Incredible news really, for the club, and for me personally. I can't recall a forest player bringing me that much joy since Stan / Pearce. I was desperate for him to score after that run at the end yesterday.
Assuming it's for 4 years after this one, it only adds one year to the length of his deal, so it's primarily about keeping him by paying him the going rate for a highly rated Premier League defender. A huge pay rise probably doesn't also warrant a release clause. It's not like we're going to stop him going when he's ready anyway.
I think there's about 18 months left on his contract so they are probably needing to sell. If we could get him mfor maybe 22 ish that seems a good deal
True. Johnson was, at the time, a promising Championship player with huge potential but having never played at a higher level. Brentford were a smaller Premier League club testing the water. I'm not sure why they'd have gone in high in those circumstances.
We said no thanks and we both moved on. It would be a bit churlish (although not impossible, obviously) for us to be dicking about over Wissa as some kind of retaliation. Makes no sense if Forest genuinely want to recruit the player to waste the selling club's time with lowball bids.
Their fans do really resent us over the Johnson transfer - not sure why, seems like some story has built up that involves us messing them around, rather than him not wanting to sign for them and them not coming close to our price.
We sold him for £50m, they didn't come within £15m of that. Why would/should we have accepted?
You forgot dominance. Frank is always claiming dominance.
My guess is that the Wissa thing will depend on how much the player wants to move. If he does, it’s just a commercial negotiation between the two clubs to see if they can reach a deal. If he’s happy to stay, Forest are wasting their time.
The fact that we’ve tried (albeit somewhat half-heartedly in the Summer) in two windows suggests that the player’s agent didn’t exactly laugh at us when we asked.