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Jewell: Davies Fee Too Much
Jewell: Davies Fee Too Much
Saturday, 28th Jul 2012 18:01

Boss Paul Jewell says the Blues and Derby are still a long way from agreeing a fee for long-time target Steve Davies. The Town manager has been chasing the 24-year-old frontman all summer.

Jewell said: “Steve Davies is a player I took to Derby and one I admire, but it’s all down to cost. If the deal was right for us and we could afford him, we’d take him.

“People want you to go out and buy players but it’s not a bottomless pit I’ve got, so I’ve got to be prudent in the way I try and work.

“I spoke to Derby and Nigel Clough over the summer and asked about the fee and the fee is far in excess [of what we can afford]. Don’t ask me what that is because that’s between the clubs, but I haven’t got that amount of money.”

Derby are understood to value Davies at £1 million with the Blues believed to be willing to pay around half that.

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taylor15 added 18:09 - Jul 28
fair comment.
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WeirdFishes added 18:11 - Jul 28
Evans - pay up...
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jas0999 added 18:11 - Jul 28
We shouldn't pay over the odds - particularly for yet another injury prone player. BUT we do need to start bringing in some more players. The fans are on the whole not interested in the excuses. As manager PJ needs Plans B, C, D and E ... he admitted not having one last year. Today's poor showing demonstrates how much work there is to do.
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itfcjay added 18:15 - Jul 28
Clough is holding out for another club to come in but he will end up paying a player that doesn't want to be there !! Think we should hang in there .
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MarkITFC added 18:19 - Jul 28
good move by the club , lets not pay over the odds !
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bluearmy4life added 18:23 - Jul 28
It will cost Evans more to sack pj then to back him. Evans you need to back him financially if not what's the point? You may as well get a new manager in that case who will have to be financially backed to get this club anywhere. Dissapointing we are still no further forward in bringing new players in.
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casanovacrow added 18:27 - Jul 28
We got no money because the wage bill is so high. Wonder how much Bullard is draining off us?
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Mark added 19:00 - Jul 28
I don't see why, in this difficult economic climate, Derby should double their money on a player who has only scored 21 goals in four years for them, and who can leave for free next summer (after the transfer window closes next month he will be virtually worthless). That said, I see his goal per games ratio is good and I would like to sign him, but only if the money is right.

To think that three years ago we signed a striker who had scored 15 goals in three years at Watford for £1.7M! That crazy spending has left us short of money now.
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algarvefan added 19:08 - Jul 28
I love the way you guys think Evans has got a never ending supply of money to buy players with!! The money wasted by poor choice of managers is the problem at ITFC and to be honest the jury is still out on Jewell for me, he seems a nice guy but we need a shrewd manager, not a joker!
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Bangor31 added 19:21 - Jul 28
@jas I hold the same view, when a team loses a friendly it have to be taken without any mind towards team gelling, different tactics etc both Man city and chelsea haven't lost to teams they shouldn't have...... oh they have my bad
if we sign to many players we will struggle due to team bonding so 1 or 2 good ones will do me fine
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gibbo added 19:32 - Jul 28
@casanovacrow less than what Scotland was on last year and far less then Bowyer.
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itfcjay added 20:16 - Jul 28
Go take a look at Jay Bothroyd !!
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radiogaga added 20:47 - Jul 28
I think you are always going to get token moaners on here who say that Evans is being tight on this one. The goalposts have changed more than ever due to the new FFP rules that have come in. Evans wouldn't be looking out for the club's best interests if he bid over the odds and then come the next annual accounts, we make high losses & get fined millions & even lose points. Just cannot win with all our fans, never have & never will.

Algarve fan - jury's out on Jewell, but that is mostly for his tactical ineptitude in my opinion (I don't care what he did at Wigan and Bradford, it took him far too long to find the right balance last season). I wouldn't say Loach for £150k, Cresswell for £300k, Chambers on a free, JET for circa £1m or Chopra for £1m is not shrewd business (he's made clangers on the way, including Bowyer...ppl can moan about he wasted money on Bullard but most of our fans wanted him to join more than anyone last summer...)
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buryblue77 added 21:02 - Jul 28
radiogaga
Exactly, people moan about Bullard but we all wanted him, myself included. Nobody was to know he'd turn out the way he did last season, especially after the performances he put in when on loan.
Regarding transfer budgets and FFP, I feel that in one way Evans is doing the right thing, basically not leading us into administration or even worse, however it's a gamble especially considering PJ's results last year, now is the time to invest or we could be in trouble. It seems that we (rightly) have a price tag for a player (both transfer fees and wages) and once that's exceeded we don't seem to have the ability or desire to meet somewhere in negotiations. I just don't know at the moment if the approach we're taking is the right one or not.
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bedsitfc added 21:09 - Jul 28
radiogaga - how was bowyer a clanger? free transfer one season contract scored a winning goal away at upton park =3 points. bullard we all wanted him here and he may still deliver.
we cant expect marcus to keep putting his hand in his pocket, we may need to sell to pay for the likes of 1 million for davies and our main asset at the moment is creswell and nobody would like to see him go.
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bedsitfc added 21:14 - Jul 28
radiogaga - how was bowyer a clanger? free transfer one season contract scored a winning goal away at upton park =3 points. bullard we all wanted him here and he may still deliver.
we cant expect marcus to keep putting his hand in his pocket, we may need to sell to pay for the likes of 1 million for davies and our main asset at the moment is creswell and nobody would like to see him go.
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radiogaga added 21:20 - Jul 28
Bury blue - I genuinely think Town have stuck to a very reasonable valuation for Steve Davies. He is a very good player but for £1m, with a year on his current deal, with an awful (albeit unlucky) injury record, & without a single season of regular first team football to his name at 24, I think Nigel Clough is on another planet. There is no guarantee the guy will stay fit, which would cost us more money to draft in another striker. Got to keep the faith really, there are good strikers out there for £750k-£1m who would not be a gamble.

