Another judas departs, couldn't even get a move to the prem, instead ends up with a nothing team in a nothing area, hope he gets what he deserves, JUDAS. He will certainly a warm reception when he returns to the CG.😡

Howdo and good evening Rev

Leaves a very nasty taste in the mouth.

We're now a feeder club for f'king Middlesborough ffs.

F'king just bound to score a brace every time we play them.

Jordan Rhodes went to the smoggies, didn't exactly set them on fire. Doubt we will ever find out how much we got, but upto 14m, less whatever we have to pay posh, about 1.8m. Hope MW invests wisely.

Another thought, think of everyone who bought the new shirt and put Judas name on it, hope the club can do something to help.

Look on the Brightside they reduced the prices for your season tickets

At least he's used to playing in a shlt ground with no fans

The fat Greeks selling the crown jewells!!

#sellingclub.

Bit harsh calling him Judas! He had a buy out clause, Boro met it and were prepared to pay him significantly more. They also have a far better chance of promotion than us. He's got to do what's best for his career so I don't blame him. It's a real shame because as usual we haven't seen our best players reach their potential for longer than a season. But £14m is good money for him given the injury he had and it's not like we don't have cover. As good as Britt is, he wasn't the perfect fit for MW's formation playing 4-3-3 so perhaps it is for the best. Let's just move on

It's not as if we sold our overrated ginger midfielder for eff-all to Watford

Wait until he bags a brace against you lot!!

comment by caniggiaforforest (U6917)
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Bit harsh calling him Judas! He had a buy out clause, Boro met it and were prepared to pay him significantly more. They also have a far better chance of promotion than us. He's got to do what's best for his career so I don't blame him. It's a real shame because as usual we haven't seen our best players reach their potential for longer than a season. But £14m is good money for him given the injury he had and it's not like we don't have cover. As good as Britt is, he wasn't the perfect fit for MW's formation playing 4-3-3 so perhaps it is for the best. Let's just move on

It's not as if we sold our overrated ginger midfielder for eff-all to Watford
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So when you pay Peterborough what you owe them plus he sell on clause the deal is actually the same if not less overall value than the Hughes deal.

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comment by caniggiaforforest (U6917)
posted 21 seconds ago
Bit harsh calling him Judas! He had a buy out clause, Boro met it and were prepared to pay him significantly more. They also have a far better chance of promotion than us. He's got to do what's best for his career so I don't blame him. It's a real shame because as usual we haven't seen our best players reach their potential for longer than a season. But £14m is good money for him given the injury he had and it's not like we don't have cover. As good as Britt is, he wasn't the perfect fit for MW's formation playing 4-3-3 so perhaps it is for the best. Let's just move on

It's not as if we sold our overrated ginger midfielder for eff-all to Watford
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So when you pay Peterborough what you owe them plus he sell on clause the deal is actually the same if not less overall value than the Hughes deal.
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Is it? Are you working as our accountant now? Britt was a far more valuable asset than Hughes that much is clear. But they've both gone now and I don't blame them. Derby seem to be in some financial troubles too given the sales of Ince and Hughes #selling club

comment by caniggiaforforest (U6917)
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comment by tommo_dcfc (U1583)
posted 10 minutes ago
comment by caniggiaforforest (U6917)
posted 21 seconds ago
Bit harsh calling him Judas! He had a buy out clause, Boro met it and were prepared to pay him significantly more. They also have a far better chance of promotion than us. He's got to do what's best for his career so I don't blame him. It's a real shame because as usual we haven't seen our best players reach their potential for longer than a season. But £14m is good money for him given the injury he had and it's not like we don't have cover. As good as Britt is, he wasn't the perfect fit for MW's formation playing 4-3-3 so perhaps it is for the best. Let's just move on

It's not as if we sold our overrated ginger midfielder for eff-all to Watford
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So when you pay Peterborough what you owe them plus he sell on clause the deal is actually the same if not less overall value than the Hughes deal.
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Is it? Are you working as our accountant now? Britt was a far more valuable asset than Hughes that much is clear. But they've both gone now and I don't blame them. Derby seem to be in some financial troubles too given the sales of Ince and Hughes #selling club
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Well as it's reported as a £14m deal, not a £14m transfer I thought that would make sense to you. Secondly we are still signing players, despite your reported financial troubles.

Let's face it, we are both selling clubs and trying to buy players on the cheap, and unfortunately, until one of us makes the prem, which may not be any time soon, we will see good players come through and then be sold, without seeing their full potential, shame but they star the facts. Boro had one season of absolute abject failure, but were rewarded for it and will continue to be,
Until football stops rewarding failure, the balance will not be redressed.

Dave, I will put it to you, show me a club that isn't a selling club these days. Transfer market has gone mad, players moving from championship club to championship club for double figures having never played top flight football.... crazy

Britt is a fantastic striker, the best striker to play for either Forest or Derby since we have been in the same league, what's that? 7 years now

Still his knee cap fell of and he struggles with his fitness so 14m (even after we pay 1.8 to posh) is a good return.

I was more angry with Burke leaving and I would have been gutted if Brereton goes.

So on balance I am ok with it 👍

Just one of those things....money talks.
Britt ain't guaranteed a full season and we can soon find a replacement if we haven't already.
Still full of optimism.
COYR

Feel the statement on the forest site is a nod to the old regime putting the new one in a poor situation with the sell on clause.

