bailojnr

Pinkun suggest we rejected something in the region of £6.7 from Man City. If  we are holding out for a lot more, that would be outstanding news. Can you imagine if we got something like £8mil! So either we loose ashton for a huge sum of money or he stays. Win win situation really.

Yep, looks like he sees Ashton as a viable financial resourse in order to build a new squad. If we get 6-7 mil we should bite their hand off! Ashton is irreplacable but with that sort of money we could raid spurs for the likes of davenport, reid, brown & marney, now i know their wages & the fact that they may not want to come might be an issue but you see what i''m sayin. What sort of sell on fees would be payable to crewe by the way?

BBC paper talk states that Man City, Charlton & West Ham are interested in Ashton in Jan. What would it take to sell...£5mil? The more clubs interested the more bargaining power we have! Will Wigan (with Whealans cash) come back in? If we get a new manager you could argue he might have more use for the cash than 1 player, albeit the most talented player we have had for a while. Its all speculation of course but it makes sense that the vultures are starting to circle.

I have run out of patience with worthy but i''m not turning on the board who have been great! None of us really know what goes on behind the scenes and therefore we are not really the best judges. I literally can''t boycot anything ncfc cos it would just be weird...only the return of chase could make me contemplate this! Our current position sucks and i hold worthy ultimatley responsible, he will be out b4 it becomes impossible to turn the season round to at least a play-off appearance, but not b4. Don''t know if anyone has suggested this but how about sir bobby with a young coach for a couple of years time?

If we sell Ashton we are accepting that we are not good enough to keep him! What message does that send to people we may want to attract? I say new manager sell green to everton for 1.5 and then use the money for a raid on spurs!

I know its really difficult @ the moment but i just cant cope with the constant negativity when i''ve just arrived @ work. We are only 6 points from the play-offs. Ok i (like many of you) cant see where those 6 points are gonna come from but lets just imagine that we play to three-quaters of our potential... we claw our way back into the play-offs by christmas. Green goes (to everton if this websites info is accurate) we get 2 mil for him. worthington has 4 mil to spend, we raid tottenham for good young players and get midfielders and a defender (marney, brown & davenport?) and we are lookin in good shape. its unlikely but not impossible at all! i may be dreaming but thats about as positive as i can be @ the moment!

WARD 7 - NOT MUCH TO DO BUT DID WELL DRURY 6 - STEADY AS EVER. WOULD LIKE HIM TO WORK ON AERIAL ABILITIES SHACKELL 8 - DISTRIBUTION OCCASIONALLY WAYWARD BUT WON EVERYTING IN THE AIR. EXCELLENT! DOHERTY 7 - DID NOTHING WRONG LOOKED SOLID FLEMING 5 - MISPLACED PASSES & BAD POSITIONAL PLAY. HUGHES 8 - MAKING HIM CAPTAIN WAS A GOOD MOVE IT SEEMS. GOOD DISTRIBUTION AND LOOKED STRONG IN A CHALLENGE JARRET 6 - OK FOR 1ST HALF HOUR BUT LOST THE PLOT A LITTLE THERE AFTER BRENNAN 6 - NOT ALOT WRONG BUT NOT ALOT RIGHT EITHER. QUIET HUCKERBY 7 - AS DANGEROUS AS ALWAYS BUT PERHAPS COULD HAVE DONE BETTER AGAINST THIS ''LESSER'' OPPOSITION. GOT SEVEN COS HE SCORED. JARVIS 6 - LOOKED OK WITH OCCASIONAL GOOD TOUCHES, LACKED REQUIRED SUPPORT @ TIMES. HENDERSON 5/6 - MISPLACED PASSES AND UNWILLINGNESS TO GET STUCK INTO A CHALLENGE WHICH IS A SHAME COS HE SHOWED GLIMPSES OF SOMETHING BETTER. HAS TO TAKE A CHANCE SOON-ISH OR HE''LL DROP DIVISIONS TO A TEAM LIKE NORTHAMPTON SUBS MCVEIGH 7 - SHAME A COUPLE OF PASSES WERE MISPLACED COS HE SKINNED TWO PLAYERS IN THE SPACE OF 10 MINS AND LOOKED A PLASS APART. MUST FIND ROOM FOR HIM IN OUR 1ST 11! ASHTON 6 - STILL LOOKED A TOUCH OUT OF SORTS BUT TOOK HIS GOAL WELL EVEN IF IT WAS A LITTLE FORTUNATE. SAFRI 8 - AWESOME, SIMPLE AS THAT.

