Just two of many, Tueart, Watson, Caton, Wilson, Francis, Allen, Walsh etc, etc
We have never had it as good as now and whoever leaves this club, we can be assured they will be replaced by equal if not better.
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We have never had it as good as now and whoever leaves this club, we can be assured they will be replaced by equal if not better.
meeesh
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Me too ! came from nowhere that as well
richards30
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So it seems we are currently scouting for a new CB then? All reports say we will only sell Ake if we have a replacement in first?
tolmie's hairdoo
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Think it was quite a big fee, £650k?
Was a really good young player and very sad he died so young.
Also hated Clive Wilson leaving when he did.
Cobwebcat
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Yes it seems that if Chelsea, in their desperation, are prepared to throw lots of money at us we would take it and buy a replacement.
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Be interesting to see what route we can do with it? Experienced but cheap and another around £40m mark. Would love timber to be honest but again can’t see he’s gonna come to sit on the bench.
meeesh
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Yea around 500k think it was,still think of Tommy to this day,and the irony is I had an uncle called Tom Caton who died a few years back,the main reason I became a blue through that fella.
Clive Wilson transfer to Chelsea was a steal,ridiculous,oh how times have changed
Cobwebcat
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Sam Lee mentioned three players as his guesses (which he made clear we’re guesses as he hadn’t heard any names) but I can only remember Pau Torres.
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here's hoping ! but I would rather Ake stay
Clive Wilson leaving hit me hard and made the grim reality of our position so very obvious, Clive was such a bright spark in very dark times.
SilverFox2
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Love your Certification tag for the products of the Academy that City sell.
If we also get a reputation for selling them cheaply (ie buy back Clauses attached) the buyers will be plentiful in what can be a difficult market.
Excellent post as always S..
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When you’re grazing in the same field for 8 months, you can be sure, the grass in the fields just beyond your boundary fencing, looks a lot more appetising.
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Clive’s brother Gus was around for a while, coached my lad when he was with the U11s at Platt Lane. Ian Scott also there. Remember him?
Gus was a great bloke, amazing personality, the Wilson family are proper people.
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The Light Was Yellow Sir
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Not quite from nowhere. He handed in a transfer request following relegation as he didn’t want to play in division 2, which was fair enough.
He kicked off the season playing at Maine Road but went later in the year as, of course, there were no transfer windows then.
The Light Was Yellow Sir
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Ian Bishop and Paul Stewart were mine. Especially replacing Stewart with Wayne Biggins. That being said, we managed to turn a profit on Biggins the following year, although not enough to offset the loss on David Oldfield who, like Biggins, was also bought one season and sold the next.
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cheap seats i see, Tolmie had royalty sat with him
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These two leaving was the biggest for me. When Malcolm Allison came I remember my dad saying watch 'Owen and Barnes now, they'll be great with him'. Selling them was the first thing he did, it was very disappointing.
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Would you expect anything less from @tolmie's hairdoo :)