| The club will surely have known 19:44 - Apr 9 with 7469 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 14:38 - Apr 10 with 1212 views | muccletonjoe |
| The club will surely have known on 12:49 - Apr 10 by Cheltenham_Blue |
Name these younger players who have been bought in since Chappers and Burns got injured. |
Oh yeah, I know , I come up with the two obvious names and you say, no they are stadium stewards ! | | | |
| The club will surely have known on 16:28 - Apr 10 with 1142 views | Cheltenham_Blue |
| The club will surely have known on 14:38 - Apr 10 by muccletonjoe |
Oh yeah, I know , I come up with the two obvious names and you say, no they are stadium stewards ! |
Not at all, who are the younger players brought in since Burns and Chaplin got injured? I'm interested, because Wes was right at the end of the transfer window, and Chaplin was after.
Unless you're talking about Palmer and Boniface? |  |
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| The club will surely have known on 16:48 - Apr 10 with 1121 views | backwaywhen |
| The club will surely have known on 08:18 - Apr 10 by BloomBlue |
Man City had done a deal already with Southampton, they probably said if you want to hijack the deal it has be at least the same as that.
Without Delap's goals we would have less points than Southampton. Town wanted to give the PL a go, and Delap wasn't a proven PL player, it was just as feasible he could have been a flop. |
That’s the strength of McKenna and his team , I would almost certainly say Delap would agree with that statement……we go again . |  | | |
| The club will surely have known on 17:29 - Apr 10 with 1093 views | Hugoagogo_Reborn |
| The club will surely have known on 21:03 - Apr 9 by 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! |
Also, finishing 18th rather than 20th will end up being worth several million pounds more in EPL prize money too. So I agree - I am happy we got him under those terms if that was the only way we'd have got the deal over the line. I doubt we'd be in 18th currently without him. [Post edited 10 Apr 17:31]
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| The club will surely have known on 21:55 - Apr 10 with 1002 views | 2-5-7 |
| 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 |
Just because there is a buyout clause in place, don’t automatically assume that Delap will go for a fixed price, either. If two clubs, or more, meet the clause, it is quite possible that follow-up offers will be made and the numbers will start to go up.
From the Athletic.....
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| The club will surely have known on 23:11 - Apr 10 with 937 views | TheBoyBlue |
As others have said, without the clause we probably wouldn't have got him in the first place.
We won't be strapped for cash if Delap goes for £40m, £30m or even nothing at all, at least compared to most of the rest of the Championship.
I'm struggling to understand this constant desire to try and discredit the ownership who have essentially saved this club, whether it is bringing a young striker to us and 'only' selling him for £30m or not being able to somehow persuade Declan Rice or Marc Guehi to come here last summer. [Post edited 10 Apr 23:22]
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| The club will surely have known on 11:15 - Apr 12 with 729 views | Nthsuffolkblue |
| The club will surely have known on 21:55 - Apr 10 by 2-5-7 |
Just because there is a buyout clause in place, don’t automatically assume that Delap will go for a fixed price, either. If two clubs, or more, meet the clause, it is quite possible that follow-up offers will be made and the numbers will start to go up.
From the Athletic.....
Who actually knows? |
Any bidding war that comes once the release clause is met is with the player over terms not with the club over a fee that has to be accepted.
It is possible that a club could offer a lower fee than the release clause with or without some other benefits that might encourage us to accept the lower offer (e.g. loan back/player exchange/etc). I don't think that is likely in Delap's case. |  |
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| The club will surely have known on 23:38 - Apr 12 with 633 views | baxterbasics |
| The club will surely have known on 21:55 - Apr 10 by 2-5-7 |
Just because there is a buyout clause in place, don’t automatically assume that Delap will go for a fixed price, either. If two clubs, or more, meet the clause, it is quite possible that follow-up offers will be made and the numbers will start to go up.
From the Athletic.....
Who actually knows? |
FFS this has been addressed at least twice already in the 13+ page thread alone.
If there is a minimum release fee clause no club needs to pay Ipswich a penny more than that.
Every single club that offers 30M (or whatever the correct figure is) will have their bid accepted. Then it's up to Delap which club he wants to go to. There will be no bidding war that benefits ITFC, the only battle will be over offering him the best contract. [Post edited 12 Apr 23:40]
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| The club will surely have known on 23:57 - Apr 12 with 615 views | SmithersJones |
| The club will surely have known on 09:07 - Apr 10 by baxterbasics |
If it's true, then Delap (via his agent) must have insisted on it and club had to take or leave it. So it's not necessarily fair to criticise. |
And it would have been reasonable for them to insist on it, particularly as we’d have been insisting on a big wage reduction for LD if we got relegated. | | | |
| The club will surely have known on 06:34 - Apr 13 with 546 views | The_Flashing_Smile |
| 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. |
a) He's not the only one who will have it.
b) We wouldn't have got him without it. |  |
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| The club will surely have known on 07:13 - Apr 13 with 479 views | The_Flashing_Smile |
| The club will surely have known on 10:18 - Apr 10 by darkhorse28 |
Why couldn’t we sign him with a £40-50 million release. According to Ashton it was Ed that sealed the deal, so asking a player so young to believe in himself hardly seems a deal breaker.
Or WE got it wrong, didn’t protect the club, and gave all the leverage to Delap and his agents.
They’ll make tens of millions, and we’ll suffer massively giving away our only sellable asset, at £20-30 million below market value. We will have PSR consequences for the rest of the squad, more sales etc
I can’t imagine Delap would have walked away from thinking he could be worth £40 or £50 million in a year, especially when players have all the power to leave clubs anyway. In the context of KM’s champions league contract, and £150 million spent on EFL players, it doesn’t seem hard to believe we just messed up another important decision. |
I preferred the 10 years when you weren't posting. | |
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