Chopra Fee Set to Go to Sunderland Fri 10th Jun 2011 09:43 The £1.5 million the Blues look set to pay Cardiff for striker Michael Chopra appears likely to go to his former club Sunderland with the Bluebirds still owing the Black Cats part of the fee they agreed when the 27-year-old returned to Wales in July 2009. As reported last night, Chopra is due to continue talks at Portman Road and looks likely to sign on the dotted line at some point today. Last summer, Cardiff renegotiated a payment which was due to the Wearsiders at a time when former Town boss Roy Keane was hoping to sign the 27-year-old frontman. The Bluebirds are understood to still owe Sunderland £1.5 million for Chopra, who cost them a fee variously reported as £3 million or £4 million. Elsewhere, Leicester are reportedly the favourites to sign Portsmouth striker David Nugent, who was linked with the Blues earlier in the summer. The one-time England frontman is out of contract. LOVING IT, One who tried to **** us over now got no contract,,,,, respect ROY K another tosser who bottled it, now the moneys coming home.
Its funny but David Nugents decison not only to snub us but to also have a pop at Keane as well has really bitten hard. his career has simply gone into obscurity since that decison and he is now a forgotton figure totally in football terms. Who knows what lay in store for him had he come to us as he would have been a starting player who may well have notched a hatful of goals and gone on to bigger and better things. A lesson there for EVERY player and I can see Henderson havin g lots of bench time at Anfield next season instead of another 30 or 40 games under his belt. Is that really going to make him a better player? Richer yes but better? I dont see how. As for Bent, I am really pleased his Villa move is turning into a nightmare and I hope his career stumbles along from now on as well like Nugent. That would be sweeter than fresh honey to ths poster.
Sadly Cest the 80-100l a week that he's taking home will calm his savaged and beating breast at sitting on the bench. If playing regular games was a priority he wouldn't have gone. He was arguably playing too much football last season. Had he stayed another year I really doubt whether we'd have seen a bid of this magnitude for him.
Who knows and as Syd says, its a conundrum we will never know the answer too? If he has a storming under 21 Euro's, how much more could we have got for him? If he had rattled in 7 or 8 goals next season what price then but equally, he could have bombed and be worth £5m or £6m? Thats football I guess.
If Chopra had some minerals and scored that goal, he would have been on free beer for life, Newcastle fans wouldnt have bothered him, same as Clive Mendonca [sorry spelling]in the play offs against his home team, one a pro, the other ,,,,,,,,well you summed him up in one word.
And nobody would have a problem with that, unfortunately you didnt play for SUNDERLAND, so the likelyhood of the folks on here spending days and nights talking about you are slim to say the least, but I hear you. this is not by anymeans a put down, you find that job, an Im coming with you.
Bill, all I'm saying is there's not one of us I'd hazzard a guess, on any of these boards that wouldn't jump at the chance of quadrupling our wages, regardless of what we earn at present.
Correct in the context, but somethings Id draw a line under, one of which being married to that pneumatic jordan bint, another returning to my ex missus, but would mull the rest over, and wonder who I had to kill, and who they supported,
