gowlinggoal
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Post by gowlinggoal on Jul 1, 2024 16:38:17 GMT 1
May will be on close to 20k a week at Brum. Do they think it's Mooy not May?
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Post by Gold Coast Terrier on Jul 1, 2024 16:39:02 GMT 1
After all the work that has likely gone into this deal it would be easy to throw out all discipline and get the deal over the line.
If Birmingham’s offer is too good to be true I don’t blame Town, or May.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2024 16:40:18 GMT 1
I would 100% rather him over May. So after constant posts on here, creating an account on a Charlton forum and asking the manager directly, you'd now 100% rather have a player that bagged a whopping 4 goals last season? 🤣🤣🤣 When did i ask the manager? I said i heard it being asked. I created an account on the Charlton forum yes to ask what was going on. Bradshaw is a championship proven striker, why wouldn’t i rather have him?
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Post by terriersyndrome on Jul 1, 2024 16:44:44 GMT 1
So after constant posts on here, creating an account on a Charlton forum and asking the manager directly, you'd now 100% rather have a player that bagged a whopping 4 goals last season? 🤣🤣🤣 When did i ask the manager? I said i heard it being asked. I created an account on the Charlton forum yes to ask what was going on. Bradshaw is a championship proven striker, why wouldn’t i rather have him? This was your post 'No i was at Emley today and he said nothing of the sort when asked he let out a little grin and laugh.'
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2024 16:47:14 GMT 1
When did i ask the manager? I said i heard it being asked. I created an account on the Charlton forum yes to ask what was going on. Bradshaw is a championship proven striker, why wouldn’t i rather have him? This was your post 'No i was at Emley today and he said nothing of the sort when asked he let out a little grin and laugh.' Where does it say “I asked him”? I heard people asking him🤣
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Post by terriersyndrome on Jul 1, 2024 16:49:20 GMT 1
This was your post 'No i was at Emley today and he said nothing of the sort when asked he let out a little grin and laugh.' Where does it say “I asked him”? I heard people asking him🤣 Your post made it sound like you asked him and how completely obsessed you've been with Alfie May for 3 weeks now, it wouldn't have surprised me if you had tbh.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2024 16:50:47 GMT 1
Where does it say “I asked him”? I heard people asking him🤣 Your post made it sound like you asked him and how completely obsessed you've been with Alfie May for 3 weeks now , it wouldn't have surprised me if you had tbh. So sorry for asking about a player we are linked with on a forum !! In future i’ll just sit and read what others say without asking👍
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Post by Mastercracker on Jul 1, 2024 16:56:11 GMT 1
May isn't even a Rickie Lambert type situation either. He was 27 when we didn't sign him. By 31 he had played for England.
May is 31 in 2 days.
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Post by blueandwhiteterrier on Jul 1, 2024 16:56:12 GMT 1
Well it is well after 4. So much for the ITK people saying an announcement was coming or we have 2 players signed. Remains to be seen...
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Post by terriersyndrome on Jul 1, 2024 16:58:03 GMT 1
Your post made it sound like you asked him and how completely obsessed you've been with Alfie May for 3 weeks now , it wouldn't have surprised me if you had tbh. So sorry for asking about a player we are linked with on a forum !! In future i’ll just sit and read what others say without asking👍 It's been cringy as fuck mate and quite a few people have called you out on it. You going to be like this with every player linked?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2024 16:58:49 GMT 1
So sorry for asking about a player we are linked with on a forum !! In future i’ll just sit and read what others say without asking👍 It's been cringy as fuck mate and quite a few people have called you out on it. You going to be like this with every player linked? Hmm maybe depends if it annoys you really
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Post by terriersyndrome on Jul 1, 2024 17:05:53 GMT 1
It's been cringy as fuck mate and quite a few people have called you out on it. You going to be like this with every player linked? Hmm maybe depends if it annoys you really Maybe find a hobby or a girlfriend/boyfriend I reckon. This obsession with a player you've probably never seen play before is just weird.
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Post by blueandwhiteterrier on Jul 1, 2024 17:06:12 GMT 1
May isn't even a Rickie Lambert type situation either. He was 27 when we didn't sign him. By 31 he had played for England. May is 31 in 2 days. So?
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Post by Wingman on Jul 1, 2024 17:11:20 GMT 1
May will be on close to 20k a week at Brum. 😵💫 wow. If that’s the case you can’t blame him for going. I’m not too disappointed as, same as others, I think we need to reinforce the midfield and wings as a priority with another striker after. Last time we were in this league we had Novak, Rhodes, Robinson. All different styles, interchangeable. We need someone to complement Bojan and Healey. I don’t think currently Simpson, Hudlin, Ward, Harratt or Phillips are up to that job - happy to be proven wrong.
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Post by galpharm2400 on Jul 1, 2024 17:12:59 GMT 1
Rumoured wages of a few K more than us? From your eBay analogy, the lad has bidded on the item he wanted, and won it out of your hands, even though you also wanted it. He now owns one of the best items and will be benefitting off it massively over the next 2 years whilst you’re out bidding on lesser entities thinking what if Why would you rather us be outbidded? Is that not the epitome of being outgunned, especially in terms of showing ambition - this has been Huddersfield Town for YEARS. It’s not being happy just being realistic we are not as big hitters as Birmingham financially and even though I want May I can appreciate we may of been out bid . We move on and take it on the chin . Our 'limit' on wages/bonuses for a player might well be very generous, if someone else in the same division or elsewhere offers more, then thats, that? If another club wants to pay more than generous wages then the 'risk' or the 'payoff' are BOTH their's. If they sign May on very good wages they will then have to deal with players already there knocking on the office door asking the question. Alfie May, or may not move here. Either way it needs to be right for the club, not just Alfie.
