Dean not coming?

[Canary Boy 0]

It looks from Nigel Worthington''s comments last night that Dean Ashton is not coming to Carrow Road because he is "too expensive".

Didn''t Nigel say that about Darren Huckerby?

[First Wizard 0]

[quote]It looks from Nigel Worthington''s comments last night that Dean Ashton is not coming to Carrow Road because he is "too expensive". Didn''t Nigel say that about Darren Huckerby?[/quote]

I think you''ll find that infamous clanger was dropped by that twonk Doomcaster, Canary Boy.

[Mcsncfcmcs 0]

Sorry, but that''s just blatantly rewriting history to suit your own means.

Doncaster said Hucks was too expensive when:

a) Man City were asking for somewhere in the region of £2m, hoping that the club would overpay due to us fans being so desperate not to see him leave at the end of the loan spell. We didn''t buckle and let his loan spell come to an end, and as such (with Keegan wanting rid of him off their books during the transfer window) they had to accept lower fees from interested clubs including us.

and b) when it was clear Hucks still had £1.5m owed to him on the rest of his Man City contract. We certainly couldn''t afford to pay it on top of a transfer fee and a contract for Hucks (basically what Man City were originally asking in their price). Had Hucks not been able to come to an arrangement over it (largely by losing out on some money himself to make the deal happen) then he WOULD have been too expensive for us.

And of course on top of all this was the fact (though some tried to deny it at the time) that buying Hucks alone wouldn''t have been enough to take us up. We needed at least one other striker (two taking into account injuries, like the one Svenny got early on in his City career) to make it a worthwhile gamble.