S-Clarke

A few more fans ignorant to our financial state.

I'm not sure John, but it was confirmed that they rejected a 2.8m bid from an unnamed championship club - rumours circulating in the doncaster press that it was us. But tbh - since last night, there's been nothing other than a few forum rumours.

No he wouldn't. I wouldn't spend over 500k on him now.

Welcome to the world of english player transfers.

He's just rented the house of Michael Owen, that he bought down here a few months ago.

Any club would be mad lining up a bid for a player that could be locked up in a few weeks.

How can you say that...? Such a stupid sweeping comment to make when he's never had the chance at this level.

Billy Sharp isn't slow....i'd say he's quicker than Barnard

+1, especially with only 1 year remaining on his contract. You could probably get a player from a European league for half a million of the same quality.

Doubt it's us, I have a feeling this went dead a while ago.

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Well yeah, but at least it shows that the feelers are looking at the right level - rather than average players on free transfers as people feared. Nicky Maynard was never going to be free, so there is obviously money to play with otherwise we wouldn't have bothered enquiring. £4m + for a player with 1 year left is OTT though and I wouldn't want us to pay that.

At least, if anything, it shows the level of player we're after - and that's only positive.

the offer was rumoured to be less than 1m

This is what i don't get though - I see lots of people saying they're financially on the brink, then other articles say that that new Thai owner is going to give Mackay a 20mill transfer kitty! They're def. one of the more intriguing of teams for next year....

Don't rate him, didn't pull up any trees for Rotherham this season and was often an unused sub.

Tim Sparv has turned into an excellent player, would have liked to see him get a chance at Saints. Matt Mills....? If redkrap had actually given him a chance we'd probably have had him for a bit longer. Captain material.

I think Barnsley and Watford will really struggle, losing their best players and having new managers at the helm (with no money). P'Boro will struggle too if they don't show a little more ambition with their targets - Danny green from daggers, Gleeson from MK Dons....they're average L1 players, so it doesn't look like they've learnt from last time.

It's a very difficult call anyone's finishing positions at the mo. At this stage last season I think many people had M'Boro down for a top 2 finish (top 6 at worst). They'd just spent £3m on Kris Boyd, 2.5m on Kevin Thompson....2 top class rangers players, and they also had a very handy manager at the helm in WGS. But it didn't work and they spent most of the season in the bottom half of the league. The same could very much happen with WHU this year, or even Brum - who knows - but you'll also get your surprise package, like Norwich were last year. It's such an intriguing league, probably one of the closet fought and most interesting in world football. I've never seen it as strong as it is at the moment (In terms of clubs and the quality of players)

For god sake, what are they on.

3-0 hth.

Keep him where he is and let him roam, he can then come in centre and influence situations too.

Very stupid idea. It'll make all games slower and much duller, guaranteed.

I think this deal was over a long time ago tbh.

I am 99.999% sure that if he had the choice, Surman would have stayed. Gobern wasn't ever going to be good enough for us, at least it's freed up some squad space to sign a new CM now.