I''M SURE THIS HAS BEEN GONE OVER B4 BUT I REALLY NEED TO SAY I CAN''T UNDERSTAND WHY SHACKELL ISN''T PLAYED IN FRONT OF FLEMING. SHACKELL WAS OUTSTANDING LAST NIGHT. HE ONE EVERY SINGLE HEADER AND GOT SOME DISTANCE ON THEM TOO! HE SHOWED GREAT PACE ASWELL. I KNOW NORTHAMPTON AREN''T THE BEST TEAM IN THE WORLD BUT ON LAST NIGHTS PERFORMANCE HE SHOULD START ALONGSIDE DAVENPORT ON SAT. SORRY TO SOUND LIKE A BROKEN RECORD BUT I NEEDED TO GET THAT OFF MY CHEST.

THE JURY IS DEFINATLEY STILL OUT! HE DID NOTHING WRONG IN THE FIRST 35 MINS OR SO, BUT AFTYER A NEARLY FATAL BACK PASS THE CONFIDENCE JUST WENT AND HE LOOKED LETHARGIC UNTIL HE WAS SUBBED. DON''T GET ME WRONG HE WASN''T BAD HE JUST WASN''T THAT GOOD EITHER.

must say Vic as much as i normally agree with your posts about football related issues, i''ve now seen more than one post from u about grammer...now you may be a cardigan wearing english language teacher BUT...language evolves! we don''t talk or write like people 200 years ago because things develop. you can''t move forward if everyone gets stuck in their ways, irrespective of whos right or wrong. I know i''m in the minority and i know its mostly to do with the text messaging craze but come on people you know u all understand what it says!

fair do''s. didn''t realise that. I''m sure you can understand my suspicion on agents.

no. getting rid of him is not the answer for the short term!

This is the person we should be concerned about. Ashtons said he is happy and the board and worthy dont want to sell. the key factor now is will a big club go through the agent, the agent sees £££££££ and has a word in ashtons ear to make the move happen/ disrupt him? Its happened b4 & lets be honest its the only way it''ll happen now. i 4 1 would not b surprised!! hope i''m wrong!

1st wiz. Interesting that you use the civil war and "good old cromwell" the analogy would have worked well but for the fact that cromwell was as dictatorial as the king. The nightmare in Ireland was of cromwells doing, why do you think we reverted to a monarchy again! Good try but it would be like replacing worthy with hamilton!

REALLY LIKE THE FORMATION IDEA ZLF! I THINK THAT WOULD CAUSE HAVOC IN THIS LEAGUE! IF WE CAN GET BENTLEY FOR HALF A MIL THEN OK, IF NOT (AND I THINK THIS IS MORE LIKELY) THEN THE MONEY MAY BE BETTER SPENT ELSEWHERE. I JUST DON''T THINK BENTLEY WILL WANT TO PLAY IN THE FIZZY.

[quote]So are you saying bailojnr that if Damien didn''t want to leave Norwich, we could have set a transfer fee of say...7 million? If a big Premiership club came in for Phil Jagielka, like Tottenham or Eve...[/quote] "So are you saying bailojnr that if Damien didn''t want to leave Norwich, we could have set a transfer fee of say...7 million?" £7MILLION ARE U MAD! NO YOU QUOTED THE SILLY FIGURE NOT ME. I SIMPLY ANSWERED THE QUESTION. IF A PLAYER WANTS TO LEAVE YOU CAN''T ASK OVER THE ODDS FOR HIM CAN YOU. COS THE PLAYER AND HIS AGENT WILL BE BITTER AND MAY SIT OUT A CONTRACT AND LEAVE ON A FREE AND THAT WOULDN''T HELP ANYONE. SHEFF UTD CAN DEMAND TOP DOLLAR COS NEITHER THEY NOR THEIR PLAYER WANT TO PART COMPANY. "If a big Premiership club came in for Phil Jagielka, like Tottenham or Everton, are you saying he wouldn''t go because he wants to stay? I don''t think so." WELL OF COURSE THEY WOULD LEAVE BUT THATS NOT REALLY THE POINT. THE POINT IS NORWICH COULD DEMAND TOP DOLLAR IF HE WASN''T PUSHING FOR A MOVE. hAVE U HEARD jAGIELKA SAYING HIS HEAD ISN''T RIGHT TO PLAY? NO, SO SHEFF UTD CAN ASK WHAT THEY WANT.

