Tavernier

[festa5]

Tav was offered the chance to discuss improved terms and a contract extension 3 times by the club and he turned us down, the options we had were let him run down his contract and leave for free or cash in when we could and have a fee to use to try and replace him, we took the later option and a pre-injury Mowatt would probably have done a reasonable job, we took a gamble on his recovery being complete sadly it's proven to have been not the case.

I'm sure in January it's an area we will target, the player that we should have gone for to replace Tav is now on a Premier League teams book and playing in Greece, but I'm sure Scott and his recruitment team have plenty of options to consider, as promotion favourites in the summer we were probably a more attractive proposition to what we are now and we may now have to pay a premium to attract the right quality. Which begs the question should we have just allowed Tav to run down his contract and build from there ?

He had 2 years left AM. So wouldn't have been leaving on a free.

We would've been in a weaker bargaining position admittedly and possibly not have got as good a fee but that's by no means certain. £12m is hardly exceptional in today's market. If he stayed and had a great season chances are we'd have got just as good a fee.

If we got a few million less for him how would that have stacked up against not having him as a player for a year?

Would also have given us more time to work on a replacement. The timing of the sale was poor. If he was always going to be sold, why wait till the back end of the window?

Finally, and obviously not going to happen now, but at the time the club were targeting promotion. Every chance he'd have signed a contract extension if we'd gone up this year.

The handling of it looked bad at the time. With hindsight it's even worse.

 

[ThatFragranceGuy]

He had 2 years left AM. So wouldn't have been leaving on a free.

We would've been in a weaker bargaining position admittedly and possibly not have got as good a fee but that's by no means certain. £12m is hardly exceptional in today's market. If he stayed and had a great season chances are we'd have got just as good a fee.

If we got a few million less for him how would that have stacked up against not having him as a player for a year?

Would also have given us more time to work on a replacement. The timing of the sale was poor. If he was always going to be sold, why wait till the back end of the window?

Finally, and obviously not going to happen now, but at the time the club were targeting promotion. Every chance he'd have signed a contract extension if we'd gone up this year.

The handling of it looked bad at the time. With hindsight it's even worse.

Not leaving on a free that season but no one is going to pay good money for a champo midfielder entering his last year of the deal when he can arrange a move in jan, as moving for free at the end of that season means bigger wages and sign on bonus negotiated.

We've been burned too many times by assets running their deals down and leaving for nothing and the club got slated for bad financial management.

 

[Nano]

Mowatt was not just a direct replacement for Tav. We needed him anyway. Even before selling Tav we only had 4 midfielders in the squad. Maybe Mowatt was expected to take the starting berth but we still needed a replacement for Howson who shouldn't be first choice at 34 for every single game because you have no other options, a backup (or an upgrade) for Crooks and then maybe we could've coped with Mowatt and McGree being the options to replace Tav.

If we had kept Tav we'd still be weak in midfield as a squad but our 1st choice would be stronger.

 

[afcb_acklam]

there has been an outbreak of premiershipping on this thread. unforgiveable.

 

[InglebyUTB]

Said at the time we’d had our pants pulled down, so many on here argued it was a good deal, he was a Championship player, we’d be swapping leagues, they’re a tin pot club, why would he want to live in Bournemouth, etc, etc.

Well he’s gone on to be a stand-out player for them in the Premier League, as we hurtle towards League One.

The price was a joke, we sold him for chicken feed. Bristol City got more for Adam Webster than we got for Spence and Tavernier.

If he wanted to go then fine, but with it been three days before the season started it should have been on the proviso:

1) Our asking price is met
2) We have a replacement

Instead we dropped our trousers and allowed Bournemouth to shaft us.

The club is ran by absolute idiots.

 

[American_Mary]

He had 2 years left AM. So wouldn't have been leaving on a free.

We would've been in a weaker bargaining position admittedly and possibly not have got as good a fee but that's by no means certain. £12m is hardly exceptional in today's market. If he stayed and had a great season chances are we'd have got just as good a fee.

If we got a few million less for him how would that have stacked up against not having him as a player for a year?

Would also have given us more time to work on a replacement. The timing of the sale was poor. If he was always going to be sold, why wait till the back end of the window?

Finally, and obviously not going to happen now, but at the time the club were targeting promotion. Every chance he'd have signed a contract extension if we'd gone up this year.

The handling of it looked bad at the time. With hindsight it's even worse.

I agree with all you say I'm just pointing out the situation regarding his departure, the club made a commercial decision to cash in, I think Wilder was hoping that they'd have kept him another season and was a bit surprised at the timing of the deal, I understand he was preparing for the season with Tav.