Reply With QuoteThis season’s Rambo, ex player returns to CCFC treatment room!Originally Posted by Coyote
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Dan said …..Oh, you’re making what might be your first contribution to this thread all summer, am I reading too much into that?
I probably am.
This season’s Rambo, ex player returns to CCFC treatment room!
He'd be a real coup if we got him! Won't hold my breath but if we only sign a couple of his quality I'd be chuffed.
Would be a great signing. One thing we are missing upfront and on the wing is real pace, only Isaak Davies has it. He is a Tremorfa boy, and ex CCFC academy. Surprisingly still only 24 and out of contract at the end of the season, so won't cost much in terms of loan fee (if that is what it is to be) or transfer fee. His wages (at least for the 1st season) could be an issue, but I doubt he is earning more at Rangers than Turnbull was at Celtic who we signed in the last 12 months of his contract - albeit when we were in the Championship. But Matondo's career is currently at a lower ebb that Turnbull's was at the time.
Though, it doesn't look like his and BBM's time at Man City coincided. I'm sure that BBM will have a good relationship with people at Man City who worked with him and you'd have to assume that Matondo's time there was a success as it persuaded Schalke '04 to spend £11m on him.
Turnbull was a very highly rated youngster in Scotland too when Celtic signed him, so probably on more than decent money
Would be funny if, after all the legal issues when Matondo left for Man City, he ends up playing for us anyway
Osho played full game for Auxerre today. If the rumour that we are interested is true then there is obviously no agreement yet.
Agreed, on both accounts.
It is still ridiculous that a big prem club can poach a young player from a lower league team, paying £500k compensation, and then sell him for £11m little more than 2 years later despite him not having made a single 1st team appearance.
Agree 100%, there should ideally be a percentage of a sell on fee payable to the club the player has been poached from, I’ve noticed how many transfers of young players from premiership clubs contain a sell on fee for the club, they are raking it in from every angle.
Indeed. The Premier League clubs don't let a penny slip through their fingers. Sell-on fees seem to be a matter of course included in their transfer dealings.
Monday morning and I wonder is this the week when we finally start acting like a club that wants to make an immediate return to the Championship rather than just talk about it - if it’s not to be this week, then there’s only one more that it can be.
A mate of mine who is a Boror fan says we're trying to get hold of Micah Hamilton on loan from Boro. An interesting one as he's worked with BBM at Man City and he's able to play in midfield or out wide.
Hamilton was seen as something of a statement signing when he joined from City 12 months ago but the winger endured a difficult first season on Teesside, making just two Championship starts before he went out on loan in January to Stockport, where he also struggled to make an impact.
Hamilton was left out of Boro's matchday squad for Saturday's Championship opener against Swansea, but Edwards insists the 21-year-old still has a future at the Riverside.
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