[Albion] Would you take Glenn Murray on loan?

[Ninja Elephant]

For those continuing to get it wrong, we did not deem him to be not good enough and nor did we release him. A contract offer was made, he accepted a different offer and left - he's got every right to take the offer he thought was best, just a shame it wasn't ours. Imagine where we'd have gone had we kept Murray and played CMS within a few hundred yards of a proper partner.

 

[Icy Gull]

For those continuing to get it wrong, we did not deem him to be not good enough and nor did we release him. A contract offer was made, he accepted a different offer and left - he's got every right to take the offer he thought was best, just a shame it wasn't ours. Imagine where we'd have gone had we kept Murray and played CMS within a few hundred yards of a proper partner.

If you are so in the know maybe you can clarify just how much more the club offered CMS in wages than they deigned to offer Murray?

Would DOUBLE be over egging it

The club ****ed up, whether it was Gus or TB or a combination of both.

 

[wigman]

No thanks, it is time some people moved on from this topic of conversation.
He moved on and so should we.

 

[wigman]

Double post.

 

[BensGrandad]

If you are so in the know maybe you can clarify just how much more the club offered CMS in wages than they deigned to offer Murray?

Would DOUBLE be over egging it

The club ****ed up, whether it was Gus or TB or a combination of both.

I was rumoured that CMS was paid the same as Murray was offered £13.5k per week but CPFC offered and paid him £15k. a week. Not sure how much credence can be given to the rumour. Our financial loss was the fee paid for CMS.but nobody could have envisaged him not hitting it off after his efforts in Lge 1.

 

[HP Seagull]

For those continuing to get it wrong, we did not deem him to be not good enough and nor did we release him. A contract offer was made, he accepted a different offer and left - he's got every right to take the offer he thought was best, just a shame it wasn't ours. Imagine where we'd have gone had we kept Murray and played CMS within a few hundred yards of a proper partner.

Sorry mate, but while you are factually correct, your post does anything but tell the whole story.

We made Murray a derisory offer which was only fractionally above his existing contract. This for a player who had just scored 20 goals and achieved promotion for a club moving into a new stadium - I'm not surprised he decided to leave and pursue a more reasonable offer.

It is my belief that the club (Poyet) did not want to keep Murray, but did not want to be seen to release him, so made him an offer they knew he was likely to turn down. This may or may not have been (in part) to fund the CMS deal. If this is the case, it has to go down in hindsight as one of the worst transfer scenarios in the club's history.

 

[HP Seagull]

Duplicate post.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Sorry mate, but while you are factually correct, your post does anything but tell the whole story.

We made Murray a derisory offer which was only fractionally above his existing contract. This for a player who had just scored 20 goals and achieved promotion for a club moving into a new stadium - I'm not surprised he decided to leave and pursue a more reasonable offer.

The offer was double his wage, but he asked for quadruple. Our offer was not derisory.

 

[Acker79]

This for a player who had just scored 20 goals and achieved promotion for a club moving into a new stadium - I'm not surprised he decided to leave and pursue a more reasonable offer.

You make it sound like he single handedly dragged us to promotion.

 

[reigate]

The offer was double his wage, but he asked for quadruple. Our offer was not derisory.

That really depends on what the figures were. Double not a lot (he was on his 1st contract since leaving league 2 Rochdale) could still be seen as derisory.

If we had signed glenn (who was shite for palace that next season) we would not have signed ulloa and made £8m.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

You make it sound like he single handedly dragged us to promotion.

Exactly. He scored 22 goals but Barnes also scored 20, with others chipping in from all over the field.

 

[HP Seagull]

You make it sound like he single handedly dragged us to promotion.

Hardly - he achieved promotion along with every other player and staff member at the club. However his 20+ goals, combined with that promotion, meant he could expect to be paid accordingly.

 

[Withdean and I]

YES! Fantastic player! Should never have been sold in the first place!

 

[worthingseagull]

I heard arumour that he actually wanted to come back to us (and the family still lived locally) but we wouldnt up our wages offer from £10k a week so he went to Bournemouth instead on nearly double that

 

[ThePaddy]

I heard arumour that he actually wanted to come back to us (and the family still lived locally) but we wouldnt up our wages offer from £10k a week so he went to Bournemouth instead on nearly double that

He was on £25k/w at Palace and Parish said he recieved a generous increase on his wages when he signed for Bournemouth. He'll be on £30k+

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

No. M-A N J.

 

[HantsSeagull]

He was on £25k/w at Palace and Parish said he recieved a generous increase on his wages when he signed for Bournemouth. He'll be on £30k+

its 30k

 

[B.W.]

Yes please. As I always say, Muzza departure was Gus' biggest mistake pre-gross misconduct.

 

[Dirk Lehmann's Python]

So what actually is the likelihood of this happening? Not very I'd say.

 

[worthingseagull]

well if we agree to pay 10k or 15k of the £30k then bournemouth might be up for that