Kone starts on the bench on Saturday; comes on, scores a hat trick, ground goes nuts. £8m laid out Monday morning by Leicester, gone by Wednesday!
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Sounds perfectly plausible!
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Suggestions that Wycombe’s valuation is £5 million seem well wide of the mark. It’s unlikely an extra £500k would be such a stumbling block. I believe our valuation is closer to £10 million and that the £5 million remark is incorrect.
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Makes sense considering the last bid from Luton last season was nearly £7m with all the add-ons. If I remember correctly
He did have longer left on his contract then . Plus Bloomfield was desperate to sign him . Also he was in the middle of his purple patch of last season .
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There’s a hundred reasons for it but his second half of the season won’t have increased his valuation.
Hopefully he will either renew or someone will go full Sunderland Will Grigg on deadline day and pay 15m for him 
His performances over the second half of the season shouldn’t have increased his value.
But given his popularity, awards and the number of interested suitors watching him, his value should have increased.
All a big strategic game from our club, Kone’s agent, opposing clubs, their agents etc.
I’m trying to not read too much into it all.
If Kone gets a high profile, big money transfer, I hope he is mentally prepared for the scrutiny that will follow of his sexuality and his immigration status. He’s escaped that with journalists so far respecting the boundaries that Wycombe have placed on providing information / access to Kone - but I suspect that’s only been achieved because Kone only has profile among a certain number of lower league fans. It’s going to be too irresistible a story for certain journalists not to tell if he gets this big money move.
There are aspects of his timeline that are currently shielded and opaque. One can argue - as indeed I did on Gasroom 2 - that Kone has the right for us not to pry into his story any further than he wants to tell us it. But not every tabloid hack operates on such Corinthian principles.
I hope his agents have worked out a strategy and are getting the right support in place for Richard should that transpire. And not just dedicating all their time to chasing the money and ensuring they maximise their 10%. I’m not sure I’m that confident that they will be though.
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What about it? I’m not going to start speculating. I’m just saying, I hope there’s a plan for when others do.
Well this is all well and good but what about the fact he has a girlfriend and a daughter ? 
It suggests he is not gay ?
Do tabloid journalists still exist?
I have already seen some opposition supporters “joke” that he needs to be investigated as to not being 21 - at the time, 22 now of course.
Whilst I’d hope what you said wouldn’t happen by proper journalists, in the twitasphere/twatasphere you can certainly seen that level of scrutiny being chucked about
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People need to try and remember what is their business and what isn’t. The fact we heard some stories and don’t know the finer details doesn’t mean anything is shady or wrong. Because people can’t help themselves there may be some questions if he becomes famous and successful. Entirely up to him if he wants to talk about anything.
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Two points.
- Being bisexual is a thing.
- It really is no one else’s business either way. But understanding that is mostly the problem.
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Let’s keep it to football shall we?
And as per @Midlander we surely can’t be holding on for £5m when there seems to have been a gaggle of clubs interested and £4.5m already on the table.
While we’re not so big time yet that 500k is nothing to us, it does seem too little to have properly stalled things for others.
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how low can you go?
Please post on football, not on players personal matters.
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Sounds right, if so there’s really only a few possibilities:
Belief he may be persuaded to stay longer term (Unlikely but higher wages may be available now and he may not have an attractive offer right now)
Belief a club will significantly raise the bid as we get closer to the deadline or an auction will break out (Risky)
Bids having been lower than reported with clubs thinking we’ll be the ones that get nervous about being left without a big fee or any fee (less problematic than in previous years but him going abroad on a free would irk)
(Edit- or we are close and haggling over final details)