January Transfer Rumours

**St Charles Owl** · 29-12-2014, 21:22

Bear in mind that we cannot score goals to save our lives at the moment so we are going to be linked with every striker who may be available at a reasonable price!!! Also we are unlikely to pay any decent transfer fees in January, so I would count this as a rumor!!!

**spireitematt** · (This post was last modified: 29-12-2014, 22:05 by spireitematt.)

Apparently Sheffield United offered £750k for Doyle and Higdon in the deal as well.

(29-12-2014, 21:22)St Charles Owl Wrote: Bear in mind that we cannot score goals to save our lives at the moment so we are going to be linked with every striker who may be available at a reasonable price!!! Also we are unlikely to pay any decent transfer fees in January, so I would count this as a rumor!!!

Andy Giddings
‏@Gids1980 #swfc boss SG told me #chesterfieldfc striker Eion Doyle is on his "radar", but later said he was only in the loan market.

So these are all the clubs after Doyle.

Eoin Doyle - Millwall, Bristol City, Sheffield United, Sheffield Wednesday, Burnley, Reading. Also read that Ipswich and Rotherham are interested as well but don't know how true that is. Rotherham are interested in every single player going.

Devongone · 29-12-2014, 22:27

Reading and Burnley both must have some worthwhile money available, and maybe Ipswich who could be selling McGoldrick and Mings which should trouser them £10 million easy. Of these though I can't see why Ipswich don't just keep their current players and go for promotion and why Burnley don't keep Ings who is the only thing between them and the drop zone.

The club with a lot to gain who've never had a mention is Derby. They need back-up for Martin and McClaren is desperate for promotion to counteract his brolley boy image. A million and Jamie Ward maybe?

**spireitematt** · (This post was last modified: 30-12-2014, 19:06 by spireitematt.)

(29-12-2014, 22:27)Devongone Wrote: Reading and Burnley both must have some worthwhile money available, and maybe Ipswich who could be selling McGoldrick and Mings which should trouser them £10 million easy. Of these though I can't see why Ipswich don't just keep their current players and go for promotion and why Burnley don't keep Ings who is the only thing between them and the drop zone.

The club with a lot to gain who've never had a mention is Derby. They need back-up for Martin and McClaren is desperate for promotion to counteract his brolley boy image. A million and Jamie Ward maybe?

Derby wouldn't give us Jamie Ward back he's worth a million himself and a very important player for Derby.

Steve Cotterill has admitted that Bristol City are out of the running for Doyle now as he thinks he will go to a Championship club.

Devongone · 30-12-2014, 19:13

I'd be willing to bet Jamie's not at Derby at the start of next season if they make it to the Premiership Matt. They're looking for back-up for Martin ..... IMO Jamie is better than Doyle if they move him up front, but they don't do it. And Jamie's behind loanee Jordan Ibe in the pecking order too. To get the 20 goal striker you have to give the man what he wants.

Nobody, and I really mean nobody, would pay £1 million for Jamie Ward. I'd take him off Derby's hands with glee and he might well do what Doyle's done in Division 1 or 2, but Championship teams have seen that he's just a good player at their level. Doyle's potential value is that he might have found something special that he can repeat. I don't believe he has, but I've been wrong a million times as this site shows! If he could do 20+ goals at a higher level he'd be Jamie Ward+. For Derby that would return millions in Sky-money, and if Ipswich are interested why wouldn't Derby be willing to take a chance too?

If the Blades' rumour were right would you take £750,000 + Higdon? We weren't depressed by pre-season rumours we might be landing him were we?

**spireitematt** · 30-12-2014, 20:07

To be honest Devon what you've said I thought about that when Derby were in the playoff final against QPR. Would Ward be still at Derby if they had made it to the Premier League or sold. If we could afford him I would take Ward back at Chesterfield because he was a fantastic player especially when he partnered Jack or Steve Fletcher upfront. Is Ward worth a £1 million? difficult to say he would be probably about £500k but a Derby fan I know said he's worth £1 million.

