Hob Nob Anyone?

I don’t the point of signing Watson. Our main problem since Sidwell left is we don’t have a ballwinner. It seems that Harps may be off and our midfield will be built around Marek, who is a lightweight creative player. We need a Sidwell type ballwinner alongside him. Watson may be able to be put his foot in but he is not a ballwinner he’s more creative.

Southbank Old Boy wrote:

UTDSTEVE wrote:

Streets wrote:I only know we had 2 bids knocked back. They seem to want nearer £2m for him and our evaluation doesn't come close to that.

I'd love us to sign him, but if he was to leave Palace for a figure in the region of £1m, I think they'd rather hold onto him for one final year.

Reading have not had any bids knocked back because the FACT is they have not made any!

Only QPR and Birmingham have made enquiries about Watson.

How do you know that Steve?

Warnock has been honest (I know that’s hard for some of you to believe!) with regards to the Watson transfer from day one and if there was any sort of interest from Reading he would be the first to announce it to the press as its in the clubs best interest. He pulled Watson out of a friendly on Wednesday evening after confirming he had received further enquiries from Both QPR and Birmingham, at the same time he confirmed they had not had any contact from Forest or any other club.

Don't be silly, we can't afford to pay 2 million for a player, we only got 40 million or so profit from each year in the prem but thats WAY over budget. Please come back with sensible suggestions like Ruel FOx as a player/coach or some lad from shrewsbury,etc

FiNeRaIn wrote:Don't be silly, we can't afford to pay 2 million for a player, we only got 40 million or so profit from each year in the prem but thats WAY over budget. Please come back with sensible suggestions like Ruel FOx as a player/coach or some lad from shrewsbury,etc

We got £6m from last season.

And we've signed two players for £2m plus in the past 2 seasons (Fae and Halford).

SCIAG wrote:

FiNeRaIn wrote:Don't be silly, we can't afford to pay 2 million for a player, we only got 40 million or so profit from each year in the prem but thats WAY over budget. Please come back with sensible suggestions like Ruel FOx as a player/coach or some lad from shrewsbury,etc

We got £6m from last season.

And we've signed two players for £2m plus in the past 2 seasons (Fae and Halford).

How do you know we got £6M?

Platypuss wrote:

SCIAG wrote:

FiNeRaIn wrote:Don't be silly, we can't afford to pay 2 million for a player, we only got 40 million or so profit from each year in the prem but thats WAY over budget. Please come back with sensible suggestions like Ruel FOx as a player/coach or some lad from shrewsbury,etc

We got £6m from last season.

And we've signed two players for £2m plus in the past 2 seasons (Fae and Halford).

How do you know we got £6M?

I seem to remeber that club stating that was the profit from the last set of published accounts, although I am sure there was some 'creative accounting'.

Indeed - we don't have any real figures for last season yet.

You gotta keep on top of those 'loan' repayments.....

SCIAG wrote:

FiNeRaIn wrote:Don't be silly, we can't afford to pay 2 million for a player, we only got 40 million or so profit from each year in the prem but thats WAY over budget. Please come back with sensible suggestions like Ruel FOx as a player/coach or some lad from shrewsbury,etc

We got £6m from last season.

And we've signed two players for £2m plus in the past 2 seasons (Fae and Halford).

Not at Championship level we haven't, and we wont be any time soon!

UTDSTEVE wrote: Warnock has been honest (I know that’s hard for some of you to believe!) with regards to the Watson transfer from day one and if there was any sort of interest from Reading he would be the first to announce it to the press as its in the clubs best interest. He pulled Watson out of a friendly on Wednesday evening after confirming he had received further enquiries from Both QPR and Birmingham, at the same time he confirmed they had not had any contact from Forest or any other club.

Thats probably right, but then its also possible that we've got agreement from them to keep it under wraps.

It might be unlikely that Warnock would keep to that kind of deal, but if they think it's in Palace's best interest, ie we'll come back with a better bid but want to keep it all hush hush, then they'll go along with it.

If you'd said you don't think Reading have made a bid I'd probably agree with you, to claim you know it for a fact is just plain daft though.

Southbank Old Boy wrote:

UTDSTEVE wrote: Warnock has been honest (I know that’s hard for some of you to believe!) with regards to the Watson transfer from day one and if there was any sort of interest from Reading he would be the first to announce it to the press as its in the clubs best interest. He pulled Watson out of a friendly on Wednesday evening after confirming he had received further enquiries from Both QPR and Birmingham, at the same time he confirmed they had not had any contact from Forest or any other club.

Thats probably right, but then its also possible that we've got agreement from them to keep it under wraps.

It might be unlikely that Warnock would keep to that kind of deal, but if they think it's in Palace's best interest, ie we'll come back with a better bid but want to keep it all hush hush, then they'll go along with it.

If you'd said you don't think Reading have made a bid I'd probably agree with you, to claim you know it for a fact is just plain daft though.

Agree- no one knows - Reading always doing their dealings in the secrecy of a masonic lodge - can just see Bugs and Syrup getting togged up in the garb to seal the deal!

Platypuss- accounts, indeed.

IMA... are you a strap alias?

Looks like £2M would get him quite easily:

Crystal Palace pull plug on Ben Watson's move to Nottingham Forest
By Football Spy 8/08/2008

Crystal Palace supremo Simon Jordan has pulled the plug on Ben Watson's £2million move to Nottingham Forest because he wants the money up front.

Midfielder Watson was cleared to tie up the deal a week ago but it was collapsing last night after Jordan stepped in.

Forest were paying about £1.5m for Watson plus more based on appearances and success, but Jordan did not want to wait for the cash

Need to sign Watson now, especially after MM's injury.

This would be THE signing that would make everyone sit up and go "come on" here.

But will we break the bank?

Would love it if we signed him.

winchester_royal wrote:Need to sign Watson now, especially after MM's injury.

'greed

Unlikely to happen though.

Why would he come to a smaller club with no ambition? He's not an idiot.

winchester_royal wrote:Need to sign Watson now, especially after MM's injury.

We probably needed to sign him before the unjury as MM has not exactly been that good for us,

Not that we will sign him as the club has no money.

Big Ern wrote:

winchester_royal wrote:Need to sign Watson now, especially after MM's injury.

We probably needed to sign him before the unjury as MM has not exactly been that good for us,

Not that we will sign him as the club has no money.

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