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And it was turned down. Wycombe have said this bid was derisory. Town may go back with a higher bid although Franchise are going to bid £675,000 according to the WDP

The positive thing is we at least seem to be genuinely prepared to pay this much for someone (allowing for Press exaggeration, that is)

we cant compete with the fee put up by MK ... another target bites the dust ... unless Easter is really against a move to MK .. which he wont be as they are paying shit loads in wages as well ..

Having 125K+ to spend is a darn sight better than having 0. If MK do bid that much it's over, but I'd be suprised if we really thought they'd sell up for 125k anyway, even if he is in his last year of contract.

Easter isnt workth 600k+ better cheaper options than him about I am sure.

Just being devils advocate but they must have known 125K would be rejected.  Maybe the money isn't there.

For example I hereby offer Ralphy £2000 for his (sporty) type Honda.

Easter is not worth £675k. especially with 9 months on his contracts.  Best move on to another target

Bizzarre amount to bid after the supposed £600k was supposedly turned down. The only difference being it was a filthy plastic franchise bidding so they have to pay vastly over the odds for everyone to come to their plastic supermarket carpark inspired hells tavern. Or something.
janaage's theory seems credible enough. lets keep making bids for players that we know will get rejected. then when the window shuts we have to rely on loanees.
Its so hard to tell whats going on. can't see straight for all the bullshit flying about everywhere. I guess we'll only know there is money once the CVA is paid in full, and we splash out on a couple of decent strikers.
I have no idea if this will happen before the end of August but my gut feeling is it will not :shock:

  It was a favourite tactic of Kassam to keep the fans happy.....allegedly bid for a name player, by going way under the mark.

Fuckin hell this is getting pathetic

More consipracy bollocks.  

He's 25. Is he worth more than Parkin? (when we sold him, not the cripple version of 2007) Is he fuck.

His true value is closer to our alleged bid than MK's

Easter probably is worth more than Parkin, because he has pace. I don't think he's the better player but pacy strikers always pick up a higher fee don't they.
Agree he isn't worth £675k though, but they've got money to burn from selling that diving twat.

one of our players will be leaving for a large fee soon.(no prizes for guessing who)
and for far more than the 125,000 offered for easter

who's bid for him then?

You keep making these comments but what are your sources?  Do you have any?  I'm not having a dig just curious whether there is any backbone behind these statements.

I knew it wouldn't be long before a Premiership team came in for Pook...................

Pook?  Real Madrid?

Im guessing he means Brezovan ... but could it be Jerel??

I think he means Brez but I want to know whether its based on speculation or something hes heard.

Brezovan by any chance

Brez to that championship club by chance? everyone heard that rumour in the town end on saturday. keep up!

Nah I can see at Chelsea one day tho as Fat Franks replacement  :wink:

i have made 1 comment about this issue and if you want to believe it or not then thats fine.
i do have a source, well a few actually about different things and at different times.but i cant say who as that is unfair.
put it this way i wouldn't come on here and say stuff if i didn't think it would happen.
its two clubs and leeds aint one of them

i believe you arriba.

so are they championship clubs then? leicester maybe?

ahh but i know the offers and the clubs too.beat that.na,na nana, na

Im afraid arriba is on the money

Thats fine.  Just curious as never know what to believe on here as so many people claiming they know things.

I know at least one of the clubs ends in B. but I doubt anyone knows the value of the offers.

Who is it then? Ifil or Brezovan?

Brez. I heard he aint going though.

yeah its brez.
unless this new board are minted he will go as the money is quite big imo.
what club ends in b?

that's a very good question and i'm now more interested in this than i am about brezovan.

Dont think he will have a choice mate

I did mention Brezovan being on show at the Charlton match, perhaps I was right for once?

so who is he going to then?

dont be shy now.

Is it a reserve team?

Arsenal B
Tottenham B...
etc,etc?

every team ends in b if you use the full name ie. ending in football club

Major news, its not AFC Bournmouth :mrgreen:

AFC Bournemouth

Is the answer one of Man City or Derby for around £8-900,000?

Oh bugger I knew that would happen, you can all piss off  :mrgreen:

give the girl a biscuit!  :P

Wolves was the one I heard. my sources are usually anything but impeccable.

If, just if he goes for megawonga around £900k I hope the proceeds are ploughed into the transfer budget as the pseudo takeover should have cleared the CVA and various other debts. Shouldn't it? Yes, of course, that'll be what happens.

The football club needs to be self financing, just like any other business.

If Sturrocks wants new players the money should be made, not given.

That's the only way to secure stability.

I rate Brez and Ifil, but if big enough offers came in they'd have to go.

We can cope without Brez but if Ifil went id be worried we will go down.

There aren't any teams that end in b  :?

In PS's update today there are words like "lead to believe ..." and "by deadline day" making it sound like we may have to wait beyond the match vs Cheltenham to see any new players ... possibly. Whilst appreciating that £125k in Easter's case may be what PS thinks he is worth, to prise a prime beef target away may mean he has to pay above his valuation, within reason, especially when there are others trying for the same player.

Don't get me wrong, I like Sturrock (senior that is, junior is a pain in the arse) but he does tend to say things, and then kind of go back on them.

