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What ? They have the Premiership money this season and for a few more. Players want to play in the Premiership. What is daunting about that ? No easy task. Really ? You can't make a comparison between recruitment in the Premiership and the Championship (without parachute money).

And the reason they didn't step in earlier was that would have started a bidding war with Wolves - and why start that.

I have absolutely no knowledge what went on. You may be absolutely correct and Ward was pissed off with us for not getting it sorted leaving him training (apparently) with Jamie O'Hara and someone else. We don't know that Burnley (and maybe other clubs) were not waiting all along to step in on...

I just think we are being jerked around by agents. I am not sure we are looked at as a Club on the up any more, and for some reason we are a patsy for their negotiations. Did anyone believe that Ward bloke from Derby actually considered us ? His agent was using us - and it apparently worked...

This is all about money. Football is all about money. It looks more and more likely that our Club simply can't afford to compete without Premiership money. If we had it all sorted out weeks ago with Wolves - there are still Clubs who could have stepped in and taken the player then.

Which is all fine and dandy as long as it is someone else's money being spent on chasing the Premiership.