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Post by Million Dollar Babies on Jul 1, 2024 17:13:27 GMT 1
I don't think we were paying anyone £20k in the Championship. Crazy money in league one
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2024 17:15:27 GMT 1
Hmm maybe depends if it annoys you really Maybe find a hobby or a girlfriend/boyfriend I reckon. This obsession with a player you've probably never seen play before is just weird. Thank you! xx
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Post by ezzie on Jul 1, 2024 17:22:43 GMT 1
Now let’s pip them to Marc Leonard 😉
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Post by dirtyoldtown on Jul 1, 2024 17:23:40 GMT 1
Well it is well after 4. So much for the ITK people saying an announcement was coming or we have 2 players signed. Remains to be seen... Think May having a medical here lead to a few jumping the gun. A good rule of thumb is to never get too excited until said player is being asked when he “first heard about Towns interest” by DTS
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Post by tepidterrier on Jul 1, 2024 17:25:02 GMT 1
Has anyone mentioned the Will Grigg saga in series 2 of Sunderland til I Die? When it gets to silly money, walking away at any point is more dignified than shelling out over the odds because you get sucked into sunk cost fallacies. Grigg was a quality League 1 striker, but not at Sunderland. No guarantees with any player, especially at 31.
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Post by terriersyndrome on Jul 1, 2024 17:25:17 GMT 1
Now let’s pip them to Marc Leonard 😉 If the wages they're willing to pay are true then we might aswell sack this one off and look elsewhere aswell 😂
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Post by Gold Coast Terrier on Jul 1, 2024 17:28:07 GMT 1
Has anyone mentioned the Will Grigg saga in series 2 of Sunderland til I Die? When it gets to silly money, walking away at any point is more dignified than shelling out over the odds because you get sucked into sunk cost fallacies. Grigg was a quality League 1 striker, but not at Sunderland. No guarantees with any player, especially at 31. Exactly, that was pretty pathetic to watch. A club that had all eggs in one basket get taken to the cleaners by selling club and agent.
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Post by undercover on Jul 1, 2024 17:28:31 GMT 1
I don't think we were paying anyone £20k in the Championship. Crazy money in league one Just wanted to say that the rumours of this £20k wages from B’ham is very wide of the mark. I believe Alfie was on 5k per week at Charlton and B’ham have allegedly doubled his salary 🤷♂️.. this would tie in with the fact that they have only just got off the books a lot of historical very high earners from the previous old ownership. In regards the Marc Leonard link… they have been allegedly interested in him for a number of weeks and are just now lining up all their ducks .. so to speak.
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Post by HuddsTerrier on Jul 1, 2024 17:30:11 GMT 1
I remember the most exciting summer for transfers was the one under Ruberry; Irons, Lucketti, Wijnhard, Gorre, Donis and the rest. It was crazy as we landed good player after good player ... on paper
Wheels very quickly fell off and within 9 months we were selling Marcus Stewart
I'm disappointed about May but also reassured we're not repeating the mistakes that nearly killed the club 25 years ago
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Post by rothwellterrier on Jul 1, 2024 17:31:21 GMT 1
I don't think we were paying anyone £20k in the Championship. Crazy money in league one Just wanted to say that not the rumours of this £20k wages from B’ham is very wide of the mark. I believe Alfie was on 5k per week at Charlton and B’ham have allegedly doubled his salary 🤷♂️.. this would tie in with the fact that they have only just got off the books a lot of historical very high earners from the previous old ownership. In regards the Marc Leonard link… they have been allegedly interested in him for a number of weeks and are just now lining up all their ducks .. so to speak. No offence but as it appears you are new around here, I’d be more inclined to believe what dirtyoldtown says than your good self but thanks for stepping out from the covers.
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Post by Million Dollar Babies on Jul 1, 2024 17:33:44 GMT 1
There's got to be a Leon Knight type knocking about in a Prem squad who we can bring in like the last time we were relegated to this level.
He was different class. His goals total that season wasn't amazing, 20 I think, but you still felt like he was going to score everytime he picked up the ball
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Post by iffyslostlens on Jul 1, 2024 17:33:48 GMT 1
I don't think we were paying anyone £20k in the Championship. Crazy money in league one Just wanted to say that the rumours of this £20k wages from B’ham is very wide of the mark. I believe Alfie was on 5k per week at Charlton and B’ham have allegedly doubled his salary 🤷♂️.. this would tie in with the fact that they have only just got off the books a lot of historical very high earners from the previous old ownership. In regards the Marc Leonard link… they have been allegedly interested in him for a number of weeks and are just now lining up all their ducks .. so to speak. I have heard 11k for doing nothing then very considerable appearance\goal etc. bonuses on top and 3 years
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Post by kennyk2 on Jul 1, 2024 17:46:52 GMT 1
If some of these figures coming out are correct, it just shows how desperate Brum owners are to gat back to the Championship. We've never seen a League 1 like it.
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Post by thomo on Jul 1, 2024 17:52:37 GMT 1
If some of these figures coming out are correct, it just shows how desperate Brum owners are to gat back to the Championship. We've never seen a League 1 like it. To be fair I'm hoping we're pretty desperate to get back. So far i've seen lots of talk but little evidence of that.
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Post by brighousebandbred on Jul 1, 2024 17:53:03 GMT 1
If he's gone to Brum for the rumoured wages then why are so many pissing the bed? It's like bidding on summat on ebay. Some cnt has swooped in, so we find another one to bid on. We'll be reet. I'd rather the were in for someone and outbid by people paying silly money than not in for anyone at all. Reading this forum most fans aren’t just the odd spoilt brat .
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