O\'Driscoll: Town Bids Were Way Short - Ipswich Town News
Doncaster Rovers manager Sean O’Driscoll says Town’s bids for striker Billy Sharp and midfielder James Coppinger last week were way short of his club's valuation of their players. Rovers turned down the Blues’ offers of £2.3 million for Sharp and £300,000 for 30-year-old Coppinger.
O’Driscoll said: "We don’t want to lose our best players. We know how important it is to have a goalscorer in this division - and we saw just how important Billy is to us when we were without him for the last 12 games and didn’t win once.
"Every player has their price but the bid was way short of Billy’s valuation. Copps is a slightly different case because of his age.
"But the bid has got to be realistic and it wasn’t a realistic bid for someone of James’s quality.”
Earlier this week, Wolves were linked with a £2.5 million offer for Sharp. Both players have two years remaining on their contracts at the Keepmoat Stadium.
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