Bedsitfc - I feel that bowyer flopped because, although he did score the winner away at east bacon, his general contribution over the season as a whole was very disappointing. Very slow, lack of goals/ assists, a lot of injuries, grossly overpaid.
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JewellintheTown added 21:22 - Jul 28
@algarvefanh - agree with everything you said except for Jewell not being shrewd part - As Radiogaga says, I think Jewells done pretty well for the money and brought in some decent bargains over the seasons. If we start gunning for expensive players or over the odds prices, people will fleece us for more and more. Thats how this financial mess got going in the first place. Enough is enough.
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pabloc added 21:25 - Jul 28
Give them £500,000 and Ellington because he won't be doing nothing down here this season.
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bedsitfc added 21:31 - Jul 28
radiogaga - yeah agree he along with sonko didnt set portman road alight but all he cost town was wages. we didnt lose out, we just didnt get great value.
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radiogaga added 21:42 - Jul 28
Bedsitfc - I see your point regarding the no fees. That is the thing with free transfers, if they do well it is a bonus but if not, like you say, no big disaster.

I think Sonko was a bit of a panic signing post Peterborough demolition because PJ had made a mess of/ ran out of ideas at getting the defence sorted last summer & on paper, he looked decent. Bowyer was signed at a time when hull were holding out for a club to pay off Bullard's silly £50k a week contract for them and was probably only signed on the basis that Bullard was a no go at that point
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buryblue77 added 21:57 - Jul 28
radiogaga, I agree that the fee Derby want for Davies is too high, they seem to want to make a profit without justification.
However, we have lost out on a few players, mainly because we wont meet their wage/contractual demands (remember, those who have been here for talks obviously have had some interest in joining or what's the point in talks, it's like me going for a job interview for a job I've no interest in taking) and that failure to land number one targets means resorting to players of (possibly) lesser ability.
It's definitely a risk to go in so low and miss out, but a bigger risk of over spending and not achieving promotion. I think with our current budgets promotion is a big ask and those who moan about us not being up there pushing (hopefully we will be, but I feel we're still a way off top 6) are simply being unrealistic.
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radiogaga added 22:26 - Jul 28
Reading won the championship last year without spending big money (in fact, they also lost key players like Matt mills and shane long along the way) and Southampton largely stuck with a team that served them well the year before. As much as I am not expecting town to go up, they can take a lot of inspiration from the likes of reading, southampton, Blackpool, and on the flip side from Leicester who (despite having bags of money, a big name manager and some big name signings) still did not give the top 2 any sleepless nights last season. It's all about getting a group of players who work together and stick to a successful game plan. Town were relatively successful once they settled down with the 4-2-3-1 formation, but lack of conviction in front of goal coupled with defensive errors saw us drop points. Today proved town are still a way off, but if we can get 3 good players in key positions, it could be a decent story. I don't think Town fans should expect promotion, but hopefully a vast improvement on 15th!
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radiogaga added 22:26 - Jul 28
Reading won the championship last year without spending big money (in fact, they also lost key players like Matt mills and shane long along the way) and Southampton largely stuck with a team that served them well the year before. As much as I am not expecting town to go up, they can take a lot of inspiration from the likes of reading, southampton, Blackpool, and on the flip side from Leicester who (despite having bags of money, a big name manager and some big name signings) still did not give the top 2 any sleepless nights last season. It's all about getting a group of players who work together and stick to a successful game plan. Town were relatively successful once they settled down with the 4-2-3-1 formation, but lack of conviction in front of goal coupled with defensive errors saw us drop points. Today proved town are still a way off, but if we can get 3 good players in key positions, it could be a decent story. I don't think Town fans should expect promotion, but hopefully a vast improvement on 15th!
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michaeldownunder added 22:33 - Jul 28
Totaly agree with radiogaga

Bowyer was only signed because we did not have Bullard at the time.
I myself think he (Bowyer) did not do such a bad job, mostly played out of position by PJ. I still think he would have been a good player to keep, depending on wages. for this season.
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