is this a pi$s take? cost of players these days chuck is worth at least triple that and delany at least double!

But what is ths rumour Eurosport have just put out that Wickham is on his way up to Newcastle for talks after they accepted Liverpool's bid for Carroll?

Eurosport? I cant find that one, thankfully!

Good - we can ill afford to lose ANY permanent players if we are only going to sign one player from the non -leagues. We can not rely on loan players.

wickham to newcastle is on the eurosport : transfer window live 17:34, eurosport is far from accurate though, stick with sky sports for proper rumors

Anyone else think we should pop in a cheeky £100k bid for Ambrose in retaliation?

This is just bluster in an attempt to make the sale of Carroll less of a blow for the Geordie fans!
He just signed a new contract! He aint going anywhere, I hope.

Only if can have Ambrose and Danns in exchange

£800k, I didn't know Palace had the money!

Palace actually have quite a lot of money since their takeover last summer. A friend of mine's a Palace fan and it's quite the myth that they're still skint. One of the four guys who make up their consortium sold Churchill Insurance a few years back for in excess of a billion quid. Let's see how serious they are...few hours left.

Thought they still owed money for Alan Lee????

if they think we will accept that they can fuk off

Maybe we should have countered that with a bid of £800K for their entire squad and stadium. We would still have been paying over the odds, south London muppets.
Re: Connor Wickham, Talksport were reporting earlier that he had been withdrawn from tomorrow's squad and was on his way to speak to Newcastle.

After Delaney's cracking goal for Nottingham Forest v us (while wearing a blindfold), I'm surprised there weren't more clubs in for him. However, we must keep him and Mac A ...

Norris, are you still here?

Yes tractaboy I do. At least that will stop him scoring against us every time we play them.

FAO :blues1

I understand your point ref,. ist's Evans setting the budget, and not Clegg.

But how do you explain therefore , the rationale to pay the larger % of Bullards £45k per week - yet we cant negotiate Austin's wage demands, that would almost certainly have been far less than Bullards, nor the Club's willingness to pay Norris / McA's contract requests? Which again, Im sure, are far less than we have just agreed to pay a LOANEE!!

HA! AS IF PALACE!

Crystal Palace..!! Cos you'd really leave Town to go to that s**thole..!!

send them down the job centre!costs me money to watch them play. SIGN UP OR SHIP OUT!!!! take leadbitter and scotland with you please.ps murphy and o'dear as well.......

Retro Blue....

Don't forget that Bullards wages (whatever % we are paying) is only until the end of the season...Austin's wage demands may have been lower, but it would have been for the length of the contract ie 3/4 years.
For example... and I think someone has posted similar before..
Bullard.... £25,000 x 15 Weeks(approx) = £375,000
Austin..... £12,000 x 156 weeks (3 years) £1,872,000
obviously these figures are totally random... but I am guessing this is why we can afford to pay Bullard higher wages... Not saying I agree.. I would have loved to seen Austin in a town shirt.
Up the town!

re Bullard - whether loan or permanent, IMO it is absurd to pay even £10K pw for an injury prone player. I suspect we are paying a lot more.

p.s. LowerNorth - with all due respect you miss a critical point - we get nothing for Bullard - i.e. he will return to Hull.Austin would have been an investment. An asset if you like. Your argument is a good one,but have to consider both sides.

I'd say Norris is worth about 1million, and delaney only worth around 500k so the offer isn't way below their actual worth, also consider that with their contracts out in the summer, it's likely that clubs would accept lower offers just to get some money for them. Saying all that i'm glad we've stood firm, one big mistake keane made was getting rid of players before we had signed replacements, and that's given us problems, best example being our right back position. We've kept hold of our best players and gained two exciting midfielders, the only way from here is up!

Thanks for the reply's fellas. I think it is a very sailient (spl) point , ie transger fee vs wages loanee vs full contract. It is no easy job I appreciate that fact.

But If Town are serious about getting promotion a balance has to be drawn between these variables. Austin would IMO have been a gamble , but one we should have been prepared to take. His wages over 3 yrs is higher than Bullards (dead money) deal, but if getting this young striker means we started banging in the goals , that eventually fire us to promotion (next season). the reported £90m reward for this would make his wages seem like small change , no ? Strikers are not cheap. But to get that promotion , we will at some point I think have to take that gamble, or be resigned to Championship football forever.

On yer bike Palace!