Fulham put £15m price tag on Roberts

[hovewhite]

A good price for a real talent (age considered) but sill no guarantee of making it to the very top,it doesn't always happen and that's a fact.

[bog]

To keep him here until he is 20 then sell him for £30m is my idea. He will pay more games for us than a  'big club'. Thank you and good night.

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[Big Martin Jol]

To keep him here until he is 20 then sell him for £30m is my idea. He will pay more games for us than a  'big club'. Thank you and good night.

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We'll need him to sign a new contract to a) keep him that long and b) leave him with any value. The problem is that when young players are subject to offers from big clubs they tend to look for the exit.

Hopefully he's intelligent enough to understand that both he and the club could benefit if a long term deal was in place.

[Barrie]

I'd want to keep him rather than sell at £15m.  My only worry is that we don't manage the situation properly and find ourselves in the situation Tankovic is in.  If we couldn't be confident of avoiding that, and an offer of £15m came in, then maybe we should take the money if it was offered.  I'd be gutted to see him go though.

[leonffc]

Nothing like a bit of pressure to ruin a lad. £15m. Good luck Oat, nice seeing you play when I did.

[Max Headroom]

Am I missing something....... I support Fulham and want to see the best exciting players play for us. I want to see Roberts develop over the next couple of years with us.

If we sell him now then all the talk of youth bringing us back would be rubbish. I may begin to fall out of love with the club

However, if we did sell him, then I would want him back on loan this season. However, I don't think we will. Give him a run in the championship and he will be worth a lot more than a promising youth at U17 level

[Pluto]

Wouldn't sell. We have the richest owner in the league next season and we don't need the money. If he helps us go up he's worth £130m+

[fulham traveller]

I have it that if. A good offer comes in we will sell, let's nick all the good youngsters off lower league teams

[Me-ate-Live, innit??]

Didn't we discover with Moussa that £15M means  jack -s$it. If this club was serious about keeping him
the ''slapped on'' price would be £30/40M

If this story is true and the others, over then last year about the interest in Pat  then  ..............
£15M = COME AND GET HIM.   

[bog]

If he now has one, I feel it is all up to his agent. Nasty sh**es most of them are.

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[filham]

This kids been labelled the best talent with the ball at his feet since Gazza.  I said a couple of weeks ago we should slap a 20 million price tag on him.  Im worried that we wont see him for long in a Fulham shirt as 15 mill is peanuts for United and they are crying out for a kid like Roberts.  Im also afraid of what we will waste the 15 million on given our track record of horrible transfer window shopping these past two years.  That's one Mitroglou and one Amorebieta.  I know theres never any guarantees but I would gamble with the kid.

We could splash the £15m on a player like Marley, Andy Johnson, Ruiz or Mitroglou, isn't that exciting.
Keep the lad for as long as we can and then ensure we get the maximum for him and be careful how we spend the money.

[One Martin Thomas]

The family silver is not worth enough yet to start cashing in.  Keep him for as long as possible.

[cmg]

It being Bank Holiday Monday and all and peeing down with rain and this thread having lurched into its third page, perhaps it might be as well to remind one and all that nobody has slapped anything on anyone. This story is merely a figment of the not-very-imaginative imagination of the Daily Mirror (repeated verbatim in the Express under the byline of a particularly shameless hack).

In the real world clubs might well have a list of figures (continually updated according to circumstances) above which they are prepared to consider offers for their players. This would be sensible business practice. You evaluate your assets and sell them if somebody offers more than you think they are worth. This would only not apply to money-no-object clubs owned by oil/gas/laundrymen. These figures would not be released to the Daily Mirror.

A player may have a so-called 'buy out' clause in his contract an offer above which a club is bound to consider. This does not mean 'jack s$it' as one comrade has written. It means, as in the case of Dembele, the selling club gets at least that sum of money for him. We got a decent sum for Dembele. Our failure was in not using that sum to replace him with a like-for-like(or similar) model. The 'buy out' figure was set at a sensible figure and his current value is not much different.

It's going to be a long summer of fervid speculation. Fortunately Roberts has finished his playing for the season and has, hopefully, had his spell as media 'flavour of the moment'. However, as time goes by the alimentary systems of all the bulls in captivity are going to be insufficient to produce all the stuff we are going to be presented with.

[alfie]

This kids been labelled the best talent with the ball at his feet since Gazza.  I said a couple of weeks ago we should slap a 20 million price tag on him.  Im worried that we wont see him for long in a Fulham shirt as 15 mill is peanuts for United and they are crying out for a kid like Roberts.  Im also afraid of what we will waste the 15 million on given our track record of horrible transfer window shopping these past two years.  That's one Mitroglou and one Amorebieta.  I know theres never any guarantees but I would gamble with the kid.

