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Re: Rumour Mill
This process with Luton suggests that there is no actual negotiation going on. It's simply a question of them suggesting a number and us saying no. If we were TRULY motivated to sell we would have fed back that number by now.
And also all these massive numbers are UP TO. So that is x up front plus. And who knows what the make up of that plus could be. Luton winning the Champions League? We can get excited about the big number but if it is £2.5 million thats the number, plenty of clubs get stiffed with add ons (including us).
And as for Matt's role in all of this he has said the board do the transfers. If you were in the sh1t and needed goals then it make sense to go after the hottest property you think you can afford. I am sure Matt is not sat there thinking how he can ruin my day. He probably feels a pang of discomfort I am sure. Saving Luton and seeing his team of 20 odd years get promoted in one season would be a joy for him. And if it happened I would happily put him on the open top Transit van as it drove past Stewart and Arnold as part of it's victory route.
Re: Rumour Mill
It is mad to think that only 18 months ago any one of our players could have probably had a £500k bid offered and we'd have sold up without question...
Not worried about Kone going to Luton. Genuinely believe he will stay with us if we go up, and if we don't he can have the pick of any Championship club (and Luton will be in L1 anyway). There will be a number of high flying Championship teams keeping very close tabs on the king between now and end of the season.
Re: Required points for promotion.
Definitely.
Wrexham are heavily built on their home record, and that loss last night will have really shaken them. Not like it was one of those games either, they conceded 3!
And now they've got an almighty away game backlog, 12 homes, 16 aways to go.
It's interesting see that Huddersfield have a similar imbalance, playing 15 at home and just 12 away.
Re: Other Football
Morpheus: Greek God of dreams and sleep.
Uxbridge English Dictionary..
Morpheus: slurring posh alcoholic
Re: Rumour Mill
He is a manager of another club looking to immediately improve his awful squad with players he has worked with. Some people seem to be very thin-skinned and some of them are the ones who were saying, move on, it's business and there is no room for sentimentality.
'No, sorry I cannot consider preventing relegation for this club by bidding a lot of your money for a player from my old team or it will disappoint the Gasroom and @Konetheming will say ';mr wycobe your havin a laugh'
If Gareth had gone to a club where they said here's 10 million buy who you want...I suspect there would have been a lot of tear stained keyboards as his legacy visibly tarnished...
Re: Random sightings of our players outside of football
Dave Bassett's probably available, I reckon.
Re: Random sightings of our players outside of football
Makes me think of Partridge on the Swaffham bypass.
🎵 ’GOLDFINGER’ 🎵
Re: Random sightings of our players outside of football
Was the parcel delivered via a long throw?!
Re: Random sightings of our players outside of football
I met John Williams late in his career when he scored against Belper Town for a West Midlands non league club whose name evades me.
He was a lovely fella - ‘You lot didn’t like me very much’ was his first response.
Also had a chat with Simon Garner when he was buying 40 Rothmans in a service station after our play off 1st leg at Carlisle. ‘You got out alive then’?