Perhaps DK has a point about taking the best deal available

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Storer68

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For me this is perfect. The time, the place, the

• Jul 18, 2003

• #1

These are the other deals that have gone through today. Hardly awash with numbers is it...............


Player From To Fee Date
Chris Jewell Accrington S Vauxhall Motors Free 18-07-2003
Neal McCann Shrewsbury Vauxhall Motors Free 18-07-2003
Stuart Reddington Burton Gainsborough Free 18-07-2003
Paul Merson Portsmouth Walsall Free 18-07-2003
Mark Gayle Solihull Borough Halesowen Free 18-07-2003
Jody Morris Chelsea Leeds Free 18-07-2003
Mark Hone Welling Lincoln United Free 18-07-2003
Bobby Zamora Brighton Tottenham £ 1500000 18-07-2003
Michael Reynolds Wakefield & Emley Droylsden Free 18-07-2003
Anthony Henry Folkestone Inv Welling Free 18-07-2003
John Eustace Coventry Stoke Free 18-07-2003
Leon Kelly Ilkeston T Worcester C Nominal 18-07-2003
Robert Talbot Morecambe Burton £ 7000 18-07-2003
Ben Thatcher Tottenham Leicester Signed 18-07-2003
Ross Johnson Canvey Island Worthing Free 17-07-2003
Darren Freeman Margate Worthing Free 17-07-2003

 

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• Jul 18, 2003

• #2

Then why didn't he sell sooner ?? We have been offered double what we got today !! Utter bollocks.
Keeping Bob never saved our Div 1 skin either.

 

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• Jul 18, 2003

• #3

difference is all the other players transfered today are shite ( darren freeman excepted)

 

trueblue

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• Jul 18, 2003

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But if we'd taken that £3m, we would have got naff all for it in the transfer market at that time. It's like selling your house at the top of the housing boom - unless you can bank the money, you don't actually make that much because your new place will cost a bomb too.

Granted, if the money's to be diverted away from the squad e.g. for Falmer, the £3m would have been handy. But then we'd all be moaning because we all want to see it go into players.

 

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• Jul 18, 2003

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I didn't know Dazza was playing for Margate!

 

Tom Hark Preston Park

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• Jul 18, 2003

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Why did DK have to 'do' anything? The lad was still under contract. OK BZ would have sulked most of next season & been even more petulant than he was last season, but at least DK could have gone thru the motions of looking like he was TRYING to retain the Albion's most valuable asset. Might easily have squeezed another half-mil f he'd waited a couple of weeks. But - hey! - there's that big fuckin' Falmer Inquiry circus going into extra time & bills to be paid - so the Albion just rolls over. How Smalltime Charlie is THAT?

 

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• Jul 18, 2003

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John Eustace could have done us a job actually.

As I've said elsewhere, we'll get what's willing to be offered - if we'd have accepted 3 million from Everton last year, then we wouldn't have gone up, simple as that.

 

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• Jul 18, 2003

• #8

Tom Hark said:

Why did DK have to 'do' anything? The lad was still under contract. OK BZ would have sulked most of next season & been even more petulant than he was last season, but at least DK could have gone thru the motions of looking like he was TRYING to retain the Albion's most valuable asset. Might easily have squeezed another half-mil f he'd waited a couple of weeks. But - hey! - there's that big fuckin' Falmer Inquiry circus going into extra time & bills to be paid - so the Albion just rolls over. How Smalltime Charlie is THAT?

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It looks like we needed the money urgently! But why, they have just had all of our season ticket money. Where has that gone already?

 

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• Jul 19, 2003

• #9

I've always thought Eustace was useless, and now that he's gone to Stoke, I can't see them staying up at all. He won't solve their goalscoring problem.

 

trueblue

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• Jul 19, 2003

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Tom Hark said:

Why did DK have to 'do' anything? The lad was still under contract. OK BZ would have sulked most of next season & been even more petulant than he was last season, but at least DK could have gone thru the motions of looking like he was TRYING to retain the Albion's most valuable asset.


So DK could have hung on to a player who, even at the end of last season, had his mind elsewhere. That would probably have been the easy way out from a PR point of view... I think in trying to criticise DK you contradict yourself. He's actually done the more difficult thing - recognising we're not likely to get much more for Bobby unless the transfer market dramatically improves, which isn't likely to happen fast with the next TV deal built around current prices. Hang on too long, and BZwould just be hanging around for a free transfer. That would be ridiculous business.

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