Adam Wharton

[Claytons Left Boot]

1 hour ago, Norbert Rassragr said:

I hope he doesn't go to Real Madrid. A toxic bunch of entitled man babies with a squad full of pricks. 

You’re not a fan then? 😂 

[bluebruce]

3 hours ago, Norbert Rassragr said:

I hope he doesn't go to Real Madrid. A toxic bunch of entitled man babies with a squad full of pricks. Places like that can change a young player for the worse.

Agreed. I don't think that place suits his personality at all either.

Madrid absolutely embarrassed themselves with the petulant Ballon D'Or debacle. Never liked them as a club (always seen them as the Man U of Spain) but that really cemented how arrogant they are.

[speeeeeeedie]

4 hours ago, BlackburnEnd75 said:

The plan was always to sell him in that summer 

But instead we sold him to the first bidder that came along when other potential bidders were not in the market due to ffp.

Archie gray went that summer for north of £40million. And he's not the player wharton is.

I don't understand how people argue that we got a good price for him. A once in a generation player for our academy. 

Rovers did get a good price for him. £20m+. It was more than the fees received for Shearer, Duff, and Jones. It allowed the admin to "self fund" for a time.

The unfortunate part is that all of us could see how special he was and the fee given was a fraction of what it should have been. Cemented by the fact that less than 18 moths later he's being linked with every big club in Europe.

[Lancaster Rover]

2 hours ago, bluebruce said:

Agreed. I don't think that place suits his personality at all either.

Madrid absolutely embarrassed themselves with the petulant Ballon D'Or debacle. Never liked them as a club (always seen them as the Man U of Spain) but that really cemented how arrogant they are.

Their behaviour before and during the Copa Del Rey on Saturday night was appalling

[bluebruce]

1 hour ago, speeeeeeedie said:

Rovers did get a good price for him. £20m+. It was more than the fees received for Shearer, Duff, and Jones. It allowed the admin to "self fund" for a time.

The unfortunate part is that all of us could see how special he was and the fee given was a fraction of what it should have been. Cemented by the fact that less than 18 moths later he's being linked with every big club in Europe.

Shearer was nearly 30 years ago, that's not a valid comparison to make at all. Same for Duff really. Even comparing Jones is disingenuous, the money in the game has changed beyond recognition since then. A Phil Jones would probably have cost about 60 million or more today.

[bluebruce]

1 hour ago, Lancaster Rover said:

Their behaviour before and during the Copa Del Rey on Saturday night was appalling

I didn't see any of it, but no surprise. What did they do?

[speeeeeeedie]

1 hour ago, bluebruce said:

Shearer was nearly 30 years ago, that's not a valid comparison to make at all. Same for Duff really. Even comparing Jones is disingenuous, the money in the game has changed beyond recognition since then. A Phil Jones would probably have cost about 60 million or more today.

As far as Rovers current owners and executive staff are concerned it was a good fee. The rest of us know that it wasn't.

[Wheelton Blue]

1 hour ago, bluebruce said:

I didn't see any of it, but no surprise. What did they do?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/ckge9rp8379o