[brianclose]

DT reporting this morning that Wigan are still favourites.

[Brownyblue]

azul, on 15 July 2015 - 09:10 PM, said:

My sauce said they offered £850K up front but we've managed to negotiate £400K in instalments with add-ons up to £600K because that is the way deals are negotiated these days

Who is your source? Tommy K?

[fishini]

Xerxes, on 16 July 2015 - 06:49 AM, said:

Don't you listen to the Chief Exec's interviews?

And here lies the problem. I for one believe little anything he says

[DIFH]

azul, on 15 July 2015 - 09:10 PM, said:

My sauce said they offered £850K up front but we've managed to negotiate £400K in instalments with add-ons up to £600K because that is the way deals are negotiated these days

A SWEET AND SOUR ARRANGEMENT THEN.

[Mr Mercury]

Xerxes, on 16 July 2015 - 06:49 AM, said:

Don't you listen to the Chief Exec's interviews?

Sadly yes. So I repeat.. Where have we GOT a million?

[Wooden Spoon]

Xerxes, on 16 July 2015 - 06:49 AM, said:

Don't you listen to the Chief Exec's interviews?

😄😀😉😂😆

[The Earl of Chesterfield]

Xerxes, on 16 July 2015 - 06:49 AM, said:

Don't you listen to the Chief Exec's interviews?

You Sir, have a very dry and ironic wit!

[Goku]

MDCCCLXVI, on 16 July 2015 - 01:28 PM, said:

You Sir, have a very dry and ironic wit!

He's doing it on purpose now.

[The Earl of Chesterfield]

dtp, on 15 July 2015 - 08:03 PM, said:

But, then again, all that Chris has said is that he has been told that somebody thinks that a championship, club unknown to him, might, at sometime in the future, make a sizeable bid for Clucas

Hardly a statement of fact, is it?

A possibility, yes.

But, eh, I think that some time in the future some club I can't guess which, but might be a championship club, might make a sizeable offer for Morsy.

Similarly, I think that some time in the future a club, unknown to me, might make a sizeable offer for Darikwa.

Chances are - I will be right aren't they?

That's a fair enough post, 'dtp'.

However it wouldn't surprise me if things move far faster than you suggest.

[Tha Knows...]

fishini, on 15 July 2015 - 07:28 PM, said:

15% to the yellow poo. Team slowly but surely being dismantled. That will be 3 gone and 1 in

With a "watch this space" on Darikwa and Morsy

[ELTON 2020]

Town_Fan, on 15 July 2015 - 08:41 PM, said:

Do you know what? So what if we do. That the best part of 2.5 million brought into the club in recent times.

People moan like crazy yet fail to see how far we have come. Normality for this club is seeing our players released and now we get upset if they go for less than a million (not aimed at you Ex3).

Long may it continue I say. The key is to keep up the standard of buy low sell high.

Fair point - but does this mean we get anything to spend on the team? Is the debt going down? Do we need fewer people to attend to break even? Is Allen a happier man than he was 2 years ago? Mmmm

[fishini]

Elton John 1866, on 16 July 2015 - 03:30 PM, said:

Fair point - but does this mean we get anything to spend on the team? Is the debt going down? Do we need fewer people to attend to break even? Is Allen a happier man than he was 2 years ago? Mmmm

Spend on team? LOL

[Siberian Spireite]

Whatever his faults, Cook knew the northern (especially north-western) football scene very well and had a great eye for a player, though I don't know how much of a contribution Paul Mitchell made to the signings of Raglan, Ryan, Gardner, Clucas, Banks, Doyle, Roberts etc.

I just have the feeling we've been spoilt by the past couple of years of acquiring good young talent on the cheap- it's a helluva trick which all clubs are trying to pull, and CFC pre-Cook were rubbish at it, the odd exception such as Kev Davies and Jamie Ward aside.

[Wooden Spoon]

Siberian Spireite, on 16 July 2015 - 03:35 PM, said:

Whatever his faults, Cook knew the northern (especially north-western) football scene very well and had a great eye for a player, though I don't know how much of a contribution Paul Mitchell made to the signings of Raglan, Ryan, Gardner, Clucas, Banks, Doyle, Roberts etc.

I just have the feeling we've been spoilt by the past couple of years of acquiring good young talent on the cheap- it's a helluva trick which all clubs are trying to pull, and CFC pre-Cook were rubbish at it, the odd exception such as Kev Davies and Jamie Ward aside.

When see the wage bill for the last 2 seasons I'm not sure we did it on the cheap

[Ernie Ernie Ernie]

Siberian Spireite, on 16 July 2015 - 03:35 PM, said:

Whatever his faults, Cook knew the northern (especially north-western) football scene very well and had a great eye for a player, though I don't know how much of a contribution Paul Mitchell made to the signings of Raglan, Ryan, Gardner, Clucas, Banks, Doyle, Roberts etc.

I just have the feeling we've been spoilt by the past couple of years of acquiring good young talent on the cheap- it's a helluva trick which all clubs are trying to pull, and CFC pre-Cook were rubbish at it, the odd exception such as Kev Davies and Jamie Ward aside.

I'm not sure we can yet say any of raglan, Banks or Gardner have been successful signings. Raglan has shown potential in abundance and looks like he will make a right player but he has yet to make a first team spot his own and then he will have to keep it over a long period. The other 2 appar to be going backwards

[lindave]

Ernie Ernie Ernie, on 16 July 2015 - 04:31 PM, said:

I'm not sure we can yet say any of raglan, Banks or Gardner have been successful signings. Raglan has shown potential in abundance and looks like he will make a right player but he has yet to make a first team spot his own and then he will have to keep it over a long period. The other 2 appar to be going backwards

Raglan is the one I'm wanting to see in the cb spot, he a class player and given the chance by DS, he'll be bringing in another chunky fee come the end of season.

[moondog]

Siberian Spireite, on 16 July 2015 - 03:35 PM, said:

Whatever his faults, Cook knew the northern (especially north-western) football scene very well and had a great eye for a player, though I don't know how much of a contribution Paul Mitchell made to the signings of Raglan, Ryan, Gardner, Clucas, Banks, Doyle, Roberts etc.

I just have the feeling we've been spoilt by the past couple of years of acquiring good young talent on the cheap- it's a helluva trick which all clubs are trying to pull, and CFC pre-Cook were rubbish at it, the odd exception such as Kev Davies and Jamie Ward aside.

I think with the exception of Doyle and possibly Roberts all were Paul Mitchell recommendations, Cook wouldn't have wanted to tempt him to Pompey otherwise

[DIFH]

lindave, on 16 July 2015 - 06:07 PM, said:

Raglan is the one I'm wanting to see in the cb spot, he a class player and given the chance by DS, he'll be bringing in another chunky fee come the end of season.

Not if he doesn't extend his deal soon

[calvin plummers socks]

Spire-Power, on 16 July 2015 - 02:09 PM, said:

With a "watch this space" on Darikwa and Morsy

I can't see Chris Turner allowing Clucas or Darikwa or Morsey to go-any Chief Exec worth his salt will be looking at enhancing the squad not dismantling it

[moondog]

calvin plummers socks, on 16 July 2015 - 07:08 PM, said:

I can't see Chris Turner allowing Clucas or Darikwa or Morsey to go-any Chief Exec worth his salt will be looking at enhancing the squad not dismantling it

It wouldn't be Turner's call, Dave Allen calls the shots