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No, but they wouldn't report that about a player that they want to stay, would they? We rejected large bids from Fulham, which were reported to have been 5m and then an improved bid of 6m. We then gave Dunk a new 5 year deal a whole week before the transfer window shut. That's not the actions...

Dunk went on strike until he got a new deal. He then had to wait and win his place back from Uwe.

Just like at the beginning of this season when we turned down bids of 5m for Dunk and 2.5m for Stephens? We definitely won't lose March and I can't see PL clubs making bids and offering any of the others first team football, with the exception of Kayal, who only has 1 year left on his current...

In both cases, with Oscar being far more subtle and hounorable than the JEC, it was implied that it was down to the recruitment set up. This system changed completely last January, and it's hard to find too much fault with the new set up so far. I make it 10 senior signings, of which Elvis has...

I don't think that we'd lose any of those; turning down the bids for both Stephens and Dunk last summer was a sign of intent. The reason that the team seemed to get dismantled - in reality it didn't - was due to the managers resigning or getting themselves sacked the day after.

What is Kayal's contract length? He's the only one that I think we'd really miss.

This. If you can be prepared to trawl through the last 5 years of NSC you'll see identical threads: it's going to be a stronger league next year because team X,Y and Z are coming down from the PL etc. Truth is that the overall standard varies very little from year to year.