Cass63
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Nice touch from the Ipswich fans in that article, just shows some times you don’t realise how lucky you are.Fascinating read. Thank you for alerting me to the article.
Nice touch from the Ipswich fans in that article, just shows some times you don’t realise how lucky you are.Fascinating read. Thank you for alerting me to the article.
Yes and interesting about not wanting to take the last minute penalties - I don't know how people have the nerve to stay calm to do that. Those poor boys in the Euro finals!Nice touch from the Ipswich fans in that article, just shows some times you don’t realise how lucky you are.
What about Defoe for the rest of the season could be backup for Taylor and bring experience. I am only half serious
Peter O’Rourke reporting Huddersfield and a number of other clubs in for Sykes this month.
Not one that I’ve heard before.
That would be a blow. I really like him but he seems to be absolutely at the right level with us, a good league one club. He's a bit unreliable and liable to lose his head, I'm not sure he'd do well at a higher level yet.Peter O’Rourke reporting Huddersfield and a number of other clubs in for Sykes this month.
Not one that I’ve heard before.
Is it a big risk if he walks out for free? I can't see him as a million pound player. We could replace him with a free transfer in the summer.Interesting game of cat and mouse to come.
Huddersfield (or anyone else) won't offer the "going rate" for a player in his current form, as they know they can sign him on a free in the summer. But we could end up accepting a better bid from another club now and then all the other interested clubs lose out by not showing their money enough now.
That being said, given his current form, he is worth way more to us than anyone will pay, so is it worth us taking the risk that he doesn't sign a new contact any time soon, keep him around, and hope we get promoted and then he might sign one in the summer.
The risk being, we don't get promoted and he walks out the door on a free transfer.
Kane can't play until after the window shuts because of his suspension. The Brannagan noise won't go away until the window shuts/deal is done, though we haven't heard the results of his scan yet, and Gorrin remains out for the season.
If we do sell Sykes, I can't see it being until the final day.
Is it a big risk if he walks out for free? I can't see him as a million pound player. We could replace him with a free transfer in the summer.
He's turned himself into a goalscoring midfielder (granted in the last 6 games or so).
8 league goals so far, having scored 1 plus the playoff goal in his previous 2.5 seasons with us.
It's either one of these sudden one-off spikes that a player has in their career, or a turning point of him showing more consistency having knuckled down, trained harder etc.
I'm not sure how easy it is to find a midfielder who has scored that many the season prior on a free transfer (especially one who is needing to be Championship level if we were to go up). From that point of view, I'd be tempted to take a fee now and spend it this window on a direct replacement - we normally have 2/3 players on a list as succession for each position.