Gillespie

[shrimpled]

Someone on the Colchester United forum has said that they have had a bid of 375k accepted by Cheltenham for Gillespie. This is a player i would very much like us to sign and i think it would signal our intention to gain promotion this coming season? Thoughts?

 

[Medway Blue]

He's too good for Col Ewe. Snap him up!

 

[Pubey]

Someone on the Colchester United forum has said that they have had a bid of 375k accepted by Cheltenham for Gillespie. This is a player i would very much like us to sign and i think it would signal our intention to gain promotion this coming season? Thoughts?

unfortunately having signed furlong i don't see us getting in another striker, let alone spending that much on one. we need to be sorting out some wingers and defenders!

 

[Southend_Lady]

unfortunately having signed furlong i don't see us getting in another striker, let alone spending that much on one. we need to be sorting out some wingers and defenders!

From what I can see we need to sort out the whole fecking team!

 

[Pubey]

From what I can see we need to sort out the whole fecking team!

which is why spending 375k on one player probably isn't that smart. we do need quite a few players and we don't have a bottomless pot of cash

 

[Clinton Baptiste]

He sounds too good for us to be paying that kind of money for. Surely theres a pants striker with an appalling goals record or a drink problem we can spend it on?

 

[Ljubljana Branch]

Would be a good signing and probably about the figure we'd receive for Bailey. I was impressed at Cheltenham away - but isn't a winger more than a striker?

 

[southendutd1]

If we aint gunna pay £150k for Mulgrew doubt we will pay that much for someone else.

 

[Andy_S]

A Scunthorpe site is reporting that they've dropped out of the race for Gillespie as Cheltenham want £500,000 and Colchester have already had a £400,000 bid rejected.................

Firstly, what are Colchester doing bidding £400,000 for a player and secondly is he really worth all that!?

 

[Andy_S]

If we aint gunna pay £150k for Mulgrew doubt we will pay that much for someone else.

I don't think that is down to whether we have £150,000 to spend, it's more down to the fact that we believed we'd get him for far less when we took him on loan.

 

[Hazey]

Would be a good signing though, a younger Gower.

 

[jrwshrimper]

as if col ewe have got 400k to sspend on one player
if we end up not getting mulgrew ill be soooo ****ed off, having been the club that let everyone see his potential

 

[Stanbridge]

A Scunthorpe site is reporting that they've dropped out of the race for Gillespie as Cheltenham want £500,000 and Colchester have already had a £400,000 bid rejected.................

Firstly, what are Colchester doing bidding £400,000 for a player and secondly is he really worth all that!?

We spent 350K on Chris Coyne, and 300K on Clive Platt.

375K for a new striker, would be a standard price for Colchester United these days.

 

[cockles is back]

A Scunthorpe site is reporting that they've dropped out of the race for Gillespie as Cheltenham want £500,000 and Colchester have already had a £400,000 bid rejected.................

Firstly, what are Colchester doing bidding £400,000 for a player and secondly is he really worth all that!?

because they are a football club who have a charman with footballing ambitions, not just property ones......

 

[cockles is back]

I don't think that is down to whether we have £150,000 to spend, it's more down to the fact that we believed we'd get him for far less when we took him on loan.

i think you will probably find it is down to the fact that we havent got 150k to spend

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

We spent 350K on Chris Coyne, and 300K on Clive Platt.

375K for a new striker, would be a standard price for Colchester United these days.

Those 10 points off for going into administration are going to hit hard, although I can understand your need to pay over the odds to get anyone to join you.

 

[the_goat]

We spent 350K on Chris Coyne, and 300K on Clive Platt.

375K for a new striker, would be a standard price for Colchester United these days.

Well, in the Championship yes. Like us, you'll see your revenue decrease dramatically after relegation and if you don't get promoted first time(like we didn't) you cirtianly won't be able to spend that sort of money next year.

 

[Stanbridge]

The thing is, spending power is not simply down to revenue generated. If the chairman has significant funds at HIS disposal, which he is willing to spend on the team there is no 'natural' limit.

If this was not a major factor also, there is no way Fulham, Wigan or even Chelsea would be where they are today.

 

[DTS]

The thing is, spending power is not simply down to revenue generated. If the chairman has significant funds at HIS disposal, which he is willing to spend on the team there is no 'natural' limit.

If this was not a major factor also, there is no way Fulham, Wigan or even Chelsea would be where they are today.

All your spending power has done a fantastic job in retaining all youe best players so far.

 

[Beefy]

i think you will probably find it is down to the fact that we havent got 150k to spend

I heard something along those lines today. With a new ground to build it wouldn't surprise me as we must have spent hundreds of thousands of pounds over and above our actual income over the past few seasons.