Davies Could Stay at Derby Until January
Friday, 3rd Aug 2012 09:11

Derby boss Nigel Clough says Town target Steve Davies could remain at Pride Park until January with no one yet having made an acceptable offer for the striker. The Blues have been after the former Tranmere man all summer but with boss Paul Jewell saying that the Rams asking price, believed to be £1 million, is beyond the club’s means at present.

Clough says that Davies, who has a year left on his contract but wants to move to a club in the south for family reasons, may be given a run-out in a friendly this week.

So far the striker has been left out to avoid him picking up an injury and he’s not joined the squad for a training camp, which coincidentally is being held in Suffolk ahead of a friendly at Colchester tonight.

The Rams boss said: “Nobody has really met our valuation. There will come a point where we will have to draw a line under it and he will be involved with us until at least January, but we haven't reached that point yet.

"If nothing has happened by early next week, we could see him play at Belper on Tuesday.

"We have to recognise the fact he might well be here until January, so we have to start getting him some games with a view to him being involved.”

Yesterday, Bristol City boss Derek McInnes ruled his club out of the running for the 24-year-old frontman.

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Warkys_Tash added 13:26 - Aug 3 Davefromderby So Derby are going to hold out and play a (very good I agree) want away player until January are they? whilst his valuation diminishes by half what it is now. I Doubt it.
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irishtim added 14:08 - Aug 3 Good point Warkys Tash
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TractorRoyNo1 added 14:10 - Aug 3 £1m for a lad who had NEVER played a full season in his career becasue of injuries is too much of a risk, equally our offer of £475k is probably too low, the compromise is to say we will pay the a further (say) £525k if / when he has played (say) 35 games in a single season
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Edmunds5 added 14:30 - Aug 3

TractorRoyNo1- good point, wouldn't be a bad idea that.
Warkys_Tash- i agree with you but Van Persie had been injured for a few seasons in a row and played limited games and scored 35/40 goals last season, Davies is clearly injury prone but that doesn't mean to say he will be every season of his career. He has a fractured skull last season which was just a complete freak incident you can't look at his injury record as a reason for that, he missed about 4 months with that so if that didn't happen maybe he would have stayed fit.