[Wooden Spoon]

Benno Spire, on 05 July 2014 - 05:20 PM, said:

Higdon wanted 7k per week to sign for CFC. I am sure a club out there will offer want he wants.

How long was this for?

Could we offer a longer deal but lower wage?

[martatcross]

Think the deal is dead now no doubt higdon will get what he wants elsewhere soon

[Ernie Ernie Ernie]

martatcross, on 05 July 2014 - 06:53 PM, said:

Think the deal is dead now no doubt higdon will get what he wants elsewhere soon

According to some on here everyone else has finalised their squads. How can this be with this competition for higdon? Time to move on 6/7k is beyond us

[Westbars Spireite]

martatcross, on 05 July 2014 - 06:53 PM, said:

Think the deal is dead now no doubt higdon will get what he wants elsewhere soon

And if it's only about money for him then he'll be proved 'right'.

[Hector]

£6k, £7k per week ? If this is true, then I'd be horrified if we had agreed to pay this. Relieved we have said no!

[starsky72]

So if 6/7 is too much for a striker who will/should do a good job in L1 the how much should we be looking at paying??

[Nitrous Oxide]

Hector, on 05 July 2014 - 07:41 PM, said:

£6k, £7k per week ? If this is true, then I'd be horrified if we had agreed to pay this. Relieved we have said no!

We might have said yes but not offered his club enough for him.

[Westbars Spireite]

Nitrous Oxide, on 05 July 2014 - 08:30 PM, said:

We might have said yes but not offered his club enough for him.

It sounds like his exit from them had been negotiated.

[Beelzebub]

Westbars Spireite, on 05 July 2014 - 08:32 PM, said:

It sounds like his exit from them had been negotiated.

A tweet from NEC said he'd be given a month's leave to look for another club not that he had been released. Sounds like they want him off the payroll but don't want to pay him up.

[Westbars Spireite]

Beelzebub, on 05 July 2014 - 08:50 PM, said:

A tweet from NEC said he'd be given a month's leave to look for another club not that he had been released. Sounds like they want him off the payroll but don't want to pay him up.

I doubt we'd be in the market for him if there'd been a transfer fee.

[longeatonspireite]

Perhaps we have set our sights too high. Higdon has done well against sides like Ajax, Feyenoord, FC Twente,PSV, plus other quality less well known Dutch Eredivisie sides.
These are not Mansfields and consequently he will be worth more than the run of the mill Div 1 striker, and to questions CFC's ambition is pure wind-up.

[Beelzebub]

Westbars Spireite, on 05 July 2014 - 08:52 PM, said:

I doubt we'd be in the market for him if there'd been a transfer fee.

Agreed, but if they gave him a pay off it would make him more likely to accept a lower wage from his new club.

It is like playing poker, they have been relegated and can't afford him and hope he can get a move but other clubs aren't able to or aren't prepared to match his current wages so he either stays and takes the wages NEC can't afford or NEC pay him off so he doesn't lose out by taking a lower wage elsewhere.

NEC may have to pay up but would obviously prefer not to. We seem go have said his wage demands are too high and, as we seemed to be the highest bidders, there don't seem to be any other takers. NEC are in a difficult position, do they call our bluff or fold and offer him a settlement enabling us to sign him

[Spireite-Karl]

Beelzebub, on 05 July 2014 - 09:08 PM, said:

Agreed, but if they gave him a pay off it would make him more likely to accept a lower wage from his new club.

It is like playing poker, they have been relegated and can't afford him and hope he can get a move but other clubs aren't able to or aren't prepared to match his current wages so he either stays and takes the wages NEC can't afford or NEC pay him off so he doesn't lose out by taking a lower wage elsewhere.

NEC may have to pay up but would obviously prefer not to. We seem go have said his wage demands are too high and, as we seemed to be the highest bidders, there don't seem to be any other takers. NEC are in a difficult position, do they call our bluff or fold and offer him a settlement enabling us to sign him

You could be on to something there.

[Westbars Spireite]

Beelzebub, on 05 July 2014 - 09:08 PM, said:

Agreed, but if they gave him a pay off it would make him more likely to accept a lower wage from his new club.

It is like playing poker, they have been relegated and can't afford him and hope he can get a move but other clubs aren't able to or aren't prepared to match his current wages so he either stays and takes the wages NEC can't afford or NEC pay him off so he doesn't lose out by taking a lower wage elsewhere.

NEC may have to pay up but would obviously prefer not to. We seem go have said his wage demands are too high and, as we seemed to be the highest bidders, there don't seem to be any other takers. NEC are in a difficult position, do they call our bluff or fold and offer him a settlement enabling us to sign him

You may not be a million miles away.

[DMU Blue]

Can you imagine how our fans would react if we signed a player on 6k a week who didn't bag a goal in the first two games?

[Goku]

DMU Blue, on 05 July 2014 - 11:14 PM, said:

Can you imagine how our fans would react if we signed a player on 6k a week who didn't bag a goal in the first two games?

No. What would it be?

[azul]

DMU Blue, on 05 July 2014 - 11:14 PM, said:

Can you imagine how our fans would react if we signed a player on 6k a week who didn't bag a goal in the first two games?

That one has been done to death by bellzybub, try a new angle for god sake

[Westbars Spireite]

DMU Blue, on 05 July 2014 - 11:14 PM, said:

Can you imagine how our fans would react if we signed a player on 6k a week who didn't bag a goal in the first two games?

I think you overestimate the stupidity of the fanbase.

[Rodney's Moustache]

So lets say the scenario is that Higdon signed for 7k and his goals fired us to promotion would people then say it was too much given Rotherham's estimate of 4 million for getting into the championship.There in lies the difference between a team that has genuine ambitions and one that only talks the talk.Two things in football are certs England will never win a major tournament and CFCwill never play in the Championship.Personally I don't care about England and will settle for CFC being competitive in league one but even that is starting to look like it's beyond our ambitions.

This post has been edited by Rodney's Moustache: 05 July 2014 - 11:45 PM

[Ernie Ernie Ernie]

starsky72, on 05 July 2014 - 07:50 PM, said:

So if 6/7 is too much for a striker who will/should do a good job in L1 the how much should we be looking at paying??

What we can afford