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« Reply #15 on: Tuesday, September 1, 2009, 12:52:38 » |
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I seem to remember Fitton crowing recently that he had sat down the the boy and his parents and pursuaded them to stay here and reject the bigger clubs that was interested
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Luci
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« Reply #16 on: Tuesday, September 1, 2009, 17:07:06 » |
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SO has he gone or not?
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Summerof69
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« Reply #17 on: Tuesday, September 1, 2009, 18:26:24 » |
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Nope.
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michael
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« Reply #18 on: Tuesday, September 1, 2009, 18:28:11 » |
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I received a rather cryptic text from 88442 earlier saying that we had interest in a few of our players but the club turned them all down.
"The club are focused on building for a bright future"
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« Reply #19 on: Tuesday, September 1, 2009, 18:31:00 » |
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The "full story" from Michael's text can be found on the OS now. Basically a few clubs were interested in various players, some even made offers, and they were kindly told where to stick them because we don't want to sell anybody.
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« Reply #20 on: Tuesday, September 1, 2009, 18:33:36 » |
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Basically a few clubs were interested in various players, some even made offers, and they were kindly told where to stick them because we don't want to sell anybody.
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Simon Pieman
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« Reply #21 on: Tuesday, September 1, 2009, 18:35:33 » |
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We sold Cox due to Fitton, he doesn't need to sell anyone else at the moment I'd imagine.
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michael
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« Reply #22 on: Tuesday, September 1, 2009, 18:36:21 » |
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Having read the story though it only mentions squad players, so the youth team kid could still be on his way.
Shame really, it would be nice to have another youth product in the first team squad. We have 3 at present, when was the last time we had so many?
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« Reply #23 on: Tuesday, September 1, 2009, 18:44:01 » |
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We sold Cox due to Fitton, he doesn't need to sell anyone else at the moment I'd imagine.
That's a bit harsh, I think we sold Cox due to Cox as much as anything and did well to keep hold of him as long as we did. Plenty of places he'd have been gone last January for £600k (including Swindon not so long ago) |
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Simon Pieman
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« Reply #24 on: Tuesday, September 1, 2009, 18:51:52 » |
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Why's it harsh? Do you reckon Wilson wanted to sell him? Who did the deal? Who promised Cox he could leave to a bigger club if it was right for him and us?
Fitton.
And I'm not moaning about it, just saying it how it is. I'd rather we sold one good player every so often than a bunch of them at once, particularly if they haven't had a chance to feature/prove much at Swindon. Take my point about promising the player he can progress too, Cox wouldn't have joined in the first place.
The point was we don't have to sell any more players out of necessity. I reckon we'd have taken a million quid for Cox, but Fitton got the best out of the deal.
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« Reply #25 on: Tuesday, September 1, 2009, 18:53:57 » |
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Skysports reckons Norwich made a bid for McNamee that we turned down?
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Simon Pieman
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« Reply #26 on: Tuesday, September 1, 2009, 18:54:03 » |
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Fitton is great  |
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« Reply #27 on: Tuesday, September 1, 2009, 19:12:00 » |
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Why's it harsh? Do you reckon Wilson wanted to sell him? Who did the deal? Who promised Cox he could leave to a bigger club if it was right for him and us?
Fitton.
It's harsh because the way you phrased made it sound as if Cox leaving was solely down to Fitton, whereas (and the point I was making) was that there was no way Cox would have stayed beyond this summer. He wanted to move on to better himself (and fair enough) and we got a good deal and a good player longer than many of us expected. |
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« Reply #28 on: Tuesday, September 1, 2009, 19:20:23 » |
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On the flip side, if Fitton didn't want to sell then Cox would still be here. It doesn't really matter, we should all channel our negative energy into hating Simon Cox the judas cunt.
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« Reply #29 on: Tuesday, September 1, 2009, 19:25:09 » |
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On the flip side, if Fitton didn't want to sell then Cox would still be here. No chance. 30 years ago maybe, but these days there's no way you can keep hold of a valuable player that wants to play at a higher level if they're determined to go. I think we're actually agreeing with each other though  |
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