| The club will surely have known 19:44 - Apr 9 with 6835 views | muccletonjoe |
The chances of surviving this season were stacked against us. If they then went ahead and negotiated this contract for Delap, they have left us in a very precarious state for next season in the championship.
All we can do is watch this space.
But the potential is there already for the club to be faced with building at least 50% of the current squad. Never mind if we have the money or not. We are looking at bedding in alot of new faces yet again. |  | | |  |
| The club will surely have known on 20:20 - Apr 9 with 4311 views | J2BLUE |
I'll believe he's available for £30m when I see it.
If it's true he's going to have his pick of the entire Premier League. |  |
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| The club will surely have known on 20:24 - Apr 9 with 4294 views | chicoazul |
If we hadn’t signed Delap we would probably have swapped places with Southampton and for me taking a bath on his fee is worth that. Plus when he plays for England we can say we made him. |  |
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| The club will surely have known on 20:44 - Apr 9 with 4192 views | 2-5-7 |
| The club will surely have known on 20:20 - Apr 9 by J2BLUE |
I'll believe he's available for £30m when I see it.
If it's true he's going to have his pick of the entire Premier League. |
Available for discussions at £30m
Will go for more than that to the highest bidder above £30m if more than one bidder
Which there will be |  | | |
| The club will surely have known on 20:51 - Apr 9 with 4129 views | redrickstuhaart |
| The club will surely have known on 20:44 - Apr 9 by 2-5-7 |
Available for discussions at £30m
Will go for more than that to the highest bidder above £30m if more than one bidder
Which there will be |
Not really. IF it is correct, any club will offer 30m and then offer the player the riches. |  | | |
| The club will surely have known on 21:00 - Apr 9 with 4065 views | _clive_baker_ |
Southampton were advanced in talks with him as well at the time. It’s possible it was a non negotiable from his side and if Southampton were willing to go with it maybe we had to or we don’t get him. Nobody knows the ins and outs of that deal and when players are sought after we don’t hold all the cards. The other factor is it looks cheap now given the season he’s had, with the benefit of hindsight. At the time £27m (net of City’s 20% of profit) on a £15m signing in the event we’re relegated wouldn’t have looked as low as it does now (if it’s true). |  | | |
| The club will surely have known on 21:03 - Apr 9 with 4038 views | Nthsuffolkblue |
The likelihood is that Delap would only have signed with whatever clause was put in. We got close to staying up through him, have finished 2 places higher than we likely would have without him and will still make a profit on the fee paid. Would you have preferred to gone without entirely? Imagine if we had put everything on signing Broja and Ioanidis instead! |  |
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| The club will surely have known on 21:03 - Apr 9 with 4040 views | PrideOfTheEast |
| The club will surely have known on 20:20 - Apr 9 by J2BLUE |
I'll believe he's available for £30m when I see it.
If it's true he's going to have his pick of the entire Premier League. |
The report is accurate.
It would have been a take it or leave it situation with the players agents when we negotiated the contract presumably.
Disappointing as he’s worth much more than that in my view but we move on and need to replace him regardless of how much we get him. | | | |
| The club will surely have known on 21:09 - Apr 9 with 3976 views | Herbivore |
Sorry, why does Delap leaving for £30m mean we're looking at building at least 50% of the squad? I'm struggling to see any logic in that. |  |
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| The club will surely have known on 21:28 - Apr 9 with 3902 views | Guthrum |
| The club will surely have known on 21:09 - Apr 9 by Herbivore |
Sorry, why does Delap leaving for £30m mean we're looking at building at least 50% of the squad? I'm struggling to see any logic in that. |
I think he means on top of the loans going back and potentially other players leaving. |  |
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| The club will surely have known on 21:31 - Apr 9 with 3875 views | Nthsuffolkblue |
How does the squad we are likely to be left with compare with that we had the second half of our last Championship season? I think most who are leaving will be ones who were not with us then. If we can be stronger than we were at that stage we will be in a good position. We don't need an overhaul. | |
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| The club will surely have known on 21:32 - Apr 9 with 3873 views | Churchman |
| The club will surely have known on 21:03 - Apr 9 by PrideOfTheEast |
The report is accurate.
It would have been a take it or leave it situation with the players agents when we negotiated the contract presumably.
Disappointing as he’s worth much more than that in my view but we move on and need to replace him regardless of how much we get him. |
As the report is accurate am I right in thinking reporters were there taking pics and notes when the deal was done? If not, please could you provide your sources. |  | | |
| The club will surely have known on 21:40 - Apr 9 with 3823 views | Herbivore |
| The club will surely have known on 21:28 - Apr 9 by Guthrum |
I think he means on top of the loans going back and potentially other players leaving. |
Although it still seems a heck of a leap, we will have three loanees going back and will lose a few others but building 50% plus of a squad? I can't see it. I'm sure the OP (as well as others) have bemoaned our signings as being Championship all stars so I'm not sure why we'd be looking to shift so many of them. | |
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| The club will surely have known on 21:44 - Apr 9 with 3782 views | southnorfolkblue |
Hindsight is a wonderful thing though.
There were plenty on here who thought we had paid over the odds for him. I doubt anyone saw him having this sort of season | |
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| The club will surely have known on 22:00 - Apr 9 with 3693 views | Churchman |
| The club will surely have known on 21:44 - Apr 9 by southnorfolkblue |
Hindsight is a wonderful thing though.
There were plenty on here who thought we had paid over the odds for him. I doubt anyone saw him having this sort of season |
I certainly didn’t. ‘OMG why have we signed him?’ was my first thought. Lumbering, slow and crude. Probably would be injured in no time, £15m? £1m looked more than enough for me or a no risk loan.
