Peterborough United chairman Darragh MacAnthony has revealed that George Boyd and Paul Taylor have turned down their proposed move to Town. The pair were at Portman Road this afternoon and underwent medicals but were unable to agree personal terms. MacAnthony tweeted: âJust had a phone call re Boyd and Taylor Posh fans from [Peterborough director of football Barry Fry] to tell me that they have turned down the move to Ipswich after meeting to discuss terms today with Ipswich and have failed to agree terms. âThis is the reason people shouldn't discuss bids been accepted etc until things are signed, sealed and delivered. Transfer window is mad isn't it?â What a surprise, NOT!!! Our beloved club is a ****ing laughing stock, heads have to roll!!!
I was actually tempted to post something very similar, very pissed off about this, as they would have been quality!!! What a joke!! tbf though we don't know the ins and outs of the deal!!
this is taking the absolute piss. how can clegg repeatedly come out and say anything apart from accepting personal responsibility. since he has been at this club there has been a growing trend of these deals falling through at the last minute, over personal terms. with these 2 signings and a new centre back i genuinely thought we could do something this season. for me, clegg is the problem. a far bigger problem than paul jewell. while he remains this will keep going on, get the **** out!
So far under Evans and Clegg three managers have fallen short on getting things right on the pitch. We have seen countless deals fall through, mostly on personal terms. Coincidence, bad luck or something from higher up? I choose the latter. Jewell had to do with freebies last summer and we've ended up paying off most of those contracts, hardly good business even though there were no transfer fees involved. We've also let a lot of others go recently, what is being said in the boardroom, because we're losing players like we're about to go bust or something?
I just hope there is a demonstration on Saturday and i wish i was there to start the ****ing thing!! As Hoppers said in another post, it wont happen because the Town fans just sit back and take it!! Time for the limp wristed brigade to grow some balls and protest, either that or sit back and watch the drastic demise of our once great club!! I would write another letter to that CLINT Clegg but i already know the reply 'you dont understand football and i have a CBE'
I'm lost for words, and that doesn't happen very often. I mean how the hell could he **** it up? did he say that George Boyd had to get his hair cut to a certain length? did he make some joke about talc to Taylor? The bloke is a ****ing idiot, we might as well not bother now, we are ****ed on epic preportions!
what do you actually demonstrate about? its frustrating but we dont know any facts. Maybe they asked for £30k a week each and clegg feels we can get equally good players for less money elsewhere. Alternatively it could just be the fact that we are skint (unlikely) tight (probable) or incapable (possibly, although it looks likely without knowing the facts of the transfer its hard to say for definate) At the end of the day it is their business and they can run it however they want. As shown from a thread the other day half the town posters on here dont actually go to matches (many, like yourself Spanish for legitimate and understandable reasons) so although they are entitled to their views it doesnt really matter to the club whether they support us or not - the club only needs fans for cash at the end of the day and the more the fans stay away the harder it is to get cash in. If anyone has the cash to challenge the Evans regime then by all means mount a takeover bid but at present it looks like we are ****ed with him and we would definately be ****ed without him! - cash talks unfortunately It really does feel like a ****ty situation all round but the only way I personally can do something is by showing positivity at PR on Saturday from 3 til 5. Our team is very young and protesting is hardly likely to help the youngest first team town has ever put out.
as much as this is pretty funny i suspect there is still a deal to be had here. i know clegg is going to get pelters for this but is there not a tiny part of any of you who think that evans is to blame? i understand he was 100% 'doing this deal himself'. i think its your owner who is the biggest problem at your club.
Supers, I think it would help if Clegg was a footballing man. He could talk with knowledge and passion about the club and the wonders of being here but ultimately your right - ME owns us and it is down to him what our budget is, how much we get from his sponsorship deal etc etc.
