Luke Rodgers...

[Trigger]

Crewe look set to be thwarted in their bid to sign Shrewsbury's Luke Rodgers after their approach for the striker was turned down.

Speculation has been rife over the future of the 21-year-old - who netted 20 times last season - since the Shrews were relegated to the Nationwide Conference.

But he now seems set to remain at Gay Meadow after the club turned down an approach from the Division One side to take him to Gresty Road.

A statement from the Shrewsbury board read: "Last Thursday, chairman Roland Wycherley received a phone call from the chairman of Crewe, indicating that they were prepared to offer a sum of money for Luke Rodgers.

"The chairman agreed to discuss the offer with the board which he did at a meeting which was already scheduled for the Thursday afternoon.

"At the full board meeting, at which manager Jimmy Quinn and assistant manager Dave Cooke were present, the offer was immediately rejected and that decision was communicated to Crewe."

We certainly wont be able to offer as much as Crewe probably did so that rules him out for us.

 

[dwayne]

It's frustrating because Crewe aren't even a proper club, they've got about 3 supporters, and they are a feeder team for Liverpool.

 

[Turkey]

Rubbish. They'll have to let him go. To stop a player playing league football is a disgrace. He'll leave Shrewsbury - deffinatly.

 

[Trigger]

I agree Turkey... But he will go for a higher price than what Crewe offered and i'll 100% guarantee Crewe's first offer will be higher than anything DK would be able to afford for a player... Rodgers wont be coming here.

 

[Simster]

Indeed Turkey. I reckon Crewe have a miserly wage structure and Rodgers was asking for too much.

 

[Turkey]

Do we really want him? He sounds like a muppet to me. He might score goals but he'll probably be in prison for half the season. Doesn't look like Crewe actually made a bid. Shrewsbury will want to keep Rodgers like we wanted to keep Bobby but the inevitable will happen. If a club actually says okay, here's a hundred grand. He'll leave.

 

[Theatre of Trees]

It's frustrating because Crewe aren't even a proper club, they've got about 3 supporters, and they are a feeder team for Liverpool.

Yeah right. I admire Crewe, they have had the same manager since 1983, they made a decision early on to push through a policy that heavily emphasised playing football on the ground rather than hoofing it and producing good young players who get in the team early and are then sold on for bigger amounts. This policy has produced amongst others David Platt, Rob Jones, Danny Murphy, Seth Johnson, Robbie Savage, Neil Lennon, Craig Hignett, Ashley Ward and so on. The link with Liverpool came once this had been set up NOT because of it.

 

[Windmill]

Another throw away comment from Dwayne. Take a look around Dwayne, there are plenty of clubs with very few supporters, but a lot of them are doing better than us.

Walsall for example - didn't they snare Merson?

 

[elbowpatches]

This whole being priced out business is sooo depressing. Anyone know any rich Russians?

 

[dunno]

Don't think Stevie C would go for him - even if we had the money - he's only 5'8" - hardly the big man to go with little leon

 

[Meade's Ball]

we have our nippy little striker now, so forget Rodgers.