We could splash the £15m on a player like Marley, Andy Johnson, Ruiz or Mitroglou, isn't that exciting.
Keep the lad for as long as we can and then ensure we get the maximum for him and be careful how we spend the money.

What is the point of keep going on about Marley, Andy Johnson and others, what's done is done.

[filham]

This kids been labelled the best talent with the ball at his feet since Gazza.  I said a couple of weeks ago we should slap a 20 million price tag on him.  Im worried that we wont see him for long in a Fulham shirt as 15 mill is peanuts for United and they are crying out for a kid like Roberts.  Im also afraid of what we will waste the 15 million on given our track record of horrible transfer window shopping these past two years.  That's one Mitroglou and one Amorebieta.  I know theres never any guarantees but I would gamble with the kid.

We could splash the £15m on a player like Marley, Andy Johnson, Ruiz or Mitroglou, isn't that exciting.
Keep the lad for as long as we can and then ensure we get the maximum for him and be careful how we spend the money.

What is the point of keep going on about Marley, Andy Johnson and others, what's done is done.

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They are best kept in mind in order to minimise the chances of a quick repeat of a similar mistake
and to make us aware of the value of good home grown talent.

[HatterDon]

Didn't we discover with Moussa that £15M means  jack -s$it. If this club was serious about keeping him
the ''slapped on'' price would be £30/40M

If this story is true and the others, over then last year about the interest in Pat  then  ..............
£15M = COME AND GET HIM.   

I agree. If we've listed him for 15m that means we're willing to sell him this summer. He's English -- therefore overpriced. 15m for a young English player is like 5m for a non-English player. Have a look at West Ham's centre forward as the best example of overrated/overpriced.

If we were really interested in keeping him, 30-40m would be better evidence.

[Aaron]

£15m buys you a quarter of the Atletico Madrid squad that beat Barcelona and Real Madrid to La Liga title and contested the Champions League final this weekend.  According to transfermarkt.co.uk we could also buy the entire squads from any one of 12 teams in the Championship with £15m.

If we get offered £15m for Roberts we should take the money and run.  How many 17 year old sensations have we seen amount to something between mediocrity and absolutely nothing?

[fulhamben]

£15m buys you a quarter of the Atletico Madrid squad that beat Barcelona and Real Madrid to La Liga title and contested the Champions League final this weekend.  According to transfermarkt.co.uk we could also buy the entire squads from any one of 12 teams in the Championship with £15m.

If we get offered £15m for Roberts we should take the money and run.  How many 17 year old sensations have we seen amount to something between mediocrity and absolutely nothing?

as highly rated as roberts, rooney walcott and oxlaid spring to mind, and zaha as possible one who did not match up (yet). although he did help palace get promoted to the prem, but we dont want that do we

[Aaron]

£15m buys you a quarter of the Atletico Madrid squad that beat Barcelona and Real Madrid to La Liga title and contested the Champions League final this weekend.  According to transfermarkt.co.uk we could also buy the entire squads from any one of 12 teams in the Championship with £15m.

If we get offered £15m for Roberts we should take the money and run.  How many 17 year old sensations have we seen amount to something between mediocrity and absolutely nothing?

as highly rated as roberts, rooney walcott and oxlaid spring to mind, and zaha as possible one who did not match up (yet). although he did help palace get promoted to the prem, but we dont want that do we

For every Wayne Rooney there's 5 Freddy Adu's.

You could near-as-makes-no-difference have Jordan Rhodes, Danny Ings and enough money to pay their wages for the season for £15m.  

But we don't want that do we.

[fulhamben]

£15m buys you a quarter of the Atletico Madrid squad that beat Barcelona and Real Madrid to La Liga title and contested the Champions League final this weekend.  According to transfermarkt.co.uk we could also buy the entire squads from any one of 12 teams in the Championship with £15m.

If we get offered £15m for Roberts we should take the money and run.  How many 17 year old sensations have we seen amount to something between mediocrity and absolutely nothing?

as highly rated as roberts, rooney walcott and oxlaid spring to mind, and zaha as possible one who did not match up (yet). although he did help palace get promoted to the prem, but we dont want that do we

For every Wayne Rooney there's 5 Freddy Adu's.

You could near-as-makes-no-difference have Jordan Rhodes, Danny Ings and enough money to pay their wages for the season for £15m. 

But we don't want that do we.

rhodes imo wouldnt cut it in the prem due to him being dead slow. so would have to replace him next season if we went up. also for all you know ings could be a one season wonder and flop next year. so why gamble on him when it costs us nothing to keep roberts