Jake O'Brien

[Bluedylan1]

I think the only logic I could see is if we got big money for him, which maybe we could in the current market.

[Cereal Killer]

Must be soul destroying getting skinned by Beto every day in training, no wonder he wants to go

[Toddacelli]

Get rid of the old melts currently stinking the gaff out.

Upon reading this comment back about Keane and Tarks - I think you can safely apply it to Moyes as well.

[Shogun]

Is he actually that good at CB anyway though? Like I get why people are annoyed at this rumour but he's 25 and has mostly played as a RB for us. If we get good money for him and it means Moyes can't pick him at RB ever again then I don't think it's too bad.

If it opens up the funds for Doue/Munoz and we get another CB back in then I think we come out of that well.

[Raptor]

Michael Keane must deffo have a load of nudes of Moyes' Mrs or something. He can't fucking run, is pretty much always a fuck up waiting to happen and should be nowhere near a Premier League starting 11. Tarkowski seems to be rapidly heading the same way, so why the fuck can Moyes not see that his slow as fuck centre halves will cost us games again this season.
O'Brien can't displace Keane because Keane is teacher's pet. Moyes was exactly the same with Phil Bastard Neville. He could be absolute shite but still be first name on the teamsheet the following week. Is Michael Keane a fucking grass like Neville was?

I want Moyes out more than anyone, and I have similar takes on Dibling last season with McNeil, but this is different.
JOB isn't a young inexperienced player and I do believe if he was better he'd be playing. We all do it, but sometimes not playing enhances your reputation more than playing, and he clearly isn't that great as he hasn't done enough to displace either Keane or Tarks.

Id still rather keep him, as long term it makes sense, but if that's not on his agenda then it's not really a massive issue imo, we aren't losing Maldini or Baresi, it's back up for Keane and Tarks

[AjaxAndy]

Is he actually that good at CB anyway though? Like I get why people are annoyed at this rumour but he's 25 and has mostly played as a RB for us. If we get good money for him and it means Moyes can't pick him at RB ever again then I don't think it's too bad.

If it opens up the funds for Doue/Munoz and we get another CB back in then I think we come out of that well.

Yep 25, hasn't nailed down a starting role at CB, 2 years left on his contract, and the possible doubling of what we paid if we could get £35m for example for him.

It's not what we wanted to see, as we hoped he'd had his Lescott year and would now go on to be just as good as he was... but if he's not actually deemed good enough, and we can shift for good money, replace and also buy an RB with the funds, well it's not as outrageous as some are suggesting.

It's a bit disappointing as we all had high hopes for him, but I bet there's plenty of CBs we could buy for less than we'd get for him who are equally good if not better.

Sometimes you just have to sell a player at the right time, and this may well be it.

[blueToffee]

I don't think we really know how good he is at CB. It's been rather limited information.

IF he wants to go to be a starter and we can get the Chelsea kid in who can cover CB/RB then it could make sense. I just don't want to sell him and get some random 32 year old journeyman in to cover, then Branthwaite gets injured and it all looks a bit silly.

I doubt we'd get a huge amount for him though at this point due to his lack of regular minutes at CB, which makes it a bit less appealing. It depends on what the replacements would cost I suppose.

[MayorFarnham]

I don't get the upset. He's never done more than OK and has had three years to command a start at centre half but never really has. Anything over 25mill and we've made decent money on a player we took a chance on.

[Kerryblueboy]

Is he actually that good at CB anyway though? Like I get why people are annoyed at this rumour but he's 25 and has mostly played as a RB for us. If we get good money for him and it means Moyes can't pick him at RB ever again then I don't think it's too bad.

If it opens up the funds for Doue/Munoz and we get another CB back in then I think we come out of that well.

How many games has he played center half for us you are making your mind up based on him playing rb is he better than tark and Keane yes he is Moyes ruining this team

[CorkyOnTour]

Makes you wonder if he’s fallen out with Moyes

[Stumpy]

With Branthwite's injury record we are playing a very dangerous game here.
There is no way on earth tarkowski and keane should ever play together in the league again, both should have been moved on.
Honest to god i give up with these clowns

[TheRam]

Would be nice to know if he’s good enough or not.

He’s been here for two years.

He’s had one manager who who refused to play him and basically say he’s shite, and the other who’s played him out of position and left him out to dry when he was clearly struggling there.

You can either trust Dyche and Moyes and assume that he must be a rubbish centre half, or you could say both managers are blinded by experience and being a “good lad” over talent.

Either way, it’s a mess of a situation to find ourselves in with less than a week before the window closes.

[Dchans]

Be interesting to see the level of clubs that come in for him

Doubt it would be anyone higher up than us at present unless he goes abroad

[StirlingBlue]

With the new squad cost ratio rules making swap deals more appealing I wonder if Palace are interested in a swap (plus they pay us a bit) for Munoz.

They need a CB and have too many RBs.

Then we get Acheampong in from Chelsea on a loan to buy to cover the Branthwaite athletic CB role.

It’d be a shame as a like O’Brien and think he deserves a go at CB but Moyes ain’t dropping Tarks

[Kerryblueboy]

Jared gets injured and we are back to Keane and tark at the back can’t see how anyone can have decided he isn’t a good center half when he has only played there about 5 times for us and did well when he played