At least that's put an end to the "will he won't he return"threads. A door must close before another one opens. Let's hope for those two DM's we need in the next few days-thats if Grayson actually wants that type of midfielder. After all he's had over a year since Doyle left-how difficult can it be???
Rumours are that we offered him 13k p/w after his agent had already told the board they'd been offered 21k by Ipswich.
wasn't that fussed either way if he came back or not...Ipswich are assembling a pretty strong squad tho I suupose they had to after the dross that Keane brought in
He isn't worth £21k a week, especially considering Becchio's on £11k. Imagine the kind of rift that would create in the squad.
It's the same as Smith and Woodgate - they'd be good signings if they were on low wages. But to pay £21k a week for a 35 year old? Madness.
Good, I don't want the same greedy ****er coming back to our club who ****ed us out of millions back when we were crippled.
Smith , Woodgate , Bowyer all players well past there prime who are looking for one last pay day . If Ipswich are paying 21k a week for Bowyer then good luck to them if they struggle again this season then they will join the long list of clubs posting large losses .. Call Bates what you like and a lot do but he wont pay this kind of money for any one
He was paying around that much for McCartney, O'Brien and Schmeichel, it would seem. That's the right amount to be paying a decent Championship player, but I definitely wouldn't want Bowyer around for that sum. For any sum.
Wouldn't want him back, for the €€€ he is looking for we would get 2 better, younger player for that kind of dosh.
i think bates is considerably smarter than what people give him credit for, it does bite him in the ass sometimes but players like bowyer are not worth that much in wages and rightly so bates is not willing to pay it out