City transfer thread

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Happy Tiger said:
Could one of you making statements about his contract and who said what to who or who did what, please post the copies of the contracts and/or the minutes of said meetings?

Just so we know you're not just grinding the same old axes and speculating. Or talking bollocks. Take your pick.
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I always talk bollocks unless I happen to be right. Then it just looks like I'm talking bollocks.

Sorry I don't have access to the contracts. I just like to think our owners make their own decisions and don't let Tom Ince or his dad tell them what to do. If we'd have stayed up no one would have batted an eyelid if Tom Ince had gone to Derby County.
 
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Obadiah said:
I always talk bollocks unless I happen to be right. Then it just looks like I'm talking bollocks.

Sorry I don't have access to the contracts. I just like to think our owners make their own decisions and don't let Tom Ince or his dad tell them what to do. If we'd have stayed up no one would have batted an eyelid if Tom Ince had gone to Derby County.
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For me - it was a shame Tom never got more game time

I know he missed a couple of great chances early on but if we persevered with him I think he'd have knocked one in and then I think he'd have scored a few goals last season

As opposed to Aluko who Bruce has given countless chances to play and has never really looked like scoring many
 
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Ince wants to play at Derby as he's welcome there and has been a success, despite not making the play-offs they're a club on the up wheras our ownership is a disgrace and I'd be surprised if anyone trusts them anymore. I even think Bruce is too close to the owners and they don't want to pay compensation to get rid of him.
 
tigercity said:
Ince wants to play at Derby as he's welcome there and has been a success, despite not making the play-offs they're a club on the up wheras our ownership is a disgrace and I'd be surprised if anyone trusts them anymore. I even think Bruce is too close to the owners and they don't want to pay compensation to get rid of him.
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Ouch... It must have really hurt when you banged your head that hard.
 
Obadiah said:
He wasn't in our plans, we agree a fee with Blackpool and insert a right to buy clause which doubles his value. We expected to be in the Premier League and losing Tom Ince wasn't a big deal so we put it in the contract. Ehab sat back counting the pennies as Tom Ince started scoring for fun, until we were relegated. We then scrambled around in a panic trying to find a way to stop the sale.

All courtesy of tigerev's post, with a little embellishment. Makes more sense then Paul Ince holding us over a barrel to get his son a contract with Derby County.

If Derby County sell him on to Newcastle United, will we get more money from a sell on clause? Or did we forget to put one in?
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Your theory is plausible, although I think it is improbable. We had Europe and two cups to tip our cap at, we also had one winger (or is he a defender <whistle>) , Brady, with a chequered injury history and yet to fully prove himself. Bruce was pretty much nailing his colours to 3-5-2 but he knew he needed options and saw Ince as a midfielder or second striker.I know it sounds daft, but, truth is, it was. I think Ince was shipped out because he failed to deliver and Bruce could neither justify, to the owners, keeping him on payroll when cups were a pipedream and he could not justify, to Messrs Ince, the family friend sitting on the bench. What went wrong was Bruce's inability to get the best out of Ince and others. The clause can only be explained, if you follow this theory, as an act of folly or favouritism.
 
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HCAFC (Airlie Tiger) said:
Spot on, judge the squad when all business has been completed.

This might be a massive mistake, it might not, the lad obviously had a good loan spell with Derby but he's small piece of a large jigsaw, if we have a capable squad come the end of the transfer window then I'll be happy.
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I haven't seen anyone judging the squad, just discussing the strange events that unfolded with the one we had.
 
tigercity said:
Ince wants to play at Derby as he's welcome there and has been a success, despite not making the play-offs they're a club on the up wheras our ownership is a disgrace and I'd be surprised if anyone trusts them anymore. I even think Bruce is too close to the owners and they don't want to pay compensation to get rid of him.
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Along these lines
 
Smartarse™ said:
Seriously do you not think these things through?

Who is Tom Ince's dad?
How man other clubs was Ince touted around for the two seasions prior to joining us?

Bruce promised Paul Ince that he would give Tom game time if he signed for us (the Europa League).

That didn't go to plan and Bruce had to send him out on loan.
It will have been Paul Ince who insisted in the clause in the Derby deal.
Bruce will have had no choice but to agree to those terms because he couldn't offer Ince football in the starting 11.

We don't want to sell. The club's hand is been forced by Ince senior.
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What absolute bllushit, The club's hand was forced cos Bruce decided to become **** at being a manager in his second season in the EPL with City. A trait he's demonstrated at other clubs too.
 
I heard on good authority that Ince had been a bad lad which is why he was discarded by Bruce , don't shoot the messenger, just mentioning what someone told me.
 
Derby boss Paul Clement confirms club are trying to sign Tom Ince

Derby County manager Paul Clement says the club are determined sign Hull winger Tom Ince this summer and he suggested Burnley's Jason Shackell is also of interest.

Sky Sports reported on Wednesday that Ince, who thrived on loan at the Rams last season, was to hold talks with Hull over his future and that both Derby and their former manager Steve McClaren, now at Newcastle, are interested in his transfer.

Derby have so far signed Darren Bent from Aston Villa as well as Alex Pearce, Chris Baird, Scott Carson and young striker Shaquille McDonald from Cheltenham.

http://www1.skysports.com/football/...ent-confirms-club-are-trying-to-sign-tom-ince
 
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