BREAKING NEWS: CULLIP SOLD TO BLADES [merged threads]

[Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo]

Cullip joins Sheffield United

Seagulls website has report of Cullip leaving to join Sheff Utd in a deal that could be worth upto £400,000.

The link is currently broken due to technical problems so cannot find out what the breakdown of the deal is at the moment.

Thanks for the 5 years Danny, you will always be a Brighton legend, many many thanks for the goal against Chesterfield that won us the title. Good Luck with the rest of your career.

There's only one Danny Cullip. (sadly)

 

[MikeySmall]

Its there and its not good.

 

[Bobby's Gull]

This better be a wind up!

 

[Eddie the Seagull]

Here it is...............

 

[Bobby's Gull]

Shit

 

[Silent Bob]

I'm still not seeing it...
Nothing on the Sheff Utd site

 

[Turkey]

I'm honestly in tears.

Danny Cullip - You're a f***ing Legend.

 

[Turkey]

Cullip Leaves Albion

Club Press Release

Danny Cullip is leaving the Albion for Sheffield United in a deal rising to £400,000 negotiated by Chairman Dick Knight last night.

The Blades have agreed to pay an initial fee of £250,000 for Cullip - who is set to sign a contract with his new club expected to run until the end of 2006/07.

Albion will receive an additional £50,000 if Sheffield United qualify for the Championship play-offs during Cullip's contract.

The club will be paid a further £100,000 if the Blades gain promotion to the Premiership during the same period.

Knight last week offered Cullip - Albion's highest paid player - a new three-year contract to 2008 on improved terms, but the player turned it down and submitted a written transfer request on Wednesday.

Knight said, "I am very sad to lose Danny Cullip. He has been a great player and hugely influential figure for this club over the past five years. I know the fans will be extremely disappointed that Danny has left, but the club did everything possible to persuade him to stay - in spite of our difficult financial position.

"Once it became clear that Danny was determined to leave, my job was to get the best possible price for a player who could leave us for nothing in six months' when his existing contract expires.

"The stadium is a huge factor in Danny's decision to go. He sees this move as the chance to play in front of 20,000 people every week and have a realistic prospect of playing in the Premiership. Without Falmer, we can't offer that.

"Danny leaves the club as a legend - being the rock on which our three promotion successes in recent years were built. We wish him every success in the future.

"And the Albion will move on. Mark McGhee and I are already discussing further squad strengthening to add to the Mark McCammon acquisition this week. Although the club's financial survival must remain our priority, funds will be made available to Mark."

Mark McGhee added, "We didn't want Danny to leave. We offered him a contract that is better than anything anyone's ever had here, but there are other factors at play. Danny wants to play in a team at the top of the division and has the possibility of playing in the Premiership.

"He has been an unbelievable servant to the club. There's no reason why anyone should think any less of him because he wants to further his career."

 

[MikeySmall]

We have to get people signed up on longer contracts. How no new contract was offered to him before im not entirely sure. Well annoyed

 

[Bobby's Gull]

I'm honestly in tears.

I think I might go and cry in a minute.

He was my hero

 

[London Irish]

Good luck Danny, thanks for a great five years!

But who's looking backwards - £250,000 is a good price (the Blades won't earn us any more money I reckon ) - and I think McGhee will spend the money wisely in areas of the squad that need strengthening more than the defence.

Very good feature in the Argus yesterday about McGhee's canny dealmaking record.

 

[Turkey]

I think McGhee will spend the money wisely

I'll have whatever you're drinking.

 

[Vankleek Hill Seagull]

Good Luck Danny. All the best for your future endeavours and you'll always be a legend at Brighton.

Right back to the present. £250,000 is a damn site better than bugger all, had he left at the end of the season, plus the fact that Dick Knight has negotiated extra cash based on Sheffield Uniteds position at the end of the season is excellent as well.

We have other players to replace him at centre back. Virgo and Hinshelwood for example. The hard work and effort being put into the youth team set up are now bearing fruit, and I believe that these up and coming players will now rise to the challenge.

 

[Yorkie]

All the best Danny and it's sad to see you go (not that you're likely to read this)

 

[South Yarra Seagull]

Cullip Gone TO Sheff Utd

Cullip has gone to Sheff Utd for an initial 250k rising to a possible 400k

Falmer cited as a reason.....

Goodbye to a legend.

 

[MikeySmall]

See sticky at top of page........

 

[South Yarra Seagull]

ahhhhh...... Friday arvo on Chapel St.......

 

[Dover]

Good luck Danny. See you next season.

 

[South Yarra Seagull]

The man is a legend...

I will never forget, and am replaying it in my mind now, his goal against Chesterfield to win us the THird Division CHampionship..

 

[skr80]

very bad news to loose another player to the big debt in the sky, he will be missed