We've seen two players in the past Caleb Folan and Jordan Bowery both make the big step up to the Premier League, Folan went to Wigan and Bowery at Villa and now Bowery is at Rotherham and Folan is at some team in Burmese who are equivalent to League 2 or conference.

IMO I think Doyle is better off stopping at Chesterfield because he's scoring goals and getting played nearly every game, if he goes to the Championship or even the Premier League he may become a bench warmer he may not who knows. I wouldn't accept £750k + Higdon off United. I think a few fans were annoyed we didn't land him but after seeing him action we are probably glad we didn't because he would have been another Gritton.

Devongone · (This post was last modified: 31-12-2014, 14:54 by Devongone.)

I think Jamie does have a value to Derby, but it's different from the value other teams would put on him. A recent record of scoring goals inflates a player's value massively. Jamie isn't in position to score as many as he might at Derby. Daft Rotherham might pay £300,000 for him and find they'd bagged a bargain instead of their usual planks ..... but there wouldn't be loads of competition.

I just think Derby have so much to gain if the Doyle gamble worked ..... and you have to take into account how much his value would rise if he stayed with us and got 18 more in the second half of the season. If you wait to see him confirm his form then your rivals become the big boys with the deep pockets.

Gary Roberts and Tommy Lee are worth quite a lot to us, but would they command much of a fee? Don't think so now.

Think Caleb is in Malaysia. Jordan won't succeed till he comes back to be our centre forward. Neither really made the grade; I hope Doyle gets the same chance and can seize it. The fact that he was decent without shining at Hibernian must put doubts in the minds of even desperate managers.

One more scenario for you Matt. Imagine Doyle stays; delivers the goals (37 for the season). We make the play-offs. By a miracle Wembley delivers us accidental Championship football. Do we cash in on Doyle to finance the new players we need; do we keep him so we'll be good enough to grab some goals against the bigger clubs?

**spireitematt** · (This post was last modified: 31-12-2014, 18:28 by spireitematt.)

(31-12-2014, 14:53)Devongone Wrote: I think Jamie does have a value to Derby, but it's different from the value other teams would put on him. A recent record of scoring goals inflates a player's value massively. Jamie isn't in position to score as many as he might at Derby. Daft Rotherham might pay £300,000 for him and find they'd bagged a bargain instead of their usual planks ..... but there wouldn't be loads of competition.

I just think Derby have so much to gain if the Doyle gamble worked ..... and you have to take into account how much his value would rise if he stayed with us and got 18 more in the second half of the season. If you wait to see him confirm his form then your rivals become the big boys with the deep pockets.

Gary Roberts and Tommy Lee are worth quite a lot to us, but would they command much of a fee? Don't think so now.

Think Caleb is in Malaysia. Jordan won't succeed till he comes back to be our centre forward. Neither really made the grade; I hope Doyle gets the same chance and can seize it. The fact that he was decent without shining at Hibernian must put doubts in the minds of even desperate managers.

One more scenario for you Matt. Imagine Doyle stays; delivers the goals (37 for the season). We make the play-offs. By a miracle Wembley delivers us accidental Championship football. Do we cash in on Doyle to finance the new players we need; do we keep him so we'll be good enough to grab some goals against the bigger clubs?

Morsy is worth quite a lot to us.

If we made it to the playoffs and got promotion then I think it would be better to keep him and see how he faired in the Championship.

Derby and Celtic now after Doyle.

http://www.independent.ie/sport/soccer/o...72553.html

Stairs · (This post was last modified: 31-12-2014, 18:59 by Stairs.)

Just saw this on twitter - "Just saw a headline with #wba and 'transfer warchest' in the same sentence. Shall you tell him or shall I?" - fantastic. Long £2m a year contract, greater control over football matters and now possibly a warchest!

Devongone · 01-01-2015, 12:43

Derby are apparently going to loan in Darren Bent. If so would they take The Ginger Costa too?