Duff, £25m? Ouch

PiE

http://liverpool.rivals.net/default.asp?sid=890&p=2&stid=8264790

Says that both Man Utd & Liverpool have tabled £25m bids and that a deal will be done with one of them by the end of the week.

Heres hoping he chooses the 'Pool :]

Dont be at yourself

Souness won't sign a new contract if Duff is sold, apparantly.

I can't really see him going to ManYoo, I mean they aren't exactly short of attacking players and seeing as they're going to have to spend big money to get a decent defender in, there surely won't be much left in the kitty.

smuckers

25mil is alot of money for Duff but he is some player he has showed it, if Pool do get him then they would have spent a total of 39 mil I'm assuming Diao hasn't joined as of yet, confusion about that deal still.

Bateman

I don't think the ManU move would be good for Duff, he will be lacing Giggs' boots for at least another few years, much as I dislike both sides, the Liverpool move would be better for him, if Houllier were to let him play.

Ronan|Raven

Originally posted by Bateman
the Liverpool move would be better for him, if Houllier were to let him play.

For 25 million he sure as hell wont be sitting on the bench.....

Bateman

What I mean is that Houllier doesn't exactly play a system in which pacy, exciting players are pivotal. Liverpool's style of football might hinder his development. Thats what I mean by "let him play".

Xterminator

I dont see why Duff would be in a hurry to leave this season!

He's clearly appreciated at Rovers (both fans and management), and will be playing European footie this year too.

While he said wants to play champions league football, that doesnt mean he wants a hurried move that makes him rich, but his football suffers, just like the Robbie Keane saga.

I think the papers just print this crap to see a few rags, and i cant see Duff leaving, as long as Blackburn are having a good season, and stay in europe till after christmas, and have a shot of qualifiing for europe in the league.

And I expect that the club will manage that.

Bateman

I agree, it seems that people are taking it for granted that he is leaving Blackburn, but I would prefer to see him stay there.

BKtje

Originally posted by NekkidBibleMan

I can't really see him going to ManYoo, I mean they aren't exactly short of attacking players and seeing as they're going to have to spend big money to get a decent defender in, there surely won't be much left in the kitty.

Man U i imagine have money to burn atm.

Originally posted by nekkidBibleMan
I don't think the ManU move would be good for Duff, he will be lacing Giggs' boots for at least another few years, much as I dislike both sides, the Liverpool move would be better for him, if Houllier were to let him play.

Giggs was played upfron towards the end of last season alongside Van Nistlerooy and they didnt really have anyone to take over for him on the left wing. Maybe there are plans to play giggs upfront again with duff on the left.

Dont be at yourself

ManYoo may have money to burn, but they don't like splashing out - and I'd doubt they'd allow Ferguson another spending spree after the lack of success the introduction of Veron and Van Nistelrooy brought, not when he's only going to be at the club for two more seasons.

vorbis

why should he leave, at Blackburn he'll get a chance to shine as a real star. At liverpool or Man U he'll be just another player trying to get into the first team. Blackburn offers him a better football environment. Plus he is needed more by Blackburn than a big club.

DapperGent

Duff is potentially a great player. Big clubs improve players more than smaller ones do in the normal course of events. Duff is good enough to hold down a left wing berth at any club in the Premiership and most in the world. Why shouldn't he go? He'll get better and get rich doing it.

Xterminator

Originally posted by DapperGent
Duff is potentially a great player. Big clubs improve players more than smaller ones do in the normal course of events. Duff is good enough to hold down a left wing berth at any club in the Premiership and most in the world. Why shouldn't he go? He'll get better and get rich doing it.

Big clubs dont improve a player.

Clubs with better training facilities, and better coaches do.
Playing against a better class of opposition improves a player.

Now I know blackburns facilites are a match for any clubs, ie state of the art, the pitch has been voted pitch of the year, (few seasons ago), and as for coaches, blackburn can afford the best.

Weekly for Blackburn Duff will be playing premiership football, something ManYoo etc. cannot improve on, and Uefa footie while not quite up there with the champions league, will provide the extra test of duff, espically in the latter rounds.

As for money, blackburn can match most offers as cash wise they're on a better keel than a lot of premiership clubs.
Also Blackburn are a team with ambition.

Nah .. you're just trotting out the usual crap but the fact is if things are going the right way at blackburn, there no reason to upset the applecart!

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thegills

How can you say that playing at a big club doesn't improve your game. Surely training day in day out with a better group of players helps, you learn things, you have to get better to survive. What challenge will Blackburn give him, he just has to turn up and get a jersey whereas at 'Pool he'll have to fight for his place. Don't forget Cheyrou is also a winger as is Diouf. 25M won't guarantee a place. 16M was spent on Baros, Kirkland and Biscan and they have yet to get a sniff.

bucks73

Weekly for Blackburn Duff will be playing premiership football, something ManYoo etc. cannot improve on, and Uefa footie while not quite up there with the champions league, will provide the extra test of duff, espically in the latter rounds.

Surely challenging for the league is an improvement on Blackburns weekly football. Training and playing with a higher standard of players every day can only improve his game. Playing against the top European sides can only improve his game after all can you see Blackburn making the latter rounds of the UEFA cup?

Sposs

Man utd didnt table 25 mill they tabled 18 mill with Dwight yorke.

bucks73

They should have offered 25 million and just given them Yorke.;)

Greenbean

They should have offered 18m, and 7m to take Yorke.

vorbis

um, playing a bigger clubs doesn't guarrantee an improvement in a players quality. Blackburn are playing Premiership football at a decent team. Duff at the moment would be the biggest star Blackburn have. He'll also get consistency regarding games. Look what happened to Robbie Keane at Inter. A newly transfered player can get off to a bad start and it can quickly go downhill from there. At his age, he doesn't need to take on that kind of pressure.

Sposs

Ya maybe duffer should drop down to the first division and then be the best player ever without any pressure.

At his age, he doesn't need to take on that kind of pressure.

At his age as you put it Ryan Giggs had been in Utds first team six years and won nearly everything there is to win,great players are determined by how they handle pressure,not by shying away from it.

Bateman

If he is as good as everybody says he is then he will be able to handle th pressure, it comes with being a footballer, and if you haven't got it then you sink, the really good players can handle it.

vorbis

Duff could potentially be Irelands most creative player in history (not too much competition I know). Theres no need to test his greatness just yet. Look at the likes of the players who won the European Cup with Ajax in 1995. The ones like Kluivert and Davids who moved to Milan didn't exactly make a great impression. At Blackburn theres no reason why Duff can't grow at the same rate as he might at man United. I'm sure he'll be at a major club 3 years from now. However, once a player like Duff's confidence gets severly dented, they tend to lose that special side and merely pass the ball around.

PiE

Whatever, I just wanna see a winger in a 'Pool jersey :]