Danny Ings

[Kenneth]

With all that incredible potential you'd think £12m would be a fair price.

[Alex]

With all that incredible potential you'd think £12m would be a fair price.

Its about risk isnt it though.

At £5-6m its a risk I think we should take, at £12m its one we should avoid. Especially given that he will still command a signing on fee, Id have thought.

Edit: I think the only person I have seen say he has 'Incredible Potential' is yourself

[Vermilion]

Strange how this all works, we annouce the signing and Burnley accept an offer that can't go through. I wonder if the rules allow for Chelsea to bid £25m just to increase our tribunal price? I doubt that however the whole thing is weird.

Probably, which would be fair enough if the Chavs then had to buy him for that amount, which Spurs seem prepared to do at the amount they've bid.

[Kenneth]

Its about risk isnt it though.

At £5-6m its a risk I think we should take, at £12m its one we should avoid. Especially given that he will still command a signing on fee, Id have thought.

Edit: I think the only person I have seen say he has 'Incredible Potential' is yourself

I accept that I'm paraphrasing.

[G]

We shouldn't be announcing anything until a fee has been decided one way or the other. By agreeing it all and announcing it we are publicly accepting that this would be a worthwhile deal regardless of price and that very much isn't the case.

[captainfog]

Go on Spurs, sign this lad up

[RichC]

5 or 6 million would be ok for what should be a back up striker the £10M or so he could cost id rather see put to trying to bring in a first choice striker. I feel we've likely got to move 2 on this summer if we hope to bring in anyone else up front

[Kenneth]

"Subject to medical" might have been a bit premature. The whole thread may be.

[cream]

Ings is a free agent, he should be able to pick the club he wants to play for, not have his choices restricted by a bloody tribunal. Sure that can be challenged in court.

[Exiled_red]

The whole Spurs thing is a joke, there is something underhand going on between Spurs and Burnley to manipulate the fee, and that should be taken into consideration when compensation is determined.

[BigChief]

That £12m Spurs bid was accepted weeks ago. Its not 'just cropped up' as herbs is making it look. Ings said no and waited for his contract to run down, which it has.

Ings didn't accept Spurs offer then and he will even less now that he's a free-ish agent. The tribunal amount will reflect his reluctance at this late stage of his expired contract.

Edit: More importantly Liverpool offered double figures in January and the Burnley chairman said they'd rather keep him and lose him for nothing in the summer. That will also be taken into account because, hey guess what? Its now the summer. They had their chance for a double figured fee and declined. Cake and eating, etc. Not happening.

Like cream said, plenty for Ings' lawyer to get his teeth into.

[Vermilion]

Ings is a free agent, he should be able to pick the club he wants to play for, not have his choices restricted by a bloody tribunal. Sure that can be challenged in court.

If he has any say at all, this fee issue will maybe test his loyalty to Burnley over his desire to join LFC.

Try force the issue and Burnley get quite a few mill less for him, or go to Spurs and let Burnley get 12mill.

[Exiled_red]

That £12m Spurs bid was accepted weeks ago. Its not 'just cropped up' as herbs is making it look. Ings said no and waited for his contract to run down, which it has.

Ings didn't accept Spurs offer then and he will even less now that he's a free-ish agent. The tribunal amount will reflect his reluctance at this late stage of his expired contract.

The tribunal fee is supposed to represent compensation based on his value, if someone put in a £12m bid I guess the consider that to be around is value. That bid was at the end of the season a few weeks before his contract expires. It suggests one of two things, either Spurs really want him and thing he is worth more than £12m or the two clubs (Burnley and Spurs) are trying to screw us over on the fee by pushing the price up.

I believe it is the latter because if Spurs wanted him and thought they had a chance of getting him they would have waited until his contract expired and did what we did because the price would have been lower. They knew their £12m bid would be accepted, but they must have also known he wouldn't move to them (probably because he was nailed on to move to us), the only way the Spurs bid makes sense is as an attempt to push the price up for whoever signs him, which is underhand.

[Angryred]

Didn't that 12m offer from Spurs include a fee for Trippier too?...could have sworn that I read it like that somewhere!

[cream]

If he has any say at all, this fee issue will maybe test his loyalty to Burnley over his desire to join LFC.

Try force the issue and Burnley get quite a few mill less for him, or go to Spurs and let Burnley get 12mill.

His contract has expired though, no one should be allowed to dictate where he can or cannot go.