[Topman]

I’m worried here, I know blues wanted him as we stole him from under their noses. With thier new takeover and cash from the Bellingham transfer they may be interested. Indeed, radio wm daz hale at the back end of last season was doing his best to sell him to blues

[gazberg]

Stoke trying again at 2.5m

[mulliganstired]

It would be as mad as f we'd sold someone like Horsfield at the end of a window with no cover coming in.  Oh.

[SmethDan]

Lyle Thomas

#StokeCity have had a £2m bid rejected by #WestBrom for striker Brandon Thomas-Asante. Considering another. Other clubs monitoring situation as well. #WBA skysports.com/football/live-…

Not an expert in such matters but I've read somewhere (possibly on here) that Stoke are supposed to be quite close to their FFP limits. Regardless of that they can get stuffed anyway as they're only allowed to buy players from us that nobody else wants and at extortionate inflated prices. Those are the rules.

[tambag]

You get these silly low offers for your players when your owner takes money out of the club and leaves us with no money.

[tambag]

Lewis Cox
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Albion have rejected two bids from Stoke City for Brandon Thomas-Asante. Offers have been well below #wba valuation of the striker. The club do not want to sell. @ESAlbion_star

[Dan]

He's the one bit of particularly smart business we've done in a good while (thanks to Steve Bruce's son in law...). Really does show the benefit of looking beyond the premier league and championship, there's good players out there.

[baggies_24]

At an absolute minimum BTA should be going for £4-5m. £1m to reinvest in another striker & £3m to pay off the debts. £2.5m Stoke can get stuffed.

[beechyboy90]

Surely we cannot afford to sell BTA even for double. We are not going to have enough time to bring anybody in.

[Albion79]

You would hope that we have a shortlist of strikers from the lower leagues who were in a similar position to BTA when he was Salford - young, hungry, raw and lot of potential to get better, players who we could get should BTA be sold.

That has to be our business model for our current positon, and we should have players like that lined up for every position ready for when the current crop go, sadly i doubt that is the case.

It may be an agent leaking the news of a bid, try and get a bidding war going, as much as we say we dont want to sell, with our position any interested clubs know there is a deal to be done if they really want someone, we wont play hardball too much.

We should be asking a lot as tranfer fees are crazy this summer, however i am not sure i see Stoke paying £5m, i wouldnt be shocked if its something like £3.5m, a sell on clause and probably Dwight Gayle on loan for the season, gives CC a striker and tugs at our fans heartstrings (i am not saying i would like that deal but this is the albion!)

[royhan]

Stoke are taking the proverbial p..s. If he continues his present goal scoring in this division we could add a nought to the 2 in 12 months time. We will probably sell him for peanuts and bring in a has been 35 year old.

[paulosull]

I’d say every player is up for sale and clubs are low balling us because owners are desperate

[mulliganstired]

I’d say every player is up for sale and clubs are low balling us because owners are desperate

I'm afraid so.

[KYA]

 This window is bad enough selling BTA leaving us with only one recognised striker would be the cherry on the cake and if it happened would CC say that's enough I'm off.

[kevan49]

Wouldn’t be surprised if he did. He says he needs another defender and striker. At the moment Asante is it until Maja and Sarmiento are ready, even if Dike finally does get back before the end of the year we would be crazy to sell our only starting striker.

[mikehy]

This has got Davis from Villa as replacement written all over it

[Standaman]

Earlier in the window Stoke paid around £3.5m for Ryan Mmaee from Hungarian club Ferencvárosi. That is the absolute bare minimum that BTA should go for given that he has already had a good season in the Championship and has two years remaining on his contract.

The plain fact is that there isn't a player that isn't for sale and a good offer (c£5m) cannot be rejected particularly if we aren't in a position to extend the contract and short of a stellar season and Premier League level interest he will be worth considerably less next summer i.e. the £2.5m that seems to be Stoke's lowball offer.

[Blowee]

Wouldn’t be surprised if he did. He says he needs another defender and striker. At the moment Asante is it until Maja and Sarmiento are ready, even if Dike finally does get back before the end of the year we would be crazy to sell our only starting striker.

We have done it before. I remember Robbie Earnshaw’s late departure.

[graka]

They have just sold Jacob brown to Luton for I think 4.5 million
I’d happily have Tyreece Campbell and a couple of million for him

[gazberg]

We have done it before. I remember Robbie Earnshaw’s late departure.

All time classic that was. Relegation guaranteed and it was

[overseas baggie]

Stoke are taking the proverbial p..s. If he continues his present goal scoring in this division we could add a nought to the 2 in 12 months time. We will probably sell him for peanuts and bring in a has been 35 year old.

It’s their payback for Berahino and McLean

[Mikkyk]

Stoke hate him anyway don't they

[skyclad99]

They have just sold Jacob brown to Luton for I think 4.5 million
I’d happily have Tyreece Campbell and a couple of million for him

More likely to be offered Dwight Gayle and £2m and no doubt our esteemed leaders will go for that….

[tambag]

More likely to be offered Dwight Gayle and £2m and no doubt our esteemed leaders will go for that….

We can't afford Gayles wages.

Actually we can't afford anybody's wages

[johnny Cash]

I’d take £4m for him if we weren’t in the mess we are, but we know very little if any of that would be available to reinvest and so I don’t think we can’t afford to lose him if we have any remote chance of making the play offs.