Victor MeldrewOld Man Andrewsbluerinse Brighton have had a £8m bid for Aston Villa defender James Chester rejected. This implies that they cannot reach an agreement with Reading on a fee for Liam Moore, and are looking elsewhere. Maybe he will be staying at RFC.
If it isn't Brighton it will be someone else. Moore is reasonably affordable and good enough to start in any of the lower half Premier League teams. Reading would be wise to tout him around as we could significantly improve our squad with the transfer money.
"Good enough to start in any of the lower half Premier League teams"
Do you seriously believe what you have posted?
After the season he has just had I really do feel that if we get £3million for him we will have done well.
I think you may be blinkered by his previous season which, apart from being one of 2 players to cost the club £100 million plus by blasting that penalty way over the bar,he played consistently all season-last year he looked a shadow of his former self and was bullied too easily and too often by Championship strikers.
He may well get back to how he was but was he then just a top Championship defender rather than an obvious Premier League player in waiting?
Presumably Brighton think he is worth £3million as a squad and back-up player and their assessment could be about right although , with all the dosh burning holes in Premier League clubs' pockets, we may well get more than that and hopefully won't squander the money on wages for any more dead-beat geriatrics but , as others have reminded us, ours is a club that splashed out a small fortune on Aluko so the judgement of players is questionable.
Moore had a dodgy mid season spell but was impressive during the run in. I think he is good enough for the PL and worth a darn sight more than £3 million in the current climate. Brighton appear to have accepted this with a second bid which was also rejected.