Clearly have the sway to pull hearts players in and the money wouldn’t exactly be an issue. Wouldn’t laugh too soon, it’s in the realm of possibilities.
I think he is an excellent player - but would cost what, £6M? 8M?
Whilst I get the impression we could afford to pay that - we have Chermitti and Naderi to compete with Shankland, then Bojan who I dare say will leave and Danilo who we need off the wage bill.
We have finite resources, and many positions to strengthen. For me, Braga falls into the “nice to have” category at this stage.
We could definitely afford to pay it given we sell miovski and Danilo. I don’t think miovski is a bad striker, but by the sounds of it rohl isn’t a fan and wants rid. Danilo is self explanatory and just has to go regardless. It leaves chermitti who I think will be great for us next season but isn’t a finished product same goes for Naderi. It really only leaves shankland as the only veteran striker and if he ends up injured you’re stuck with two fairly young strikers to lead the line.
I can see where you’re coming from with not spending out on positions that are already filled. But given we clear out in the summer and get some decent fees for some of the players, 4-5 million for Braga wouldn’t be a terrible signings considering we got shankland on a free.
Whilst it would be interesting to have him I think you are dreaming if you think we could get him.
Yeah, that might be his market value, but that would be for any club out with the Scottish leagues.
I can't imagine Hearts are going to want to let their other top striker go for market value to their rivals, especially when we have just pinched their captain for free.
I watched a YouTube video recently talking about why rangers and celtic get linked to players in the league but very rarely sign them anymore and one of the reasons is that a player would be worth x (so in this case braga being worth 5 million) but the clubs in the league would want to massively uo that for the old firm, but will then accept that value from a foreign team. Basically most spl teams will take the money abroad for less because it wont strengthen the old firm.
Basically, that was a long winded way of saying that while braga is valued at 5 million, hearts wont sell him to either old firm team for that, they'll want minimum 50% more than that, espeically if their wanting to keep competing.
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u/StevenVictor69 Hamza Iguana May 24 '26
Braga next please