Jump to content
This Topic

The 'Magnificent' David Turnbull Discussion Thread

sailor_h

By sailor_h
in Club Chat

 Share

On Motherwell's handling of the David Turnbull situation, what are your thoughts (assuming no minimum release clause)?  

123 members have voted

  1. 1. On Motherwell's handling of the David Turnbull situation, what are your thoughts (assuming no minimum release clause)?

    • Happy we have accepted the quoted fee of 3.25m + add ons.
      50
    • Think we should have held out for more, but still sold this summer
      11
    • Think we should have kept David for at least one more season
      15
    • Happy we have accepted the quoted fee of 3.25m + add ons, but shouldn't have accepted a bid from a club in Scotland
      43
    • Other thoughts. Please comment
      4

Recommended Posts

  • Replies 2k
  • Created
  • Last Reply

Top Posters In This Topic

Popular Days

Top Posters In This Topic

Popular Days

Popular Posts

Al B
Al B

What, you mean he's not going to Celtic? Imagine that, ya bunch of presumptuous prematurely perma-raging tits. Season ticket back on again then aye?

joewarkfanclub
joewarkfanclub

Some of our support are absolutely miles out. David Turnbull is a Motherwell fan. He signed an extension with us to ensure the club would benefit from his sale instead of doing a Hastie. Ok

El Grew
El Grew

Despite the fact he was going to join Celtic I am genuinely sorry that this has happened to young David Turnbull. It must have been hell for him and his family to suffer such a disappointment and to h

Posted Images

David Motherwell Legend

David

Posted
Posted

I think what's perhaps surprised me the most has been the apparent lack of interest from clubs down south to meet the £3 million valuation. I, like many others, assumed that there'd be a good three or four clubs who'd be willing to pay that for him.

It seems there's been a lot of "interest" but no actual serious bids.

  • Like 2
Link to comment
Share on other sites
sbcmfc Attracting Interest from Abroad

sbcmfc

Posted
Posted
  On 6/18/2019 at 11:43 AM, Neilwell86 said:

someone mentioned there had been something like 11 transfers in the entire English leagues, English clubs don't get business done early on really hence the lack of bids. 

Expand  

They don’t have European qualifiers or league cup in July, so probably a few weeks before most of them are back. Presume we start back training next week for league cup?

  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites
Yorkyred International

Yorkyred

Posted
Posted
  On 6/18/2019 at 11:43 AM, Neilwell86 said:

someone mentioned there had been something like 11 transfers in the entire English leagues, English clubs don't get business done early on really hence the lack of bids. 

Expand  

End of the day they have had the chance regardless, no real excuses. If they really wanted him they would have come in by now. Celtic’s gain is their loss in my view. Anyway, best of luck to him regardless, he did the right thing by the club.

  • Like 2
Link to comment
Share on other sites
Welldaft Mk1 International

Welldaft Mk1

Posted
Posted
  On 6/18/2019 at 12:12 PM, Yorkyred said:

End of the day they have had the chance regardless, no real excuses. If they really wanted him they would have come in by now. Celtic’s gain is their loss in my view. Anyway, best of luck to him regardless, he did the right thing by the club.

Expand  

I would imagine most Well fans think like this. No one is claiming he will definitely make the grade in terms of Premiership but he certainly has the potential.

I accept that comparing English league / transfers is a non starter, but if Liverpool are prepared to pay Swansea £18m for a young player that scored 4 goals last season then I am utterly bemused no one from down south is prepared to take him on board as a relatively low risk / cost given his impact and awards last season. Hey ho. 

Link to comment
Share on other sites
sbcmfc Attracting Interest from Abroad

sbcmfc

Posted
Posted
  On 6/18/2019 at 12:34 PM, Welldaft Mk1 said:

I accept that comparing English league / transfers is a non starter, but if Liverpool are prepared to pay Swansea £18m for a young player that scored 4 goals last season then I am utterly bemused no one from down south is prepared to take him on board as a relatively low risk / cost given his impact and awards last season. Hey ho. 

Expand  

There’s so much money, they’re happy to wait and see. Let him prove himself and then pay the price.

See Andy Robertson or Virgil Van Dijk. (Or Paul Pogba!!!)

Link to comment
Share on other sites
David Motherwell Legend

David

Posted
Posted
  On 6/18/2019 at 12:52 PM, sbcmfc said:

There’s so much money, they’re happy to wait and see. Let him prove himself and then pay the price.

See Andy Robertson or Virgil Van Dijk. (Or Paul Pogba!!!)

Expand  

And if we have a sell-on clause in any deal with Celtic then we'll benefit from such a move down the line. If we haven't got such a clause in any deal with Celtic then that's a massive own goal by the club I feel.

  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites
weeyin Motherwell Legend

weeyin

Posted
Posted
  On 6/18/2019 at 12:53 PM, David said:

And if we have a sell-on clause in any deal with Celtic then we'll benefit from such a move down the line. If we haven't got such a clause in any deal with Celtic then that's a massive own goal by the club I feel.

Expand  

No reason to think we don't have sell-ons as part of the deal. We've done well from them already with the likes of Marvin Johnson and it's a core part of our financial model these days.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Busta Nut International

Busta Nut

Posted
Posted
  On 6/18/2019 at 12:32 PM, Ped_MFC said:

Does that mean then that we can stop reaming the Club for accepting the only bid that meets our valuation  rather than the numerous better ones that were inevitably coming from down south?

Expand  

No, Someone will undoubtedly be insistent that surely a club in England would take a chance...

  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites
Lobey_Dosser Motherwell Legend

Lobey_Dosser

Posted
Posted

Motherwell come out of this looking very well imo. It would appear that no club in England is ready to  pay £3mil and in the end, Celtic have possibly ‘overpaid’ in order to avoid a re-run of the McGinn embarrassment. 

I look forward to watching the next chapter on David’s career. Barring injury, he’ll inevitably end up at a top English club but hopefully in the meantime we can watch one of our own progress on the European and international stage. Good luck to the boy, by far the most talented kid I’ve seen come through Fir Park in 30 years of watching Motherwell. 

  • Like 3
Link to comment
Share on other sites
weeyin Motherwell Legend

weeyin

Posted
Posted
  On 6/18/2019 at 1:47 PM, Busta Nut said:

I agree with a few things said.

 

I am gutted he went to them but I only really watch Scottish fitba. So I can keeps tabs on him until he leaves.

Expand  

If he follows the Lewis Morgan development path, you'll no be seeing him next season.

While I understand the reasons behind Turnbull taking the Celtic path, the best thing that happened to McGinn's career was moving to Villa. 

Link to comment
Share on other sites
dennyc First Team Regular

dennyc

Posted
Posted
  On 6/18/2019 at 1:15 PM, weeyin said:

No reason to think we don't have sell-ons as part of the deal. We've done well from them already with the likes of Marvin Johnson and it's a core part of our financial model these days.

Expand  

The only doubt is that Celtic don’t usually  include them as part of any deal with Scottish clubs. In that way they maximise their profit when they cash in. I don’t recall Burrows or anyone from within MFC confirming a sell-on clause in any statement or on Twitter. 

Normally he is shouting it from the rooftops. As in the Johnson deal you highlight. And the question has been asked.  All speculation of course but I’ll believe the existence of such an arrangement when Motherwell announce it formally.

 

Link to comment
Share on other sites
  • David locked this topic
Guest
This topic is now closed to further replies.
 Share
Go to topic listing
×
×
  • Create New...