Everyone has a Price!

Like r.waterfall says most will probably say this is too much money (and personally I think it is) but with Rovers being in the driving seat here WE were in the commanding position, so by doing just as r.waterfall says Rovers would have stamped their authority on the situation (I know technically they have by saying he is not for sale, but now it is quite possible Benni could whinge to the media again after being unsettled by this?!?!)
Even though Benni is 29-years-old ANYTHING below £10 million SHOULD not even be answered too, around this figure with a player(s) thrown in then it gets interesting. As I have said before it will be interesting to see how Benni reacts to this latest news.

We can not sell McCarthy..or Pederson or even Bently (and the fact that one of the big clubs has not made significant threats to buy him still puzzles me). I am really worried that if one of the better players goes, others will follow. I dont care how much we get. What I feel we need is to make a good signing asap to show other teams that we intend to progress and help settle any of our players that feel we have reached our peak and will not challenge for anything next year. Its all well and good saying we will have players back from injury and that will be like new signings. If a couple of players get injured again we are back to square one. Every day I read or hear that teams like West Ham and Vill are looking to spend cash. We should be too. If we dont do anything we will go backwards.

U have a point mansell, but we have the contract. Benni has a few years in his contract we get rubbish offers then he is not for sale.

sharkgravy - Yeah, we could go backwards but signing for the sake of it is not the way to go is it, and could even aid this in happening?!?! Sparky likes to bide his time before he makes a move. He will ONLY sign players that will improve the starting XI though for me, as we have a good enough squad that doesn't really (in my opinion) need anymore squad players. I think we'll keep players anyway, espeically with the takeover talk, this will excite players as well as the fans.

Yes everyone has a price and can be replaced. Should we get a great offer for Benni then yeah take it! Blackburn are not in the position where we can let a player like Benni just sit out his contract, He's a good player but everyone can be replaced, if he dosnt want to stay and fight in the club colours then get rid, let him sit on Chelsea's bench if that the total of his ambition, cos he wont play a major part in any success they have wot woth Drogba, Pizzaro possibly Shevchenko and Kalou ahead of him so far! I dont want to see the man leave Rovers and think that for his footballing sake he should stay put and help Rovers move up the next level

Exactly Mikey (and I also MORE than agree with you Clint) if Bellers can be worth up to £12 million (?!?!) then why should Benni (who lets be honest is a PROVEN goalscorer and only a couple of years older!!!) be worth any less just because he plays for Rovers or the fact that he is 29-years-old? I know Shevchenko is a different kettle of fish but Chelsea paid £30 million for a 30-year-old why is it unthinkable that Rovers SHOULD demand at least £10-15 million for Benni.

I am not convinced by Darren Bents myself! WHY people are willing to pay ANYWHERE near that for him I can't understand?!?!

benni and bent are similar in a way, Bent scored a lot of goals one season and failed to live up to that, we have to see if Benni can do the same. I agree that if Bellemy is supposedly worth £12m then Benni is worth the same if not more. I think the bigger clubs think they can get players cheap off the likes of Blackburn with talk of wanting players who then say they want a transfer, but we do hold the cards with Benni, long term contract and no need to sell, its going to take a really good offer from Chelsea to get him, so lets see how much Jose wants him, or is he panicking after only winnig 2 cups?? going for a player who he knows and that he could have picked up cheap a couple of years ago, but didnt!! I think this tells a story in its self

Im sorry but you wont get that price for him at his age, i know you can name shev 30m price but there was a difference in reputation and no offence the club they were dealing with ac milan ARE a bigger club than chelsea so this inflated the price and at the time shev was seen as the worlds number one striker. mccarthy is good and i honestly think u cud get around 10-13m from chelsea but that price only from chelsea.

THERE IS NO RELEASE FEE CLAUSE IN HIS CONTRACT!!!!! im sure i even heard the lad himself say it. If there was it would be triggered by now, unless we were smart and put it at 20 mill or something

clint...dont get me wrong ur points are valid but u and i both know it doesnt work that way. Shev was proving himself as the worlds best for 5 years ( or was it more) at one of the worlds best clubs u cant do much better than that combined with chelsea throwing silly money around 30m was the price. However chelsea are not throwing their money around now and wont be held to ransom furthermore ac milan ar a bigger club so they can keep shev if they wanted to offer him more money than chelsea and still claim to be a bigger club but in this instance, blackburn cant match what chelsea offer to mccarthy chelsea know that mccarthy wants to leave and "dirty" tactics could easily be used to issue a transfer request. I think an offer of 12m would be very hard to turn down as the player wont be able to command that few this time next year and you could use that money to strengthen other areas. I dont want it to happen as i hate the way chelsea go about business but when it comes to buying players from (no offence meant) smaller clubs chelsea will use every trick in the book to get their man

couldnt agree more, but unfortunatly im afraid this wont happen

Good article Clint, I agree.