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  1. Posted

    1 hour ago, Yorkshire Canary said:

    I must admit that i had not realised how decent a season he had last year at the owls who were a struggling side. I had recalled that he had a pretty ordinary time at WBA the season before. The stats that you have highlighted has perhaps made me reconsider his suitability to us albeit his wages and or transfer fee would be problematic. I think he has 1 season left on his contract and is on £40000 a week plus in wages. From Newcastles perspective if they do not sell him this season they will get no fee and the best they can achieve is reducing the wage bill. I do not think there will be a single championship club in the current climate that will agree to much more than half that figure. As for a transfer fee that is subjective  transfer supermarket put him on £3.5 million.  If we loaned him i suppose there is the prospect of him being a free agent, but to the highest bidder  if we bought him  the transfer fee if it was in that £3.5 ball park may ne  achievable but he would have to be prepared to slash his wages

    If it is true a loan would make most sense particularly with a year left on his contract.

    Yes his loan at West Brom didn't quite go as expected but his Sheffield Wednesday one seemed to be him finding his feet again and playing more regularly after not doing so since he left us.

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    8 minutes ago, TeemuVanBasten said:

    Why is he being linked to us then, and not them, if it went so well for him there? 

    He is.

    https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/sport/football/news/jacob-murphy-middlesbrough-sheffield-wednesday-18765597

    Quote from Monk too:

    When asked to assess Murphy's contribution at the end of last season, Monk said: "I’ve been pleased with him. I think his performance levels have been much more consistent."

    "I think there is still a bit of roughness and rawness to him in certain situations but I think his attitude towards the work has been fantastic and I have really enjoyed working with him."

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    42 minutes ago, Bethnal Yellow and Green said:

    I can’t see Norwich being interested in him at all to be honest. This rumour looks agent generated and a general ‘come get me plea’. 

    Jacob had one good season where he massively over performed compared to his normal outputs. Even by the end of that season he wasn’t looking that good. 

    He posted a similar number of goals and assists last season for Sheffield Wednesday as he did the season we sold him.

    I don't disagree that it is probably agent talk but a little harsh to say he had one good season where he overperformed.

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  4. Posted

    2 hours ago, ALBOWLLY said:

    £41,000,000 is a massive boost to Bournemouth's coffers. That's a lot of spending power for Howe or his successor.

    Saw something about them still owing £81m in transfer fees and before Ake only having £5m due to them. 

    They need to sell to get their wage bill down too so expect a few more before they can really start to spend.

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    12 hours ago, wcorkcanary said:

    👍   DF is softly spoken, but I dont think he himself is at all soft, look at how he dealt with NelsonO. Gave him a chance , he took the Pi$$, end of career  at Norwich, no messing ,   no public slagging  , just sit over there till we can unload you. I like that. DF to stay and complete his contract , by which time hopefully  we will be begging him to stay. 

    That's not how it happened at all. Fulham was first game of the season. He went on to play another 35 games under Farke and finish second top scorer behind Maddison that season.

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    1 minute ago, Disco Dales Jockstrap said:

    West Ham look like they are playing a pre-season friendly against a lower league team; I don't think they are even going full tilt now.

    4-0.

    Even the fake crowd booed FFS.

    OTBC

    I don't think they have gone full tilt at any point in this game. There's been no need to.

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    5 minutes ago, Aggy said:

    Conceding so many from set pieces is down to the coaching. Simple as that. Yes we might have still conceded some from set pieces and yes we probably wouldn’t have been good enough to stay up anyway. But defending set pieces pretty well and at least making it hard for opponents to score from set pieces is something any team can be taught to do by coaching and training groundwork and we continually fail to improve. Regardless of what your thoughts are on the manager vs board vs knits bad luck’ for the more general failure this season, the inability to tighten us up at set pieces is a massive failure by the manager and coaching staff alone.

    Was coming on to post just that. Can forgive a lack of quality but set pieces is something where we can be a lot better through good coaching.

    It's not just defending them either. We never look likely to score them at the other end. Even on throw ins we may as well just give it to the opposition. 

    This must be somewhere we look to bring in some specialised coaching as even a marginal improvement would make a lot of difference.

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    1 hour ago, Creative Midfielder said:

    It has to be a clear goal scoring chance, last defender etc etc and I don't think it met the usual criteria for that although as in so many areas those criteria are somewhat subjective anyway.

    Agree you often, quite rightly, get a yellow when stopping teams breaking (but not a red unless violent), so why was there no card when Cantwell was stopped by a violent challenge which was a nailed on yellow but potential red given the nature of the challenge.

    I don't think Cantwell was stopped by a violent challenge. Looked like a collision when they showed the replays. Free kick yes but red never.

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    5 minutes ago, Creative Midfielder said:

    I'm not so sure of that - technically Klose did foul Ighalo but it was a foul that you see every week from defenders, in fact in most games, and I doubt that it even gets punished 1 in 20 times and certainly not a red card - add into that Ighalo's theatrics and it was a risible decision.

    Also rather makes you wonder how VAR managed to make that a red, yet decided that Cantwell being cycnically wiped out by a violent challenge was perfectly OK, or rather it doesn't really its just the same old, same old treatment that you can expect when playing one of the elite clubs.

     

    It was a red. He prevented a goal scoring chance. You also see players booked for similar tactics most games when they do the same in the middle third to prevent teams breaking.

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    December we were told they couldn't change rules on VAR midseason (despite them being implemented incorrectly) because of the integrity of the game. 

