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Transfer Rumour Matt Grimes (2 Viewers)

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JSL

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  • Jan 28, 2025
  • #491
Maybe, but I'm sure I read somewhere yesterday that MG is considered the second best midfielder in this league.
 

Domo

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  • Jan 28, 2025
  • #492
Tommo1993 said:
Hamer is in a league of his own at this level. Behave.
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hamer will come back one day, with maddison, and wilson on the bench
 
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Sky Blue Goblin

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  • Jan 28, 2025
  • #493
@Saddlebrains do you work for football league world?

Exclusive: Swansea City set Matt Grimes transfer demand as Coventry City push to seal deal

Swansea City are demanding £3.5m from Coventry City for the services of Matt Grimes, Football League World can exclusively reveal.
footballleagueworld.co.uk
 

AFCCOVENTRY

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 28, 2025
  • #494
Sky Blue Goblin said:
@Saddlebrains do you work for football league world?

Exclusive: Swansea City set Matt Grimes transfer demand as Coventry City push to seal deal

Swansea City are demanding £3.5m from Coventry City for the services of Matt Grimes, Football League World can exclusively reveal.
footballleagueworld.co.uk
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Haha…I was going to say the same.

I gather we’ve met the £3.5m asking price anyway.
 
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Sky Blue Goblin

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 28, 2025
  • #495
AFCCOVENTRY said:
Haha…I was going to say the same.

I gather we’ve met the £3.5m asking price anyway.
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Assume if so he’ll be down for a medical soon. Hopefully hear something this afternoon
 
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Skyblue Bangkok

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  • Jan 28, 2025
  • #496
AFCCOVENTRY said:
Haha…I was going to say the same.

I gather we’ve met the £3.5m asking price anyway.
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They can demand but whether the club will pay that amount for a player who will be 30 on his next birthday remains to be seen.
 

Covkid1968#

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 28, 2025
  • #497
Flying Fokker said:
He needs to keep up his record of appearing in every game this season.
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I don't think it works like Primary school where you get called up in assembly at the end of the year and presented with a 100% attendance certificate by the Head.
 
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AFCCOVENTRY

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  • Jan 28, 2025
  • #498
Looks like they’ve found his replacement

 

Saddlebrains

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  • Jan 28, 2025
  • #499
3.5 accepted yesterday, just structure of payments to be finalised

He will be here today or tomorrow

Paterson still training with us, both parties keen on a short term deal, international clearance the hold up

BTA Blackburn, Stoke, Hull, QPR keen
 
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Ccfcisparks

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  • Jan 28, 2025
  • #500
Saddlebrains said:
3.5 accepted yesterday, just structure of payments to be finalised

He will be here today or tomorrow

Paterson still training with us, both parties keen on a short term deal, international clearance the hold up

BTA Blackburn, Stoke, Hull, QPR keen
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So much interest in BTA. I’d be keen to keep him but I understand selling him to get Grimes
 
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Chicken Mcgraw

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  • Jan 28, 2025
  • #501
AFCCOVENTRY said:

Worth a listen
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Interesting comments regarding his failed move to Leeds. Also interesting that his whole family now live in West Wales. Hopefully that doesn’t hinder him here.
 

Sky Blue Goblin

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 28, 2025
  • #502
Saddlebrains said:
3.5 accepted yesterday, just structure of payments to be finalised

He will be here today or tomorrow

Paterson still training with us, both parties keen on a short term deal, international clearance the hold up

BTA Blackburn, Stoke, Hull, QPR keen
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Tomh111

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  • Jan 28, 2025
  • #503
alexccfc99 said:
If this happens you'd imagine Dean Austin's influence has been limited and Lampard has been given more authority as this just is not the type of signing we make off the last few years
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I don't think you can know that, it's just a guess based on a negative reputation.

Sent from my SM-S911B using Tapatalk
 
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Sick Boy

Super Moderator
  • Jan 28, 2025
  • #504
alexccfc99 said:
We'd have stayed up that season if we had kept him, as bad as that team was it was only a goalscorer away from being safe

or if Marlon King hadn't signed for Blues at the eleventh hour
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Or hadn’t hired Thorn.
 
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Sick Boy

Super Moderator
  • Jan 28, 2025
  • #505
alexccfc99 said:
If this happens you'd imagine Dean Austin's influence has been limited and Lampard has been given more authority as this just is not the type of signing we make off the last few years
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There’s no evidence that’s the case at all.
 
