Grabban

[Triggaaar]

Yep, we failed to bag a great player and bottled it out of principle

But we don't actually know what we offered etc. If we offered the max our structure allows (as much as we pay anyone else) then I don't think we should have offered more.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing.

I'm not sure hindsight was needed for Grabban - he was already doing very well in the Championship.

 

[Bozza]

You're the bloke who was going to bet on the 33/1 horse who won a race but, in the end, didn't.

Please tell us the lottery numbers for tomorrow night to validate your supreme judgement.

 

[Surrey_Albion]

Sack the board!!! Fu##ing disgrace im off to support redhill f.c

 

[daveyboy1973]

Was I??

 

[Bwian]

Apparently not worth the wages he wanted!! Scored twice tonight!! Who decides our wage cap??

Parrish isn't it? He's the man in charge at Selhurst isn't he?

 

[Soulman]

Wages are capped at 10,000 a week, except for CMS who is on 14,000.
Strange when Glen wanted 11,000, was offered 9,000 but went to Palace for 13,000.....................
Five players targeted now, so money will decide whether they come.

 

[Phat Baz 68]

Thread: Grabban
by daveyboy1973

Grabban

Apparently not worth the wages he wanted!! Scored twice tonight!! Who decides our wage cap??

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And I'm not a bedwetter

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Edit: don't wanna be playing catch up

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by daveyboy1973

The past!!!

Why do people keep going on about the past and where we come from? Are we gonna be saying that forever? We all know what we've been through!!! The point is we have the highest attendances outside of...

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He looks and sounds like a man that thinks he's ****ed up coming here!!!!!

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Wow friendly or not, this is embarrassing!!!!!

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Have we actually been in their half!!!! Do the powers that be actually realise the season starts next week??

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And......... Surprise surprise still nothing!!!!!!!!!!!

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And..................nothing


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And........... Nothing!!

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Johhny cantor/Andy naylor neither of them have a ****ing clue what's going on!!!!!

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Good luck sami!!! Your gonna need it

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Lua lua same shower of shit every time he starts!!!!

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New news would be nice in stead of the same regurgitated shit!!!!!

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Is that the extent of our ambition

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I hope we are looking at bigger targets!!! Otherwise this déjà vu feeling is getting a bit tedious!!!!


Congratulations on the COVETED NSC's Biggest Whinger of the Summer Award

You must literally spend your entire life on NSC !!!

 

[Phat Baz 68]

Wages are capped at 10,000 a week, except for CMS who is on 14,000.
Strange when Glen wanted 11,000, was offered 9,000 but went to Palace for 13,000.....................
Five players targeted now, so money will decide whether they come.

Wages are capped at £10,000 a week. EXCEPT CMS ? So how are they capped then and how would you know ?

 

[Soulman]

Wages are capped at £10,000 a week. EXCEPT CMS ? So how are they capped then and how would you know ?

Information received. FFP is a factor. Probably why the Ward deal has not gone through at the moment. Iv'e always stated from day one the stance re Glen through first hand info. The 5 have been on the radar for a while, hopefully signings if the wage is accepted. That's all.

 

[Finchley Seagull]

Yep, we failed to bag a great player and bottled it out of principle, not for business or even football reasons, and we are feeling the fall out from January now. We would have always at least of got our money back on him and as it turns out a £2m profit if we didn't get promotion and decided to sell him.

Oscar clearly saw his value and we should have made the investment on his judgement because it would have been good business whatever the scenario.

That's funny because the two stories I heard were a) that Oscar wasn't bothered and he didn't sign because he wouldn't meet with him or b) he was using us to get a better deal at Bournemouth. But obviously you know better. I used to think you were a sensible poster but you're actually amongst the worst of the moaners.

As for Van Dijk, why does he keep getting brought up. Groningen wouldn't sell him. It wasn't a case of bidding £500K more (to the poster who said that). Our fans are really thick sometimes.

 

[chaileyjem]

TB account of Grabban transfer was given in an interview with BBC in May

See via

http://www.northstandchat.com/showpost.php?p=6471843

1) he met with Oscar
2) TB /team refused to match massively increased Bournemouth wage offer after we'd initially agreed a fee. Although we did go up a bit.

 

[Icy Gull]

Oscar clearly saw his value and we should have made the investment on his judgement because it would have been good business whatever the scenario.

Possibly the straw that broke the camel's back for Oscar resulting in more shuffling in the close season? Maybe TB is gonna back this manager?

Whatever the reason I feel Oscar was hung out to dry with the transfers in and out last season.

 

[Diego Napier]

You must literally spend your entire life on NSC !!!

You're just disappointed that you didn't win the award.

 

[sparkie]

Wages are capped at 10,000 a week, except for CMS who is on 14,000.
Strange when Glen wanted 11,000, was offered 9,000 but went to Palace for 13,000.....................
Five players targeted now, so money will decide whether they come.

I assume Buckley is on more than 10K after he signed his last contract.

 

[Kaiser_Soze]

What if we had splashed the cash on Grabban, got beaten in the playoffs and Oscar still left? We could have been left with a striker we'd paid a decent amount for, on very good wages, that didn't fit into the new managers system.

 

[Icy Gull]

What if we had splashed the cash on Grabban, got beaten in the playoffs and Oscar still left? We could have been left with a striker we'd paid a decent amount for, on very good wages, that didn't fit into the new managers system.

Norwich would have bought him off us for quite a bit more than we paid for him of course

With him we may have done enough in the 1st leg play off to not have had to go to Derby to win. All ifs and buts but worth discussing as it COULD have made a difference to our season and Oscar walking.

 

[chaileyjem]

Possibly the straw that broke the camel's back for Oscar resulting in more shuffling in the close season? Maybe TB is gonna back this manager?

Whatever the reason I feel Oscar was hung out to dry with the transfers in and out last season.

Oscar , according to TB , asked for Rodriguez in Jan.
He got him. 1 goal.

 

[mreprice]

Wages are capped at 10,000 a week, except for CMS who is on 14,000.
Strange when Glen wanted 11,000, was offered 9,000 but went to Palace for 13,000.....................
Five players targeted now, so money will decide whether they come.

What complete and utter rubbish. If that was our wages cap then our football costs would be around 10 million a year. Instead it is public information that they are more than double that. I don't know where this wage cap nonsense came from, but the facts are out there and it simply isn't true.

What is true:
TB doesn't want to pay people more than we think they are worth. Nothing wrong with that.
Last year we had a group of ten players who were being paid on average around 20,000 a week.

 

[LamieRobertson]

TB account of Grabban transfer was given in an interview with BBC in May

See via

http://www.northstandchat.com/showpost.php?p=6471843

1) he met with Oscar
2) TB /team refused to match massively increased Bournemouth wage offer after we'd initially agreed a fee. Although we did go up a bit.

as near to the truth as we are going to get ..thanks for the reminder

 

[Rogero]

To be honest, not paying the extra 500K or so for Virgil Van Dijk, is probably a worse financial error.

Yes fully agree,but football is full of ifs and buts as is life. If only this if only that. C'est la vie.