Delap or Moore? Moore every time. But I was willing to wait and see and didn’t comment at the time. Trust in McKenna - he had the final say was the view I took. I take it after a poor season, that’s all in the bin along with faith in the owners and CEO for some. Not for me. | | | |
| The club will surely have known on 22:01 - Apr 9 with 3685 views | Blue_Heath |
Typical that the one signing that has really shown true PL quality has this clause. That said he's done remarkably well and should be playing in the top flight week in, week out. Although given the fee for Solanke disappointing we will not make more out this. | | | |
| The club will surely have known on 22:07 - Apr 9 with 3664 views | _clive_baker_ |
| The club will surely have known on 22:01 - Apr 9 by Blue_Heath |
Typical that the one signing that has really shown true PL quality has this clause. That said he's done remarkably well and should be playing in the top flight week in, week out. Although given the fee for Solanke disappointing we will not make more out this. |
He’s probably not the only one, he’s just the one people want.
Wait until you hear about Muric’s £40m clause… | | | |
| Apparently we've got an option.... on 22:10 - Apr 9 with 3636 views | Bloots |
| The club will surely have known on 22:07 - Apr 9 by _clive_baker_ |
He’s probably not the only one, he’s just the one people want.
Wait until you hear about Muric’s £40m clause… |
....to sign Godfrey for £35m.
Ashton's considering it. |  |
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| The club will surely have known on 22:17 - Apr 9 with 3574 views | DublinBlue84 |
| The club will surely have known on 22:01 - Apr 9 by Blue_Heath |
Typical that the one signing that has really shown true PL quality has this clause. That said he's done remarkably well and should be playing in the top flight week in, week out. Although given the fee for Solanke disappointing we will not make more out this. |
Completely invalid comparison.
Solanke was sold by an established premier league club, not sold by a team who had to let someone go because a relegation release clause became active.
If we would have stayed up the price would have been at least £10m higher for Delap. [Post edited 9 Apr 22:18]
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| The club will surely have known on 23:01 - Apr 9 with 3472 views | NeedhamChris |
| The club will surely have known on 21:32 - Apr 9 by Churchman |
As the report is accurate am I right in thinking reporters were there taking pics and notes when the deal was done? If not, please could you provide your sources. |
If you're looking for more confirmation than a Guardian report from an itk journo and no argument from Phil either, then a football forum might not be the place for you over the summer. | |
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| The club will surely have known on 23:03 - Apr 9 with 3465 views | NeedhamChris |
I'm confused as to how having Delap for one season and making a bit of money instead of having him for no seasons - is what is leaving us in a precarious position for next season? | |
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| The club will surely have known on 23:08 - Apr 9 with 3451 views | berkstractorboy |
| The club will surely have known on 22:00 - Apr 9 by Churchman |
I certainly didn’t. ‘OMG why have we signed him?’ was my first thought. Lumbering, slow and crude. Probably would be injured in no time, £15m? £1m looked more than enough for me or a no risk loan.
Delap or Moore? Moore every time. But I was willing to wait and see and didn’t comment at the time. Trust in McKenna - he had the final say was the view I took. I take it after a poor season, that’s all in the bin along with faith in the owners and CEO for some. Not for me. |
This, I was the same before the season, didn't expect this. If we get 100% profit (before we pay City the 20% they are owed), then sobeit.
Not going to get my knickers in a twist, the deal is the deal and probably the only one we could have got him for so won't go blaming MA as I reckon his hands were largely tied on this. | | | |
| The club will surely have known on 07:02 - Apr 10 with 3195 views | C_HealyIsAPleasure |
| The club will surely have known on 21:40 - Apr 9 by Herbivore |
Although it still seems a heck of a leap, we will have three loanees going back and will lose a few others but building 50% plus of a squad? I can't see it. I'm sure the OP (as well as others) have bemoaned our signings as being Championship all stars so I'm not sure why we'd be looking to shift so many of them. |
I don’t think it’s far out
As a minimum it seems we’re going to need to replace at least one GK, Tuanzebe, Burgess, at least 2 CM’s, Enciso and Delap. Add to that possible departures of Davis and Omari (O’Shea could garner interest aswell), plus natural attrition (would it be a huge shock if Taylor was sold? Burns or even Chaplin?) and it could easily be 10+ coming in again |  |
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| The club will surely have known on 07:15 - Apr 10 with 3162 views | Nutkins_Return |
| The club will surely have known on 21:44 - Apr 9 by southnorfolkblue |
Hindsight is a wonderful thing though.
There were plenty on here who thought we had paid over the odds for him. I doubt anyone saw him having this sort of season |
It's not even hindsight though FFS. Ashton wouldn't have wanted it in there. If it's in there then it's because that's the only way we could sign him. We were not the only ones in.
This is more of a case of it being disappointing because he's done so well. But ultimately it was clearly the right deal to do. | |
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| The club will surely have known on 07:21 - Apr 10 with 3134 views | keanekipper |
| The club will surely have known on 07:15 - Apr 10 by Nutkins_Return |
It's not even hindsight though FFS. Ashton wouldn't have wanted it in there. If it's in there then it's because that's the only way we could sign him. We were not the only ones in.
This is more of a case of it being disappointing because he's done so well. But ultimately it was clearly the right deal to do. |
i would also factor in that he has been exposed and used more than we actually intended to this season. | | | |
| The club will surely have known on 07:54 - Apr 10 with 3010 views | Blue_Heath |
Yes, but equally would they have thought Delap would get into double figures this year and establish himself as a proven striker. It could have gone either way he may be worth 50m or 5m. Nothing from last season suggested he would have a season like he has.
The bigger question is can we find the next Delap? | | | |
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