player asked for a transfer, I also think location played a big part here if the rumour it's Brentford is true. Doesn't Shandon live Reading way? Didn't Tariq have to move closer because of a two hour commute? I don't think either would have gone to Wigan or Blackburn.

As good a prospect as Shandon is, the prefered midfield two at present is Gorrin and Brannagan. With Holland, Henry, Browne and Taylor in front of them we still have a good chance of the top 6. Let's get behind the team and batter Blackpool.
 
Christ knows how some people on here deal with actual problems in their lives.

Its disappointing but it's really not unexpected and definitely not the end of the world!

Step up Marcus Browne, Nathan Holland and James Henry for Saturday.

Forde will be back soon too.
 
F**king Brentford tho... Brentford. I really hate the rollercoaster of emotions following Oxford. If they wouldn't of lied through their teeth saying we dont need to sell it wouldn't be half as bad but I honestly feel like they've let us down. How can we trust a word they say from now on?
 
Why not wait though? That’s the most perplexing aspect to this. Whatever the price is now it would likely only have gone up by July, so why not wait? Why not f*cking wait and see what we can do?? show a modicum of ambition in reciprocation for our growing support?? No. Sell the player who was personally head and shoulders above the rest and a joy to watch. Awful day.
 
People need to stop and have a think about the window as a whole.

Fosu - nothing we could do once the release clause was met. You cannot moan about the board.

Baptiste - good player, but important for our team? With a fully fit squad he wouldn't start IMHO. He is young and drifts in and out of games. We were best with Gorrin, Branaghan and Henry. We also have Kelly, Hanson, Sykes and Thorne in the middle. The quoted 3 million is good. Not many players from League 1 go for that amount!

We have also signed Brown and Holland. Both will be very good in the second half of the season.

If we can sign a RB and Forward we will have had a very good window.

Fair points although not sure Holland is up to the mark yet, I fact he’s nowhere near Fosu standard.
 
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