Tommy Smith - Gazumped by Pompey - Thread

[clauski]

The whole thing is ridiculous. Smith is a proven goalscorere at this level and their best player. £1.8m or even £2m is a perfectly fair price and we should have just stumped up the money now. For that money we would get 3 or 4 good years, no problem.

It seems we are breeding ourselves to be a selling club - we only want to splash £2m (which we seem to have done with no issue at all on Mills) when we think we can sell that player on for more in the future. We are regressing as a club and need to stop this slide soon - I just don't know who will.

As for other transfer targets - we have a week left: that's not enough time to make the right choices rather than panic buys, and we would pay over the odds due to the lateness of the deals and the lack of a 3 month negotiation period for Hammond. So I predict no signings and a statement to the effect we only want the players that are right for Reading and we have a young and talented group blah-de-blah

[Deathy]

LMAO thats a SCATHING attack on RFC- fair play to them. I liked this bit.

"Given that the evidence available to us suggests that Brendan covets the player and Reading have netted circa £11m with the sales of Doyle, Hunt and Bikey - not to mention the huge wage savings that go with that, I have to say I was surprised when they said that they were no longer interested in signing Tommy because of a clause that is commonplace in transfers today."

Basically saying " you have money so don't pretend you don't, stop bothering us with terrible offers". Fair play to that whole article and the way we have gone about things has been embarassing.

'greed.

[Focher]

last 3 years premiership payments + parachute payments (they never should have been parachute payments as we should never have gone down with a bit of invsetment) £100m, spent £10m.

With the greatest of respect to Madejski who has been our saviour at times, that is fuking tight.

[Dorset-Knob]

So TS is considered not to be good value at the asking price and we are closing in on other targets. Does this mean RFC are about to sign a young, talented asset, whom will help to generate shirt sale revenues around the world, like a "Ronaldo or Beckham" type figure? Its surely the only way that the "value for money" argument holds up, isn't it?

[Wycombe Royal]

Russo is sounding more and more like a spotty oik on a football message board.

m$aybe that;s why Finerain likes his latest comments.....

[FiNeRaIn]

LOL- RFC shown up for what they are...morons. They treat us fans like idiots and expect to be able to do the same to professional clubs? Im glad watford have shown us up and laughed off suggestions we have to cut cloth,etc They know we should have money and are not going to take derisory bids, fair play to them.

[FiNeRaIn]

Russo is sounding more and more like a spotty oik on a football message board.

m$aybe that;s why Finerain likes his latest comments.....

Learn to use a keyboard mate. Moron.

LOL@ spotty oik, you are the teenager with nothing else to do on a saturday( self confessed)

[Wycombe Royal]

Russo is sounding more and more like a spotty oik on a football message board.

m$aybe that;s why Finerain likes his latest comments.....

Learn to use a keyboard mate. Moron.

LOL@ spotty oik, you are the teenager with nothing else to do on a saturday( self confessed)

I was eating my dinner at the same time.....

I would love to be a teenager again but unfortunately my kids are closer to their teens than i am to mine.

[Deathy]

Russo is sounding more and more like a spotty oik on a football message board.

m$aybe that;s why Finerain likes his latest comments.....

Learn to use a keyboard mate. Moron.

LOL@ spotty oik, you are the teenager with nothing else to do on a saturday( self confessed)

It's Sunday.

[eleventh earl of mar]

Without wanting to attack or defend anyone as I do not know, who on here was actually at any of the meetings and can honestly say they know exactly what was discussed? Why are we to just accept what Watford have had to say is absolutely true?

[FiNeRaIn]

Russo is sounding more and more like a spotty oik on a football message board.

m$aybe that;s why Finerain likes his latest comments.....

Learn to use a keyboard mate. Moron.

LOL@ spotty oik, you are the teenager with nothing else to do on a saturday( self confessed)

I was eating my dinner at the same time.....

I would love to be a teenager again but unfortunately my kids are closer to their teens than i am to mine.

Confused you with winchester actually, put you both in the same bracket.

[The whole year inn]

pulled the plug because of 200k

[Royal Rother]

Over the last few years it has become apparent to Watford supporters that very little that comes out of the mouth of Mr Russo can be trusted, yet bizarrely Reading FC fans are quite happy to take his rant about how poorly our club has conducted business over Tommy Smith at face value. I guess these people conveniently forget the fact that on more than one occasion recently clubs and their Chairmen have commented on how it has been a pleasure dealing with RFC in transfer matters due to the straightforward and professional way in which we handle them.

I couldn't possibly know but it is far more likely that, in this particular case, Russo moved the goalposts once too often causing us to pull out.

But, curiously, it seems far more satisfying for many to believe that our own club is at fault.

[Forbury Lion]

Were the Doyle, Bikey and Hunt transfers cash up front of were they also a little bit now and the rest based on appearances, non relegation, winning the premiership, winning the champions league 3 times etc etc

[Royal Rother]

Over the last few years it has become apparent to Watford supporters that very little that comes out of the mouth of Mr Russo can be trusted, yet bizarrely Reading FC fans are quite happy to take his rant about how poorly our club has conducted business over Tommy Smith at face value. I guess these people conveniently forget the fact that on more than one occasion recently clubs and their Chairmen have commented on how it has been a pleasure dealing with RFC in transfer matters due to the straightforward and professional way in which we handle them.)

I couldn't possibly know but it is far more likely that, in this particular case, Russo moved the goalposts once too often causing us to pull out.

But, curiously, it seems far more satisfying for many to believe that our own club is at fault.

[Wycombe Royal]

Tommy Smith probably doesn't want to come here now anyway as Reading could be heading in the opposite direction to the Premiership.

If Tommy Smith didn't want to come here Watford would accept the bid and let Smith reject us as that would be the ultimate humiliation to Rodgers....

[West Stand Flash]

Level par with Newcastle for club embarrasment lately.

[Wycombe Royal]

pulled the plug because of 200k

So says Russo. Hardly the most reliabe source....

[Wycombe Royal]

Level par with Newcastle for club embarrasment lately.

I'd taken you off my foe list, but if you continue with posts like that you might be going back on it again.

[West Stand Flash]

Low im so lucky, thanks