Howson bid

[Hucka Hucka Huckerby 0]

Has ITK deleted the tweet because I can''t find it!

[goonuppersee 0]

Not been deleted, both tweets (about the rejected bid and the subsequent one about a transfer request being handed in) are still there

https://twitter.com/ITK_TRANSFER

I would take anything on there with a massive pinch of salt - probably a 15 yr old kids having a bit of fun.  They will post 80% made up stuff and the other 20% will be recycled from somewhere else.  Then eventually they will get one right and will crow about it for weeks afterwards 

 

[star_manic 0]

[quote user="city4eva"]

[quote user="Fozzie"]Howson left his hometown club for us.

The club he supported as a child. Played for his entire career.  Was made permanent captain and a fans'' favourite (sounds familiar).

Howson was looking to leave that club he has so much history with on a Bosman transfer, refusing to sign a new contract because he wanted Premier League football.  He came here, to a club with no real history just to play in the Premier League.


I think he has three years left on his contract and unless we''re consistently finishing in the top 8 of the Prem I can''t see him staying past that.  In fact, I think he''ll be handing in a transfer request before he makes it half way through.  January will be a bigger test of his willingness to stay here than this summer.

Wouldn''t expect to get more than £5m for him.  We don''t attract large transfer fees.

[/quote]

What do you mean we dont attract large transfer fees, we sell players for their value, not forgetting NCFC were the first club to sell a player for 1 million ( I think)

[/quote].......no, trevor francis was the first million player, birminghan to forrest. sutton was the first £5M player to blackburn.

[Sussexyellow 55]

I wonder if there is something in this, but as part of the games over the Lambert compensation "negotiation".

 

I believe such compensation packages tend to have a clause in saying something along the lines of no bids for the manager''s previous club''s players for a specified period, say 12 months.

 

With no compensation deal in place then there is nothing to prevent such raids for players. So a bid for a valued player could be part of a a stategy to encourage NCFC to reach agreement on compensation at an early date and for a lesser sum than they might otherwise hold out for.

 

Just a thought.

 

OTBC

[JC 0]

Reading the other tweets by the ITK_TRANSFER guys, it is basically rehashing rumours that are going round with a few "calculated" links e.g. X manager has signed this player before...

They have also changed their profile name since yesterday. Yesterday it said something about their focus being on Wolves, Villa and a few other clubs

Unless it goes viral on twitter I take no notice - Holt went viral and then it turned out to be true

[Phillip J Fry 0]

Howson apparently handed in a transfer request around 21 hours ago, yet the club have yet to confirm or deny it? Sounds like garbage to me.

[lappinitup 629]

[quote user="Gareth"]Howson apparently handed in a transfer request around 21 hours ago, yet the club have yet to confirm or deny it? Sounds like garbage to me.[/quote]That would be friday at 10pm. Yeah right!

[colneycanary 0]

According to ITK Lambert has given up on getting Howson and now going after Whittingham from Cardiff. We will see if this is true or not.

[Lets be aving you! 0]

"According to ITK Lambert has given up on getting Howson and now going after Whittingham from Cardiff."

 

The Whittingham to Villa rumour is an old one from mid-week.

[colneycanary 0]

Didn''t u read my post before yours?

[Webbo118 0]

[quote user="colneycanary"]According to ITK Lambert has given up on getting Howson and now going after Whittingham from Cardiff. We will see if this is true or not.[/quote]

 

This may be a strange question but why do you bother to read this sh**e ?