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Some deluded people out there (11 Viewers)

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  • Start date Feb 2, 2016
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idm1975

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  • Feb 2, 2016
  • #36
Dont agree with abusing him but can understand how pissed people will be at this pathetic deal.
 

eastwoodsdustman

Well-Known Member
  • Feb 2, 2016
  • #37
nopm until we are nearly promoted!
 

mark82

Super Moderator
  • Feb 2, 2016
  • #38
I don't get those saying his sale has allowed us to strengthen. It hasn't. The signings made were within the existing budget. This was done too late to make a difference.

My biggest problem is the extra loan spot it's taken up doesn't allow us to bring in another striker on loan.
 

Moff

Well-Known Member
  • Feb 2, 2016
  • #39
torchomatic said:
I'm interested to know why we "hawked him round". Did we invite all those scouts to watch our games? We are fifth in the table even after a shitty run and we're not still in the play off mix solely because of James Maddison.

I don't get all this drama queen nonsense from grown men. Twitter is in melt down. There are a lot of tired and grumpy City fans today torn between torching SISU HQ or booing Maddison to death. Pathetic.
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I agree Torch, I didnt notice the club hawking him around, just out friendly local paper the Telgraph printing stories week on week about who was watching Maddison, and who would be signing him. They couldnt wait to print the picture of David Pleat at the Ricoh watching Maddison at any given chance. This coupled with the Independent, and the redtops speculating on it, shows that he was in the press as a player in demand.

As for the reaction, bloody hell yes i am disapointed but life goes on. At least its a little more rational on this site than the rabid drooling crap on the CET website, still there contributors are a perfect match for the paper.
 

Grendel

Well-Known Member
  • Feb 2, 2016
  • #40
mark82 said:
I don't get those saying his sale has allowed us to strengthen. It hasn't. The signings made were within the existing budget. This was done too late to make a difference.

My biggest problem is the extra loan spot it's taken up doesn't allow us to bring in another striker on loan.
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Yes we can.
 

Malaka

Well-Known Member
  • Feb 2, 2016
  • #41
Not having a pop but how have we done since Madderz returned to fitness?
 

Sky Blue Kid

Well-Known Member
  • Feb 2, 2016
  • #42
eastwoodsdustman said:
Just a bit more perspective on this. His sale has allowed us to strengthen across the pitch and he's still here until the summer, when he'd have gone anyhow. If anything it should help our push to go up.
On a side note, Burton sold their best player, who's had far more of an impact than Maddison this season, for £350k to QPR.
All of the people who believe the drip fed shite from sky about a £7m offer being turned down need to wake up and realise than no one in their right mind would sell a player for £5m less than they could have done.
It's happened as it always has done. Move on and carry on supporting the team.
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There was no such offer mate. Spurs made a offer but CCFC told them they WANTED £7m at this Spurs dropped out of the bidding.
 

Moff

Well-Known Member
  • Feb 2, 2016
  • #43
Sky Blue Kid said:
There was no such offer mate. Spurs made a offer but CCFC told them they WANTED £7m at this Spurs dropped out of the bidding.
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How do you know what Spurs offered? Source?
 

Esoterica

Well-Known Member
  • Feb 2, 2016
  • #44
eastwoodsdustman said:
Just a bit more perspective on this. His sale has allowed us to strengthen across the pitch and he's still here until the summer, when he'd have gone anyhow. If anything it should help our push to go up.
On a side note, Burton sold their best player, who's had far more of an impact than Maddison this season, for £350k to QPR.
All of the people who believe the drip fed shite from sky about a £7m offer being turned down need to wake up and realise than no one in their right mind would sell a player for £5m less than they could have done.
It's happened as it always has done. Move on and carry on supporting the team.
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The whole situation would be diffused if Mowbray had come out and said 'Ultimately this was my decision, it's allowed me to bring in the 2 defenders and pay for Hunt til the end of the season while keeping Maddison on loan and with a bit left over for the summer'. The silence just breeds speculation and the speculation just turns the fans on each other
 

eastwoodsdustman

Well-Known Member
  • Feb 2, 2016
  • #45
Maybe he has other things to do at 11.30 at night.?
 

Nick

Administrator
  • Feb 2, 2016
  • #46
Esoterica said:
The whole situation would be diffused if Mowbray had come out and said 'Ultimately this was my decision, it's allowed me to bring in the 2 defenders and pay for Hunt til the end of the season while keeping Maddison on loan and with a bit left over for the summer'. The silence just breeds speculation and the speculation just turns the fans on each other
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It means some fans make things up, their sense of reality disappears and they get hysterical.

People are abusing Maddison himself for god sake.
 

standupforcity

Well-Known Member
  • Feb 2, 2016
  • #47
shmmeee said:
Of course we could've held out. Or more to the point we could've not hawked him round for weeks then sold him for peanuts.

Seasons over may be hyperbole, but all momentum has gone out of the season and all we did was bring a couple of kids in at the back. No one to make our impotent attack look better, no one to take the strain off Arma.