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KenilworthSkyBlue

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  • Jan 28, 2025
  • #506
Sick Boy said:
Or hadn’t hired Thorn.
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It's a trivial argument. Even without Thorn we would've almost certainly gone down the season after as SISU would've pushed through further player sales to cover the losses and once again, as we saw in the summer of 11/12, barely any incomings would've been brought in.
 

Flying Fokker

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  • Jan 28, 2025
  • #507
Covkid1968# said:
I don't think it works like Primary school where you get called up in assembly at the end of the year and presented with a 100% attendance certificate by the Head.
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The thought never entered my head…Tell me about it.
 

Razzle Dazzle Dean Gordon

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  • Jan 28, 2025
  • #508
Sick Boy said:
Or hadn’t hired Thorn.
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I suspect we'd have gone down in the following season or two regardless, it was a such as despairing spiral of shite by that point.

Not in any way arguing Thorn wasn't a disastrous, cheapest option available, type of apppointment though.
 

torchomatic

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  • Jan 28, 2025
  • #509
Saddlebrains said:
3.5 accepted yesterday, just structure of payments to be finalised

He will be here today or tomorrow

Paterson still training with us, both parties keen on a short term deal, international clearance the hold up

BTA Blackburn, Stoke, Hull, QPR keen
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I just read that he's played 301 out of the last 305 games for Swansea. Fucking insane!
 
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Sky Blue Goblin

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  • Jan 28, 2025
  • #510
KenilworthSkyBlue said:
It's a trivial argument. Even without Thorn we would've almost certainly gone down the season after as SISU would've pushed through further player sales to cover the losses and once again, as we saw in the summer of 11/12, barely any incomings would've been brought in.
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Man that year was such a cluster fuck of bad decisions. Least the kit was nice
 

Sick Boy

Super Moderator
  • Jan 28, 2025
  • #511
KenilworthSkyBlue said:
It's a trivial argument. Even without Thorn we would've almost certainly gone down the season after as SISU would've pushed through further player sales to cover the losses and once again, as we saw in the summer of 11/12, barely any incomings would've been brought in.
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Razzle Dazzle Dean Gordon said:
I suspect we'd have gone down in the following season or two regardless, it was a such as despairing spiral of shite by that point.

Not in any way arguing Thorn wasn't a disastrous, cheapest option available, type of apppointment though.
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Nah. If we’d hired a competent manager we’d have been better off in general. His appointment was a disaster and it was obvious he’d take us down even by September. It’s one example of why fans shouldn’t be listened to.
 

Liquid Gold

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 28, 2025
  • #512
torchomatic said:
I just read that he's played 301 out of the last 305 games for Swansea. Fucking insane!
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I’m sticking a tenner on him doing his ACL within 5 games for us.
 
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edgy

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 28, 2025
  • #513
Saddlebrains said:
3.5 accepted yesterday, just structure of payments to be finalised

He will be here today or tomorrow

Paterson still training with us, both parties keen on a short term deal, international clearance the hold up

BTA Blackburn, Stoke, Hull, QPR keen
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Masterstroke getting him in training to ease Grimo's transition. Once he's in the door, fuck him off.
 
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KenilworthSkyBlue

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  • Jan 28, 2025
  • #514
Sick Boy said:
Nah. If we’d hired a competent manager we’d have been better off in general. His appointment was a disaster and it was obvious he’d take us down even by September. One reason why fans shouldn’t be listened to.
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I really don't think it would've made much difference. Assuming a more competent manager was appointed instead of Thorn and he would've kept us up, the season following would've been a huge uphill battle.

Cranie, Keogh, Clingan and Lukas would've gone regardless who was manager as SISU were intent on slashing the wage bill to cut overheads and he would've likely been left to compile a mismatched squad out of loans, free agents and academy players during the summer of 12/13.
 
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AFCCOVENTRY

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  • Jan 28, 2025
  • #515
Ccfcisparks said:
So much interest in BTA. I’d be keen to keep him but I understand selling him to get Grimes
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I feel we will need another loan striker if he goes. It just leaves us with Simms and Norman currently. No guarantee Wright comes back and completes the season from his injury.
 
