Barnsley rejected bid for kitching

Maybe might have accepted earlier in the window? We’d struggle to replace him with 1 day left and probably can’t reinvest the money as easily

 

We can afford to, we don't want to. It's a conscious decision/policy.

 

Same. 4 million is what I would have been happy with.

https://barnsleyfc.org.uk/threads/barnsley-rejected-bid-for-kitching.324147/page-2

 

I agree with your point with the likeness to Taggs.
I commented on this often when fans around me were saying he's #!÷#@.
I wanted him in my side every game he looked a solid hard @#$^*&@ .
Players have a short career and a big money move now will set him up for life.
I wouldn't fault him for moving on.
Wish I could talk to those that were complaining how #!%$# he was ,hearing them condemning his decision to better himself.
Good luck to the lad ,which ever decision you make.
You have earned that .

 

Fair play to Whitey he called Kitch out when he first came and was in and out of the side, he said he would be our top asset in a few seasons.

 

I never quite saw him as a potential 4 million pound player .
However I saw him as a good solid brick sh#^ house ,who if he says it's Monday it's Monday.
Definitely in the same mould as Tags.
Think he can look after himself too.
Someone managed to control his aggression too.

 

If conman and Lee had still been in charge he would have been long gone for 4 million. Probably 2.5million tbh.

 

Shows the crazy state of the transfer market. Kitching is a good honest professional. Committed with an eye for goal though sometimes positionally naive. Having said that he wouldn’t be in my top 50 centre halves that have played for us.

every player has a price. If the figures are correct and Coventry can pay the bulk upfront we would regret not taking it.

 

Robins admits to speaking to his transfer targets personally https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/s...oventry-city-transfers-liam-kitching-27633684

At least in the past, clubs and managers would at least try and be less blatant about their tapping up.

 

That's ******* terrible, unsettling a player like that.

 

We all know it goes on. Personal terms are agreed verbally with a player prior to a club even making a bid, it makes sense.

What would be the point in a club going through arduous negotiations with another club over a deal for a player, to find out eventually that the players wage expectations or willingness to make the move isn't there?

It is illegal by the letter of the law, but it does happen.

*Edit - should the deal not happen/fall through, I'd be straight onto the EFL about Kitching being tapped up. It's unsettled him and affected his performance - that's more than obvious.

 

But on top of that, the player and his agent will also know what the club's valuation of the player is, and that will be passed on to the potential buying club.

If Barnsley have put a price of 5m on him, and Coventry have spoken to the player then put an initial offer of half of that, then that's a p*** take.

 

Happens all the time heard Steve Bruce met Bree before the window opened and didn't cryne meet conor Hourihane before he went on holiday and sold him the club and what we were trying to do.

 

Not working this afternoon so I'll take you up on that. Starting from my time of watching in 1995;

1. John Stones
2. Arjan De Zeeuw
3. Ethan Pinnock
4. Alfie Mawson
5. Chris Morgan
6. Jason Shackell
7. Steve Chettle
8. Paul McShane
9. Mason Holgate
10. Antony Kay
11. Denis Souza
12. Martin Cranie
13. Lewin Nyatanga
14. Marc Roberts
15. Michel Helik
16. Adie Moses
17. Mads Andersen
18. Paul Reid
19. Liam Lindsey
20. Craig Ireland
21. Kevin Long
22. Steven Foster
23. Steve Davis
24. Matt Carbon
25. Darren Moore
26. Angus McDonald
27. Michael Solbauer
28. Liam Kitching

 

I think you may have missed Gerry Taggart

Off your list

 

I reckon he gets in the top easily 50, though I can name 20 off the top of my head who I think were better defenders and better footballers. However, there are very few who offered such an attacking threat from open play. Possibly only Taggart and Helik.

 

i will do a list later in todays money Paul Futcher would be worth about £50 million. Mawson has an equal goal threat imo.

 

We know it goes on, it shouldn't be happening. Like the above post, clubs know the price.

 

Mawson is a good shout. I still maintain that Paul Futcher was one of the best defenders in England in the 80's and early 90's.

England's centre halves in 86 - no arguments about Terry Butcher's inclusion, he was immense. Ditto Viv Anderson, an extremely fine player at his peak. But Alvin Martin and Terry Fenwick? Futcher was better than both of them. His problem was, he was years ahead of his time. If he'd been Dutch, he'd have been an shoe-in at international level.

 

It's hilarious, time after time the club has accepted offers everyone finds unacceptable and then they reject an offer that I think, largely, we all think is a good price.