Good shout, mate! I've been thinking this for a while - Bruce is moving us from competing for players in a sellers' market, to having enough pull to find and get who we need. (A kind of buyers' market?)
Fraizer Campbell
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Good shout, mate! I've been thinking this for a while - Bruce is moving us from competing for players in a sellers' market, to having enough pull to find and get who we need. (A kind of buyers' market?)
I played in that team for a few years - Nicky was a different gear to Stu
Was it Jackson's juniors? Drawing a blank.
You will have seen them both every week, I only played against them twice a season. I can only judge from the games I.played in I suppose
A few names - mainly Springhead and National Tigers.. Nicky was a year younger than everyone - which at those age makes a fair difference - and he was still head and shoulders above the rest of us!!
We played a game where every Division 1 club had a scout there as well as Rangers and Juventus. Stu must have played well in that game because they weren't there to watch him!
Just seen on ssn that the mackems have made a bid for Danny graham and was saying Frazier Campbell will be aloud to leave the club and could join Steve Bruce at hull.
Mate of mine who lives in and supports Cardiff has just welcomed Frasier Campbell on facebook. looks like we've missed out again. Sorry if this is old news but couldn't be bothered to read the 300+ comments above.
Yeah, that was earlier this afternoon/evening, but who knows if that makes it official. It seems likely though.
Does seem likely but Barton wished Remy good luck at Newcastle the other day so I guess it's not 100%.
I'm sure he also said that he'd, "told him what to expect at Newcastle" and then, after it was announced Remy was actually going to QPR, "looks like Llambias has done it again"
Something like that anyway.
Twitter is claiming that Campbell is signing for Cardiff on a 25,000 pound a week deal. That seems like a lot of money for him, but I guess if they go up it wont be a problem.
Mate has just texted me that this instant. That is a daft wage in this division.
Nowt compared to Loic Remy and QPR (£70K a week) though. They'll be ****ed if they don't stay up.
Mate also said ex City player, Hope Akpan's gone to Reading.
Hope Akpan went to Reading last week. i could av told u that and dont know why you didnt already know already. Think it was reported on here somewhere.
CARDIFF City have won the battle to sign Fraizer Campbell – unless there is a last-minute glitch in the deal, writes Graeme Anderson.
The Bluebirds emerged as surprise bidders for the Sunderland striker this week, hoping to thwart Hull City’s long-standing interest in the ex-Manchester United striker.
And they have made such swift progress that they are now in the driving seat when it comes to what the player does next.
Campbell was signed by former Sunderland manager Steve Bruce in the summer of 2009 and Bruce, now Hull boss, would love to renew acquaintances.
The striker joined from Manchester United in an initial £3.5million deal, rising to £6m, but never fulfilled his rich potential after suffering two career-threatening cruciate ligament injuries during his time at the Stadium of Light.
With Martin O’Neill rebuilding and prepared to cut one player from the wage bill as he looks to bring in another, Campbell has emerged as available and table-topping Championship side Cardiff have wasted no time in pushing home their interest.
Hull’s room for manoeuvre in the transfer market is limited following the £1.5m signing of Sunderland midfielder David Meyler at the start of the month.
But they would still have been able to afford the £600,000 asking price for Campbell, who is out of contract in the summer and could leave for free then.
Hull had been hoping that a softly-softly approach would see long-term target Campbell be allowed to join either on loan or permanently this month and the striker’s agent indicated that he would not be against a move to East Yorkshire.
But Cardiff’s firm interest has changed all that.
The Welsh club are in pole position to be promoted to the Premier League in a few months time and crucially they are much, much closer to being able to match weekly wage demands in the region of £30,000.
That has been the critical factor in talks so far and with the Bluebirds set to pay the transfer fee and go close to meeting wage demands that are simply out of Hull’s league, it is almost certain that Campbell’s move to Malky Mackay’s league leaders will go through.
If it happens, it will mean Sunderland have off-loaded three strikers in the opening fortnight of the January transfer window – summer Bosman signing Louis Saha being told he is free to leave, Ji Dong-won going on loan to Bundesliga outfit Augsburg and Campbell all but out of the door.
With O’Neill now down to just three strikers – Steven Fletcher, Stephane Sessegnon and Connor Wickham – the need for reinforcements is compelling.
But the Sunderland manager would not have sanctioned the departure of three forwards unless he was confident of bringing in a replacement or two.
Danny Graham at Swansea is obviously on Sunderland’s list, but he isn’t the only striker the club have been looking at.
The Bluebirds emerged as surprise bidders for the Sunderland striker this week, hoping to thwart Hull City’s long-standing interest in the ex-Manchester United striker.
And they have made such swift progress that they are now in the driving seat when it comes to what the player does next.
Campbell was signed by former Sunderland manager Steve Bruce in the summer of 2009 and Bruce, now Hull boss, would love to renew acquaintances.
The striker joined from Manchester United in an initial £3.5million deal, rising to £6m, but never fulfilled his rich potential after suffering two career-threatening cruciate ligament injuries during his time at the Stadium of Light.
With Martin O’Neill rebuilding and prepared to cut one player from the wage bill as he looks to bring in another, Campbell has emerged as available and table-topping Championship side Cardiff have wasted no time in pushing home their interest.
Hull’s room for manoeuvre in the transfer market is limited following the £1.5m signing of Sunderland midfielder David Meyler at the start of the month.
But they would still have been able to afford the £600,000 asking price for Campbell, who is out of contract in the summer and could leave for free then.
Hull had been hoping that a softly-softly approach would see long-term target Campbell be allowed to join either on loan or permanently this month and the striker’s agent indicated that he would not be against a move to East Yorkshire.
But Cardiff’s firm interest has changed all that.
The Welsh club are in pole position to be promoted to the Premier League in a few months time and crucially they are much, much closer to being able to match weekly wage demands in the region of £30,000.
That has been the critical factor in talks so far and with the Bluebirds set to pay the transfer fee and go close to meeting wage demands that are simply out of Hull’s league, it is almost certain that Campbell’s move to Malky Mackay’s league leaders will go through.
If it happens, it will mean Sunderland have off-loaded three strikers in the opening fortnight of the January transfer window – summer Bosman signing Louis Saha being told he is free to leave, Ji Dong-won going on loan to Bundesliga outfit Augsburg and Campbell all but out of the door.
With O’Neill now down to just three strikers – Steven Fletcher, Stephane Sessegnon and Connor Wickham – the need for reinforcements is compelling.
But the Sunderland manager would not have sanctioned the departure of three forwards unless he was confident of bringing in a replacement or two.
Danny Graham at Swansea is obviously on Sunderland’s list, but he isn’t the only striker the club have been looking at.
