Maybe, but the original post about the bonus holding things up was from one of NSC's more reliable sources.
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Where is Stephen Ward????
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Country Seagull
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- Jan 11, 2013
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NSC now tweeting "Things will start getting better, and probably quite soon..."
Forster's Armband
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Sorry to p£$s on your chips but I know for a fact Moose gets his info form papers and websites not actual sources!
Keeping The Dream Alive.
Naming Rights
I wonder who caved in on their demands? My hunch is us unfortunately.
Superphil
Dismember
That's the spirit, keep the dream going.
Or
The reason it's taken so long is because we have a professional in charge, and we have stuck to our guns.
Keeping The Dream Alive.
Naming Rights
Or,
with the Buckley transfer about to go through, we desperately need to avoid a PR shambles and made sure we had some positive news to combat losing another star player.
I guess it's hard to be positive right now!
Superphil
Dismember
I don't believe Bloom would do something like that as a 'PR' exercise. I might be trying to be positive, but think about it, Bloom and his poker face, Barber the CEO of the year, even the much maligned Burke, who,is superbly qualified and experienced, I just don't think they'd bottle it. IMO of course.
martin tyler
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Could be number 2 for the day.
Albumen
Don't wait for me!
Despite how long it's taken, that's a bloody great signing.
Hove Seagull
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Very good news indeed
Green Cross Code Man
Wunt be druv
At last. Let's hope he picks up from where he left off and doesn't disappoint.
Why are you assuming that Wolves DON'T have a professional in charge? All this "don't mess with Uncle Tony" bollox is pìssing me off. It has quite clearly cost us some decent transfer targets in the past few months.
Let's recap the situation: as I understand it, Wolves were paying Ward 13k a week, and we weren't prepared to pay more than 10k a week. However, whilst that got resolved, the real issue was that Wolves wanted a fee.
We have now had three months since we showed interest - that's about £120k we've saved by not paying Ward's wages in that time. Meanwhile, Wolves have had no other interest for Ward and are dangerously close to being lumbered with a £1m bill in wasted wages. Equally, we are dangerously close to having no proper left back.
Quite clearly, we'll have ended up paying a nominal fee (half or maybe even less of the figure Wolves were looking for) and resolving it. It's got nothing to do with anybody caving in, IMO.
Superphil
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I didn't say, and certainly didn't assume, they don't have a professional. I said that the Albion do, and perhaps, because of that, the Albion were sticking to their guns and not either rolling over, nor walking away.
That's fair enough and it wasn't a dig at you as much as a dig at the default answer to everything getting done last minute being down to how we are so incredibly professional.
It's nothing of the sort IMO. It's more of a case of the club casting it's net far and wide on a raft of "moneyball" signings and only come of them working out. There was nothing professional about the club losing out on the signing of Virgil Van Dijk, for example.
Kikikaikai
Charlatan?
On the motorway?...
I think that's miles wide of the mark, tbh.
The fact that our network identified Van Dijk in the first place, and got us in with a shout of signing him, is very promising in itself.
That his agent then (did his JOB, and) used our interest to eventually flush out interest from a bigger club, with more to offer him, is just how these things work sometimes.
I fail to see any lack of preffessionalism in that saga. Please explain?
I don't need to. I obviously got it wrong. I thought we'd stalled over money, as has seemingly been the case with the likes of Mason or Grabban...