Hooper watch - Monday 15th

[Green and Yellow fellow 0]

Any update on this case?

[Mervmeister 18]

But concerned that Ashley Barnes is meant to be the alternative! Shocking player!

Please let''s just get Hooper damnit!

[Yorkshire Canary 118]

There is no way that a club like celtic are going to be publically held to ransom for a £4m player. I sense if this has come from Norwich it is a public way of binning the interest

[RvWs 4 year contract 0]

I was sceptical about our chances of getting Hooper until I heard that we''d offered £4m AND a player.

Why do people think we''re going to hear, either way at bang on 5pm?

[Sussexyellow 55]

[quote user="Yorkshire Canary"]There is no way that a club like celtic are going to be publically held to ransom for a £4m player. I sense if this has come from Norwich it is a public way of binning the interest[/quote]

If there is a deadline it is more likely to be for Norwich''s benefit, i.e. do the deal or we will move on to another target. As you say Celtic will not be held to ransom and I would expect to now see more activity from Norwich on other targets.

[crabbycanary 2]

That''s correct. Hooper needs us, more than we need him. (Although we obviously want him, but there are other fish to fry if not, and Celtic could be left with an unhappy player on their hands)

[ReadingCanary 0]

Sky Sports reporting QPR have made an improved bid.

[Snoddys Jockstrap 0]

Just after our ''deadline''. Good night nurse.

[JF 694]

Cant see him going to qpr to play in the championship, think he would reject it and run his contract down to leave on a free.

[Snoddys Jockstrap 0]

this ''deadline'' idea is so moronic. Cant believe we''re doing that.

[Morisons Prozac 0]

Forces Celtic''s hand so we can push through the sale or if not we can move on to our other targets. What''s so stupid about that?

[Mr Brownstone 0]

What''s to say we are? Not seen that idea actually confirmed anywhere, still just media speculation.

That being said you have to draw a line somewhere, if there is a deadline it''s more likely that it''s a "if we haven''t got him by close of play on Monday then we''ll have to move on", rather than any sort of threat to Celtic.

[JF 694]

I dont think the deadline is that stupid. If the club have got wind via hoopers agent that he has no intention of dropping down to the championship then it leaves celtic in limbo. They either accept our bid thats lower than qpr''s and get a decent amount for their player or they reject it and accept qpr''s then hooper rejects that and walks away for free in 12 months time.

[Mister Chops 7]

[quote user="Snoddys Jockstrap"]this ''deadline'' idea is so moronic. Cant believe we''re doing that.[/quote]Not moronic at all.  If it''s a definite no, then it lets us focus time and money elsewhere.

[Kingston Yellow 220]

[quote user="JF"]I dont think the deadline is that stupid. If the club have got wind via hoopers agent that he has no intention of dropping down to the championship then it leaves celtic in limbo. They either accept our bid thats lower than qpr''s and get a decent amount for their player or they reject it and accept qpr''s then hooper rejects that and walks away for free in 12 months time.[/quote]

Spot on. Added to which, we''ve drawn a clear line in the sand and can get on and pursuit Plan B if Celtic ar$e about. We cannot leave ourselves in the same position as we did in January where we didn''t have enough time to explore other avenues

[Lunarcrash 0]

Have we bid? Haven''t we bid? Who knows. McNally likes to do his business in private and I''d say if we are close to getting him then we won''t know until a few days before. This one could rumble on for a week or so yet. I''d like to think he''d chose us over QPR but as everyone knows, money talks.

[chicken 0]

You hear it all the time. If rumours are to be believed deadlines are almost commonplace.

Hooper has one season left on his contract, they''ll be lucky to get £2million for him in January and be able to replace him.

If the offer of £4million plus a player is true, I wonder who it was?

[JF 694]

Maybe 4 million plus Becchio? He clearly isnt wanted here and must be the strangest transfer i can remember. Better not be Hoolahan.

[CJ 0]

You sometimes have to wonder where these stories about transfers come from . One can not see it being good practice for a club to do it certainly not regularly, so I assume its those agents who are trying to get counter bids in .

If Hooper chooses QPR then clearly only cares for the money not quality of challenge. I will be surprised if we do not ge t Hooper in the end but I suspect they will wait and hope for another bid from Villa etc

[ncfc2012 0]

would be a good signing, great finisher

[Oswald Cobblepot 0]

Not sure if anyone else has seen it, apparently QPR are going in with an improved offer for Hooper according to SSN on twitter.

[Twitchy 0]

Six million folks are saying.

[Yelloow Since 72 54]

All of this is being filtered through a media maze, much of which is simply made up. City have been caught up in last minute bargaining over strikers and missed out, including the Hooper saga last January. It doesn''t look like they''re prepared to let that happen again. Deal now or move on.

[Jp1967 0]

A lot of people up here saying that we have accepted a 6 million bid from QPR.

[Tetteys Jig 830]

He isn''t keen on QPR though.

[GJL Mid-Norfolk Canary 1,734]

it would be pretty ludicrous to lose out to a Championship club for the sake of 500k. We clealy want the player, both back in January and still now. Get the deal done, get him over to the USA asap and integrate him with the squad.

[ABC (A Basingstoke Canary) 26]

[quote user="GJL Mid-Norfolk Canary"]it would be pretty ludicrous to lose out to a Championship club for the sake of 500k. We clealy want the player, both back in January and still now. Get the deal done, get him over to the USA asap and integrate him with the squad.[/quote]

 

In that case, I think we should graciously bow out!

 

We clearly do NOT want the player or we would have had him on board already - we clearly DID want RvW hence the reason he is already on board. We may have wanted the player in January (probably as a short term "stop-gap") but we have moved so much further on from this kind of signing - who would probably only be 4th choice striker.

 

Maybe there is a clue in the fact that there is not one other PL team in for him - even new boys Hull have pulled out! Now he may not like Championship level football and have sufficient faith in himself to be a PL player. In that case, he needs to keep his head down, put the extra shift in and walk out on a free in a years time!

[Hog 0]

I am sure Becchio would look World Class in the SPL, Hooper may or may not be a hit in the EPL, I would rather we went elsewhere now as the whole thing is boring now.

[Mervmeister 18]

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-transfer-news/harry-redknapp-ups-ante-celtic-2056330

Deadline extended by 24hours apparently lol

[ncfc2012 0]

[quote user="Mervmeister"]http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-transfer-news/harry-redknapp-ups-ante-celtic-2056330

Deadline extended by 24hours apparently lol[/quote]

how this is going could be extended till end of transfer window