Canary Man of Kent

Isn''t this old news? There was a post yesterday with a link to the talksport website.

I believe Jackson poached on the line - sky might not have seen his touch

Jackson makes it 5

Was it the mirror that broke the gunn being sacked story? One newspaper was definitely ahead of the game, just can''t remember which.

I can''t see why surmans value will have increased from the £1.2m or so we paid for him. I think maybe £1.75m for holt, £1m for Barnett and Jackson and then at the moment c.£1.5m for wes on the basis it''s to be seen whether he''ll make it in the prem and based on the apparent lack of offers and non selection for Ireland most prem managers think he won''t. If he does though then surely his value would go up to something like £4.5m - £5m.

[quote user="Bethnal Yellow and Green"][quote user="Canary Man of Kent"] Alysha, That wouldn''t work. If we sold him we''d have to pay up his contract, and the cost of that plus his signing on fee would probably outweigh the transfer fee received for him. [/quote] It would work, a club doesn''t have to pay up a players contract when they leave, the player agrees to cancel the contract in order to secure the move. What would stop it is the FA ruling that a player cannot be registered for more than 2 clubs in anyone transfer window (Johnson has so far been at Leeds and Norwich). We could sign him now and then sell him on in the next window for a profit though.     [/quote] Yes, I get that we don''t normally have to pay up a contract (unless I think if the buying club were offering less money we might make up the difference to make it go through), but in the situation described by Alysha, why would Johnson let us off the hook on the three year contract he''s just signed when as a matter of law, he doesn''t have to?

Alysha, That wouldn''t work. If we sold him we''d have to pay up his contract, and the cost of that plus his signing on fee would probably outweigh the transfer fee received for him.

I don''t see what the big deal is. I haven''t heard of any issues of ball visibility or distraction or anything else for that matter from any other cfans / refs / lino''s etc

[quote user="BroadstairsR"] [quote user="homeagain"]City 1st................for your info, not that it has anything to do with you, I have been a city supporter since 1971, probably about 25 years or so before you were born, i have held a season ticket since 2000. What I post & how many I post is my choice, if you have nothing better to do than monitor other posters you really need to get a life, better still get a job & stop scrounging off us tax payers.[/quote]   Well said. [/quote] Seconded - please post more going forward homeagain!

I think I''ll go - should be ok. Good chance to see the new guys in action

In my opinion there is no chance of that happening.   Birmingham will want a lot more money for him than that!

[quote user="Buckethead"]We lost out on £5,250,000 from Wolves for Ade Akinbiyi by selling him to Gillingham for £250k. [/quote] Not really, particularly seeing as he went to Bristol City prior to joining Wolves anyway.

Excellent chance to get a win from either of our first 2 games. We really do need to as well in my opinion.

Gillingham have a debt to rushden- nothing to do with us.

They''d be paying for the privilege of relegation.   They''ve lost or will lose their best players this summer - what odds can you get on them going down? Might stick a few quid on it...

[quote user="Canarino"]Canary Man of Kent, don''t worry about the "Reorder/Roeder" auto-correction - re-read the bit you put in brackets about PL instead! :-)[/quote] Hahahaha! Good spot! Whooppppps! Funniest and most unfortunate typo I''ve ever managed. Can''t even blame iPhone autocorrect for that, it''s either my subconscious or fat fingers - fat fingers I hope! Haha!

Damn iPhone auto correct - reorder = roeder

I have no issue so long as he continues to be 100% professional and we can use him if needed. His circumstances would then be a bit like lappins when reorder froze him out (except I''m sure Lambo wouldn''t be suck a dick about it) as I think lappin could have gone back to low wages in Scotland had he wanted to, but chose to sit out his contract with us and continued to work hard and is now some kind of hero with some people because of that.

JLS = Jack the Lad Swing   So I understand.

Whittingham?

I think the pinkun have misquoted - I think it should say "have NOT spoken to arsenal".

Nothing for me either on the transfers - got one re pre season friendlies last week

I wouldn''t be surprised if BHA had agreed with Bennett in January that if he stayed for the rest of the season, they would let him go if a prem team came in for him.

I think there could well be something in this one. He strikes me as a lambert kind of player and he plays on the left but could work in a diamond. If we''re not getting Lansbury back there''s no doubt we''re short a midfielder. I fully expect us to sign a midfielder such as whittingham / Lansbury and also a pacey winger or two - need to be able to switch to 442 if needs be - not sure we can at the moment.

Vaughan looked very tidy too