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fernandopartridge

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  • Jan 28, 2025
  • #516
Saddlebrains said:
3.5 accepted yesterday, just structure of payments to be finalised

He will be here today or tomorrow

Paterson still training with us, both parties keen on a short term deal, international clearance the hold up

BTA Blackburn, Stoke, Hull, QPR keen
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International clearance? He's only from Wyken
 
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alexccfc99

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  • Jan 28, 2025
  • #517
Razzle Dazzle Dean Gordon said:
I suspect we'd have gone down in the following season or two regardless, it was a such as despairing spiral of shite by that point.

Not in any way arguing Thorn wasn't a disastrous, cheapest option available, type of apppointment though.
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Thorn was a bad manager, infact he was barely a manager but he still dealt a shit hand

Pretty sure he turned up for training one day in his second pre season and asked where Bigirimana was and he'd been flogged without his knowledge

As we have mentioned as well the club were openly desperate to flog Juke as well as Ben Turner at the start of the season

We were ran appallingly over those years
 

Grendel

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  • Jan 28, 2025
  • #518
fernandopartridge said:
The total wage bill in the last published accounts in total was £18.5m. Binks is not paid £1.5m per year.
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It comes from something that @quinn1971 put up

It showed Binks on £30k a year and total wages at £10m (even though they were £18m)

It shows Jack Burroughs earning more than MVE
 
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Hincha

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  • Jan 28, 2025
  • #519
AFCCOVENTRY said:
I feel we will need another loan striker if he goes. It just leaves us with Simms and Norman currently. No guarantee Wright comes back and completes the season from his injury.
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The plan is (or was) to get another winger to replace BTA (hence interest in Thomas and Matondo)

We’re only going to play 1 up front and have 3 solid options. We definitely do not need a fourth.

Besides, nobody will loan a player us who will not play
 
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RegTheDonk

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  • Jan 28, 2025
  • #520
Sky Blue Goblin said:
@Saddlebrains do you work for football league world?

Exclusive: Swansea City set Matt Grimes transfer demand as Coventry City push to seal deal

Swansea City are demanding £3.5m from Coventry City for the services of Matt Grimes, Football League World can exclusively reveal.
footballleagueworld.co.uk
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They probably get their info from HIM!

Nice1 saddle. GIMOC on hols I presume?
 
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napolimp

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  • Jan 28, 2025
  • #521
fernandopartridge said:
International clearance? He's only from Wyken
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Yeah it's like a third world country out here.
 
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Razzle Dazzle Dean Gordon

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  • Jan 28, 2025
  • #522
alexccfc99 said:
Thorn was a bad manager, infact he was barely a manager but he still dealt a shit hand

Pretty sure he turned up for training one day in his second pre season and asked where Bigirimana was and he'd been flogged without his knowledge

As we have mentioned as well the club were openly desperate to flog Juke as well as Ben Turner at the start of the season

We were ran appallingly over those years
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Agree, it was arecipe for disaster. A decent manager may have kept us up that season but the rot was well and truly set in by then, we'd been circling the drain for years.
 
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KenilworthSkyBlue

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  • Jan 28, 2025
  • #523
alexccfc99 said:
Thorn was a bad manager, infact he was barely a manager but he still dealt a shit hand

Pretty sure he turned up for training one day in his second pre season and asked where Bigirimana was and he'd been flogged without his knowledge

As we have mentioned as well the club were openly desperate to flog Juke as well as Ben Turner at the start of the season

We were ran appallingly over those years
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You only have to look at the budget available for the following summer when we dropped down to L1 to give you an indication of how that summer window would've panned out if we'd somehow remained in the Championship.

Loans that would've cost the club nothing, cheap free agents replacing players sold on for fees, and a reliance on players fresh out of the academy to fill numbers.
 

David O'Day

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  • Jan 28, 2025
  • #524
AFCCOVENTRY said:
Looks like they’ve found his replacement

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What is going on with that fringe?
 
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KenilworthSkyBlue

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 28, 2025
  • #525
Razzle Dazzle Dean Gordon said:
Agree, it was arecipe for disaster. A decent manager may have kept us up that season but the rot was well and truly set in by then, we'd been circling the drain for years.
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SISU were literally stripping cost out of every single facet of the club from top to bottom. Over a period of 3 transfer windows the playing squad was completely decimated.

Thorn was dreadful, but it's pretty obvious that regardless of who was in place that there was literally no way to prevent the inevitable. Impossible task.
 
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