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Shall we just start new threads suggesting he might go to random clubs?

 

EDIT: Ah, you have a link... damn... foiled again

 

EDIT 2: It is the Daily Mail though. Maybe he's going there because some kid lost his fingers in a goalkeeping accident and wants to live vicariously through KD... Film of Week.. Wednesday at 11.00

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Shall we just start new threads suggesting he might go to random clubs?

 

EDIT: Ah, you have a link... damn... foiled again

 

EDIT 2: It is the Daily Mail though. Maybe he's going there because some kid lost his fingers in a goalkeeping accident and wants to live vicariously through KD... Film of Week.. Wednesday at 11.00

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IJsselmeervogels :smt103

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That's terrible. There are players you know who wanted to leave (DMG); there are players who could leave but seemed happy to stay - Kelvin falls into this category.

 

Until now its been difficult to measure the impact of this farcical two months on the team (morale apart); should it go through, Kelvin's transfer is a turning-point - it represents a completely avoidable and unnecessary loss brought solely upon ourselves. Despite his better senses perhaps (at least professional), this was a player who had bags of commitment and was just waiting for the green light to finish his career with us. Apart from being our best player last season, his retention would have been a great consolation and confidence boost going forward.

 

Thanks Kelvin for proving us wrong the last couple of seasons. Wish we could have reciprocated the gesture.

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Can't see it happening. He wont get a game unless Green goes to Arsenal. Which is a possibility but I cant imagine Zola wanting Kelvin "I'm due a clanger" Davis to be his No1.

 

He'd only ever be a back up.

 

Perhaps he quit likes getting paid?

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I think the loss of Kelvin combined with DMG, even if it seemed likely all summer, is close to ending our play off hopes. We need new players to sign for us. We need the damned takeover done and not f*cked about with any longer, and the new owners need to go straight into bringing in capable league 1 replacements.

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robert green or Kelvin - tough one.

Mind you, doesn't look good if even K has given up the ghost. Perhaps he's heard it's all over. Certainly looks like it. Only happy people are Begbies Traynor's bean counters. Must have made a fortune on this one.

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You'd have thought that the Daily Mail would get Surman's name right !

SURNAM ? Who's that ?

 

possibly a country situated between French Guiana and Guyana? Didn't think we owned so much land, no wonder these property developers have been circling.

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League 1 or Premiership. Tough choice for Kelvin.

 

its funny that despite him being close to being CCC keeper of the year we seriously thought that he'd be happy to hang around all summer waiting for a new League 1 lower pay contract to appear when quite clearly he could get himself even more money on his bosman.

 

Obviously dissapointed. I've backed him since day one and it seriously weakens the side. I wonder how good Forecast is?

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its funny that despite him being close to being CCC keeper of the year we seriously thought that he'd be happy to hang around all summer waiting for a new League 1 lower pay contract to appear when quite clearly he could get himself even more money on his bosman.

 

Obviously dissapointed. I've backed him since day one and it seriously weakens the side. I wonder how good Forecast is?

 

Well so far he has, he's had the opportunity to negotiate since Jan 1st. Obviously his contract doesn't expire until midnight, but this is as done a deal as it's going to get until then.

 

Hardly surprised, he said all the right things but even with a speedy multi-billionaire's takeover there was still a pretty good chance he was going to leave, Prem offers silly money even for benchwarmers.

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Well so far he has, he's had the opportunity to negotiate since Jan 1st. Obviously his contract doesn't expire until midnight, but this is as done a deal as it's going to get until then.

 

Hardly surprised, he said all the right things but even with a speedy multi-billionaire's takeover there was still a pretty good chance he was going to leave, Prem offers silly money even for benchwarmers.

 

his contract runs out today and what do you know he is going to sign for West Ham. My guess is that this deal has been on the cards for a while and he hasn't been holding on for a contract from Southampton he has just been keeping this deal to himself. Best of luck to the guy, he has earned the move IMO.

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his contract runs out today and what do you know he is going to sign for West Ham. My guess is that this deal has been on the cards for a while and he hasn't been holding on for a contract from Southampton he has just been keeping this deal to himself. Best of luck to the guy, he has earned the move IMO.

 

I don't have a problem with it, surprised we've still got Lallana as well, to be honest, despite his unproductive season.

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Can't blame him for leaving.

 

He's stated his desire to stay but with all the uncertainty surrounding the club it's understandable that he now has to leave.

 

I don't hold it against him, and I wish him all the very best at West Ham.

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stuck on the bench at whu or first choice at sfc?

 

PL and getting paid a decent wage on time, or L1 and not getting paid a much lower wage on time?

 

Hmmmmmmm......... Be honest, which would you go for?

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Don't think he can be faulted for this move. He could be on around 10k a week at West Ham, prob on a 3 year contract, and moving on a Bosman would likely secure him a decent signing on fee. He'll be back up to Green, but Green may want to move on sometime soon. As backup it enables him to look into doing some coaching badges if he was that way inclined.

 

Alternatively, he can sit here and maybe get a contract for a 2k p/w in league 1, playing for a team that may well be battling relegation, given the ill-prepared nature of the squad, impending fire-sale and points penalty.

 

Fair play to the man, I just hope that one of either Bialkowski or Forecast is capable of stepping up to the plate.

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I think the loss of Kelvin combined with DMG, even if it seemed likely all summer, is close to ending our play off hopes.

 

That is the stupidest thing I've read all summer, and there's been some competition.

 

Have you got even the remotest inkling what's going on ?

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bialkowski deffo is good enough if we get the right GK coach and he gets his confidence back

 

Not on the strength of any of his reserve (or international) performances I've seen since we lost to Derby in the Play-Offs, being dropped for which seems to have ruined his confidence altogether. Then again maybe a run in the team will do him good.

 

I have half-shares in a pet budgie named after him, so I'm entitled to be biased... :rolleyes:

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