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Don't know if it has been mentioned but TB has left Crawley, gone to Peterborough on loan where he will sign a deal worth over £1mill at the end of the season.

yes, happened yesterday. Good news for us

So why didn't he go in the transfer window and the Creepies could have had the cash straight away?

Strange

rejected a bid on the last day apparently,upped the offer the other day

Way of getting round a transfer outside the window, then.

Either that or another Fat Twat scam

Its very strange, I understand that its over a £1million, which is a lot of money to a league 2 club and a figure that would be hard to turn down. But surely getting out of League 2 and keeping together your best players should be the priority for them. I would have thought regardless of if they go up or not he would still be worth the money in the summer.
Is the bubble bursting? Their finances over the last few seasons have always seemed some what mysterious!

please  please  please

Its surely only a matter of time what with the appallingly shite crowds they get and arrogant ignorant wanker of a manager.

Peterborough may even be playing them next season if, which is possible, they are relegated, but in the short term money talks and they can obviously offer him a lot lot more wages.

I would suggest that if it was in the best interests of the club somebody with an average 8k crowd (STFC) can turn it down whilst a club (CTFC) with an average 2(something)k AVERAGE CANNOT.

He aint even that good

Putting it that way its the difference between a seasons gate reciepts of around £4.5 million (Swindon) and £1.2 million (Creepy)

Crawley's league position is already artificially high, and supported only by cash injections from the owner.  Promotion to League 1 would mean very little to them in financial terms because they have very little scope for expanding the fanbase.  Traditionally, they're non-League, and their attendances reflect that.  Brighton have invested massively up the road and that also will put the brakes on Crawley's ability to grow.  I think the owner realises he has taken them as far as he can, as the recent sales show.


Almost certainly.  Regardless of whether they do scrape in to League 1 this May, expect to see them back in the non-League within 2 to 3 seasons.  They just doing now what Rushden & Diamonds did 5 to 10 years ago.

I'm sure Peterborough offerd 1.9 million for Barnett and another Crawley player a few weeks back but Crawley said they didn't want to sell.

Evans still says that Crawley are seen as the biggest team in the division....

http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11750/7538697/

If Harry Redknapp was on a profit deal at Pompey, no reason to believe Fat Boy doesn't have a similar deal. So by selling Barnett for a mill, FB could trouser say 5%, so best part of £50k. Add that to the Tubbs deal as well and he ain't done too badly recently.

There's no reason to believe FB has any more loyalty to Creepy than any other club and knows his record will always get him a gig in the lower leagues if CTFC go tits up.

Surely Evans just gets paid in pies...

Yes - quote was still seen as the biggest team.
The apparent love affair that certain sections of the media seem to have with Creepy will probably make this true regardless of reality or the beliefs of anyone who know anything about the division.

No, replace team with cunts and hey presto.

Perhaps by biggest he means the most obese

He's right. Apart from pretty much every other league 2 club they are the biggest club in the league.

3000 crowds, sell best player, no history whatsoever. Fucking massive.

The funny thing is, he really seem to believe that shit!

Chief Exec says they need crowds of 4,500, yet when drawn against Premiership Stoke, a massive 4,200 turn up. Reporter on Sky tonight that they expect about half of that figure to turn up.

Big club !!  More like big fat arse of a manager !!!

Well, the biggest club in League 2 are losing 1-0 at home to Morecambe at the moment

Only 2184 turn up to watch 'the best team in L2'...

1-1 FT. Great midweek for us.

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