Supers, in a part you are right. the buck ultimately stops at ME, but if we aren't offering enough in wages it should be Cloggy saying to ME look if you really want the club in the premiership, you have to pay the wages for the players to get there. Any football club, is only as good as the people below him. I think this where the club relationship with ME is really going to be tested to the fullest, what will happen nobody knows!
agree evans will have set the budgets, not clegg, so he can only work within those guides. clegg is blatantly a problem but i just think that the more i hear, the more i think its the owner who is the biggest problem you have. i actually feel a little sorry for jewell as he can only rely on those two to get the players he desires. in the main he hasn't been backed, yet when he is, the two above him fail to muster the moves. i posted an article on one of your threads the other day about your owner - don't know if it got any feedback - but i'll post it again. it is written by an ipswich fan and he's not convinced evans is interested in football at all. problem is, he's got you over a barrel... http://thetwounfortunates.com/ttu-s...w-2012-13-financial-questions-at-ipswich-town
But if the budgets are restrictive, Clegg needs to be saying something!!!!!!!!!!!! If i feel i need a bigger budget in my job to work with, i will feed back to the MD and 99 times out of 100 he will say that i'm the man on the ground and i know best and how much do i need and we work on it from there. ME is in this venture to make money, pure and simple and i'm not stupid enough to think otherwise, but the way he is going he is losing money because he has an idiot running the day to day operations at the club.
Guru, agreed but what happens if ME turns around and say 'work with what you have got'? You can only put across suggestions and if they are turned down then what?
We have to get this buffoon Clegg out of the club now. These last minute cock ups happen so frequently that it can not be down to mere coincidence, okay you accept a few going wrong, greedy players, unreasonable contracts, etc but come on. When he arrived at Portman road, he came here with no pedigree or experience in football, and boy did it show, and still does. Who can forget his public relations disaster, when he came on the radio after the abandoned match. That should have been a warning shot across the bows to Evans, players can obviously see through this idiot. I wouldn't trust him him to make a cup of tea, in the name of god, just go.
tractor bhoy What i don't get is that ME will want a return on his money and it wont happen if we drop down a league or even stay a mid table side in the championship. We all know you have to speculate to accumulate, i'm not saying throw caution to the wind but a calculated gamble has to be taken now and then. I mean come on, these two posh boys aint gonna be asking for 30k a week, maybe 10-12k max i would say. Oh and i may not spend £400+ for a season ticket now but i have probably given ITFC about £7000 of my hard earned money in the past with the price of season tickets/match tickets/programmes and more recently Ipswich World!! But i guess as you say, they wont give a stuff as i no longer put a large amount of money into the club, gone are the days when the club cared!!
Thing is, for all we know ME has given him a wage budget and told him that if he comes under he gets a bonus? With Clegg its been one disaster after another, can somebody tell one thing that Clegg has done which is a credit to the club! Something needs to happen, and happen ****ing quickly!
have any of you read that article? what did you think? have any of you changed your minds about evans being in it for anything other than tax purposes? i think initially he thought he could make a quick buck by getting promoted but once that failed, everything points to him losing interest. your clubs debt is massive and yet he payed next to nothing to acquire it. he's going to make a profit even if he sells the club at less than its worth
You really think this deal isn't dead in the water Supers?? Again I've never really liked Clegg but I've never thought he was a major problem, if we got the right manager in we would be fine. But I am thinking he is more of a problem as times goes by. But again if we get rid, ME is just going to replace him with someone similar who is there to do his dirty work. I'm not sure what to think of ME, he's made mistakes, I still think the biggest of which was appointing Keane and bankrolling him, big big big mistake but in all honesty we could have alot worse owners, he and Clegg generally back their managers financially, they don't interfere on the pitch and the generally give managers time. But for me it's the inconsistency, we go from bankrolling Jim and Keane, which was a disaster, so ME thinks that doesn't work we now need to be prudent, we go from one extreme to the other. IMO I think we could have got promoted with the bank rolling but we had a terrible manager in charge, if Jewell would have had Jim or Keanes money I really believe we may have been a PL team by now. I don't think he should bankroll the team now, because we are in a different position but you feel this summer we've shot ourselves in the foot a few times because we are being too prudent,, we've gone from one extreme to the other!!! As for ME I don't think he'll take money from the club even if we were to be promoted (perhaps I'm being naive) I think it's more for him to promote his brand and in the PL his name would be seen accross the world. Has anyone ever made money out of a football club?
Just heard a rumour from a very reliable source within the walls of Portman Road, that the deal was agreed and then Cloggy tried to re-negociate (sic) the deal! True to form then Cloggy! you ****ing bastard!
