Do the club have any idea what they are doing

[upperloft]

That wouldn't have made any difference if Southampton was the club he wanted to join.

Still put it out there. Who cares what he wants.. Maybe a better side might want him.

[Lunar Jetman]

Still put it out there. Who cares what he wants.. Maybe a better side might want him.

Which better side(s) would you be talking about?

[Kurt Bakholt]

How could the club have got more from him. Charlie had the upper hand. He only really wanted to go to Southampton. If another club (Leicester or Newcastle for instance) had offered more money, he would have said no and there would be nothing we could do about it.

If the club had said no to the offer from Southampton, we would have had one unhappy striker and that wouldn't have done anybody any good.

Exactly this, if the club said no Charlie would have sulked and joined Saints on a free in the summer.
The f##k up was made by Harry and Beard long before Les was pulling the strings, by waiting until December 2014 when his stock was high, rather than after the playoff win to offer him a new deal.

[upperloft]

Which better side(s) would you be talking about?

Everton, Liverpool, MU, Tott... For £4-6m there's no risk. Not with there money. Any prem said would be interested at that price

[Timmy the Doc]

Still put it out there. Who cares what he wants.. Maybe a better side might want him.

So you haven't heard of Bosman?

[upperloft]

So you haven't heard of Bosman?

Yeah I have. Thanks for that.

So you think £4m is a fair price?

[Timmy the Doc]

Yeah I have. Thanks for that.

So you think £4m is a fair price?

IMO that's not good nor poor, but reasonable. He had only four months left here.

[upperloft]

IMO that's not good nor poor, but reasonable. He had only four months left here.

Fair Do's. Just think we could have a bit more. Allowing players to dictate again. But it's done now. Hopefully can bring in someone good with the money.

[3London]

IMO that's not good nor poor, but reasonable. He had only four months left here.

Do you really think a third of his Market value is a fair price? I really think the club mucked this one up and that comes from someone who tries to back the club in most situations.

[Timmy the Doc]

Do you really think a third of his Market value is a fair price? I really think the club mucked this one up and that comes from someone who tries to back the club in most situations.

Maybe £12m was his market price last August. Now its less than half of that considering his contract situation.

[Ramsey is god]

Do you really think a third of his Market value is a fair price? I really think the club mucked this one up and that comes from someone who tries to back the club in most situations.

Thing is, like others have said, the player had 100% of the power here. Normally the club would have to accept a bid in order for the player to have talks about moving there. If we turn down Southampton's 4 mil and then Newcastle come in with an offer of £6 mil, Austin could just say, no thanks, i dont want to go there, so il just sit it out for another 4 months then get my move to Southampton.

The fact he wanted to go there and Saints were prepared to pay now, think actually worked in our favour. As great as he was, one decent striker doesnt make a team and he wasnt going to get us promoted on his own. So getting any fee now was worth it imho

[3London]

Thing is, like others have said, the player had 100% of the power here. Normally the club would have to accept a bid in order for the player to have talks about moving there. If we turn down Southampton's 4 mil and then Newcastle come in with an offer of £6 mil, Austin could just say, no thanks, i dont want to go there, so il just sit it out for another 4 months then get my move to Southampton.

The fact he wanted to go there and Saints were prepared to pay now, think actually worked in our favour. As great as he was, one decent striker doesnt make a team and he wasnt going to get us promoted on his own. So getting any fee now was worth it imho

of course something is better than nothing..but the fact that the club couldn't see this coming is amazing! so the ten goals that charlie scored for us this season effectively cost the club just under a million Quid each.

[Ramsey is god]

of course something is better than nothing..but the fact that the club couldn't see this coming is amazing! so the ten goals that charlie scored for us this season effectively cost the club just under a million Quid each.

but if we were top of the league and Austin the leagues leading scorer, you would have said, it was worth keeping him and taking the punt as he was firing us to promotion.

Its all very easy to sl@g the board in hindsight. A the time when we turned down the 12 mil bid, i was happy and thought it was the right move.

[3London]

its not sL@gging the board in Hindsight ..i am one of the more "Happy Clappy" members of this forum but i really feel the club cocked this one up! No one really thought we would go straight back up even the club in the summer that was not the Brief..it was only that we didn't sell the crown jewels that the brief changed. so why in the summer was not £12 an acceptable price? And even if we did go up would Austen have stayed? i think the fact that the club did not sort out his contract earlier and let it get into this situation is the problem

[stanistheman]

Actually, it was well documented that they had tried to do this. A lot of West London sport journalists will 100% back this up as well.

As for why not selling, I think its hilarious that we are all now pissed off. Damned if you damned if you dont comes to mind....

That contract offer was only made after the season had started and QPR were struggling in the bottom 3, so Austin did not eant to sign.
Had the offer bern made in July and a decent striker been signed, or Remy staying, he would probably have signed it.