Adver News: Hoops snub Town offer for Ferry and Caddis

[Abrahammer]

I bet it's very rare in the history of transfers that the first bid has ever been accepted by a selling club.

Exactly, players dont have set prices so its all about negotiations.  Whatever we offered them wont be the the max we are prepared to pay for them it will be a starting point, now we go back with another offer, thats the way these things work.  At some point there will be a final offer and if that isnt good enough we move onto other targets that DW will already have identified.

[Doore]

We're in the market for very good players, which will take time and patience. If we wanted crap we could have done 10 deals, which wouldn't have got us anywhere.

That's a great point.  Some clubs are able to bring in players quickly.  However, it is more difficult to bring players in if they are rated highly - the selling club, in this case Celtic, know we are talking about good players, so won't make it easy for us.  It does show that we have made progress - I don't think that a couple of years ago we would be looking at players of this quality.

[Benzel]

I feel like tearing my eyes out after reading the comments section.

[ghanimah]

I'm worried that we haven't got a striker yet...or was that last year?

[Reg Smeeton]

I feel like tearing my eyes out after reading the comments section.

I read that expecting to see some sort of Geraldfest, but thought, with the exception of one or two most of the comment was reasonable.

It's always worth taking STFC transfer talk with a hint of scepticism, until such time as the  scarf appears above the head.

[Simon Pieman]

I'm confident that we'll end up with a squad which is stronger than last season. However, I do think it's reasonable to be a little concerned that we may not have additional players for a few weeks yet.

My main concern is not with central midfield, but left wing and up front. As it stands we're going to be relying on Ball to at least cover both roles and given Pericard's and O'Brien's tendency for injuries this should be a concern. Right back is a little concerning too if I'm being frank, but we're not far from having decent cover in all positions and a better strength in depth overall.

I think it's important to really hit the ground running this year if we're serious about promotion. With the squad as it is we should do that, but a couple of injuries and we could struggle to begin with again.

[RobertT]

It's unfortunate that just like footballers, a large % of football fans are thick as pig shit.

Sheff Weds signed a few, now they are having to offer up players to get some cash in to pay the tax man.  Other than two clubs with some money, nobody has signed players that would make me worry anymore about them this season than we had to last season.

Anyone remember a centre half who left here recently, can't think of his name right now, but I seem to remember it tooks weeks of no offer, offer rejected etc before he left us for what would seem like the sort of fee we are starting off with for two quality players combined.  Oh, and Torres is 100% going to be a Liverpool player in 12 months and Ronaldo's overtures from Real Madrid have been knocked back for a second succesive summer by the resolute Man Utd board...oh.

[RobertT]

Actually, I just endured the comments, not as bad as I was expecting, but what was the plank on about with the buy Danny Ward comment - what the fuck goes on in schools these days.

[Benzel]

I read that expecting to see some sort of Geraldfest, but thought, with the exception of one or two most of the comment was reasonable.

It's always worth taking STFC transfer talk with a hint of scepticism, until such time as the  scarf appears above the head.

Yeah, I guess once you got past the first 2 or 3. I still think we'll get them in some capacity. But I guess being rebuffed at the first bid is something you have to get used to if you want to buy quality.

[Nijholts Nuts]

You dont go making offers at the top end of your budget straight away.

[thedarkprince]

The bit that surprises me about this story is that it appears that they've knocked back the opening bid yet I thought it had been lodged some time back i.e June.

Not worried though, they'll arrive in good time.  We just need to wait for Celtic to register their players for the Chump-ions League and see where the land lies.  Hopefully no injuries so both will be deemed surplus to requirements.   

[jonny72]

Seeing as the story was first broken by Scottish papers I'm guessing a deal is there to be made and it is coming down to agreeing a fee, with Celtic trying to increase the price possibly by alerting other clubs to their availability. I'm still confident a deal will be done, the money is there and we'll most likely offer a hefty sell on percentage like we did with Cox.

[BrightonRed]

If anyone thinks the Adver comments section is bad check out the Argus (B&HA)..

http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/8255915.Next_year_s_Pride_could_be_moved_to_avoid_Albion_clash/

[Summerof69]

If anyone thinks the Adver comments section is bad check out the Argus (B&HA)..

http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/8255915.Next_year_s_Pride_could_be_moved_to_avoid_Albion_clash/

Here's a compromise. Have Gay Pride at the football stadium. Everyone wins.

[Reg Smeeton]

If anyone thinks the Adver comments section is bad check out the Argus (B&HA)..

http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/8255915.Next_year_s_Pride_could_be_moved_to_avoid_Albion_clash/

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