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Russell Martin has Ross Stewart as his main target **Transfer confirmed **


The Situation said:
Well aye, but what if his demands are a 5 year deal and £50,000 a week? Of course he'd stay if we met them, but it's not at all realistic.

Also, Mowbray is on record as saying countless things that have turned out to be complete and utter nonsense during his time here so I would be taking anything he says with a massive pinch of salt.

Ironically, the likes of yourself and @MurtonMark would be the first two on here having a go creating 30 threads a day if we gave Stewart what he wanted no matter what and he then either got injured again and/or flopped. It would be "how naive could we be, Stewart and his agent have ran rings around Speakman and KLD" and so on.

And if you're looking for someone to paint as an apologist for the club, it certainly isn't me. In fact I would have largely have a reputation on here for doing the exact opposite over many years.

Ultimately, the reality is if Stewart wants to go, there is absolutely nothing that any of us can do to change it. And the only way the club can change it is by offering the type of deal that would have the knock-on consequences that you, Mark and co would fatten on.
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Having disagreed a couple of days ago - I agree with the thrust of this.

Of course none of us know the figures, what we offered? what he wanted? etc. But that was a year ago.

My best guess is that the gap was bridgeable - we would have had to amend our structure, but doable given what we know now in getting in proven champo strikers.

Also a guess, time has moved on but now he wants to go and what Soton can/will offer is probably beyond what he originally asked for and some way off we could match even with some fancy dan accounting.

But they are guesses, like everyone else's in this sorry saga
 
beezer said:
£8m is supposedly the asking price for Cannon… 🤔

I‘d be happy enough effectively swapping Stewart and Lihadji for Cannon and Rusyn. Certainly makes us stronger in the short term. Would also mean we have 2 assets under contract as opposed to 1 who looks like he’ll walk away for nothing.

It’s not going to be as simple as that but no point getting worked up now about it. Let’s see where we are on Saturday morning. Could be like the Rotherham game last season where we wheeled 4 new signings out.
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Funny you say that.... Nixon on twitter (or X as they call it these days) has just said Boro have bid for Cannon and ourselves and Preston are expected to follow with our own bids....
 
wicketkeeper said:
Did we get promoted ?
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Again I’ll answer this when you answer.

Do you think we can compete financially with Southampton when it comes to signing players?
wicketkeeper said:
"If £50m is what he (Keane) needs, that's it," Chawke said. "He can't do it without the money and, if that is the money that he needs, he must get it.
HE CANT DO IT WITHOUT THE MONEY!!!!!!!!!
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Did we spend 50m to get promoted like?
 
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wicketkeeper said:
I am sick and tired of listening to apologists for penny pinching and unprofessionalism( 6 months without a striker)
We get 40k attendance every week and are far and above the biggest club in the championship. It is time we started acting like it.
Drumaville showed what can be achieved with investment when they actually backed Roy Keane
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I am sick and tired of listening to you, whinging for whinging sake
 
If we get 8M for Stewart we might aswell meet Everton's valuation of 8M for Cannon.

Seems to be the going rate for a Championship goalscorer and then we have the added value he's only 20.
 
wicketkeeper said:
I am sick and tired of listening to apologists for penny pinching and unprofessionalism( 6 months without a striker)
We get 40k attendance every week and are far and above the biggest club in the championship. It is time we started acting like it.
Drumaville showed what can be achieved with investment when they actually backed Roy Keane
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Is that the same Drummaville that didn't have a pot to piss in, and Quinny had to run about finding an investor before the club went under?....aye great plan you fool 😆

Also, if the clubs penny pinching, why have plenty of players signed new contracts?...does that suggest to you that the likes of Ballard and his agent were happy to be offered pennies whilst Premier League interest was apparent?
 
Mboma said:
Is that the same Drummaville that didn't have a pot to piss in, and Quinny had to run about finding an investor before the club went under?....aye great plan you fool 😆

Also, if the clubs penny pinching, why have plenty of players signed new contracts?...does that suggest to you that the likes of Ballard and his agent were happy to be offered pennies whilst Premier League interest was apparent?
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Drumaville were ok until the 2008 crash. Our main investors lost a lot of money. Same could happen to 99 percent of owners.
 
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