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A Bit of Fun Transfer rumours...

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shrimper95 said:
Gillingham set to put another bid in for Tomlin apparently.
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They have got Cody McDonald from Coventry on loan who scored at the weekend. If he does sign for them, he surely won't be playing upfront with the strikers they have at the moment.

Unless we get a silly offer, we must try and keep him. Alternatively, we could dress Benyon up as Tomlin and sell him to them ...
 
chapperzUK said:
They have got Cody McDonald from Coventry on loan who scored at the weekend. If he does sign for them, he surely won't be playing upfront with the strikers they have at the moment.

Unless we get a silly offer, we must try and keep him. Alternatively, we could dress Benyon up as Tomlin and sell him to them ...
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You can't do that. Look at the trouble that kids dad got in for dressing his kid up as El Hadj Diouf.
 
tottenham541 said:
but you know its gonna come back to kick us up the xxxxx eh:'(
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No way he is so easily wound up. The abuse from our fans, plus Sturrock knows him and will tell players to utilise the fact he is so easily wound up and get him sent off.
 
Yorkshire Blue said:
Supposition, but it's pretty blatant.

You just need to ask yourself who benefits out of this alleged story becoming public knowledge. We're too many places behind Gillingham for them to be looking at us and thinking how can we unsettle one of their players, although that's entirely the type of thing their scabby manager and equally scabby chairman would do if we were closer. It doesn't aid Gillingham to alert potential suitors if they were genuinely interested, but they are the type of people who'd be compliant in playing along with agents' games.

Look at where it's leaked: not locally with the Echo or the Kent equivalent but by someone who's got national connections.

Look at the timing: just after Tomlin gets a winner and his perceived value amongst fans who can only see as far as his last appearance is at it's highest. Why not in recent weeks when he's been unable to hit a barndoor with a banjo? It's obviously to put pressure on the chairman/chief exec to get a deal done. As soon as his agent gets some leverage he tries to apply it.

I don't blame Tomlin, who I think entered professional football late, for trying to get his market value, but as much as I like him, he's a 29 year old who's had a 2 month hot patch. Let's not start paying him as if he's the second coming of Barry Corr sans the injuries. Lets get a deal done, but at an affordable price.




About Tomlin?
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Yes mate, he and CP were tweeting/talking about i when the first story cropped up on the Sky Sports site about 6/8 weeks back. Ill try and find it.
 
Ricey said:
If they gave us £10 I would drive him there. Useless waste of space, doesn't deserve his footballing talent.
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Awkward car journeys of our time... :smile:


Bilel: Thank you Mr Ricey for driving me
Ricey: Don't thank me, it's cos you're a useless waste of space.
Bilel: Ah. Have you seen my scissors?
 
Tommy2holes said:
How the funk can they afford him and we cant?
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TrevorFitzpatrickHattrick said:
Because we haven't got a pot to urinate in and Cheltenham have some cash available from their cup run.
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Maybe they have a smaller squad than us...I haven't done the research, really can't be bothered - but several on here amazed Cheltenham can afford him but we can't - but our squad may be bigger than theirs, maybe Cheltenham are going for quality rather than quantity. Just a thought?
 
Norwichshrimper said:
Maybe they have a smaller squad than us...I haven't done the research, really can't be bothered - but several on here amazed Cheltenham can afford him but we can't - but our squad may be bigger than theirs, maybe Cheltenham are going for quality rather than quantity. Just a thought?
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Story below from their chairman regarding cup revenues and re-investment in the playing staff. For me, Cheltenham are a very tidily run club...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/20692860
 
TrevorFitzpatrickHattrick said:
Story below from their chairman regarding cup revenues and re-investment in the playing staff. For me, Cheltenham are a very tidily run club...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/20692860
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Indeed - our problem as we all know too well is that although our overall wage budget may be amongst the biggest in the league, we have a number of players on fairly chunky wages using it up. A club like Cheltenham being much more conservative with playing staff then with the aid of some cup revenue are then in the position to gamble with a big wage player for the final push. If they were down in 15th with no chance of promotion they wouldn't go after someone like Benson. Fair play to them if they go up. I'd say they are in a better position than us to do so
 
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