It's why we're selling him now rather than giving it time and letting him rise in value as he would of if he made it to January.

Likewise I'd say it's a pretty low sell on clause and if Britt actually developed we'd be selling him for peanuts because his agent had fawazs pants down.

Football is business and it's a fair amount of money and I expect a few deals that were in the pipeline but needed the cash to go through now 👍.

Britt claims to be a player who wants to achieve things in his career, would you really class signing for the first club to show interest, particularly a small non event of a club like the smoggies ambitious, had it been a prem club it would have been easier to understand. Unfortunately just like Antonio, Lansbury and I am sure players from other clubs all over the divisions, the thought of a few extra quid turns their head. Seriously what trophies will Judas pick up with the likes of Boro, they are just another run on the ladder. As you may have guessed any respect I had for Judas is now long gone.

I agree Bunk. Gutted when Antonio left, the same with Burke.

Britt, not so much. I'm happier we've kept Brereton (so far!).

As I said on another thread, Boro are not our rivals. FFP makes a mockery of an equal playing field and all clubs (including Derby) are merely supporting the financial elite. The FA happy to punish the smaller clubs whilst a trip to the Premiership changes everything.

Amazes me that an owner cannot put what he wants in as long as he signs a guarantee, that he is good for the term of the contract.

Still, we have just as much chance as Huddersfield did, with a bit of money in the bank and a vastly decreasing wage bill and a great academy.

No tears from me. Looking forward to a great season and yes, I'll happily take one £50 bet on our league position. It just makes it that little bit more interesting having a gamble 😘

Cheers

60k/week.
He would be bonkers to turn that down.

Just to be clear this is the same Britt that was booed off against Derby, and fans were saying we should get rid? Fat and lazy were some of the comments.

Now I don't necessarily agree with that and on his day he is a fantastic finisher, but £15m is too much to turn down and the release clause was met anyway.

A worse scenario would be dragging this out for another 2-3 weeks and not having time to get a replacement.
We have a new, competent and professional backroom structure now which have a cohesive plan; not a childish, egotistical, megalomaniac.

I have little doubt this money will be reinvested, and in MW I have a new belief that the investment will be a good one.

The fact is that even after the sale of Britt we are still living way beyond our means. The figures from Deloitte's a couple of weeks ago indicated that our wage bill is 171% of our revenue. That is crazy. In any other business we would have been liquidated.

We still have players who are receiving wages we can't afford in reality; and the board is right in giving top priority to putting financial matters in good order. We just have to hope and trust that they and the footballing side of the club get things right over the next couple of seasons. That is probably how long it will take.

The upside of the mismanagement over the last five years is that we somehow find ourselves with a squad that is only two or three players away from one that can win promotion.

We should also prepare ourselves for the fact that we haven't seen the end of the club selling their best players. Twelve months from now I expect we will have the same scenario with BB, or Joe, or someone else attracting attention from a club with money to spend.

Mornchile, are we on? £50? 👍

The biggest danger here is that the striker role will be taken by Brereton, thereby putting him even more into the spotlight/shop window, and you could easily find that he's also on the move in January.

Bring in a striker ahead of him and he'll not be happy, don't bring in another and if he fails, you fail, while if he succeeds, he'll be gone in January.

Quite the quandary.

Britt is a fantastic striker, the best striker to play for either Forest or Derby since we have been in the same league, what's that? 7 years now.

Still his knee cap fell off and he struggles with his fitness so 14m (even after we pay 1.8 to posh) is a good return.

I was more angry with Burke leaving and I would have been gutted if Brereton goes.

So on balance I am ok with it 👍
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As tha' Bunk says he was excellent until his knee went and lets face it there's a high risk of reoccurance of his injury so £14m is good business. Sadly until we or any other Championship club secure a promotion and get our hands on that lovely loot then we'll be easy picking for newly relegated and lower mid table EPL clubs, same goes for Direby or did we all just imagine you recently selling your two best young players.

In the meanwhile I'm very happy with Warbs targeting of young hungry upcoming players, hoping now we see young James come in from Luton, a striker, Irvine from Burton, and maybe one or two more. Best seeing us targeting these guys rather than signing expensive 30+ hasbeens who cant run, guys like big cumbersome Bubblestone who has the turning speed of the titanic, looking forward to seeing our exciting players skip past him

The fee is up to £15m apparently and that was the same as the release cause that was in his contract. We purchased him for £5.5m with a potential £2m more of add-ons and a sell clause which people don't seem to know the figure of, but the Pboro chairman has answered Yes to below 25%.

Britt changed agent to the one that was employed by Fawaz, has his head turned, pushed the move and got it. As much he's a great goal scorer, his injury has dominated his time at Forest and it would have been good to get another season out of him, but when the eyes light up with £ signs, you are pretty much done for.

One of the major problems with selling players under Fawaz that it often felt like it was done on a whim, with no plan for how much would be re-invested or how it would, often with managers out of the loop. For me, this sale has come as no surprise whatsoever, manager and DoF were bound to be in the loop and will be working on whatever they've been given re-invest. Least we appear to have got almost everything we can out of the transfer fee