As sad as your friend's story is and i hope they've gotten through what must have been an awful time, the story is still irrelevant to Billy Sharp as he's a completely different person and people deal with these things in their own way. To use it as a reason he'd want to leave Donny is bordering on disrespectful (though i know you'd have never meant it to be)
no. i am trying to say that somethimes people need to change there enviornment and how they live after certain events in there lives. what will happen to billy sharp is anyones guess, but it would not surprise me if he needed to move on. thats all. i have the utmost respect for anyone who loses there child no matter what the age.
I know you'd have respect for the situation, but it was just an unecessary statement to make based on nothing other than you're own assumptions. Anyway, he's stated in an interview that he's happy at Doncaster so what you said was basically just incorrect anyway.
Sorry but if that's the only reason you have to believe Sharp would leave Doncaster then you don't have a reason. Unless you have first hand knowledge that this is the case with Sharp then I'm afraid you're talking rubbish.
i have no idea how billy sharp is feeling or what he thinks will happen in jan. my views were based on passed experience of others who have lost a child. but if Hull City can agree a deal with Donny then YES, it comes down to what B.S. wants to do.
As Billy Sharp has publicly stated his appreciation for all the Doncaster have done for him and stated that he wants to repay that support, I think it's safe to assume that is what he actually wants. He may change his mind in the comings months, he may get an offer he can't refuse, but there's certainly no indication that it's what he wants. And on the subject of starting a fresh elsewhere, if that was a factor, he's hardly likely to pick a place that's only half an hour or so away from where he is already.
I don't think the price was the biggest issue, he knew there was Premier League interest and that's where he wanted to be, I don't think we'd have got him even if we'd offered the £2.8m he went for.
Perhaps right on the PL interest. I'm not sure anyone else was in for him last December/January though and I'm certain the price would have been closer to £1.5m. Norwich became interested before the loan deadline. Anyway, pointless discussion, it's ancient history.
has nothing to do with distance whatsoever. but moving on we shall all know what happens to billy sharp in due course.
Norwich made an approach for him in January but were knocked back apparently, they came in £500k higher in the summer and they still had to up it twice more before it was accepted, so I assume they bid at something like the figure you've quoted.
I assume someone has posted this, but cannot see it.... http://www.teamtalk.com/hull-city/7374432/Barmby-has-transfer-targets
