Town boss Paul Jewell says he feels the Blues’ £2.6 million bid for Doncaster duo James Coppinger and Billy Sharp which was rejected last week was a fair offer. The Blues manager says the pair are just two players on his list of potential summer signings.

Jewell said: "We made what we felt was a fair offer for the two players. Doncaster turned it down. That's their prerogative.

"We feel they have the qualities that will add something to the squad we have here, but they are just two of a number of transfer targets we have. We're talking to other clubs and we will see what develops from there.

"We are doing our homework on the players we want to bring in but it's important that we have more winners in the dressing room.

"I want a goalscorer or two who will do anything to score a goal. Not just on match day but in training as well. You have to have that hunger from Monday to Friday to score goals, not just on a Saturday. There has not been a 25-goal-a-season striker here for a long time, going back to Darren Bent's days.

"If you have that goalscorer in your team, it makes the team more confident that if we go a goal down, we can get back in the game and win it. I don't think we have that devilment, that type of player who will kick his granny to score a goal."

Town offered Rovers £300,000 for Coppinger and £2.3 million for Sharp. Over the weekend, Doncaster chairman John Ryan said he expected the Blues to return with further offers.

Both players have two years left on their contracts at the Keepmoat Stadium, while Exeter City are entitled to 15% of any profit Doncaster make on the £35,000 they paid for Coppinger, a former Grecians team-mate of Town coach Sean McCarthy, in 2004.

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maximoalex added 15:24 - May 17 He's slow...but he's got a great disciplinary record.
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suffolkpoker added 15:28 - May 17 Ghandi has a wealth of experience, if it's from a good source who am I to argue? Sign him up!! Coyb!
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maximoalex added 15:33 - May 17 Good source!? Look who it's from! It's as good as done!
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jas0999 added 17:07 - May 17 Agree with PJ - £2.3M for Sharp is more than enough - especially considering his injury record. However £300K for Coppinger seems on the low side. Surely worth £500K? Shame these deals couldn't be done.
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bluearmy4life added 17:41 - May 17 A fair deal isn't always a good deal. Players, clubs and agents want good deals not fair ones. We need to live in the real world.
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TractorCam added 18:11 - May 17 Go for 3.5!
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Mungo added 18:46 - May 17 I agree with you on this one Jas. With the club in the position its in, we should be very careful about spending big on any one particular player. Billy Sharp was a £1m player this time last year. Has he trebled in value? Wouldn't go much higher than £500k on Coppinger, given that he is over 30. People should bear in mind that these two played for a team that lost 9-2 over two legs to ITFC this year and only won once in their last 19 games. They probably wouldn't be the magic fix to all our problems (there is a LOT to do this summer) and chucking our entire transfer budget at them might leave us short in other areas...

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maximoalex added 18:56 - May 17 Further to that, Mungo, make that 9-2 to a SHOCKING Ipswich team. Great point
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h32 added 21:21 - May 17 ........ pretty obvious Doncaster didn't think this was a fair offer - and they're the ones calling the shots. As I said previously talk about players coming in is easy - actually getting them is another story - especially with Clegg on the payroll, amongst other factors.
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suffolkpoker added 21:21 - May 17 Sharpe didn't play in the 0-6, so not a valid point IMO. Also it's how they would play for us that counts. Lambert took over Norwich after hr just turned them over 6-0...
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Mungo added 22:36 - May 17 Good point well made Suffolkpoker (my memory isn't what it used to be!) Agree that it would be how they play for us that matters, but no new signing is a guaranteed success, no matter how much we spend on them. Our standing as a team has fallen a little in recent years, so we may well have to pay over the odds for any headline signing. I genuinely believe that ITFC cannot afford another expensive failure right now, so I'm just a bit wary of increasing bids unless we can be very certain that a player will do well...

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Marshalls_Mullet added 00:34 - May 18 Wants a player who will kick his granny to score a goal? Oh no!!.... Sounds like Marlon King!!
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