| Under Marcus Evans.... 23:55 - Jan 17 with 1444 views | OwainG1992 |
When we were a championship side there were times we missed out on targets who ended up at league one clubs.
Players like Harry Bunn spring to mind.
As a league one team we have persuaded Bonne to stay instead of cutting his loan short to join a club higher up the pyramid.
Walton (as far as we know) is joining permanently and has shown he is willing to sign for a league one Ipswich.
If he had wanted he could for sure joined a championship team.
Whilst everything isn't perfect, It's lovely to see the ambition is there. |  |
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| Under Marcus Evans.... on 00:10 - Jan 18 with 1399 views | Illinoisblue |
Wasn’t Shaun Derry another we wanted way back in the Keane era. Couldn’t get the deal done. So yes, nice to finally see some ambition from the club. Of course, one club’s ambition is another club’s breach of FFP rules. Oh well, better to get burnt trying than not try at all. |  |
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| Under Marcus Evans.... on 07:35 - Jan 18 with 1155 views | MattinLondon |
| Under Marcus Evans.... on 00:10 - Jan 18 by Illinoisblue |
Wasn’t Shaun Derry another we wanted way back in the Keane era. Couldn’t get the deal done. So yes, nice to finally see some ambition from the club. Of course, one club’s ambition is another club’s breach of FFP rules. Oh well, better to get burnt trying than not try at all. |
Kevin Kilbane was another player Keane wanted and had him in his office thinking that the deal was all but done. |  | | |
| Under Marcus Evans.... on 08:09 - Jan 18 with 1050 views | chrismakin |
| Under Marcus Evans.... on 07:35 - Jan 18 by MattinLondon |
Kevin Kilbane was another player Keane wanted and had him in his office thinking that the deal was all but done. |
Didn't we also have Joel Ward in the carpark at one point |  |
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| Under Marcus Evans.... on 08:16 - Jan 18 with 1038 views | Metal_Hacker |
| Under Marcus Evans.... on 08:09 - Jan 18 by chrismakin |
Didn't we also have Joel Ward in the carpark at one point |
Dogging ? |  |
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| Under Marcus Evans.... on 08:46 - Jan 18 with 957 views | Churchman |
It may be wishful thinking on my part, but I get the impression that the club is getting more professional and organised in how it does things.
I hated how transfers were played out in public by Evans and co. Promises of this and that, targets that were never realistic, naive attempts to play the media. It all felt random and shambolic. It was like Evans’ pre season promises. Bilge and everyone knew it.
On a slightly different but connected topic, I hope that over time ITFC becomes a happier place for players and staff to work than it clearly was under Evans. When I look back at GBs time and Robson’s before it, there were clearly few better clubs to be at than this one. It’s a huge part of a club’s identity and long term progress. |  | | |
| Under Marcus Evans.... on 09:05 - Jan 18 with 865 views | Sparky85 |
Just to give a different perspective, Keane and Jewell were backed at the start of the ME (banter) Era. Was it £25m between them or something like that?
Am in no way making comparisons, but the ambition was there at the start of the ME era, just a lot of the signings and management were poor.
The difference is the investment in club structure. ME saw a quick buy, invest some money to get to the PL. When that failed, the cheque book was 100% closed. Gamechanger have looked at everything from the top down, which should give some more sustainability to the project. |  | | |
| Under Marcus Evans.... on 09:58 - Jan 18 with 765 views | Fixed_It |
| Under Marcus Evans.... on 07:35 - Jan 18 by MattinLondon |
Kevin Kilbane was another player Keane wanted and had him in his office thinking that the deal was all but done. |
Charlie Austin.
And the bloke whose missus had her dog in her handbag so Keane allegedly refused to do the deal on that basis! |  |
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| Under Marcus Evans.... on 10:00 - Jan 18 with 758 views | PrideOfTheEast |
| Under Marcus Evans.... on 09:05 - Jan 18 by Sparky85 |
Just to give a different perspective, Keane and Jewell were backed at the start of the ME (banter) Era. Was it £25m between them or something like that?
Am in no way making comparisons, but the ambition was there at the start of the ME era, just a lot of the signings and management were poor.
