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Re: STAR signing announced : Thu Sep 29, 2011 11:49 am  

Rangi talks - as do Ruchard Wright and Basil "we're looking at players around 24-23wgo we can improve" (so no KS then?)

Rangi talks - as do Ruchard Wright and Basil "we're looking at players around 24-23wgo we can improve" (so no KS then?)

Re: STAR signing announced : Thu Sep 29, 2011 1:27 pm  

barnsley bill wrote:

Seriously what would you value him at.

I don't think you'd get £200k for him in the current market, especially with the financial situation hanging over clubs. Don't get me wrong, I think Chase is class and would love to have him at Wakefield, but realistically the days of big transfer fees are over. Having said that, if Hull paid £170,000 for Joe Westerman, that would make Chase worth around £1.7m!

Re: STAR signing announced : Thu Sep 29, 2011 8:19 pm  

imwakefieldtillidie wrote:

I don't think you'd get £200k for him in the current market, especially with the financial situation hanging over clubs. Don't get me wrong, I think Chase is class and would love to have him at Wakefield, but realistically the days of big transfer fees are over. Having said that, if Hull paid £170,000 for Joe Westerman, that would make Chase worth around £1.7m!

His value will be ridiculous now. What we'd get for him is irrelevant because a) we wouldn't sell him and b) we wouldn't sell him unless the fee was ridiculous and someone was willing to stump up for him.

Re: STAR signing announced : Thu Sep 29, 2011 8:42 pm  

Fully wrote:

His value will be ridiculous now. What we'd get for him is irrelevant because a) we wouldn't sell him and b) we wouldn't sell him unless the fee was ridiculous and someone was willing to stump up for him.

a) and b) seem to contradict each other.

Also, how do you know what 'we' would do? If Hull or Wire came in with a couple of hundred grand, who are you to say that your Minister of Information could turn it down?

Best not be too self-assured - don't want to do a gronk.

Re: STAR signing announced : Thu Sep 29, 2011 9:01 pm  

Because we value him much higher than that. He cannot be replaced.

I understand what you mean by a) and b). IWTID said we wouldn't get £200k for him. What I meant to say was that we wouldn't entertain offers for him and even if we were to, they would have to meet OUR valuation if they really wanted him. So we WOULD get more than £200k for him regardless of climate because we wouldn't sell unless they offered considerably more.

Re: STAR signing announced : Thu Sep 29, 2011 9:14 pm  

Fully wrote:

Because we value him much higher than that. He cannot be replaced.

I understand what you mean by a) and b). IWTID said we wouldn't get £200k for him. What I meant to say was that we wouldn't entertain offers for him and even if we were to, they would have to meet OUR valuation if they really wanted him. So we WOULD get more than £200k for him regardless of climate because we wouldn't sell unless they offered considerably more.

I don't think you'd turn down a £200,000 offer for him as I don't believe your finances would allow you to. Didn't the Joe Westerman money go towards the the new stadium? If so, that doesn't seem like a club that is flush with cash.

Re: STAR signing announced : Thu Sep 29, 2011 9:18 pm  

imwakefieldtillidie wrote:

I don't think you'd turn down a £200,000 offer for him as I don't believe your finances would allow you to. Didn't the Joe Westerman money go towards the the new stadium? If so, that doesn't seem like a club that is flush with cash.

He's on a 4 year deal... they could have got 200k instead of doing that IMO and i'm also led to believe that Widnes offered about that amount for him recently.

Westerman deal was to save losing him for nothing like they did Shenton IIRC.

Re: STAR signing announced : Fri Sep 30, 2011 6:18 am  

imwakefieldtillidie wrote:

I don't think you'd get £200k for him in the current market, especially with the financial situation hanging over clubs. Don't get me wrong, I think Chase is class and would love to have him at Wakefield, but realistically the days of big transfer fees are over. Having said that, if Hull paid £170,000 for Joe Westerman, that would make Chase worth around £1.7m!

As I posted earlier, how does that stack up against the £100k+ claimed to have been paid for Andy Lynch...which incidentally makes even the Westerman fee look like peanuts taking into consideration age and return on investment.

Re: STAR signing announced : Fri Sep 30, 2011 7:14 am  

imwakefieldtillidie wrote:

I don't believe your finances would allow you to.

From a Wakey fan

Re: STAR signing announced : Fri Sep 30, 2011 8:10 am  

Big Man wrote:

From a Wakey fan

I think that's the point though - having been a selling club for donkey's years, we know full well that when a wealthy club comes in with an offer, even for key personnel, the club are hard pressed to turn it down. Broughy is a prime example - he was the stand-out SH in SL, our absolute best player and won us many matches; despite that, Shudds were able to spirit him away because we needed the brass.

I don't know if Cas are in that position or not and weirdly, I find myself hoping that none of the big fish are able to make RW an offer he can't refuse; the only club I'd like to see him go to is WTW, and that's never going to happen - in financial terms, our new owner has got us off the life support machine, but we're a long way from being fully rehabilitated.