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Craig Mackail-Smith 'expected to join' Leicester City (merged)
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severnside gull
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sir albion
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How Fu$king long has this CMS crap been going on for,christ i swear its about a month+
Can't the bloke just pick from leicester and westham
Can't the bloke just pick from leicester and westham
Marc1901
Peace out.
How Fu$king long has this CMS crap been going on for,christ i swear its about a month+
Can't the bloke just pick from leicester and westham
Or us?
sir albion
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Leicester and westham have probably offered him 16-20k a week,time to drop this bid aswel as lua lua and CMS have lost us 3-4 weeksOr us?
P.S I know we have bid so people say but have not actually seen anything to prove this.
Marc1901
Peace out.
Leicester and westham have probably offered him 16-20k a week,time to drop this bid aswel as lua lua and CMS have lost us 3-4 weeks
P.S I know we have bid so people say but have not actually seen anything to prove this.
I would love it to be true but can never see it happening, well this window anyhow. We would need a good 2-3 season's in the Championship to attract top top players IMO.
why would he change the habits of a lifetime?
You're right severnside, Fry is a lost cause.
sir albion
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No way is CMS to good for us,we can attract better im sure.
CMS could easily flop in the championship like he did with peterborough 2 year ago,but whoever he joins we will see next season what he is like
Blues Rock DJ
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How Fu$king long has this CMS crap been going on for,christ i swear its about a month+
Can't the bloke just pick from leicester and westham
not as long as our KLL saga, old chap !
sir albion
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According to leicester fans on another site he has passed a medical and will be unveiled tomorow,nearly 3 million aswel
Least thats one that can't drag on anymore
Least thats one that can't drag on anymore
Brighton M
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No way is CMS to good for us,we can attract better im sure.
CMS could easily flop in the championship like he did with peterborough 2 year ago,but whoever he joins we will see next season what he is like
Some people are KIDDING themselves.
We couldn't afford to keep Glenn Murray. How the HELL do you expect us to attract players better than a man who in his last outing in the Championship scored 10 goals in a relegated side, and who has just netted 30+ goals to almost single-handedly win a team promotion from League 1?!
mejonaNO12 aka riskit
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AHHHHHHHH!!!!
This is driving me MAD.
WE COULD afford Murray. Quite easily ACTUALLY.
The club didn't feel he was WORTH what he demanded.
You don't just buckle at a wage demand if you don't feel he is worth it.
What if a fringe player, say Elphick, wanted to be the top earner by about 4 grand? would you pay him it? no.
That doesn't mean we CANT afford him.
and breath....
mcshane in the 79th
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We can't afford Murray but can spend £1.5m on two players PLUS their wages on top of that. Not to mention all the other players likely to join. Hmmm...
deletebeepbeepbeep
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I reckon we were quite close to getting Murray to stay on but we offered 2 years rather than 3. Nothing but speculation but it would seem likely.
sir albion
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We are seeking players who can score more than 10 goals anyway,and the murray comment is not worth discussing considering we did bid over 2 million for CMS.
We all know what type of person murray was
CMS has gone to leicester now anyway so thread closed
Brighton M
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You've completely missed the point.
Bloom COULD afford Murray. Bloom could probably afford to pay Beckham's wages for a season if he wanted.
But we, as a club, can't, because there's a wage structure, and Bloom has said we need to be self-financing. If you buckle to the wage structure, then every other player would want a hike in wages, which is (understandably) why Glenn was told eventually to do one. If we'd given him his 10k a week, then Barnes (who only got 2 goals fewer) would be straight into the managers office demanding at least 9k a week. In reality, Barnes isn't going to be earning half of that. Was Murray deemed worth breaking that wage structure for? No.
We're not going to be bringing in signings vastly better than Craig Mackail-Smith, just because our chairman is loaded. He's a sensible businessman (hence his decision to let our best striker leave rather than give him a few extra grand a week). People scoffing at names like him and Jason Scotland, but getting excited about the prospect of signing England internationals like Michael Owen and Emile Heskey, need a serious reality check.
Hell, I'd be amazed if we got CMS, purely because teams like Leicester, who probably have less wealthy owners than us, can AFFORD to pay him a lot, lot more.
Brighton M
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We've also sold our best player for that exact amount, and released a load off the wage bill.
We're not poor by any means, we'll have money to spend, but we're not going to be spunking it all on superstars and ex-internationals!! I just think people perhaps need to be a bit more realistic in their expectations!!
sir albion
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Even bristol city pay david james around 15k+ a week,you have to question how these clubs can afford these wages.Our income next season will be as good as most in the championship,just glad we don't pay silly wages to has been players
southstandg
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I reckon we could quite clearly afford Murray. Whereas I think Gus and Bloom just basically didn't see much point in paying that much to a player who is not Championship proven.