Barnet bid 250k for Bogle
Daily Fail is reporting that Barnet have bid quarter of a mil for the Grimsby striker:
It certainly raises a lot of questions:
a) Is there any truth to this considering the source?
b) How on earth do Barnet have that kind of money? I know they make a lot from the conferencing facilities in the Hive to make up the shortfall in attendances but that's a colossal fee for a small League 2 club in this day and age.
c) Is he worth that much?
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I can answer a) yes, the daily mail is usually a reliable source.
Especially as their source in turn is likely to be Bogle's agent.
Only 250k? A club of Barnet's size probably wouldn't even waste time making such a paltry bid!
With their 900 or so fans, they must be shimmering in gold.
Might be that someone has lined up a move for Akinde, and Bogle is seen as his replacement.
That ma> @NewburyWanderer said:
That makes sense.
And I heard somewhere that the "parachute" payment for clubs relegated to the National League is substantial.
Forget that last comment. Confusing Barnet with Dagenham & Redbridge - easy mistake ?!
Forget the Akinde speculation too. Another story says they want to pair 16 goal Bogle with 15 goal Akinde.
Perhaps they have a new wealthy benefactor behind the scenes?
Or just taking a big gamble financially thet the signing of another quality striker would guarantee promotion.
Its amazing to me that we have paid that sum or there and there about on several players down the years.
Think we paid £200k for Sean Devine in 1999?
And we are suffering the consequences for some of that spending now!
@ryski I would begrudge that one, the money we paid for John Williams still grates.
@ryski It's sometimes difficult to judge whether a team gets value for what they pay for a player, but without the signing of Devine I feel pretty sure that Wycombe would have got relegated in '99. His 23 league goals the following season were very helpful as well.
Big shame he missed the 2000/01 season, as a partnership between a fit Devine and Andy Rammell could have seen us get more from that season than even the FA Cup semi-final that we did get to.
We paid less for Devine than Reading paid us for Keith Scott. Say what you want about our spending over the years but that was the deal of the century
Even Williams did the odd good thing
How much did Sm*th pay for Rowbotham and McGorry? Two of the worst players to ever grace the Wycombe shirt
Dave Farrell cost a bit didn't he?
Yes! Another Sm*th howler. Albeit he did score from a corner away at the Manor Ground
oh Smith.
"Genuinely thought I was doing well" he said. As he took a team that had finished 6th to tedious midtable obscurity with awful football. Having individually weeded out fans favourites for no reason, and replaced them with costly, but lesser players.
Only about 10 at the time but Sean Devine seemed worth the money? Was a class act. (Edited for content)
I'm pretty sure devine was £250,000 and currie was £200,000......when devine was out for what seemed an age with a knee injury I was told something libellous
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That rumour has long been floated around @bigred87. Never quite from someone at that level of profile though.
It was such an unaccounted for injury. By memory, he left the season fully fit, then mysteriously suddenly had a really bad injury.
Normally the mere mention of that rumour has forum owners quickly looking for the delete key.
Apologies Mr Gasman. Genuinely didn't realise you couldn't mention that.
Martin Allen is about to be appointed manager of Eastleigh so sure this Bogle rumour is nonsense. How many times has Allen quit Barnet now?!
Ha!