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Iron manager Brian Laws has said there are no potential new signings on the club’s radar at the minute.
Speaking on The Iron Player, he said: “It would be nice (to sign Clarke). He’s a great player and will score goals in whatever division he’ll play in, but he wants to play in at least League One.
"That doesn’t mean that we can’t go in, and I know the chairman will back us up, not just financially but in signing the right kind of player.
“Realistically we wouldn’t have any hope of signing Leon, not at this stage. He’s available because of Coventry’s current financial situation, but he’s also on a very high wage as well which we wouldn’t be prepared to pay. He’ll have a lot of clubs chasing after him that will be prepared to pay.”
Read more at http://www.scunthorpe-united.co.uk/news/article/no-signings-for-now-992230.aspx#jgKu8vmyrlKb4TlL.99
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We’ve sort of moved on from that in a way, that’s the way football is I’m afraid."
Brian Laws
Though he has admitted it would be nice to sign ex-loanee Leon Clarke, after the Coventry City striker has been told he can leave the Sky Blues. Laws admits it's very unlikely.Brian Laws
Speaking on The Iron Player, he said: “It would be nice (to sign Clarke). He’s a great player and will score goals in whatever division he’ll play in, but he wants to play in at least League One.
"That doesn’t mean that we can’t go in, and I know the chairman will back us up, not just financially but in signing the right kind of player.
“Realistically we wouldn’t have any hope of signing Leon, not at this stage. He’s available because of Coventry’s current financial situation, but he’s also on a very high wage as well which we wouldn’t be prepared to pay. He’ll have a lot of clubs chasing after him that will be prepared to pay.”
Read more at http://www.scunthorpe-united.co.uk/news/article/no-signings-for-now-992230.aspx#jgKu8vmyrlKb4TlL.99
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AFCCOVENTRY
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I couldn't copy the text from the website on the iPhone for some reason! Lol
But as everyone thought a few weeks back...baker , murphy and Clarke will all be gone by the end of the month.
But as everyone thought a few weeks back...baker , murphy and Clarke will all be gone by the end of the month.
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but the manager and owners said no such conversation has taken place :thinking about:
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AFCCOVENTRY
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Bit like Baker posting on Facebook that yes it's true that me, Leon and Murphy have been told to find new clubs and then an hour later he denies it....
Lol
Lol
Stafford_SkBlue
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Clarke clearly an investment by sisu last Jan.
If driven out from the club by lack of support, will the same supporters be moaning that sisu are not investing.
If driven out from the club by lack of support, will the same supporters be moaning that sisu are not investing.
stupot07
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Surely NOPM is partly to blame?
Who needs footballers when you have a nice new shiny stadium to build? Think of the atmosphere when Nuneaton come !
slyblue57
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NOPM is deffinately the main reason for this, how can it not be ?
I do nt see how you can nt see that SiSued !
No fans no money = no players worth a fee.
The forth coming sales are down to NOPM.
Oh and no I do nt support Sisu. I haven nt renewed my season ticket,
won nt be going to Northampton, and bought my tickets for Shresbury from their
website.
I ve accepted NOPM will just mean a poor team made up of young kids but hey ho
Pusb
I do nt see how you can nt see that SiSued !
No fans no money = no players worth a fee.
The forth coming sales are down to NOPM.
Oh and no I do nt support Sisu. I haven nt renewed my season ticket,
won nt be going to Northampton, and bought my tickets for Shresbury from their
website.
I ve accepted NOPM will just mean a poor team made up of young kids but hey ho
Pusb
When is anyone going to get it? Sisu do not have any money not because of nopm but because they are a bunch of speculators with £10 between them who gambled on getting the Ricoh from the day they took over in 2008. They move bits of paper around and move figures on a screen.
No ambition no plan no new stadium we are just fed continuous spin. They are on a slippery slide now to oblivion, not long to go now, keep the faith!!
GaryPendrysEyes
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I thought the Sisu apologist line was Sisu had budgeted for low crowds and could last for years.. Then after 1 'home' game we hear bleating about its the stay away fans fault for players being sold, not like that's happened before right?
Sisu have brought this club to its knees and it really is about time any remaining Sisu apologists admit they were wrong and grow a pair.
Sisu have brought this club to its knees and it really is about time any remaining Sisu apologists admit they were wrong and grow a pair.
thaiskyblue
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wake up lack of support , sisu love brainless souls like yourself, keep it up.
Nopm, sisu out, pusb !
Otis
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Tis a very valid point. If what we hear is true, that Sisu have budgeted to fund us for the next 3 years knowing they would have tiny crowds then you would have thought they'd have the likes of Baker's and Murphy's and Clarke's wages covered.
Keep saying to myself, unless they are completely stupid (which I don't believe they are), they must have surely known that no-one was going to go to Sixfields! Fans repeatedly told Fisher exactly this at the forums.
lifelongcityfan
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Commercial risk was the phrase used by TF...he stated the club knew waht they were doing and sisu were prepared to fund.. remembrt TF doesnt fillibuster!!
If we stay in league 1 this year it will be a miracle, sell sell sell will be joys message to timmy 3 hats, they under estimated the strength of feeling of the supporters.
Thats what happens when run rough shod over people they bite back, its our football team sisu who gave you the right to destroy it?
Thats what happens when run rough shod over people they bite back, its our football team sisu who gave you the right to destroy it?
GaryPendrysEyes
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Agreed Otis. But to hear the 'it's the fans fault' line after just one 'home' game is incredible and rather pathetic.
stupot07
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Not if the likes of baker, Clarke and murphy are on an average of £8k per week like the daily mail article suggested. Yeovils entire wage budget last year was £700k (£13.5k per week). We have 3 players reportedly on combined wage of £24k per week (£1.25m).
stupot07
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So NOPM has absolutely nothing to do with it?
stupot07
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Dunno....baker admitted the story was true....