The difference is the investment in club structure. ME saw a quick buy, invest some money to get to the PL. When that failed, the cheque book was 100% closed. Gamechanger have looked at everything from the top down, which should give some more sustainability to the project. |
Worth noting that the landscape changed significantly in Evans' tenure. The concept of a Championship player being on much more than 10k a week when he first came in would have seemed mad but very quickly that wasn't the case. Had it not changed we'd have remained competitive.
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| Under Marcus Evans.... on 10:03 - Jan 18 with 734 views | footers |
Ipswich Town Football Club is a good egg really. |  |
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| Under Marcus Evans.... on 10:04 - Jan 18 with 737 views | PrideOfTheEast |
| Under Marcus Evans.... on 09:58 - Jan 18 by Fixed_It |
Charlie Austin.
And the bloke whose missus had her dog in her handbag so Keane allegedly refused to do the deal on that basis! |
Loads of examples but there will be at other clubs too. The Austin one was a farce because our initial offer to him was laughable apparently such that he was immediately put off.
Lallana and Lambert at Southampton never got to that point but we could have taken them both if we'd have been a bit braver. Similarly we scoffed at £1m for Vardy but were interested to the extent we were talking to him/his agent when he was at Fleetwood.
Until Mick came in and he made sure he knew what he could play with (before getting players to travel to discuss things etc), we were far from an easy club to deal with as I understand it. | | | |
| Under Marcus Evans.... on 10:08 - Jan 18 with 723 views | SamWhiteUK |
| Under Marcus Evans.... on 09:58 - Jan 18 by Fixed_It |
Charlie Austin.
And the bloke whose missus had her dog in her handbag so Keane allegedly refused to do the deal on that basis! |
That was Ross McCormack, wasn't it? |  | | |
| Under Marcus Evans.... on 10:09 - Jan 18 with 706 views | Fixed_It |
| Under Marcus Evans.... on 10:08 - Jan 18 by SamWhiteUK |
That was Ross McCormack, wasn't it? |
That's the one. | |
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| Under Marcus Evans.... on 10:20 - Jan 18 with 686 views | FightingEssex |
| Under Marcus Evans.... on 09:05 - Jan 18 by Sparky85 |
Just to give a different perspective, Keane and Jewell were backed at the start of the ME (banter) Era. Was it £25m between them or something like that?
Am in no way making comparisons, but the ambition was there at the start of the ME era, just a lot of the signings and management were poor.
The difference is the investment in club structure. ME saw a quick buy, invest some money to get to the PL. When that failed, the cheque book was 100% closed. Gamechanger have looked at everything from the top down, which should give some more sustainability to the project. |
Actually Evan’s investment wasn’t particularly staggering for the time, there were huge turnovers in players, but not massive amounts being spent on a lot of people were signing bar a couple of people. I don't think Evans really ever understood the levels of money required for a club to be competitive in the Championship.
Keane’s first summer signed 8 players totaling 5,300,000, however we released/sold 14 players.
Keane’s second we signed 5 totaling 1,725,000 and we sold/released 11 bringing in 3,425,000.
Jewell’s first season he signed 10 players and spent 2,390,000, and we sold/released 22 bringing in 8,100,000
Jewell’s second season he signed 6 totaling 2,000,000 and released 10.
As for Gamechanger I wouldn't personally judge how they are preforming until all the results are in, I'd say so far we have paid a chunk of wages so far to a bunch of players who aren't remotely delivering on what they are being paid. We're spending top 3 money on wages and getting 11th place performances, which means recruitment so far doesn't appear to be any better than it was under Evans in this league, however we were always going down with Evans's level of spending in the Championship, it was a matter of when. |  |
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| Under Marcus Evans.... on 10:34 - Jan 18 with 628 views | wkj |
I can only assume Milne, Clegg and then later on, Evans himself did the negotiating.
That sums it all up |  |
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| Under Marcus Evans.... on 10:36 - Jan 18 with 625 views | footers |
| Under Marcus Evans.... on 10:34 - Jan 18 by wkj |
I can only assume Milne, Clegg and then later on, Evans himself did the negotiating.
That sums it all up |
"I'll offer you £500k for player X, Mr Evans."
"Six."
"Three."
"You drive a hard bargain. Done." | |
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