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    January Transfers and Rumours

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    3 minutes ago, werstayinup said:

    The club are clearly happy for him to talk to other clubs so does that spell the end for him anyway here? I have no idea

    That might not be true, his contract could stipulate that he can talk to other clubs and it could be his agent hawking him around. 

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    January Transfers and Rumours

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    1 minute ago, WV said:

    Who do you think has the final say on whether we get to keep a player a bid has come in on? You’re quick to blame DF when in reality the truth may be that it’s also out of his hands.  

    Maybe, but saying "Carol will cash in every opportunity she gets" is unfair. She's not Smurthwaite. I'm not necessarily blaming Flitcroft either, I clearly stated this might all be out of Vale's hands. 

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    January Transfers and Rumours

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    1 minute ago, SFBT said:

    We're just a very small part of a very complex system that goes much higher and much lower than us.

    I agree, which is why it might be better not having someone announce our transfer philosophy and then having to bin it off later in the season. 

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    January Transfers and Rumours

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    9 minutes ago, SFBT said:

    I guess part of the attraction with Uche is that he's just coming good for us and there is anticipation that this would continue and develop into a decent attacking unit.

    One part of the team that seemed to be coming together, with Uche as a pivotal piece of the jigsaw.

    You'd think that having made the decision to get goals from midfield due to the price of decent strikers, we'd do everything we can to keep a player we got for nothing who can  facilitate goals from  Garrity, Chislett etc. But no, Charlton/ Wycombe want our man and we might get, ooh, 50 thousand pounds.

    Having said that, this may all be down to terms in Uche's contract and a busy agent, so possibly out of our hands. 

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    January Transfers and Rumours

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    Despite all the bluster from DF back in the day, we seem to have become a very reactive club. Not saying that's entirely bad, we were clearly hamstrung by a rigid formation and style, but it's frustrating when we're letting other clubs dictate our business in the transfer window.

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    January Transfers and Rumours

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    Nice of us to pay wages to a half-fit player so he can get himself set up with another club once he's not knackered after 20 minutes. Very charitable. Then again, how are we expected to compete with the wages that a club like Wycombe <ovf censored> Wanderers are offering. They don't seem to be hampered by the market prices for strikers/ the exorbitant prices in the January transfer window.

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    January Transfers and Rumours

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    Just now, Warren said:

    Manip is leaving. They need 4 centre halves. They'll have 3. 

    And?

    Do you genuinely believe that a top 4 premiership side, a club with aspirations to be one of the best and biggest in the world, would give one of their 4 CB positions to a player on the basis of him playing well in league one for 4 months? 

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    January Transfers and Rumours

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    4 hours ago, wootter said:

    Anyone who calls a professional footballer useless clearly has no idea how difficult it is to become one !

    i know there are levels but anyone who makes it are in the top few percent in the world at football

    It's weird thinking about it. Allowing for the fact that the top 2 leagues possibly have 3 very good 'keepers per team and supposing that the best players get signed by a professional club, that still means that (for example) Aidan Stone was one of the best 200 goalies in the entire UK.

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