MasterBlaster76
ICC Chairman
This 'sugar-daddy' crap is going to ruin football.
Football Transfers Thread
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MasterBlaster76
ICC Chairman
Has he officially signed then? That joining date's a bit confusing: Sept 06?
Edit: Can't wait to see these two play:
http://www.manutd.com/default.sps?pagegid={B4CEE8FA-9A47-47BC-B069-3F7A2F35DB70}&newsid=6615387
Edit: Can't wait to see these two play:
http://www.manutd.com/default.sps?pagegid={B4CEE8FA-9A47-47BC-B069-3F7A2F35DB70}&newsid=6615387
evertonfan
Chairman of Selectors
UGH! OH MY GOD WHY HAVEN'T WE SIGNED ANYONE! 
Ah well. In Moyes we trust. I have to say though, we're gonna have to play a selection of youngsters on Saturday. Jose Baxter, Dan Gosling and Lukas Jutkiewicz are all good young players but they're hardly fully ready to play in the first game of the season! Jose Baxter is dynamite though. I'm not gonna give him the 'new Rooney' tag, but he's certainly gonna be a star in the future.
Ah well. In Moyes we trust. I have to say though, we're gonna have to play a selection of youngsters on Saturday. Jose Baxter, Dan Gosling and Lukas Jutkiewicz are all good young players but they're hardly fully ready to play in the first game of the season! Jose Baxter is dynamite though. I'm not gonna give him the 'new Rooney' tag, but he's certainly gonna be a star in the future.
Whoosh
.Na it's a wum from a United forum, they can edit pages, hopefully United will put one up tomorrow!
EDIT: Baxter is legend on fm!
evertonfan
Chairman of Selectors
I always sell him for the cash. Everton are just as skint in the virtual world as well.
Dan Gosling is the new Neville...
Dan Gosling is the new Neville...
He hates scousers too?
Rafael has been the one to catch peoples' eyes during pre-season, but Fabio is supposed to be the better one which is incredible! Them coming through means we dont need to get a new rightback and we have more cover for Pat at left back.
m_vaughan
Chairman of Selectors
Looks like Keegan has signed Coloccini for around 10 million. Way too much money for someone who is actually crap. He was a flop at Villarreal not so long ago and dint do anything worth mentioning at Deportivo as well, and I dont know what Keegan saw in him really.
evertonfan
Chairman of Selectors
His hair.
Scores own goals too, doesn't he Stu?
MasterBlaster76
ICC Chairman
Another W.O.M. for Newcastle then...
shefellover93
Club Cricketer
Could I just have a little rant
Earlier today it was confirmed that Reading signed our star forward Dave Mooney. Mooney was top scorer with Longford Town last season and when their manager Alan Matthews came to manage here he brought Mooney with him. He is top scorer again this season and went 10 games consecutively scoring goals.
But let me start 3 years back and the signing of Kevin Doyle and Shane Long. Now, to be fair, at the time Shane Long only came on once that season, and that was as a sub, he was known to be highly talented, but was too young to play with city, so his value wasn't very high. But in the case of Kevin Doyle he was worth huge amounts of money, round about £750,000-1 million. But ex manager Pat Dolan put a clause on Kevin's contract that meant that he couldn't go for more than £110,000. Also in that contract there was a clause that ensured that Cork City got a 10% cut of his next transfer, pay attention to that it's important.
The signing came about when Pat Dolan's brother Eámonn (Who was working at Reading at the time, and still is) pointed out to Coppell that Pat told him about this clause that meant that he couldn't be sold for more than £110,000 (Pat was bitter after being sacked the winter previous), so Coppell jumped at the chance to snap up talent that was cheap, no matter what the consequences to the club he was buying from, and also got Long cheap too.
A year later Roy O' Donovan, another star centre forward was taken by Roy Keane for €500,000 (About €100,000) less than he was worth at the time, but he had to go to better his career. Since, Keane has insisted playing him on the right wing, Roy hasn't enjoyed it, and he's been ****ed off to Dundee United possibly ruining what once was bright career.
Another Cork City player's career that was destroyed was that of centre-back Alan Bennett. Bennett made 141 appearances for us, a rock at the back and our best player at the time. He was worth in the region of about €500,000 and was bought for a Undisclosed fee in January 2007 (Worth to be about €200-300,000) and was looking odds on to be City's third Reading player, since Coppell has refused to play him in the team, Bennett confronted Coppell, since he has been loaned out to the likes of Brentford and Southampton, taking a step back from the level that he came from and on the 28 July 2008, Bennett was told that he did not feature in the plans of the club and was told to find a new club, another career destroyed.
