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Folarin Balogun (Out)

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Dutch D

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Makes sense given the large amount of promising young strikers at the club. Wish him the best and hope we get a sell-on and buyback clause in there.

What would he fetch? I remember Thompson netting us 3m last summer?
 

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This guy was putting up similar numbers to Greenwood at youth level for people who don’t know. This is so disappointing, especially with Aubameyang and Lacazette both leaving. Martinelli, Nketiah, John-Jules and Balogun would have been great to have.

Best have first refusal and clauses.
 

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Makes sense given the large amount of promising young strikers at the club. Wish him the best and hope we get a sell-on and buyback clause in there.

What would he fetch? I remember Thompson netting us 3m last summer?
We rejected a £5m bid in January from Brentford who love to shop here the bastards. He’s a much better talent than Thompson.
 

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This guy was putting up similar numbers to Greenwood at youth level for people who don’t know. This is so disappointing, especially with Aubameyang and Lacazette both leaving. Martinelli, Nketiah, John-Jules and Balogun would have been great to have.

Best have first refusal and clauses.
Seem he desperate for first team football yes we really should put buyback clause.
 

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With Martinelli John-Jules and Nektiah balogun first team minutes will be very limited i don't think we can keep everybody
 

field442

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This is sickening tbh! Absolute baller with killer instinct in front of the goal. The management in this club is horrendous

Oh do **** off. If he doesn’t want to sign a new deal you can’t force him. The kid is probably seeing all these other 18 year olds move around to other clubs to get first team football and wants something similar for himself, especially when he has Nketiah and Martinelli in front of him who we actually have evidence of being good in the seniors. People love throwing their toys out the pram when these academy players leave. We had the same with Amaechi last year and he has played 32 minutes of football in the German second division.
 

B77

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With Martinelli John-Jules and Nektiah balogun first team minutes will be very limited i don't think we can keep everybody[/QUOTE
Balogun might just be the biggest talent of them all! suddenly, in my opinion, way better than John-Jules and Nketiah
 

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Oh do **** off. If he doesn’t want to sign a new deal you can’t force him. The kid is probably seeing all these other 18 year olds move around to other clubs to get first team football and wants something similar for himself, especially when he has Nketiah and Martinelli in front of him who we actually have evidence of being good in the seniors. People love throwing their toys out the pram when these academy players leave. We had the same with Amaechi last year and he has played 32 minutes of football in the German second division.
Fantastic post!
 

B77

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Oh do **** off. If he doesn’t want to sign a new deal you can’t force him. The kid is probably seeing all these other 18 year olds move around to other clubs to get first team football and wants something similar for himself, especially when he has Nketiah and Martinelli in front of him who we actually have evidence of being good in the seniors. People love throwing their toys out the pram when these academy players leave. We had the same with Amaechi last year and he has played 32 minutes of football in the German second division.
Balogun is waaaaay better than Amaechi ever was! Hell, he’d be overtaken Nketiah in a short amount of time, but again, Thats only my opinion.
 

Maybe

You're wrong, no?
It's probably a sign that we'll keep Auba and we can't get rid of Laca. Martinelli and Eddie are already ahead of him so there's not much the kid can do here. It's a good move for him.

On the positive, Greenwood will take his place at u23 and we'll see what he can do at that level
 

Elite Smarts

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Makes sense given the large amount of promising young strikers at the club. Wish him the best and hope we get a sell-on and buyback clause in there.

What would he fetch? I remember Thompson netting us 3m last summer?
This guy was putting up similar numbers to Greenwood at youth level for people who don’t know. This is so disappointing, especially with Aubameyang and Lacazette both leaving. Martinelli, Nketiah, John-Jules and Balogun would have been great to have.

Best have first refusal and clauses.
Def need to add buy back clause. Losing talent like this is a bit disappointing but like others have said. They're few strikers already ahead of him and he wants first team football so just wasn't good for him currently.

Good luck to the lad.
 

field442

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Balogun is waaaaay better than Amaechi ever was! Hell, he’d be overtaken Nketiah in a short amount of time, but again, Thats only my opinion.

That’s fair enough but like I said, these teenagers are becoming more ambitious now. It’s not enough to wait around until they’re 20/21 to start playing regularly, they want to be playing at 18. Unfortunately for us he’s got two players ahead of him who are around the same age and have proven themselves to make the step up from youth football to senior football so he’d have to fight his way to the top of the pecking order.
 
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