Charlie Austin bid

[It's Character Forming]

What do people make of this supposed approach at £14m ?  Can't make my mind up about it.

You'd have thought we'd get him for that money if no one else comes in for him assuming we can pay the wage too.

 

[GJP]

I've said all summer he is the best "realistic" signing we could make.

Probably going to be tough to get him but I think he's worth it.

 

[derehamyella]

make me wonder.  with QPeeR  wanting £15 mill,  is another million going to matter, his goals could help keep us up.. so be that close why not just pay it in addon etc

 

[Din]

Is there any truth in this? The only sources I could find were a few dodgy Twitter accounts.

 

[derehamyella]

Daily Mirror

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/norwich-end-interest-charlie-austin-6296896

 

[Din]

To be honest I'm still not sure I believe it. I think if we were prepared to offer £14m, then I don't see why we wouldn't be prepared to offer an extra million.

Although I really like Hooper, I be more than happy to use him as part of a swap. Maybe £7m and Hooper.

 

[GJP]

Or £10m and Hooper.

Or £15m and Hooper if it gets it over the line.

 

[splutcho]

I would imagine our £14m (if this is true at all) would be made up from a good deal of add ons including England appearances and staying up. I don't believe we could stump up £14m cash and I don't believe they would flat out turn down that offer either.

 

[The Great Mass Debater]

Dont think we'd be signing him if Hughton were still the manager. Scored 18 Premier League goals and used to be a bricklayer. We know Hughton doesnt consider such players to have enough 'quality' 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/34011370

 

[splutcho]

Dont think we'd be signing him if Hughton were still the manager. Scored 18 Premier League goals and used to be a bricklayer. We know Hughton doesnt consider such players to have enough 'quality' 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/34011370

That is a seriously bizarre statement.

 

[The Great Mass Debater]

That is a seriously bizarre statement.

Not really. I think Hughton under-valued Holt and always thought of him as not having enough genuine quality because of his past. Yet he scored a similar amount of Premier League goals. I will always blame Hughton for the way he went about 'improving' on Holt. I've got a grudge, and Im not letting it go 

 

[derehamyella]

sorry but when did Hughton know quaility  ?     Holt was a decent prem player when played correctly  he proved that  

 

[The Great Mass Debater]

Turned down a move to one Premier League club. Could this have been us? We're not mentioned in the article, but it says Leicester and Bournemouth had bids rejected. Of Newcastle, Palace and West Ham, only Newcastle would be a huge move for his family geographically so of the clubs named Im guessing this is the one likeliest for there to have been a bid accepted and rejected by the player. But as the general media generally ignores us, could we be the club he turned down considering the speculation above?

http://www.teamtalk.com/news/austin-united-move-was-never-an-option

 

[Canaryboy]

QPR claim not to have received any formal bids for Charlie Austin all summer. 

Whilst QPR fans believe that he ruled himself out of a move to Palace. 

Don't know what qualifies as a "formal bid", as opposed to an "informal bid", is one verbal and one in writing? 

 

[Canaryboy]

Palace is believable because we know they didn't sell us Gayle because they couldn't secure a replacement on deadline day, which was perhaps Charlie Austin? 

 

[The Great Mass Debater]

Do informal bids exist? Legally theyre not allowed to talk to a player or sound him out until given permission else its 'tapping up'. Cant imagine QPR would allow him to talk to anyone before it was established Palace would pay what they wanted (unless its the RvP transfer to Turkey but thats just weird),so surely that would require a formal bid. I've no idea how it all works now, its apparenty way beyond a random fax appearing one morning I read in an article (on scouting I think it was) that someone posted.

How can you turn down a move without it being a formal proposition - unless its something along the lines of Alan Smith declaring he'd never play for Man Utd or Marc Tierney saying he'd never play for us...

 

[Canaryboy]

I really don't know, but I assume you can ask to talk to a player? 

And even if rules exist about "tapping up", is pretty obvious that agents will be busy on the phone all the time stirring stuff up. 

Do we think that Grabban doesn't know what sort of deal Eddie Howe was prepared to offer him before walking out of a matchday squad? 

 

[The Great Mass Debater]

I take it you've seen the video of the schoolboy pranking Grant Holt pretending to be Sean Dyche? All he did was call his agent and he was talking to Holt straight away.

Whether or not that's allowed is another question, but it seemed pretty easy