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If these targets are true on 13:38 - Aug 1 by Daninthecampo
Ashton last week said we're down the line with a few players, you'd expect one of those to be a defender, neither Trusty or Mcnally sound like they would've been down the line, so like most of our transfers, a player will be announced that's not been mentioned before, hopefully in the next couple of days!
Indeed.
I know of a player who agreed terms with us, but the other club pulled out at the last minuite as thier replacement failed a medical and our deal was contingent on that deal. At no point was he or has he ever been linked to the club.
Not claiming to be an ITK by any means (I just happen to work with a relative of the player in question) but just an example of I'm sure many potnetial deals that are never reported on.
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If these targets are true on 14:02 - Aug 1 with 913 views
If these targets are true on 13:45 - Aug 1 by yorkshireblue
Indeed.
I know of a player who agreed terms with us, but the other club pulled out at the last minuite as thier replacement failed a medical and our deal was contingent on that deal. At no point was he or has he ever been linked to the club.
Not claiming to be an ITK by any means (I just happen to work with a relative of the player in question) but just an example of I'm sure many potnetial deals that are never reported on.
And more importantly how they can break down very easily.
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If these targets are true on 19:30 - Aug 1 with 818 views
It’s more a case of - what do they like more about other clubs. Without getting into history / big club debate, Ipswich are a new club (back) in the Champ and players will be wary about coming to you regardless of the “project and ambition” under KM and MA when they can settle for the perceived “guarantee” of other clubs.
Your way to overcome that worry is to overpay in fees / wages, probably both.
It seems like you (rightly) won’t go down that route.
For example:
Whether you think Simms was on your radar or Hirst always was 1st choice, nobody ever says they recruited their 2nd or 3rd pick do they? It’s not exactly novel to say “we’ve been chasing Hirst for weeks” to make it appear he was first choice. That’s not a criticism either, it’s just football, you spin-it. Pretty much every Champ club would’ve been in for Simms if they thought he was viable!
At the end of the day, you signed Hirst because he was the one you could get. Your fans are happy, it’s really immaterial who you might’ve been looking at, who maybe turned you down.. Even PL clubs don’t get who they want.
I think you should be pleased you stuck to your guns, because clubs / players will mess you about, use you as leverage to get get more elsewhere. It’s very true that “everyone knows Ipswich have money” so you will get featured in every agent led transfer rumour out there.
Enjoy the players you have already / have signed and see where it takes you.
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If these targets are true on 19:37 - Aug 1 with 802 views
If these targets are true on 19:30 - Aug 1 by FevsBCFC
“What don’t they like about ITFC”
It’s more a case of - what do they like more about other clubs. Without getting into history / big club debate, Ipswich are a new club (back) in the Champ and players will be wary about coming to you regardless of the “project and ambition” under KM and MA when they can settle for the perceived “guarantee” of other clubs.
Your way to overcome that worry is to overpay in fees / wages, probably both.
It seems like you (rightly) won’t go down that route.
For example:
Whether you think Simms was on your radar or Hirst always was 1st choice, nobody ever says they recruited their 2nd or 3rd pick do they? It’s not exactly novel to say “we’ve been chasing Hirst for weeks” to make it appear he was first choice. That’s not a criticism either, it’s just football, you spin-it. Pretty much every Champ club would’ve been in for Simms if they thought he was viable!
At the end of the day, you signed Hirst because he was the one you could get. Your fans are happy, it’s really immaterial who you might’ve been looking at, who maybe turned you down.. Even PL clubs don’t get who they want.
I think you should be pleased you stuck to your guns, because clubs / players will mess you about, use you as leverage to get get more elsewhere. It’s very true that “everyone knows Ipswich have money” so you will get featured in every agent led transfer rumour out there.
Enjoy the players you have already / have signed and see where it takes you.
And the toughest sell we have is geography, as it always has been.
You can’t sign for Ipswich without relocating from any club rhat we’d want to be signing from
If these targets are true on 09:22 - Aug 1 by HighgateBlue
In McNally's case, it may be that we're not in the north west, or it may be money.
In Trusty's case, it may well be that we're not in the Prem.
We can't (yet) change our division, we can't change our geography, and we wouldn't want to pay over the odds, or worse, breach FFP rules.
It seems that Coventry have also lost out on McNally, and (a) he's been there before so knows the place, (b) it's closer to the north west, if that's a factor, and (c) they surely have enough of the Gyokeres money left to be able to blow us out of the water.
These are good quality players. It's good to aim high. But we won't get everyone on our list, and we genuinely have no idea whether these were the only 2 CBs on our list that fitted our criteria, or whether they are 2 out of half a dozen. I think the latter is more likely. But let's see...
With McNally it appears some clubs wanted to buy him, didn’t want him on loan. Burnley only bought him a year ago, and want to “sweat their asset”. Got 3 years left on his contract, so they want to build his profile on loan and if he then comes back and competes, great. If he doesn’t they have a very sellable asset, more so than this summer.
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If these targets are true on 20:06 - Aug 1 with 711 views
If these targets are true on 19:37 - Aug 1 by itfcjoe
And the toughest sell we have is geography, as it always has been.
You can’t sign for Ipswich without relocating from any club rhat we’d want to be signing from
Indeed, a certain Mr Skuse was talking about relocating on Life's a Pitch TV last week! On a related note, we'd signed a young Andy Carroll on loan from Newcastle until he realised where Ipswich was.
If these targets are true on 19:30 - Aug 1 by FevsBCFC
“What don’t they like about ITFC”
It’s more a case of - what do they like more about other clubs. Without getting into history / big club debate, Ipswich are a new club (back) in the Champ and players will be wary about coming to you regardless of the “project and ambition” under KM and MA when they can settle for the perceived “guarantee” of other clubs.
Your way to overcome that worry is to overpay in fees / wages, probably both.
It seems like you (rightly) won’t go down that route.
For example:
Whether you think Simms was on your radar or Hirst always was 1st choice, nobody ever says they recruited their 2nd or 3rd pick do they? It’s not exactly novel to say “we’ve been chasing Hirst for weeks” to make it appear he was first choice. That’s not a criticism either, it’s just football, you spin-it. Pretty much every Champ club would’ve been in for Simms if they thought he was viable!
At the end of the day, you signed Hirst because he was the one you could get. Your fans are happy, it’s really immaterial who you might’ve been looking at, who maybe turned you down.. Even PL clubs don’t get who they want.
I think you should be pleased you stuck to your guns, because clubs / players will mess you about, use you as leverage to get get more elsewhere. It’s very true that “everyone knows Ipswich have money” so you will get featured in every agent led transfer rumour out there.
Enjoy the players you have already / have signed and see where it takes you.
I'm pretty sure we wanted Hirst and Simms!
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If these targets are true on 20:27 - Aug 1 with 612 views
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