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Which clubs are NOT 'selling clubs'?
- Thread starter El Presidente
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Icy Gull
Back on the rollercoaster
- Jul 5, 2003
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Not true, Deeney was their number one target and Ulloa was the cheaper back up or additional requirement. Leicester gave up when they were told Deeney was not for sale at any price. I believe the 12 million bid was made after they had secured Ulloa.
http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/L...captain-Troy/story-22756214-detail/story.html
I don't know of others but I would have expected some of the players in the top six would have been targeted by Premier league clubs. The fact remains very few lost their best players whilst we lost all of ours. Ulloa, Bridcutt. Buckley, Ward because we fecked around. I know you are very supportive of the club and everything they do but something is very wrong with the set up on the pitch and it's not all down to Burke and bad luck.
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And there was me thinking that Barnes had run his contract down to 6 months and wouldn't sign the one offered
Because the one he was offered was "alledgedly" pathetic. As was the contract we offered Murray. We don't seem to understand that good strikers cost a lot of money.
- Jun 27, 2012
- 14,565
Fair enough. pS "Pearson's top target"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...transfer-of-Leonardo-Ulloa-from-Brighton.html
"Pearson installed ulloa as his #1 target"
http://m.leicestermercury.co.uk/Lei...hton-striker/story-21660879-detail/story.html
Icy Gull
Back on the rollercoaster
- Jul 5, 2003
- 72,015
Top target before they went after Deeney, no?
Tom Hark Preston Park
Will Post For Cash
- Jul 6, 2003
- 71,897
The Albion have a long and crap history of allowing strikers to just wander off elsewhere (anywhere!) without making any kind of meaningful attempt to retain them or transform loans into signings. In the Withdean era, the names Tony Rougier, Chris Iwelumo and Lloyd Owusu spring to mind. The more recent examples are all-too-well documented.
- Jun 27, 2012
- 14,565
Papers eh ?
I think Deeney felt like he owed Watford one more seasons as they stood by him, which is fair enough.
He would have gone this year if they had not gone up.
symyjym
Banned
He stated that he wasn't confident in our player recruitment for this season which was also factor in him wanting to leave. Had Oscar stayed to build the squad he may well have done a Deeney and committed himself to us for another season.
- Jun 27, 2012
- 14,565
Where did he state that then ?
symyjym
Banned
You sound as if you don't believe me
"He is settled in Brighton with his family and enjoys playing for the club but he wants Premier League football and fears the scale of investment in the squad is reducing his chances of getting there with Albion. "
http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/11342420.display/?action=complain&cid=12959487
Could you define a selling club as one whose receipts from the sale of players exceeds their expenditure on players? A simple definition, probably a complicated calculation.