Manchester_sky_blue
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I was gonna say this, its not set in stone that Leon is on the transfer list and I do kinda think that if someone was going to come in for him they would have done so already, its not like we are in a position to say no.
skybluebal
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Commercial risk was the phrase used by TF...he stated the club knew waht they were doing and sisu were prepared to fund.. remembrt TF doesnt fillibuster!!
The club knew what they were doing and gambled on us to follow them blindly. They would have made these reductions in any case, I believe, so I don't think NOPM was the key driver.
However, we can't have our cake and eat it! NOPM WILL have an impact - isn't that what the point is? As I have said before, it's going to get much worse before it gets better. That's what the vast majority of fans have signed up to.
SISU will of course spin everything to their own benefit - do we expect anything else?
SIR ERNIE
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WAKE UP.
SISU is a cancer that is killing in our football club.
It's target is the rich juicy Ricoh.
The football club is unimportant to SISU; never has been, never will be. It's the route to the Ricoh.
Left unchecked and unchallenged it will get there.
NOPM is the chemotherapy.
The side effects are very unpleasant and distressing but it offers the best hope of killing the cancer.
Manchester_sky_blue
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I think SISU have shown that they won't just walk away though, I think the only option now is to literally starve them out the club now, put it into liquidation and start again, probably in league 2 or the conference. Needs a proper etch-a-sketch reboot
sky blue john
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Yes NOPM is having an effect but whose to say Sisu would have not sold these players anyway !!
Sisu have a track record of doing this already even before NOPM, what about the season we got relegated from the championship was that down to stay away fans?
Im not complaining about the player sales the only ones that will and blame NOPM will be the deluded fans that go to home matches at suxfields !!!!
This is also more proof that they don't have the money or desire to build a new stadium else they would be able to cover the cost of the few players they now plan to sell !!!!!
I wonder what division we will be in when the fans going to suxfields will wake up and smell the coffee !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sisu have a track record of doing this already even before NOPM, what about the season we got relegated from the championship was that down to stay away fans?
Im not complaining about the player sales the only ones that will and blame NOPM will be the deluded fans that go to home matches at suxfields !!!!
This is also more proof that they don't have the money or desire to build a new stadium else they would be able to cover the cost of the few players they now plan to sell !!!!!
I wonder what division we will be in when the fans going to suxfields will wake up and smell the coffee !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
RoboCCFC90
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Iron manager Brian Laws has said there are no potential new signings on the club’s radar at the minute.We’ve sort of moved on from that in a way, that’s the way football is I’m afraid."Though he has admitted it would be nice to sign ex-loanee Leon Clarke, after the Coventry City striker has been told he can leave the Sky Blues. Laws admits it's very unlikely.
Brian Laws
Speaking on The Iron Player, he said: “It would be nice (to sign Clarke). He’s a great player and will score goals in whatever division he’ll play in, but he wants to play in at least League One.
"That doesn’t mean that we can’t go in, and I know the chairman will back us up, not just financially but in signing the right kind of player.
“Realistically we wouldn’t have any hope of signing Leon, not at this stage. He’s available because of Coventry’s current financial situation, but he’s also on a very high wage as well which we wouldn’t be prepared to pay. He’ll have a lot of clubs chasing after him that will be prepared to pay.”
Read more at http://www.scunthorpe-united.co.uk/news/article/no-signings-for-now-992230.aspx#jgKu8vmyrlKb4TlL.99
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I can't see one quote on that article from Brian Laws which says "Coventry have informed me that he is avaliable at the right price to cut their wage bill" All he has assumed is because of our financial situation we can't keep him and we want Leon gone.
I won't go as far as to say it's untrue however Brian Laws is just publicly admitting his interesting and is using our situation in the hope that Scunthorpe can sign Leon.
Edit: The bit I have highlighted is probably a case of two things.
a) The calibre of player that Leon is, why would he drop to League 2, Obvious if you ask me?
b) Brian Laws has managed Leon twice (Sheffield Wednesday and Scunthorpe) only natural that a former manager keeps in touch with one of his ex players, so has the knowledge of players preference regards to his future.
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CarpyCov84
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It's obvious this is gonna happen we all know their on their arse selling players is all they have left
italiahorse
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After getting rid of a load of better players including McGoldrick in his case. Stupid comment.
Sub
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it has been said before by other people, joy seppalla will destroy this club if she does not get her own way, thats the kind of person she is. The club will be killed off if she does not get the ricoh and she does not care how she gets her hands on the ricoh. Personally i think the club is finished, selling players and getting us relegated is what is going to happen and then when we are even lower in the divisions she will eventually toss the club aside her past history shows what she is like and expecting anything else but the worse case for CCFC is foolish.
her past history shows what she is like and expecting anything else but the worse case for CCFC is foolish.
Manchester_sky_blue
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it has been said before by other people, joy seppalla will destroy this club if she does not get her own way, thats the kind of person she is. The club will be killed off if she does not get the ricoh and she does not care how she gets her hands on the ricoh. Personally i think the club is finished, selling players and getting us relegated is what is going to happen and then when we are even lower in the divisions she will eventually toss the club aside
That might actually be a good thing as far as we are concerned though. The club is broken whichever way you look at it so if the Joy-less Ms Seppala decides to cast us aside like a pair of dirty undercrackers then that will be our opportunity to take back control and start again. Sadly I think she would rather have the club liquidated out of spite.