More to the point Sisu just showed they couldn't give a fuck about the club long term. No cash released. Maddison sold to the first person to come along.

So statistically the season might not be over, but emotionally it is.
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How much do you think we sold him for? Sounds like you're in the know....
 

Esoterica

Well-Known Member
  • Feb 2, 2016
  • #48
eastwoodsdustman said:
Maybe he has other things to do at 11.30 at night.?
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You're probably right, I mean who would expect a football manager to be working til midnight on transfer deadline day...
 

Esoterica

Well-Known Member
  • Feb 2, 2016
  • #49
Nick said:
It means some fans make things up, their sense of reality disappears and they get hysterical.

People are abusing Maddison himself for god sake.
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I'm not justifying it, people are dickheads. But I bet there would be a lot less abuse with a bit more transparency.
 

eastwoodsdustman

Well-Known Member
  • Feb 2, 2016
  • #50
Esoterica said:
I'm not justifying it, people are dickheads. But I bet there would be a lot less abuse with a bit more transparency.
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You are correct on this, but can't people see it or themselves without hanging on the word of the clubs manager? Even if he had come out and said it, there would have been people moaning that we was just a Sisu puppet.
 

Otis

Well-Known Member
  • Feb 2, 2016
  • #51
Sky Blue Kid said:
If we were 5th in the league and steadily pushing on then great, but we're 5th in the league and dropping like a stone. Big difference.
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Yep, but haven't we just strengthened?

Anyone would think we had lost Maddison! We've still got him!

We have definitely strengthened and that is exactly what we needed to do. Can't see the problem.
 

torchomatic

Well-Known Member
  • Feb 2, 2016
  • #52
Because they know he's not worth anywhere near that. The only people who think he is are fans on here and Twitter giving it the "I wouldn't sell him for less than ten million" bollocks.


He has made twenty odd appearances in his career. He's not worth those big sums.


Sky Blue Kid said:
There was no such offer mate. Spurs made a offer but CCFC told them they WANTED £7m at this Spurs dropped out of the bidding.
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standupforcity

Well-Known Member
  • Feb 2, 2016
  • #53
marcus87 said:
I think it's more the fact the pathetic fee we sold him for, being a city fan we should be used to selling our best players but it still hurts every time
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How much was that then? £2m? I very much doubt it...but you seem to know!
 

Otis

Well-Known Member
  • Feb 2, 2016
  • #54
And the 7m is just paper talk. Bet there wasn't any other concrete offer on the table other than Norwich's.
 
A

aviles

Well-Known Member
  • Feb 2, 2016
  • #55
Im confused that people are saying the maddison sale means season is over ? we have not lost any players over january and signed two young England defenders. If anything this season has just got more exciting i look forward to Port Vale Sunday now !
 

torchomatic

Well-Known Member
  • Feb 2, 2016
  • #56
Yeah dropping like a stone with Maddison, and he's still going to be here, so what's the point you're trying to make?


Sky Blue Kid said:
If we were 5th in the league and steadily pushing on then great, but we're 5th in the league and dropping like a stone. Big difference.
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covmark

Well-Known Member
  • Feb 2, 2016
  • #57
We have some fucking queens on this forum. It's been hilarious to watch tbh. How does anyone know how much we got for him? The outrage at an unknown figure is funny as fuck.

Sent from my HTC One_M8 using Tapatalk
 

torchomatic

Well-Known Member
  • Feb 2, 2016
  • #58
My nine year old lad showed more maturity than many on here and Twitter.
 

Nick

Administrator
  • Feb 2, 2016
  • #59
torchomatic said:
My nine year old lad showed more maturity than many on here and Twitter.
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Some of the comments from grown men makes me wonder how they get on in life.
 

Del Boy 82

New Member
  • Feb 2, 2016
  • #60
torchomatic said:
My nine year old lad showed more maturity than many on here and Twitter.
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My son was gutted this morning to hear his hero had been sold. He idolises him, shame for the junior supporters who could relate to his recent rise and aspire to be. But this is the modern footballing world unfortunately
 

torchomatic

Well-Known Member
  • Feb 2, 2016
  • #61
Yeah so was mine. Also my lads face player, but he supports Coventry an L1 team and understand these things happen. And always will.

Del Boy 82 said:
My son was gutted this morning to hear his hero had been sold. He idolises him, shame for the junior supporters who could relate to his recent rise and aspire to be. But this is the modern footballing world unfortunately
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Sky Blue Kid

Well-Known Member
  • Feb 2, 2016
  • #62
The Evening Standard have reported that the Sky Blues want £7m for their talented youngster James Maddison and the price is cooling Tottenham’s interest in the 19-year-old............................My point is what will his mental state be in the remainder of the season at CCFC? Mowbray has stated Maddison should learn his trade with Coventry and in the future if he's worth £2m now, he could be worth 6x as much in 2 years time. Which brings me to the "Was he pushed or did he want the transfer?" I think Mowbray didn't have any say in the matter. As for SISU saying "We couldn't stand in his way"(Maddison) Load of bo**ocks. The pound signs were flashing when Spurs, Liverpool etc were showing interest, Hence the £7m price tag, but when they lost interest they jumped at Norwich's offer before the deadline.
 

torchomatic

Well-Known Member
  • Feb 2, 2016
  • #63
Some papers are saying three and a half million. Also reports of two million now but deal worth up to nine point five million.