After the takeover went through, and he was going on about this prime beef nonsense, he said something along the lines of "I would hope that we will have two new faces in by the Cheltenham game" and then the next time he speaks up, he's hoping that we get them in by the transfer deadline.

I know these things take time, but if its unlikely that we'll sign them by Saturday, don't say that we will!

Exactly! Or maybe the County Ground is sitting in the eye of a totally different time-space continuum?

wolves one of them,preston the other.
i'd say your source is a goodun on this.
what fee did you hear?

Don't know the amount, just that Wolves had made a bid and that Brez didn't want to go there.

I think its high time we called for captain jack.....

What fee did you hear Arriba?

Haven't read the thread - but the valuation of £125,000 is adequate as far as his stats are concerned. I've heard and read of a £600,000+ price tag which is frankly insane.

People think of Easter as an "amazing" player because he's had a little bit of press and in the last year he's become a "name" and yes, he's getting a better strike rate as his career progresses in 4th tier football.

Hartlepool United (majority of the time in L2) 28 league apps (all of which are from the bench) and 2 goals.

Cambridge United (League 2) 39 league apps and 8 goals

Boston United (League 2) 9 league apps and 3 goals

Stockport County (League 2) 19 league apps and 8 goals

Wycombe Wanderers (League 2) 54 league apps and 20 goals

My question is whether a player who has only played 3rd tier football three times in his entire career (in 2003 all as a sub) should have a ridiculously sized price tag? My answer is no - which all Wycombe fans would disagree with.

Based no doubt on the fact McCarthy and his assistant were at the game. They're not playing Charlton anytime soon, but managers always attend games randomly.

It does make business sense that as we have Phil Smith, that we let Brez go if he isn't playing - but I like the bloke, think he's a cut above and would lve to see him in a Town side rising to the championship

I think a lot of people suggested that as we paid a fee for Brez then we would be selling him on when he had proved his fitness.

To be fair if Wolves or Preston was going to offer him 1st team football then he would be mad not to go as it is a step up and both teams have a realistic chance of promotion as well.

If he does go I'd like to know we have a large sell on clause written in, as well as a few other money orientated clauses but now we are to be owned by an investment company they must know how to strike good deals !!

If any fee is paid someone willbe sold to pay for this. No new money will be invested

What, you mean like a proper business?

I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing.

It's about time the club was run as a business, not a charity, asking for handouts.

If we can sell Brez and use the money to bring in players that are needed, I think it's a good thing.

I think that's the point everybody has been making over the past 4 pages of discussion Bart....

Aahhhhh, sorry but I thought that business did in fact invest money from time to time. Must be just me that thought that then?

Not trying to be awkward, just trying to point facts out. The club should be self-financing I agree but at the same time, businesses do invest I'm afraid.

And let's not forget that this whole "takeover"  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:  debacle has definitely been spun on the basis that our future is financially secure and that there WOULD be money to invest in players.

Whether or not Bart is correct or not (1) Business DO invest and (2) we have been told that there IS money available for players. Bart is simply making the point that he thinks that players will need to be sold on before any funds are released. If this is the case, it would go against the grain of what is being spun.

The new money invested will be in direct proportion to the new faeces in the boardroom.

Like it.... :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

If that's not a deliberate typo then that's fucking brilliant  :D

   This is known as Suppurating Boils Law.

No shit? And not a pussy pun in sight!

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A couple of things.

No, you're not trying to be awkward, just pedantic. Or course businesses receive investment, what I was getting at is that successful businesses don't rely on investment to survive.

The second point is this: Bart annoys me, so anything he posts I feel compelled to disagree with.

I know, it's not big and it's not clever...............

he has an irritating habit of being on the money though.  It does seem odd that one day we get told Sturrock can go after everyone he wanted then the next day we have Sturrock in the press suggesting the lack of a contact with the new investment means he doesn't know his budget.

Exactly Rob same old shambles

interesting interview with M****y in todays adver. I think 250,000 is the max that Easter is worth at the moment.

:Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick: Mooney is just pissing Wycombe off though by saying that. They won't sell for that price.

Mooney also said the price would rise the later in the season it gets.

Thats strange, I would have thought Wycombe would become more and more desperate to get some cashola for him with his contract runnig out in the Summer...?

Surely they don't want him leaving on a Bosman ?

I can't see him coming here.

I see Sturrock is now saying he may have 1, 3 or 5 players in by deadline day now, aint this what he was saying last season and then went and signed Knapka & Co as he was desperate ?

I really do hope we sign some quality as if we don't we may struggle when we get a few injuries later in the season to key players.

I'd like to think as well that if Brez does get sold we will sign a replacement straight away unlike when he got injured.

No money will be spent- remember Diamandis is involved. PS doesnt even know what his budget is 8 days before deadline

But definately not 2 or 4  :D

When Sturrock signed Grimes, Gnakpa, Partridge, James and Corr in that short space of time may not have generated a huge amount of appearances but it certainly was a good way of making the other players work harder - and thus resulting in us losing only one game in our run-in.

I trust Sturrock - they maybe random names - but on the whole he hasn't let us down as of yet.

It was noticeable that Smith got forward more v Luton - because he's got an attacking full back in Minge pushing him - If Gyan really is as good as his int/club past suggests he could be, he'd be worth a pop in my book. Commingues looks like he'd be comfortable in any wide position, so we wouldn't be wasting a player