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Bid rejected for Clarke

Tommy said:
To be fair I think Gray is quite a decent mid/lower prem player. Had his moments.
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4 goals in 33 appearances last season. No idea how many of those were starts. 5 in 34 the season before.
A poor man's Townsend who scores a great goal once in a blue moon
 

First proper test for Speakman and co; I think they'll earn the fans respect by not bending over at the first sight of a few million.
Lets see what happens, I'm pretty confident that if he does go it will be at the clubs valuation.
 
Sir dave said:
Sunderland probably want £15 million plus add ons so until Burnley get to that number Clarke will be going know where.
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Which would make sense given what his agent said and the numerous low bids in the paper. It would also be pretty shit.

While Im certainly not saying it's probable, it wouldn't be crazy to imagine the club were releasing these figures over and over to lessen the impact.
 
Hongkongphooey said:
Hope you aren't trying to say that footballers and especially their agents are more interested in playing football than earning money, and how will the money come from us if we have a fixed wage structure? As it stands the championship this season will be a lot harder than the last with the 3 clubs coming down and the three coming up from league 1 so promotion isn't going to be nailed on.
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What I am saying is that this lad, and his representation, have proved that they are looking at his long term career, not the first big cheque that comes their way.

They did that once, stalled his career, and they won't do it again.

The rest of your post is lazily repeating bollox, that has been proven time, and time again to be wrong.
The history shows that relegated teams generally spend more than one season trying to get back up. I have published the stats on here before.
Next season will be no different or harder than any other in this league.
 
I really hope Nixon isn't right about us willing to accept £15m. Who would we get witht hat money to replace 20-odd goals form out-wide?
Moreover, who of that standard would come?

If we sell Clarke and are without Amad and probably Stewart from last season, that's 50-odd direct goal contributions and I reckon we'd struggle for top-half unless the recruitment is absolutely unbelievable.
 
Georgewhitt said:
What I am saying is that this lad, and his representation, have proved that they are looking at his long term career, not the first big cheque that comes their way.

They did that once, stalled his career, and they won't do it again.

The rest of your post is lazily repeating bollox, that has been proven time, and time again to be wrong.
The history shows that relegated teams generally spend more than one season trying to get back up. I have published the stats on here before.
Next season will be no different or harder than any other in this league.
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So again I'll ask, do you think professional footballers just want to play football, or do they want to make as much money as possible in a short space of time?
 
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