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In response to me asking Jules about Ward on the "moving to Paris" thread, he's replied "The agent said he was 95 % sure but I guess nothing is 100 % until the deal is done. Disagreement over personal terms I understand."

Jules is back and posting on the "moving to Paris" thread! Yay! Perhaps he'll pop in here soon?

yeah, I know... From what I've seen, NSC has a tradition of changing the thread title routinely on transfer-related threads as news develops (presumably to try to prevent a new thread being started as each tiny development gets reported). It was in that spirit that I changed the title of this...

Your wish is my.... No, wait...

Better? :wink:

On a kind of BOGOF offer, you mean?

Thanks for the response and further information. I guess that's just about possible, but it would be pointless agreeing personal terms with Ward without at least having some idea about what the fee (if any) would be, wouldn't it? Surely, at least some degree of parallel talks would be going...

The bits you have emboldened are BS, shirley? I can't believe we've made no contact with Wolves concerning Ward, whatever the truth of the imminence of him signing for us. That's just not credible.

Hmmm. Fair point; and eloquently made to boot.

You might think that; I couldn't possibly comment. Oh, ok then, I will. No. There are quite a large number of people with some NSC reputations to maintain (as well as a couple with none [yet?]) who are asserting that the deal is as good as done - I do hope they're right. Ward was, imo, a...

His partner a year ago was "his blonde girlfriend" according to this insightful, informative, with-no-ulterior-motive piece in the Mail... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2343808/Stephen-Ward-partner-join-newlyweds-Darren-Bent-Kirsty-Maclaren-Barbados.html Perhaps she was called...