Yes please.Quote:
Originally Posted by Forest Green Bluebird
I checked out Madine’s stats and can’t believe he didn’t ever score for Cardiff. Even Aluko managed to score for us.
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Yes please.Quote:
Originally Posted by Forest Green Bluebird
I checked out Madine’s stats and can’t believe he didn’t ever score for Cardiff. Even Aluko managed to score for us.
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Originally Posted by delmbox
It may have been amicable. Negotiated a pay off to get rid of him without having to pay the full length of his remaining contract.
I know I saw a list of the jacks blowing about 80 million somewhere recently, baston for 18 million was it? Ayew 20 million, Clucas 16, there was a few others tooQuote:
Originally Posted by Pearcey3
Don’t jokeQuote:
Originally Posted by Forest Green Bluebird
I'm looking forward to buying a "I saw Gary Madine score" badge ..... oh wait....
Yeah I think someone watch him play football and realised he isn’t a championship footballer in a million years.Quote:
Originally Posted by delmbox
It's not hindsight but I also said the same at the time. One of my best friends is a Bolton season ticket holder and he said at the time that he couldn't believe we had paid £6mio for Madine - a more realistic fee would have been £1mio, maybe £2mio as he was on a scoring streak at the time but we all knew this was just one of those strange hot spells any useless striker can go through for a short period, he had been pretty useless for a number of seasons before thenQuote:
Originally Posted by Croesy Blue
Huge fees. However they did get £45 million for Sigurdsson.Quote:
Originally Posted by goats
My abiding memory of Gary Madine when his name arises in future discussions of worst ever City players will be his last appearance for us at CCS (was it Preston) when he came on as sub and as the ball reached him on the by line he put in a beautiful chipped cross supposedly into the penalty area which actually finished 12 rows back in the Canton - It was a feat of shittyness that had not been seen since Josh Low was seen on the wing
Thanks for the memories Gary - there will always be a place for you in top 10 dreadful signings in years to come
Don’t you be disrespecting Josh Low!Quote:
Originally Posted by binman
Nail on the head.Quote:
Originally Posted by DubaiDai
Malky got us promoted but I'd hazard a guess anybody on here could have done it. It was like Football Manager with a bucket load of cash.
We struck lucky with Warnock in amongst the dross picked by the board here.
Tan is the money man surrounded by yes men. We have been successful despite our board and not because of it.
It is sadly still continuing now. Then again with a board in place that are unwilling or, more likely, unable to see their shortcomings it isn't going to change any time soon.
Our success is dependant on the manager putting together a strong squad with a heap of cash (Malky) or a shrewd manager who builds a hard to beat team while also frittering away a shed load (Warnock).
Absolutely clueless as a club at board level.
He was actually decent when we played Forest, chased and held the ball up well until he missed an open goal by passing it to Hoilett
What message does this send out just before the derby too?
A lot of our shithouses might think a shit show against the Jacks and they might be looking at a nice pay off too.
Meanwhile the Jacks are boosting their squad with Premier League squad player loans.
He started the first four games after Harris arrived and now he's out the door less than two months later.Quote:
Originally Posted by City123
Could we not have at least waited until the end of January to make a decision on this?
It seems hard to believe but we could end the transfer window even worse up top than we started if Bogle jumps ship/is paid off and our notoriously hard working recruitment team once again fail to get transfers across the line.
We'll probably give Peter Crouch a 4 year deal out of retirement on the last day based on his name.
So much negativity
Think a few people need to take a few days off
Maybe just maybe there is a reason to write off 6m.
I remember Ronnie Moore shirts back in the day saying Ronnie actually scored for usQuote:
Originally Posted by goats
Sometimes it doesnt work out .Quote:
Originally Posted by Ribeye
Every club has the same problem .
Probably every forum rants about the failures.
When you have seen it all and then seen it all again , you realise , sometimes the footballer doesn't suit the club, system they play ,
whatever the reason. It just doesn't work out .
In business , which football is , you have to speculate to accumulate.
Look at Eoin Doyle , who would have believed it .......:hehe:
"I saw Ronnie Moore score" :thumbup:Quote:
Originally Posted by welshwarrior
He's probably already got a deal lined up, Sunderland has been mentioned. We would struggle to offload him for a fee, so no doubt we've agreed a pay off of part of his contract so that he is a free agent and can now negotiate a better deal for himself with another club as they don't have to pay a fee. Or we've agreed to top up his wages with his new club for the rest of his contract. I just really wanted to see him score for us, he'll probably make a goalscoring debut for his new club.
He did wear down that team that one time though.
