Reply With QuoteI'd happily take £2m for Etheridge in the current climate.Originally Posted by The Hooded Claw
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He played for us
I'd happily take £2m for Etheridge in the current climate.
While Etheridge's kicking is very poor I hadn't noticed Smithies kicking being any better. Whoever distributes the ball gives possession away to the opposition.
Etheridge has been superb for us. The negative comments make my blood boil.
I'd keep Etheridge, the thought of Day having to play doesn't fill me with confidence. As for George Ratcliffe I think he got left out at Barry at the end of last season? Interesting that Smithies, Etheridge and Day are all the same age, 29. I'd try and offload Day and his £4.5k pw wages (allegedly).
You don't see the point of selling our backup goalkeeper (whose contract runs out in less than a year) when we don't have a starting right-back?
Joe Day makes me nervous. Would love to see a good keeper come through the system. Who was the last keeper to come through the youth system? Not John Roberts surely?
Nope they've got nothing to do with one another. Your acting as if it's your money & you'd wilfully weaken one area of the squad that's strong & doesn't need tinkering with. I fully agree we need a right back & an attacking midfield player but I don't understand the rush to get rid of Etheridge. There's nothing you or I can do to influence this situation, Vincent will control the destiny of the spend, no-one else.
How am I acting as if it's my money?
stop spending Vincent's money
It does make sense if we get a decent bid though, he'll be on decent wages and any money gained/saved could go toward more pressing issues
He'll be on about 20k a week and we could get say 2m for him. If we can get a 1m right back and a 1m right winger for that on 10k each, that's good business in my book.
I'd like to be proved wrong, but I think £2 million for Etheridge in the last year of his contract is very optimistic in the current financial climate, I'd be happy with half that.
Perhaps, if there’s a bit of a bidding war from this “raft of clubs”, the price might be nudged up a bit ?
Seemingly, Swansea only bid £500k for Jamal Lowe and it was reported that Wigan were prepared to accept £750k for him - that's someone who was a regular selection as an attacking player for a team that may have been relegated, but actually had a record which would have seen them finish thirteenth. The sheer lack of deals being done and figures like those I've quoted suggest a very depressed market in the Football League and I'm not sure that there will be many clubs below the upper echelons of the Championship who will be willing to spend seven figure sums on a goalkeeper.
A couple of things about City goalkeepers, are those writing off Joe Day basing their opinion on one game at Wigan or are they also going by what they saw of him at Newport? I thought Day was good at League 2 level, in County's FA Cup runs and, by all accounts, he did well in League One last season in a struggling AFC Wimbledon team. Also, I rated George Ratcliffe as City's best keeper with the ball at his feet when he was 16 or 17 - the mistakes I saw him make in that department were all to do with him being over confident because he was so comfortable with having to build from the back.
From financial point of view it may make sense on the face of it, to cash in for the million pound plus were likely to get for Etheridge
However if we are seriously mounting a promotion challenge, would we want to risk losing a tried and tested player in a specialist position for what seems a small risk in comparison to the size of the reward on offer, should we succeed?
I haven't seen enough of Day to have any confidence in him to replace Smithies in the event of him picking up an injury
The reality is that, like nearly everyone else, Cardiff City need the cash and the squad is unbalanced.
Pack, Murphy Flint would be way ahead of the list before Etheridge in my view
Now it may be that he wants away anyway to guarantee first team football which I can understand
In that case I would let Day go as well and make an all out effort to resign Marshall
A raft of clubs obviously that that he's worth a punt.....
oh no, I have a sinking feeling about how this thread is going
Unthinkingly, I omitted the word 'think', I think.
Wigan is a fire sale, they need all the cash in they can get by 31st August or they go to the wall. It will be interesting what happens but if we can swap Etheridge for Lowe, that would represent good business for me.
Re Day, he can't kick. At all. Technically he's an absolute shambles. I don't know enough about his goalkeeping, I don't think he had too much of a chance with the Wigan goals but others on here thought he could have saved one or two.
If we're looking to cut wages it makes total sense to let Etheridge go. Isn't there also a rule about emergency goalkeep loans outside the normal window if we're really stuck?
We're not allowed to have any available senior keepers. I'm guessing that would include Ratcliffe as well.
Raft of clubs is agent or club talk, only Brum has been mentioned, Bournemouth and Derby interested in Marshall perhaps we are asking too much?
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