Jermaine Pennant (Out)

[Ziontrain]

Its compenstion as he is a young play (under 23), the same thing will happen if someone trys to buy a young player like routledge who is out of contract. It prevents young players running out there contract and moving for free.

Exactly. I think that's the same rule that made us pay a million for Jermaine when he was 16 or whatever.

 

[Arsenal316]

Man. U had to pay a fee when they picked up Bellion from Sunderland. He was out of contract at the time, but since he was under 23, Man. U had to pay compensation to Sunderland. Birmingham will have to do the same for Jermaine, as he's only 22.

 

[Gurgen]

Great this means we have made a profit of 1m on him

 

[Clarkey]

The way its looking to me is, they are trying to agree a fee now so that the price doesn't go to a tribunal like Bellions did, meaning United had to pay about 2.5 million for the dud. Helps us out as we get guaranteed a good price for us, and Birmingham don't get forced by a tribunal in the Summer to pay over the odds for him.

 

[goonerlove]

I think AW had written him off after his latest shenanigans, so this is a good bit of business. Another 3 million pounds can't hurt this summer.

It does continue to leave us short on quality wingers next year though...

We really only have Freddie (injury-prone), Pires (best years behind him? and somewhat injury-prone), Clichy (not his best position), Reyes (not his best position), and perhaps another youth or moving Lauren up to mid.

And Clichy and Reyes are both left-sided, so that puts another wrinkle in this. If Pennant is off, I think the chances that we make a play for SWP goes up. Put SWP at right, Freddie at left (he likes the left better anyway), and Pires is our super-sub next year. You can also stick Freddie on the right to rest SWP and put Pires, Reyes, or Clichy on the left.

I also wonder about Ali. With Lupoli, Bendtner, RVP, and Reyes we have 4 very young and very promising strikers. I could see us selling Ali to PSG and using that to help off-set the costs of getting a more established striker to take some pressure off of Titi. Unless Reyes goes, in which case we would have even more money to work with. I would like us to get a striker in the 27-29 age range so that there is a natural progression to slowly give Lupoli, RVP, and Bendtner (not to mention Reyes) more opportunities in the next couple of years.

Goonerlove

 

[asajoseph]

No ones mentioned the fact that maybe we should heave given pennant a chance.

And he probably would have got his chance, if it wasn't for his obvious attitude problems.

We need to have a english core, otherwise teams like Man U will always get results like 4-2 against us.

Rubbish. Did we have an English core when we won the league at Old Trafford?

We have not beaten ANY big teams this season which is a real worry (beating munich 1-0 was our best and we still lost)

Despite the fact that you contradict yourself here, you're right - our performance against big teams has been poor. To be fair, we SHOULD have beaten Chelsea, but that's if's and but's now anyway. I don't see how a player's passport has anything to do with this though.

 

[tclar]

yeah but we should still have David Bentley back and he can play on the right!

 

[RocktheCasbah]

No ones mentioned the fact that maybe we should heave given pennant a chance.
Look how he played against liverpool, he roasted them!!!

Were losing most of our young english talent, and it annoys me.

We need to have a english core, otherwise teams like Man U will always get results like 4-2 against us.

We have not beaten ANY big teams this season which is a real worry (beating munich 1-0 was our best and we still lost)

Bloody hell, Geoff, is that you? :shock:

Rubbish. Did we have an English core when we won the league at Old Trafford?

Uh, I think you'll find we did, actually. Seaman, Keown, Campbell, Cole and Parlour (to be fair, I don't remember if Razor played that night). But four players out of 11 is a pretty good core I would say

 

[asajoseph]

Oh crap... you're right.. I was thinkin of WHL - mind you, we had 3 that day too... My bad. Still, I don't think an English core is remotely important. Ray did play in that game, and Jeffers and Wright were on the bench.

 

[alir77]

£3 million for someone who is currently sitting in jail whose contract is expiring this summer can't be bad

 

[asajoseph]

Actualy, its's 500k - the rest depends on experience.

 

[alir77]

Ok well eventually £3m......

 

[Corny]

Excellent that we get some money for the player. Clearly doesn't have the mental abailites to be a top player. £3m would be useful.