Mental state? Really? He's signed for a Premiership club and increased his wages goodness knows how many times.

Sky Blue Kid said:
The Evening Standard have reported that the Sky Blues want £7m for their talented youngster James Maddison and the price is cooling Tottenham’s interest in the 19-year-old............................My point is what will his mental state be in the remainder of the season at CCFC? Mowbray has stated Maddison should learn his trade with Coventry and in the future if he's worth £2m now, he could be worth 6x as much in 2 years time. Which brings me to the "Was he pushed or did he want the transfer?" I think Mowbray didn't have any say in the matter. As for SISU saying "We couldn't stand in his way"(Maddison) Load of bo**ocks. The pound signs were flashing when Spurs, Liverpool etc were showing interest, Hence the £7m price tag, but when they lost interest they jumped at Norwich's offer before the deadline.
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standupforcity

Well-Known Member
  • Feb 2, 2016
  • #64
Sky Blue Kid said:
The Evening Standard have reported that the Sky Blues want £7m for their talented youngster James Maddison and the price is cooling Tottenham’s interest in the 19-year-old............................My point is what will his mental state be in the remainder of the season at CCFC? Mowbray has stated Maddison should learn his trade with Coventry and in the future if he's worth £2m now, he could be worth 6x as much in 2 years time. Which brings me to the "Was he pushed or did he want the transfer?" I think Mowbray didn't have any say in the matter. As for SISU saying "We couldn't stand in his way"(Maddison) Load of bo**ocks. The pound signs were flashing when Spurs, Liverpool etc were showing interest, Hence the £7m price tag, but when they lost interest they jumped at Norwich's offer before the deadline.
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Total rubbish...this is the best thing JM could have done. He won't disappear at Norwich and if he's as good as everyone seems to think, his career will flourish. And we're a stronger team today after strengthening the team where it needs it. And before anyone goes on about needing an attacker...we have the strike force as has been proved!
 

Sky Blue Kid

Well-Known Member
  • Feb 2, 2016
  • #65
I don't know for sure what transfer figures have been used, in the same way as most on here, as for Otis saying we have strengthened. How do you know for sure? Ramage, Fortune, Kent, Cole to name but 4 have been slagged from their "Hole to their pole" All 4 Mowbray signings. Have they strengthened the team? See what I mean? When Moussa left, he couldn't get away quick enough, yet people on this forum want him back?!?!? A crock that played a handful of games for Charlton. Is that what you call "Level headed thinking?"
 

Sky Blue Kid

Well-Known Member
  • Feb 2, 2016
  • #66
standupforcity said:
Total rubbish...this is the best thing JM could have done. He won't disappear at Norwich and if he's as good as everyone seems to think, his career will flourish. And we're a stronger team today after strengthening the team where it needs it. And before anyone goes on about needing an attacker...we have the strike force as has been proved!
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"We have the strike force as has been proved!"................ So why are we slipping down the league then?, Why have we only scored 2 goals in the last 4 games? Why have we only won Two(2) games since November 24th?....... Total Rubbish???...... I don't think so mate!!!
 

Grendel

Well-Known Member
  • Feb 2, 2016
  • #67
Sky Blue Kid said:
"We have the strike force as has been proved!"................ So why are we slipping down the league then?, Why have we only scored 2 goals in the last 4 games? Why have we only won Two(2) games since November 24th?....... Total Rubbish???...... I don't think so mate!!!
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So you think we should have just got rid of him and not loaned him back?
 

Sky Blue Kid

Well-Known Member
  • Feb 2, 2016
  • #68
Sky Blue Kid said:
"We have the strike force as has been proved!"................ So why are we slipping down the league then?, Why have we only scored 2 goals in the last 4 games? Why have we only won Two(2) games since November 24th?....... Total Rubbish???...... I don't think so mate!!!
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And 1 of those goals was a penalty!
 

standupforcity

Well-Known Member
  • Feb 2, 2016
  • #69
Sky Blue Kid said:
"We have the strike force as has been proved!"................ So why are we slipping down the league then?, Why have we only scored 2 goals in the last 4 games? Why have we only won Two(2) games since November 24th?....... Total Rubbish???...... I don't think so mate!!!
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Because the same players who were winning...aren't 'clicking' at the moment!
 

Nick

Administrator
  • Feb 2, 2016
  • #70
Sky Blue Kid said:
"We have the strike force as has been proved!"................ So why are we slipping down the league then?, Why have we only scored 2 goals in the last 4 games? Why have we only won Two(2) games since November 24th?....... Total Rubbish???...... I don't think so mate!!!
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We still have the same strike force now as we did the last game, the game before that, the game we hammered Gillingham and the game we hammered Wigan and Millwall.
 
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