    Fast forward a few months and every hair brained idea possible is being explored because the integrity of the game no longer matters apparently. Can't say I see how 5 subs benefits anyone other than the wealthiest clubs in a league that is already massively skewed because of the finances of those same clubs. Teams were already playing games every 3 or 4 days so I don't buy the injuries reason.

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    3 minutes ago, essex canary said:

    In 2006-07 the first renewal season ticket price for Barclay and N&P was £344. Home casual prices are not quoted in the match programme but almost all away games are quoted at £20 upwards+ for a 23 game season. No reason to believe casual prices at Carrow Road were any different. That also accords with my memory. So about a quarter of the games were effectively free to season ticket holders. This has now been almost completely eradicated.     

    Isn't the club just responding to supply and demand. Demand is high and tickets are hard to come by so if they can sell out at £35 a ticket why charge £25 and reduce the budget you have to spend on new signings, wages and infrastructure? 

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    1 minute ago, PurpleCanary said:

    True, but they go on to say:

    What doesn't [deserve respect] is announcing a new signing when you are relying on government money to pay your staff. On March 31, Norwich first revealed plans to furlough and on April 10 they announced the arrival of Luxembourg international Danel Sinani on a three-year deal, notably without any mention of a fee.

    Sure it was poorly timed to say the least! However the player had said in an interview that he signed a contract with us before we announced it.

  19. Posted

    33 minutes ago, PurpleCanary said:

    The Mail piece has a particularly misleading line:

    Norwich first revealed plans to furlough and on April 10 they announced the arrival of Luxembourg international Danel Sinani on a three-year deal, notably without any mention of a fee.

    As if we have kept the size of the fee quiet because it is embarrassingly large. Whereas it's hard to mention a fee when it's a free transfer for an out of contract player.

    Two of the pieces never even mention Norwich. Telegraph no idea as won't pay to read that. 

    Even the Daily Mail one despite not knowing it is a free transfer only actually criticise us for that. In the lead up they also say:

    "Yes, they operate on a far smaller budget than their Premier League rivals - as Sportsmail reported last April, they took a slender transfer budget of £20m with them into the Premier League with an eye on preserving their financial future. They're bottom of the league as it stands but when clubs have shredded themselves for throwing mountains of money on Premier League survival and failed, a responsible business model does deserve respect."

  20. Posted · Edited by Grant Holts Moustache

    19 minutes ago, keelansgrandad said:

    Jeff Bezos just made another $24Bn during the crisis. 

    Also emailed lots of Amazon affiliates yesterday reducing their commissions for certain products, some by 65% - 80%. Interestingly the reduction is mainly for products that have increased in demand recently. He just got a lot richer and reduced a lot of peoples income at the same time.

  21. Posted

    1 hour ago, yellow_belly said:

    No I am not on any other forum, so please don’t confuse me with some else!  I am not being spiteful I am just saying that this one decision is very wrong... and most people away from a City football forum feel this way... I think I am being rather reasonable. I am not calling people spiteful, or a binner etc

    I disagree that most away from a city forum feel this way. Was even a thread on TWTD this week where the Sinani deal was posted and everyone apart from the OP was in agreement that even if the timing of the announcement was poor there isn't a moral problem with the club forward planning.

    Even Shearer said that a club like Norwich will have to look at this differently to the elite premier league clubs.

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    32 minutes ago, TeemuVanBasten said:

    Worse than that, he sued the NHS once because they didn't award him a contract. Has not paid UK income tax for donkeys years, he's scum. 

    You know when they sued they never asked for any money? They were trying to get the procurement process started over because they believed it was flawed.

    The company won the case which kind of proves they were right. Why are you not challenging the government regards this? Surely the issue should be that government and tax payer money is possibly being handed out to companies /organisations who are not the most cost effective or able to offer the best services to those who need them. 

  23. Posted

    52 minutes ago, Indy said:

    Totally agree, in this tough time it shows just how far removed from reality top end footballers are! 
    As most tend to set up in most tax efficient ways they aren’t short of a few bob and could easily take a 70% pay cut for this short period.

    Like I said earlier I’d start to introduce a force majour into any new contract allowing the club to cut wage by 70% in the event of this ever happening again.

    Footballers are payed by clubs via PAYE. Their wages cannot be set up in tax efficient ways as they are taxed at the point of pay and receive their money after tax.

    Those receiving money for endorsements etc. may be able to be more tax efficient but I can't imagine the likes of Norwich and Sheffield United really have players earning fortunes from this type of deal. 

    As for players can afford to take a 70% cut you don't know whether they can afford to do so. Like many of us they will live to their means and have their own circumstances. Throwing them all in together just doesn't work.

    Look at a squad like ours, we have many playing at the highest level they have ever played at, a few who only broke through in the last 1-2 years (Lewis, Aarons, Godfrey, Cantwell and Idah) and players like Zimmerman, Onel and Stipermann who were brought in because they were cheap and have spent their careers playing at low levels where the pay isn't what many associate with footballers. You also have to consider that for many of our players this will be the one and only season they earn this level of money.

    Whilst I am certain there are players out there who can afford to take cuts it is unfair to judge all of them based on the wealth of the very few players who earn the big money. What is right for Barcelona players isn't going to be the case for Norwich players.

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  24. Posted

    3 hours ago, Making Plans said:

    Why not?

    Are they only going to take a pay cut when they're told they have to.

    Let's face it, as generous as the 70% pay cut in Spain is, it still means that a player on £100k a week is getting £30k a week.

     

     

    Because you have literally no idea what they are doing behind the scenes. Put your pitchfork away until you have a clue what decisions they come to. Fifpro have recommended players do not agree individually because the talks are about a collective agreement across the league.

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