In the latest episode of the Geordie Journos the lads discuss James Trafford and why it was always going to cost more than the £30m people seemed to be stuck on.
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00:00We told you it wasn't going to be a home run. I wrote that story two weeks ago that Nick Pope would stay and everybody else jumped on it and that Trafford was the one that they wanted. But he wasn't going to come. Everyone was saying 30 million this, 30 million that. I never got there. This number comes from. They paid 15 for him. There's a sell on to Man City in the deal. They're not going to take 30 unless they're in financial trouble which is what we said.
00:28The fee Burnley are now asking for is getting into the region of the buyback Man City. Not that they'd trigger that but 40 million pound for the goalkeeper is starting to get a lot of money.