City transfer thread

[Fez]

Blackpool FC ‏@BlackpoolFC
The club can confirm that a compensation package has been agreed with @hullcity for Tom Ince, without the need of a tribunal.

Face-palm that.

 

[Premier_Bound_Tiger]

I'm optimistic that Huddlestone will stay. He came here to play games and I don't think he would be guranteed that at West Ham. If a PL team came in that could offer him 40 games a season I think he'd be off but at the moment I think he's settled

 

[Fez]

The fact that they had gone to a tribunal a week earlier. You're kind of missing my 'they felt the need to restructure the deal on their own' comment.

Yes I was wrong that the ultimate deal was not struck using the tribunal. I can admit that. I'm not sure why you feel the incessant need to hunt down people like you do.

You still haven't answered my question about why you have incorrectly used 2.2m as his cost base given you were so obviously well aware of the fact we only paid 1.5m for him. Would give us a 3.25m profit on him, not the 2.5m everyone has been quoting.

Just a quiet word, but you usually find that those who complain of being hunted (on here) usually start as inept hunters themselves, lending a reason to their peril. Someone else might consider your £2.2M argument a Straw man fallacy, they may be right on this occasion.

 

[petersaxton]

I'm optimistic that Huddlestone will stay. He came here to play games and I don't think he would be guranteed that at West Ham. If a PL team came in that could offer him 40 games a season I think he'd be off but at the moment I think he's settled

I think most footballers would prefer significantly less game time and significantly more money

 

[petersaxton]

Just a quiet word, but you usually find that those who complain of being hunted (on here) usually start as inept hunters themselves, lending a reason to their peril. Someone else might consider your £2.2M argument a Straw man fallacy, they may be right on this occasion.

You are shouting!

 

[Plum]

I think most footballers would prefer significantly less game time and significantly more money

Could be right there, especially the older ones.

 

[tigerpete]

I think most footballers would prefer significantly less game time and significantly more money

Especially when they have just had a big cut in their wages........ if they match his value he will be off.........

 

[Fez]

Unless you can guarantee we have better replacements coming in, why would it be happy days?

Because I think Huddlestone is too inconsistent for our purpose, he doesn't break up attacks and he creates too few for the wedge he is getting. Jelavic is either uninterested or properly out of sorts. Now is the time to ditch, the graveyard is full of indispensable players and I would rather spend another season building a better squad than be frustrated by Hudds sitting deep and contributing **** all.

 

[Fez]

If I had any say in a release clause at a club for a player I would want to write in the release clause expires early in each transfer window. It's madness that a player can announce he's leaving in the last day of the window.

Perhaps it is the act of trying to add these protective caveats that drags out the process and frustrates many? Unfortunately we end up dealing with the **** of newbies and mercenaries, yet treat faithful eservants with a hint of contempt.

 

[Fez]

How did Norwich keep all their players when they went down bar Snoddy and Fer? Seems like they had none of this issue with release clauses.. did they just not cut wages, or did no one really come in for their players?

Contract negotiating is a skill.

 

[Steve.R]

I reckon we should let Wet Spam have Jelavic and Huddlestone if they offer our valuation and then build the team around Meyler

Can't believe you actually wrote the second part

 

[Fez]

Henri Lansbury if Tom goes? Apparently close to joining Burnley but we could try and hijack it

We could do worse,we could risk a repeat of last year's indifference.

 

[Fez]

Dumb and Dumber?

Really? I like Vern, his kids okay too, as long as he stays away from my daughter's!

 

[Fez]

Kinell.

Just get rid of both.

(By that I mean BV and KB, not Thudd and Jela)

****ing hell, listen at him!

 

[GCTiger]

Sell Tom £6m (pure guess at his release clause)
Buy Bridcutt £2m & Lansbury £4m

Best scenario

 

[Fez]

You are shouting!

SILLY BOY! That's shouting.

 

[petersaxton]

Sell Tom £6m (pure guess at his release clause)
Buy Bridcutt £2m & Lansbury £4m

Best scenario

and pure guesses that they will be sold for those prices and will come

 

[petersaxton]

SILLY BOY! That's shouting.

OK it was LOUD whispering

 

[GCTiger]

and pure guesses that they will be sold for those prices and will come

Sunderland want rid, £2m has been quoted a few times in the press. They bought him for £3m
And £4m is what Burnley are offering for Lansbury....although the forest lot seem a little sick of his big head apparently

 

[Fez]

OK it was LOUD whispering

. That's the best sort!