Now to that clause in Doyle's contract. At the moment City are in a deep financial crisis, an investment company called Arkaga has come in calling themselves 'professionals', they racked up debts of €800,000, and then ****ed off to leave everybody else to pick up the pieces. At the moment the future of the club is still in some serious jeopardy, and nobody knows if we will have a team to support in two weeks time. Many believe the fate of the club rests in whether Kevin Doyle transfers to Aston Villa for a £8 million. Villa lodged a bid of £7 million but this is when bloodsucking Coppell's plan comes to the fore, he rejects the bid and goes to Cork City offering €250k for Mooney, City reject but Coppell threatens that if the club rejects, Coppell will reject all offers for Doyle, thus meaning that all revenue generated from the sell on fee.
City have no choice but to accept the offer, peanuts for a player of such class and his stats will show that, this is the fourth player from City to go to the Berkshire club. Of the other three two are unhappy (One loaned out to lower league sides, the other ripping off his shirt after be substituted) and the other is being used as blackmail against his old club.
So the next time you see an Irish player come into England for a small price, I ask you to look into it, it might have much more history then you think
shefellover93,
CITY TILL I DIE
CCFC 1984
Earlier today it was confirmed that Reading signed our star forward Dave Mooney. Mooney was top scorer with Longford Town last season and when their manager Alan Matthews came to manage here he brought Mooney with him. He is top scorer again this season and went 10 games consecutively scoring goals.
But let me start 3 years back and the signing of Kevin Doyle and Shane Long. Now, to be fair, at the time Shane Long only came on once that season, and that was as a sub, he was known to be highly talented, but was too young to play with city, so his value wasn't very high. But in the case of Kevin Doyle he was worth huge amounts of money, round about £750,000-1 million. But ex manager Pat Dolan put a clause on Kevin's contract that meant that he couldn't go for more than £110,000. Also in that contract there was a clause that ensured that Cork City got a 10% cut of his next transfer, pay attention to that it's important.
The signing came about when Pat Dolan's brother Eámonn (Who was working at Reading at the time, and still is) pointed out to Coppell that Pat told him about this clause that meant that he couldn't be sold for more than £110,000 (Pat was bitter after being sacked the winter previous), so Coppell jumped at the chance to snap up talent that was cheap, no matter what the consequences to the club he was buying from, and also got Long cheap too.
A year later Roy O' Donovan, another star centre forward was taken by Roy Keane for €500,000 (About €100,000) less than he was worth at the time, but he had to go to better his career. Since, Keane has insisted playing him on the right wing, Roy hasn't enjoyed it, and he's been ****ed off to Dundee United possibly ruining what once was bright career.
Another Cork City player's career that was destroyed was that of centre-back Alan Bennett. Bennett made 141 appearances for us, a rock at the back and our best player at the time. He was worth in the region of about €500,000 and was bought for a Undisclosed fee in January 2007 (Worth to be about €200-300,000) and was looking odds on to be City's third Reading player, since Coppell has refused to play him in the team, Bennett confronted Coppell, since he has been loaned out to the likes of Brentford and Southampton, taking a step back from the level that he came from and on the 28 July 2008, Bennett was told that he did not feature in the plans of the club and was told to find a new club, another career destroyed.
Now to that clause in Doyle's contract. At the moment City are in a deep financial crisis, an investment company called Arkaga has come in calling themselves 'professionals', they racked up debts of €800,000, and then ****ed off to leave everybody else to pick up the pieces. At the moment the future of the club is still in some serious jeopardy, and nobody knows if we will have a team to support in two weeks time. Many believe the fate of the club rests in whether Kevin Doyle transfers to Aston Villa for a £8 million. Villa lodged a bid of £7 million but this is when bloodsucking Coppell's plan comes to the fore, he rejects the bid and goes to Cork City offering €250k for Mooney, City reject but Coppell threatens that if the club rejects, Coppell will reject all offers for Doyle, thus meaning that all revenue generated from the sell on fee.
City have no choice but to accept the offer, peanuts for a player of such class and his stats will show that, this is the fourth player from City to go to the Berkshire club. Of the other three two are unhappy (One loaned out to lower league sides, the other ripping off his shirt after be substituted) and the other is being used as blackmail against his old club.
So the next time you see an Irish player come into England for a small price, I ask you to look into it, it might have much more history then you think
shefellover93,
CITY TILL I DIE
CCFC 1984