ITS CALLED PLAYER POWER! JAGIELKA ISN''T BOTHERED ABOUT MOVING SO SHEFF UTD CAN DEMAND WHATEVER THEY WANT FOR HIM. WHEREAS FRANCIS (AND MORE SPECIFICALLY HIS AGENT)MADE IT CLEAR HE WANTED TO LEAVE SO WE HAD TO EXCEPT LESS. SIMPLE.

WANT IT TO BE: GREEN MLJ COLIN SHACKELL CHARLTON MARNEY SAFRI JARRET HUCKERBY MCKENZIE ASHTON WILL BE: GREEN MLJ FLEM SHACKELL DRURY MARNEY SAFRI JARRET HUCKERBY MCKENZIE ASHTON

GREEN MLJ FLEMING SHACKELL DRURY MARNEY HUGHES JARRETT HUCKS ASHTON MCKENZIE SUBS: WARD, COLIN, DOC, CHARLTON, THORNE, BRENNAN

I know there will be lots of other realted posts by the time this goes on the board but i have to say if he stays i''m not bothered! £1.5 million to spend might be good, but if we keep him we only need a centre defender and even that isn''t what i''d call neccessary. What must be avoided @ all costs is something like Portsmouth coming in on the 30th august! Must get him to commit himself publicly or risk this happening imo.

I DONT REALLY THINK TO MUCH CAN BE TAKEN FROM THE SQUAD PICTURE! PORTSMOUTH & FINNAGEN ARE TRYING TO MANUFACTURE A DEAL TO GET FRANCIS ON THE CHEAP & I CAN GAURENTEE THE AGENT WILL POCKET ANY SAVINGS MADE BY POMPY. IF IT HASN''T HAPPENED B4 THE END OF THIS W-END WE SHOULD TELL PORTSMOUTH IT AINT HAPPENIN. WE DONT WANT A SITUATION WHERE THEY OFFER THE RIGHT MONEY THE DAY B4 THE WINDOW CLOSES. £1.8 MILLION IS PROBABLY A REALISTIC COMPROMISE. I STILL THINK THIS WILL HAPPEN I JUST HOPE IT HAPPENS SOON. I HAVE A SNEAKY SUSPICION IT WILL ALL GO THROUGH 2MORROW!

IF THE DAVIDS DEAL GOES THROUGH THIS SHOULD IMPROVE OUR CHANCES OF SIGNING MARNEY! IF MARNEY DOES COME IN THE ONLY THING WE ARE LACKING (DEPENDING ON WHAT HAPPENS WITH FRANCIS) IS A WINGER WITH PACE AND THE ABILITY TO SKIN THE DEFENDER IN FRONT OF HIM & PUT A DECENT CROSS IN! ASHTON WILL SCORE AN IMENSE AMOUNT OF GOALS IF WE CAN FIND THIS WINGER. ANY SUGGESTIONS ON WHO IS OUT THERE OTHER THAN KRISTIANSON?

AGREED AGENTS ARE SCUM! THE FACT REMAINS THAT AS LONG AS MONEY MAKES THEFOOTBALL WORLD GO ROUND, THE VULTURES WILL CIRCLE. THE PROBLEM IS THAT CLUBS WONT STAND TOGETHER AND SAY ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. NORWICH (I''M SURE)DISLIKE FINNAGEN BUT I BET PORTSMOUTH DONT MIND HIM, THEREIN LIES THE PROBLEM.

NO. IN ANSWER TO THE QUESTION. BUT YOUR USERNAME IS AMUSING. LOVIN THE FAMILY GUY!

GREEN COLIN DOC SHACKELL DRURY JARRET SAFRI FRANCIS HUCKS (FREE ROLE) ASHTON MCKENZIE SUBS: WARD, FLEMING, MARNEY?, THORNE, LOUIS- JEAN, CHARLTON, HUGHES? HUGHES & MARNEY HAVE NOT SIGNED YET BUT TO BE HONEST I STILL THINK THIS MIGHT BE THE BEST TEAM. THE ONLY THING I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW IS HOW TALL/QUICK IS COLIN? THE FACT STILL REMAINS THAT IF MARNEY & HUGHES ARRIVE WE WILL UNDOUBTEDLY HAVE THE STRONGEST SQUAD IN THE FIZZY LEAGUE! WELL DONE WORTHY, SOMETIMES YOUR TACTICS SEEM SUSPECT BUT YOU MAKE UP FOR IT WITH SHREWD SIGNINGS.