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Glen murray?
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Crippling? Really? When we've just brought in around £14m in transfer fees?...
Blue Valkyrie
Not seen such Bravery!
Marshy
Well-known member
I know you like him and so do I, exactly what we are missing, but at 3.5 million.... now way
Id be interested at 1 million - 1.5 maximum
Yeah I'm probably being silly to be honest. I'm not so fussed about the age thing anyway though, I'd see it as a 2-3 season punt, he's never been a quick player anyway so shouldn't affect his game too much.
matt
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- Mar 19, 2007
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I was never a big Murray fan and, at the time, thought that we'd upgraded with the arrival of CMS. However, in our current predicament the arrival of a proven Championship scorer is surely exactly what we need? £3.5m is a lot of cash for a player of his age but he gets goals, and without that we are in real danger of dropping down to League 1 - which I guess would hit the bottom line to the tune of more than £3.5m.
How many other proven goalscorers are available at that price? Not many I would guess.
Irrespective of his history and the way he left, and even if we only got six good months out of him, it would be money well spent imho. Not that it is likely to happen though.
How many other proven goalscorers are available at that price? Not many I would guess.
Irrespective of his history and the way he left, and even if we only got six good months out of him, it would be money well spent imho. Not that it is likely to happen though.
Marshy
Well-known member
Yeah age isnt a problem for Murray, very Sherringham like in that respect.
The budget should actually be there if we ship out CMS in Jan
Marshy
Well-known member
I think Mr Grabban may have burned his bridges with us....
Psychobilly freakout
HellBilly
He only turned us down, he did not leave and join the Palarse.
So some may say Murray burnt his bridges with us and then some.
Not me though.
Marshy
Well-known member
True, Murray never messed the Club around though, just went to the old enemy....
Icy Gull
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- Jul 5, 2003
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Shows just how big Bloom/Poyet's ( delete as appropriate depending on your view) cock up actually was. We had a player who Bloom/Poyet didn't rate enough to give him a decent pay rise so signed CMS for 3.5 million. Ironic that three years and bad knee injury later GM is considered to be worth £3.5 million, I doubt CMS is worth more than £350K now.
Charlies Shinpad
New member
It would be, so would Reading buy him?
mikeyjh
Well-known member
Even more so to Derby, our style of play is entirely dependent on Chris Martin, I honesly don't know what we'd do without him, so it makes sense that we'd be interested in Murray - While I know there's money to spend and staying within FFP, I can't see us shelling out £3.5m.
SDG
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- May 26, 2014
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The clause is already in the loan deal.
And for a lot less than £3.5m.
Parish = clown.
Pavilionaire
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- Jul 7, 2003
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Relevant points:
1. Murray is going to be available in the window.
2. Murray is scoring goals in this division.
3. CMS has suffered a bad injury and we're yet to see if he can reproduce the form that he shows at Peterborough. He's a risk.
4. CMS may still have some decent resale value - possibly £900K - £1mill.
5. Baldock is a similar player to CMS but younger.
Logic says to me that you ship out CMS for what you can get and re-sign Murray. You then have two different strikers rather than two identical strikers.
1. Murray is going to be available in the window.
2. Murray is scoring goals in this division.
3. CMS has suffered a bad injury and we're yet to see if he can reproduce the form that he shows at Peterborough. He's a risk.
4. CMS may still have some decent resale value - possibly £900K - £1mill.
5. Baldock is a similar player to CMS but younger.
Logic says to me that you ship out CMS for what you can get and re-sign Murray. You then have two different strikers rather than two identical strikers.
scooter1
How soon is now?
Except the likelihood is we can't afford Murray
symyjym
Banned
If we got Murray and sold CMS, we would still need another striker to replace CMS. You can't be competitive in this league with just two strikers because injuries happen.
If, hypothetically, we did get Murray we could use the three of them very effectively over the whole game. So I don't see the scenario of one in one out being a good move.