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Jack Clarke


I have watched Ipswich a few times es this season on the tv and my opinion on Clarke is that he is most certainly playing a different and unfamiliar role playing more inside. It isn’t helping him being in and out of the team either. Then factor in he is pretty much sharing that slot with Schmodics of whatever he’s called which I find baffling. Then you have Broadhead coming back in and he plays that very same role so it is t looking very good for Clarke if you ask me. Financially it is a good move for the lad as let’s be honest if you have the opportunity to triple your wages and go into the premier league then only a fool would reject that. What does the future hold, well I see Ipswich being relegated and I could see him going back to Leeds wether they go back up or not and that’s a feeling I’ve had for a while now.
 
AmblerThorn said:
As is said multiple times a week on here by idiots

Ipswich fans are already calling him lightweight, lacking in pace, one trick pony, unable to hack the PL

You genuinely don't blame him for proving he'll never play at the highest level for the sake of one season's cash?

Or do you genuinely believe Ipswich will pay him the same wages when they're relegated?

Unreal this place
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In August , when Sunderland accepted a bid from Ipswich and they offered him a contract to play in the league above ours for 3x the salary , you think he should have turned it down?
 
He's pushed inside leaving him zero room to do much with the ball when he gets it rather than trying to get him isolated with a full back out on the wing, complete waste of what he's good at. Never seen him once try to take a player on last night because of the bodies around him, just constantly passing backwards.
 
He’s playing in a completely different system at Ipswich in a side that will struggle all season against far better defenders.

The reality is that Clarke wanted to play Premier League football and Ipswich were the only side that offered us anywhere near the money we wanted for him.

He’d no doubt look a better player in a more established premier league side, playing alongside better players in a team that spends more time on the front foot but none of them showed any interest in him.
 
AmblerThorn said:
As is said multiple times a week on here by idiots

Ipswich fans are already calling him lightweight, lacking in pace, one trick pony, unable to hack the PL

You genuinely don't blame him for proving he'll never play at the highest level for the sake of one season's cash?

Or do you genuinely believe Ipswich will pay him the same wages when they're relegated?

Unreal this place
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Some of our fans said this about him in League 1.


He's in and out of a struggling side. Very difficult to make any kind of impact.
 
tunstallhill said:
In August , when Sunderland accepted a bid from Ipswich and they offered him a contract to play in the league above ours for 3x the salary , you think he should have turned it down?
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Easy with hindsight to say yes of course

But the man himself says he moved to a side where he won't be used in the way he made his name and he never expected McKenna to change his system for him

From an Ipswich perspective he was relatively cheap so their risk is low
 
If he wanted more money then this move to Ipswich is successful regardless of if he plays or plays well when he does. Unfortunately, we now live in an age where 99% of modern footballers value money and prestige more than a successful career.
 
He’ll probably look back on his career when it’s all said and done and think he left a few season too early here. The two seasons here will likely be his best run of form, he was the main man at a massive club. He left chasing the premier league dream which has bitten him in the arsenal before and I think will again when he finds himself back down here in a few months having damaged his premier league prospects again. Shame as he could’ve really cemented his status here had he played an apart in getting us up but now will be remembered as a great player here but one that had unfinished business.
 
tunstallhill said:
That's all that mattered .
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How can it be?

He's proving he can't play in the PL

Jack you're shit. Doesn't matter. I got a pay rise for a season

Don't accuse me of being sentimental or old fashioned by daring to suggest footballers might also be driven by other factors
 
Roker Mackem said:
Dont see the issue. PL football experience, higher wages, likely top end Championship next season at worst
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Exactly. Weird that people are suggesting he might be thinking he made a wrong move and thinking about Sunderland. I bet he hasn’t given us a second thought.

Lad’s career has taken a huge positive step.

It’s odd that people who wouldn’t pass the opportunity themselves think Footballers should give up the chance of a big contract so they get more minutes on the pitch.
 
He will have zero regrets.

He's getting minutes in the best league in the world, whilst getting paid the most he's ever had.

Worse case is, Ipswich get relegated and he's back in the same division where he was a year ago, but on much more money (even if he does have a relegation clause).

He would have been seriously crazy to reject Ipswich for another season in the Championship.

Personally, I don't think he's ever been good enough for the PL, but he had to take the offer. Who's to say that offer would have come again.

A footballer is literally, potentially, one match/injury away from never playing again.

Take the bag and run.
 
Looking at this from the outside I don't understand why anyone would think he wouldn't have moved.

He'd proved himself at championship level and the opportunity to play in the PL comes along, very few players are going to turn that down. While there's obviously a huge difference in the strength of squad between the two leagues plenty of individual players have moved up and been successful and I'm sure he'd have backed himself to do just that.

Worst comes to worst he ends up back in the championship but on better wages.
Marvanelli said:
Worse case is, Ipswich get relegated and he's back in the same division where he was a year ago, but on much more money (even if he does have a relegation clause).
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Haha - just made the exact same point in pretty much the exact same words
 
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