Blues boss Paul Jewell has confirmed that Town’s three bids — for Portsmouth pair Joel Ward and Jason Pearce and Crewe’s Nick Powell - have all been rejected. However, the Town manager says that that’s only to be expected with no club ever accepting a first offer.

Jewell said: “We’ve made offers and as far as I’m aware they’ve all been rejected. I’ve never been the manager of a club which has accepted a first bid, I’ve never known a first bid to be accepted by a selling club.”

While that appears to intimate that Jewell is keen to make further offers, he says owner Marcus Evans and chief executive Simon Clegg will now assess the financial side of the proposed moves: “I’ll let other people deal with that side of it. If we’re so far apart there’s no good wasting everybody’s time — ours, Portsmouth’s, the players’ — if a deal can’t be done.

"If there’s a deal to be done and we can do it, we’re interested. If not, we move on.”

The Town boss refused to confirm that the third bid was for Crewe’s Nick Powell with the Railwaymen, unlike Portsmouth, yet to comment: “It’s private. If clubs want to come out like Portsmouth have and say they’ve had bids rejected by Ipswich, that’s fair enough, but I don’t really want to comment on anyone else.”

As things stand, Jewell now doesn’t expect Leicester’s Sean St Ledger to join: “He played on Tuesday for Leicester against Forest in the FA Cup, so it looks like he might be in their plans.

“We thought we had something done last week but it hasn’t happened and for whatever reason that’s probably gone now.”

Jewell dismissed links with Swindon pair Matt Ritchie and Paul Caddis and ex-Blackpool midfielder Bojan Djordjic.

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cromwellblue added 13:15 - Jan 19 ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
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Pessimistic added 13:18 - Jan 19 Town bid 1.3 million for Powell according to my contact at Crewe. They have been told to come back with a much imporved offer or look elsewhere.
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RegencyBlue added 13:18 - Jan 19 Fair point regarding first offers but all you do by going in too low at the start is alert other clubs to the possible availability of players you are interested in. There is a problem in my view with our transfer dealings overall and has been for a while now. To be fair to Jewell, Clegg and Evans are the common denominator!
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hampstead_blue added 13:24 - Jan 19 Pay-up and get them in.
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arc added 13:25 - Jan 19 Presumably they had a discussion before they posted the first bid about how high they would go? Trouble is, I can't imagine any of these lads are going to be champing at the bit to come here; if they're doing well, there will be better offers from clubs doing much better. Why join our shambles?
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WickedBlue added 13:26 - Jan 19 Gotta love how many experts we have among the fans in transfer policy and tactics.....Seems so many of you want t overbid on a player. Non of these players are on the transfer list so the clubs aren't going to make it easy by telling you how much they will take for them hoping you will overbid. So settle down and let see what happes ME knows how much he will dish out for each player...if it is not enough then move on....

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walberswick added 13:26 - Jan 19 Fanny around....
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wrightyblue added 13:29 - Jan 19 Leadbitter rules!
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broomfield123 added 13:30 - Jan 19 Am i correct that the last bloke we signed from Crewe was the mighty Jamma
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walberswick added 13:38 - Jan 19 No deal, we move on.... where? Div1?
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Nunn_the_Wiser added 13:42 - Jan 19 We probably put in embarrassing bids as always. We're a joke.
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irishtim added 13:44 - Jan 19 Was to be expected but as usual it will be down to the last day prob with last ditch signings & us fans clutching at straws
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danger_matt added 13:45 - Jan 19 Think we'll be lucky to land Powell... http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/16561789.stm
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planetblue_2011 added 13:49 - Jan 19 Oh dear same old story! We won't get anyone with stupid low offers!! Hurry up Evans get your cheque book out
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bluebud added 13:55 - Jan 19 Jewell said: “We've made offers and as far as I'm aware they've all been rejected. I've never been the manager of a club which has accepted a first bid, I've never known a first bid to be accepted by a selling club.” ....of course, apart from anyone who bids for our players, we take their arms off on their first bid....then repaint the turnstiles. This is the most depressing transfer (rumour) window ever

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Dallas_Blues added 13:55 - Jan 19 If they would've accepted the first offer that would only mean we overpaid, which would piss everyone off too.
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jas0999 added 14:06 - Jan 19 Here we go again! Just two transfer fees agreed all Summer and now this. What amazes me is other clubs manage to get deals done. If we go to Leeds with no fresh faces - heads should roll. This is completely unacceptable. I suspect Clegg offered peanuts - literally!
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Karlosfandangal added 14:19 - Jan 19 Bored now but dont worry we have other targets in mind we have been looking at them since the summer zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
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Karlosfandangal added 14:22 - Jan 19 How long has Mark Hughes been at QPR and he has just had a bid for a Man City defender accepted and the lad is only 25. Why does it take so long for us, some times you have to pay the price and not try to get everything on the cheap.
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runningout added 14:23 - Jan 19 Agree.... it all boils down to clubs and more so agents knowing we have dosh and stringing us along... we have to expect to pull our finger out and anticipate this, come up with a offer that will not be beaten... if they dont like it move on and let them lose out
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righty added 14:31 - Jan 19 Typical Clegg end up with a few loans
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danger_matt added 14:31 - Jan 19 Quoted from the Times... "Nedum Onuoha is another QPR target with the club preparing to offer the Manchester City defender, 25, more than £80,000 a week." That may have something to do with it Karlos.
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afrodids added 14:38 - Jan 19 Stop pissing about and get these players in.it's all very tedious and a familiar story. Wake me up when we have actually signed someone. Get it done or we are going down! We should have gone for younger players at the start of the season,I'd rather be 4th from bottom with youngster who will improve and gell than with a bunch of hasbeens looking to see their careers out!

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afrodids added 14:39 - Jan 19 Stop pissing about and get these players in.it's all very tedious and a familiar story. Wake me up when we have actually signed someone. Get it done or we are going down! We should have gone for younger players at the start of the season,I'd rather be 4th from bottom with youngster who will improve and gell than with a bunch of hasbeens looking to see their careers out!

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afrodids added 14:40 - Jan 19 Stop pissing about and get these players in.it's all very tedious and a familiar story. Wake me up when we have actually signed someone. Get it done or we are going down! We should have gone for younger players at the start of the season,I'd rather be 4th from bottom with youngster who will improve and gell than with a bunch of hasbeens looking to see their careers out!

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