Spot on!Quote:
Originally Posted by Delbert
The biggest blunder Tan and co made was to show absolute trust in Neil Warnock who, in terms of the amount of money spent has to be worse than Mackay, Ole, Slade, Trollope and all of the other managers who get so much stick on here. Strangely, Warnock was great when it came to free transfers/Bosmans, but give him money to spend and all of the good judgement that got us Bamba, Hoilett, Etheridge, Mendez-Laing, Paterson etc. flew out of the window. Warnock was the "football man" that people used to cry out for and look what he left Neil Harris with. We need someone with a foot in both the football and administrative/financial camps who can act as a kind of go between for the manager and the Board - there was talk of a Director of Football type being appointed when Warnock left, but that's died a death now it seems.Quote:
Originally Posted by DubaiDai
It IS odd that Warnock is clearly a brilliant man manager when it comes to players with seemingly something to prove (see your list above). How he got the team promoted in his second season is quite remarkable when you look back on it now.Quote:
Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
And yet his record in the transfer market is so poor. (Insert a long list here starting with Madine, Murphy, BDR, Flint etc)
Is this trait apparent at other clubs that he managed and if so what are the unique characteristics of the players that fall into each of the two groups? Is it as simple as: he can motivate one group (of free transfers and relative journey men footballers) to over achieve and prove people wrong, whereas the other group recognise that he values them, having paid a fee for them, and are therefore not as motivated to prove themselves?
Surely that is too simplistic? 😳 (that said, the pitiful fickleness of lots of professional footballers never cease to amaze me....)
There has to be something in this yes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bobby Dandruff
No doubting the has beens or cast offs have performed under NW.
Most managers if they buy a big named player for a lot of money or on big wages (or both) will give the player more time to bed in or turn things around if things aren't working.
It all then depends on the player concerned whether he wants to give it a go or sulk.
We have seen so many of these players just sit on the bench without busting a gut knowing that they are on a huge wedge.
It isn't about the money to others who need the buzz of performing.
With Madine, I don't think he falls into either of the above though.
Warnock paid a premium for a player, in a limited market it has to be said, to fire us to the prem. We did get to the prem (with his help in "that" game :biggrin:) but, no matter how hard he might try, he is just not good enough.
I saw Andy Campbell score - and probably the most important goal of his entire career! :thumbup:Quote:
Originally Posted by MacAdder
Makes paying the sala fee look value.
Will do the likes of nantes and clubs receiving a sell on well and stop having his name put through the press associated with a money dispute.
This is actually a good case in point: Andy Shambles scored 8 goals in 9 games for us, whilst on loan (or very similar, I think).Quote:
Originally Posted by Gofer Blue
Then when we signed him for big money, he went right off the boil - did he have a point to prove whilst on loan, but then lost some motivation when he got the move?
Agree, Warnock's best additions were Hoilett, Etheridge, NML and Bamba, who all cost nothing, and Paterson who was only £425000.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bobby Dandruff
Must be harder mentally the longer it goes on, that pass to Hoilett screams "no confidence".Quote:
Originally Posted by cardiff55
He could leave here with new surroundings and possibly score earlier in for his new club, taking tons of pressure on.
He wasn't suited to us but that's not his fault, it's Warnock's, who is useless with forwards.
He's just trying to open up a new branch of his fight club
If we could sell them for 30 million he’d be even.....all managers find a few duffs. I remember frank burrows, he was great finding cheap nuggets but give him cash and you end up with a swinkendorf lolQuote:
Originally Posted by cardiff55
:yikes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Gofer Blue
The shirt must have been an XXXXXXXL to get all that on! ;-)
Who knows where we'd be without Campbell's goal.
One of the best days ever watching the City.
"There's a not very private party going on in Cardiff tonight and the locals have invited themselves" :-)
How was it a blunder to employ a man who got us into the Premier League by spending about £10m, thereby bringing in over £100m in revenue the following season.Quote:
Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
Beddau has been mentioned as well!Quote:
Originally Posted by Michael Morris
:hehe: :hehe:Quote:
Originally Posted by dml1954
and what a goal it was, i wonder how many time out of 10 he could have done it again ? ? ? not many i guessQuote:
Originally Posted by Gofer Blue
It doesn’t matter. He did it when it mattered the most so I think that we can all forgive the rest of his indifferent time at the club :-)Quote:
Originally Posted by blue matt
He was very good for a long time- picked ahead of earnie and for good reason. He was out of form by the time that qpr game came around but he was a class act for quite a bit of his time with usQuote:
Originally Posted by Bobby Dandruff