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Matt O'Riley

Discussion in 'Ex Players' started by Notorious, Jan 20, 2022.

Discuss Matt O'Riley in the Ex Players area at TalkCeltic.net.

  1. John Bhoy79 Stop the world I want to get off!

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    From his comments at the time I believe McGree thought moving to Boro would give him a better chance of getting to the EPL. He was wrong. I hold no malice towards him, it turned out a blessing in disguise that he turned us down.
     
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  3. NakamuraTastic

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    Sad but true lol
     
  4. murphy88

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    So do you think our initial fee we wanted was less than their highest bid of what was reported to be £21.3m?
     
  5. JML67 Gold Member Gold Member

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    Yeah, I struggle to celebrate big fees knowing it's all going into Lawwell's rainy day fund for when we fail to qualify for the CL due to lack of investment and selling our best players.........
     
  6. Lupis Gold Member Gold Member

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    I'm pretty sure our valuation from the off was a minumum £25m, it wouldn't make sense for us to have a valuation of less than that. And considering they never got anywhere near that it seems unlikely we kept moving the goalposts on them. Unless they were * us about that much it was as a "* you".
     
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  7. PaulM1888 Moderator Moderator

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    No? :43:
     
  8. PaulM1888 Moderator Moderator

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    It was 25, what do you think it is now?

    Is my point…
     
  9. Ziggy

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    The reporting was we wanted more than we got for Jota and Tierney
     
  10. Lupis Gold Member Gold Member

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    We don't know it was 25m it could have been 30m from the off, I was saying 25 would have been the minumum our valuation would have been as we have received that before.
     
  11. PaulM1888 Moderator Moderator

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    As above, we’ve always wanted ‘in excess’ of 25 million from the off but the volume of clubs interested and the fact one is from the cash rich Prem will naturally elevate that fee.
     
  12. murphy88

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    Well if they never met what we initially wanted, which you agree you think was more than the £21.3m which they bid, how can they say we’ve moved the goalposts? I think we have always wanted a lot more than £21.3m, so for them to say we’ve moved the goalposts having never actually offered what we wanted is just them coming the * really.
     
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    Alex Crook (Talksport) supposedly saying we're looking 30m.
     
  14. PaulM1888 Moderator Moderator

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    Atalanta - here’s a bid of 14 million
    Celtic - nowhere near enough
    Atalanta - what do you want then?
    Celtic - a club record fee of over 25 million
    Atalanta - ok we bid 14.2 million
    Celtic - you’re having a giraffe
    Atalanta - ok we bid 15 million
    Celtic - there’s 3 other serious clubs interested now, don’t bother us for a penny less than 30 million.

    Is the gist.
     
  15. Lupis Gold Member Gold Member

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    If our initial valuation still hasn't been met I'm not sure that follows.
     
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    MOR needs to be sold this week or not at all.
     
  17. murphy88

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    So they never got close to what our initial valuation was, but are now claiming we moved the goalposts? Seems a lot of pish to me in all honesty.
     
  18. Merseysidehoops

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    This is how I feel, if anything it gives me the fear that the board will have another easy excuse to say, teams wanted more from us cause we received a big fee and we didn’t feel it was value for money……
     
  19. JamesM09

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    That’s very big of you John.

    I, on the other hand, don’t take rejection well and therefore hope his next * is a hedgehog.
     
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  20. Notorious Gold Member Gold Member

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