Daily Mail reports David Moyes will loan Wilfred Zaha out in the new year . They state that Palace, Swansea, West Brom, Stoke and Newcastle are all interested. With Steve Bruce's United connections will City be given the opportunity to give him some premier league experience. Also if he did join us would he fit into our team / system?
Also, I saw today that Ince is available for £4m in January, he'd be a very good signing. Spurs were linked though!
We've no chance on that one. Unless he isn't after the money and is just after playing football. Which is very unlikely...
All depends on league positions and performances but I think we'll be long down Ince's list of suitors and Zaha will either go back to Palace or to a big (ish at least) club. I'd love too see both here, specially Zaha I think he's just what we need; that fast, tricky right footed winger we don't have. Doubt we'll see either though.
A couple of you have mentioned "It'll depend on league positions" in the Zaha case.. My question is why ? Is it, don't loan out a player to one of your likely/potential competitors, or is it loan to a team that can do most damage to your likely/potential competitors ? The Ince rumour seems bizarre. Didn't Cardiff offer 8 million quid, which was turned down by father & son ? Why all of a sudden 4 million ? Makes no sense ?
He did stay at Blackpool instead of going to Cardiff. If we are hovering around mid table, we may have a chance.
Sorry, don't understand. Cardiff offered( a reported) 8 mill in the summer, which was refused by any one of or permutation of Blackpool AFC, Ince (son) & Ince (manager). Now ( & I admit I haven't checked it), Lewis29 is saying he's available for 4 mill. What are you saying will be the same in Jan ? 4 mill or 8 mill ? There appears to have been an immense devaluation of Tom Ince in the marketplace, if lewis29's statement is correct, in just 3/4 months by the selling team (Blackpool). Why would they not take the 8 mill from Cardiff last summer ? Some very strange stuff going on here surely ? What's Ince junior's weekly salary for the period between Jan and the end of his contract and his worth as lost value to Blackpool ? This is really weird, but then again, Lewis29 could be making it up. Remember Liverpool & Spurs alleged interest.....a crock....at that 8 million price tag. Perhaps realism has hit the Blackpool financial guys finally - but a bloody big mistake not taking the 8 million from Cardiff ( or Spurs or Liverpool) if any of that was ever true. Stupid business.....
I'm saying it will be 4mil in Jan. The closer it gets to his contract expiry date, the 'easier', so to speak, it is to get someone for a cheaper price because if they do not sell him they risk losing him for nothing.
Daily Star states Juventus and Napoli are interested in Ince. Might a load of tripe. The Italian giants are weighing up bids for Ince after learning they could strike a deal in January to sign him for £335,000. Ince is out of contract next summer and Blackpool will only be entitled to compensation if he leaves then. But FIFA rules mean Ince can move to a club outside England for a cut-price compensation fee at the end of his deal. Tottenham are the leading English contenders to land Ince but will have to pay much more to land him. After a last-ditch move in the summer, Spurs are set to try their luck again in the new year and hope £4m will be enough to get their man.
Macca, I understand that. But why would they not have taken the 8 million allegedly offered 3/4 months ago ? ....unless it was a crock of s**t engineered by the press and/or Tom Ince's agent (not his father is it ?), or total incompetence on Blackpool's and/or the Inces' parts. Summat not right about this whole thing...Liverpool, Spurs & Cardiff, all Premier League teams, offering (allegedly) 8 million. If they are now (allegedly) willing to let him go for 4 mill, 5/6 months before his contract ends, that's unbelievably bad business, or incredibly naive poker playing. That's all I'm suggesting. I'm not arguing with your points. Essentially Blackpool stand to lose 4 million in 6 months, or 8 million in 12 months, if all the reports over the last 3/4 months are true. In either case incredibly stupid business. Well Tom - Juve, Spurs or the Tigers ( Hull City AFC) ? What's it to be ? I've intentionally left out Napoli as they are too far South & too close to volcanoes.
Indeed he did, if you can believe the press reports. It just makes this whole thing even more puzzling. I suspect Liverpool & Spurs would have been his preferred choices, in that order, but neither team were willing to pay the 8 million price tag Blackpool were holding out for. Cardiff may well not have been a team Ince jnr., backed by Ince snr, saw as an attractive career move. (can hardly blame them on that score). Blackpool AFC have blown a financial opportunity. The Inces may well have played their cards right as far as their agenda is concerned, assuming the current press rumours are correct. Dirty business.... good luck to the lad, it's a short career.
