Tek wrote:

Linked with a £400,000 move to Crystal Palace in today's Daily Record.

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-transfer-news/crystal-palace-chase-scott-banks-18820073

 

Sure we wouldn't take that.

Scottish clubs have taken a down rated payment in general for far too long. English world are then  surprised in general when players are no bad down south.

Andy Roberston, John McGinn, Oli McBurnie and others are highlighting a good value that bargain hunters will struggle tae do a Del Boy so easily in future I hope.

Even Septic are helping by fkn aff £25m fur Tierney.

We've done better than maist afore. Mair reason not to be sellin aff talent like Scott Banks at that shitey fkn price.

Can see this happening. The player quite fancies a move to a bigger club and was about to negotiate a new contract anyway as only has a year left

Dufc2016 wrote:

Can see this happening. The player quite fancies a move to a bigger club and was about to negotiate a new contract anyway as only has a year left

 
Only a year left...he'll be gone then you'd think - the loan back mentioned above would be a sensible step but would depend I guess on what Palace would see as the best route to develope him and their view of the Scottish Championship - suspect we might not see him again if he goes.

500k plus 20% addons plus year loan back anx he surely will be off with best wishes. Looks a talent but who knows if will make it.

He's 17 will 18 in a month I believe

Am I old fashioned or is it crazy that a team is going to pay good money for a lad who has played only a few games at senior level?

Not doubting his ability or more so his potential but guess it's easy pickings for english teams - minimal outlay compared to the english market.

Hope we can convince him that the next few years should be at tannadice.

Out of interest, how are the other 2 who went down to england doing? 1 at Southampton and 1 at brentford( Coote?)

Edit Ali coote seems to be progressing. According to wiki, hes played a lot of reserve team football and is the b team captain. Hes trained with the first team

Edit 2: looks like Kieran freeman has had a tough time with injuries - an arti le on sfa website says hes had 3 bad ones including an ACL. No sign if hes been played

Last edited by Tangy (07/8/2019 11:46 am)

This isn't aimed at anyone on here, but elsewhere I've seen chatter from some Arabs almost getting excited at the prospect of a decent transfer fee for a young, talented player. Have they learned nothing from recent years?

It's as if they think that all of any transfer fee will automatically be re-invested directly in the squad and that we'll strengthen significantly.

The Ogren's have thus far made a loss on United, I'd have thought they'd take any Banks fee and recoup some of their costs. None of us know, but in any case, there's just something not right about some Arabs being pleased to see a talented youngster leave United, almost 'celebrating' it.

Not so long ago, we had unprecedented transfer income over several years. Look at where we are now.

But we got £X million for Andy Robertson. YAY! 

For the laddies own development, he really is better off staying with us for not just the year left on his contract but probably 2-3 years (hopefully with 2 of those in the Premier League) before thinking about moving on.  United should be saying this to him too instead of taking the first offer that comes in. You only have to look at how Robertson, Armstrong and now Tierney have done it and how it has helped their careers then contrast it with the likes of Scott Allan, Harry Souttar etc. who either failed or are still sitting in development squads wasting years of their career for an ok wage.  They should show him Willo Flood's interview this week.

Unfortunately, I don't think these laddies look at this bigger picture. From experience in my job, younger people do tend to think that they are the bees knees and that they will be the exception to the rule, in this case in terms of being the one who goes down there at 17 and quickly makes it into the Premiership squad.  Add in agents usually filling their heads with shite in order to make a quick buck and it's delicately poised whether he goes or stays I think. Hopefully Tony Asghar's experience from that side of the fence may convince him otherwise. It also would be interesting to hear what advice someone like Adam King might give him. He is the textbook case of this exact scenario.

Last edited by lifesanocean (08/8/2019 9:52 am)

The laddie hasn't played in any league games for us yet. He's in the last year of his contract so can walk away next year. 500grand is a fair wedge for someone like Banks.
Ideally if we sold him we could get him loaned back. He'd be better doing that than stuck in english clubs academy sides.

I'm not "celebrating it" but it's an offer the owners have to consider.

Maybe oor sporting director should have looked at this and made sure he wasnt sitting at tannadice with only a year left on his deal.

English deadline day today.

Be interesting to see if Palace come back in. Or if Southampton bid.

United haven't  spoken/informed Banks regarding this,