I don’t know but a decent offer might persuade them if we want him bad enough. Obviously I haven’t seen him play but everyone is full of praise for him and wouldn’t it put down a mark of our intent if we could. If he ends up at FGR or somewhere like that because we were unsure what’s that going to say about our intentions for next season?!
Can we afford the sort of offer to meet Reading's rating? I doubt it.
Indeed. It's incredible that Martinez was basically kicking his heels at Arsenal for 10 years before Villa gave him his chance - and how he has taken it.
The only hope might be a Randell Williams type deal, where Reading would get maybe 50% of any sell-on.
I'm not sure they would be after a sell on though.
Where 50% of nothing is nothing.
Of course it is now, but wouldn't have been if he hadn't screwed up his January move.
Is probably right, but they have a few keepers, I understand. Realistically they may need to off load one or two.
Trouble is Ian, as we've seen before a player's value seem to relate more to the league he's come from than his actual ability, so given what a young L2 keeper is likely to go for, would 50% of that be enough to tempt a championship club to do business? Williams is older and looked to have the potential to generate the kind of fees we got for Grimes and Watkins, which may be significant enough, however I'd be surprised if a young keeper brought in a quaters of that, so i'm not sure Reading would have the same hope income wise as Watford may have had.
Again, that's probably right, but in terms of a permanent move, that's about the only semblance of a feasible option.
