Forest keen on deal for Dutch midfielder Sorry if y'all had this rumor a while ago, I couldn't get the BS search function to work for me. Seems as if he turned down the Fire. Thx, Jay!
Sparta turned down the Fire, not Ricky. This has popped up before, and he's still on our radar I think.
http://www.vi.nl/vi/show/id=62802/contentid=67867/sc=2fcd51 It's in dutch unfortunately.... It says the Fire are after him again. Sparta commented that Fire's bid has to be four times the one they made last time, and that vd Bergh will definitely finish the season in Rotterdam. What happens next season is still open......
Not when Sparta are in first place, so they are going to be playing in the Eredivisie next year. If Ricky moves, it's going to be somewhere bigger than Forest, I'd think. And I'm honestly not sure we're big enough, despite what Liam keeps telling us.
True, but chances are great they'll immediately relegate again next season. An adventure abroad is what every player wants here. Playing in the MLS and especially living in Chicago could be a unique opportunity for him. I wouldn't dismiss your chances to land him just yet....
Four times the last offer... any clue on how much the last offer was and whether 4x that amount is even realistic with our allocation money? I mean, 100K - 400K is doable, but 250k to a cool mil isn't. Obviously they're just laying negotiation parameters and it will end up being less then 4x the original offer, but it's still good to know this kind of thing.
I think we're talking about 100k-400k here, at the very most.... Salaries aren't that high in the 1st division, and his contract is up in 2006.
Well, going from 100k to 400k I think is certainly obtainable with our allocation money. I would wonder what kind of contract he would want and how we'll fit him into the cap. It does, however, suck that they seem to be insistent that he stay until the end of the Dutch season, meaning we have to wait for the summer window to get him. Can we offer to make them some Pfennekocken (sp?) as part of the trade and get him now?
This just going off of memory, so I might be completely off about this number, but I remember that they wanted about a million(possibly euros) last time. I think we offered half, and they turned us down. If my memory is correct, they're probably asking for 2 million now. Makes sense, the kid scored like 16 goals in 9 games.
That's what I'm saying. Spart may be a 2nd division club, but they are going up, and they have something special in Ricky. They aren't going to let him go for less than 1M Euros (probably closer to 2, as Greddy says), and the exchange rate isn't in our favor. He's got a year to prove himself in the Eredivisie next year, and even if Sparta go right back down (which is not a certainty at all) he won't be stuck there if he has a good season. If he has a good season, he could end up at one of the bigger dutch clubs in no time, and then European football is an option. Why would he come over here?
Yeah, doesn't make sense as a career move... I guess I'll write this off as dead until I hear something to convince me otherwise.