CONFIMRED - Sean Morrison signs for Cardiff

[Simon's Church]

Can't wait to see who the new scapegoat is when we concede softly tomorrow

Presumably Akpan will be playing.

Good shout

[Royal Lady]

Why are people on here wetting themselves over the great deal negotiated by Hammond? Who is to say he had much to do here - Cardiff ask about him, Morrison finds out, Morrison asks to talk to Cardiff, no-one says no. Cardiff agree terms with Morrison, Cardiff offer an amount to RFC, Hammond can't believe his luck and accepts. End of. I very much doubt he was in massively long negotiations about the price tbh.

[SCIAG]

Why are people on here wetting themselves over the great deal negotiated by Hammond? Who is to say he had much to do here - Cardiff ask about him, Morrison finds out, Morrison asks to talk to Cardiff, no-one says no. Cardiff agree terms with Morrison, Cardiff offer an amount to RFC, Hammond can't believe his luck and accepts. End of. I very much doubt he was in massively long negotiations about the price tbh.

When you want to buy something for a large amount of money, do you start off by offering way more than it is worth?

[Royal Lady]

And while I'm at it, LOL at all these terribly clever know-it-alls on here who are no hoping Guthrie will be back from injury because we need him, when last season they were mainly all bemoaning him as not being as good as he thought he was and blaming him for all sorts of errors.

Make your minds up gents.

[Royal Lady]

Why are people on here wetting themselves over the great deal negotiated by Hammond? Who is to say he had much to do here - Cardiff ask about him, Morrison finds out, Morrison asks to talk to Cardiff, no-one says no. Cardiff agree terms with Morrison, Cardiff offer an amount to RFC, Hammond can't believe his luck and accepts. End of. I very much doubt he was in massively long negotiations about the price tbh.

When you want to buy something for a large amount of money, do you start off by offering way more than it is worth?

Well, clearly their offer must have been close to the £3million plus add-ons (so discount this £4million bollox, because we may never get the extra million) or the deal wouldn't have been finalised so quickly as I believe someone else mentioned earlier today. I bet Hammond hardly broke into a mild sweat over these negotiations because Cardiff, for whatever reason, really wanted him and paid what they must believe is a fair price.

[Hoop Blah]

And LOL at those people who don't realise many posters post different opinions on a forum and it doesn't mean anyone has changed their mind when someone else posts a different opinion.

Cardiff paying over the odds for Morrison is likely to be down to a lot of Hammonds efforts over both the short term Nd long term as Cardiff will have known it takes big bids to get our players.

Not sure why any Reading fan would really be against giving Hammond a bit of credit for our success at selling players, but different strokes and all that I guess.

[Libertine]

£4M for Morrison?

Good luck and all the best Sean...

[Victor Meldrew]

This is a fair punt by Cardiff-they sell their centre-back for £8 million and buy another one for £3 million.
We all know that he is not worth that much but to the outside world here is a player with some Premier League experience , who has been captain of his club and called up by Scotland.
This is what parachute payments also come in handy for whereas some other clubs just pocket the parachute money and......do very little to give themselves the chance of getting promotion.

I have no grievance with Morrison-£250,000 to buy, £3,000,000 to sell so he owes us nothing but it is a shame that we now sell 23 year-olds to bring in crocked 29 year-olds which IMHO is no way to build a team for the future.
I would much rather see us buying players from lower levels again, just as Bournemouth have done with the decent prospect Callum Wilson and Huddersfield did last season with Nakhi Wells and as we did previously with Alf and Morrison himself.

Dead-beat older injured players like Ferdinand are not the way forward IMHO but at least with this transfer Hector will get a couple of weeks to prove himself which might not have happened if Morrison were still around.
I wonder if anybody would pay such silly money for Pearce who, IMHO is no better than Morrison but is liked more by the fans because he fist-pumps at the end of games.

[Pepe the Horseman]

More like CACKpan.

Yeah.

I went there.

Nice.

[TBM]

Fcuk off Morro never liked you anyway

[clauski]

Easy money - he's not that special. Well done the board, let's use it to fund a couple more acquisitions before the end of the month.

[Drew_3]

This is a fair punt by Cardiff-they sell their centre-back for £8 million and buy another one for £3 million.
We all know that he is not worth that much but to the outside world here is a player with some Premier League experience , who has been captain of his club and called up by Scotland.
This is what parachute payments also come in handy for whereas some other clubs just pocket the parachute money and......do very little to give themselves the chance of getting promotion.

I have no grievance with Morrison-£250,000 to buy, £3,000,000 to sell so he owes us nothing but it is a shame that we now sell 23 year-olds to bring in crocked 29 year-olds which IMHO is no way to build a team for the future.
I would much rather see us buying players from lower levels again, just as Bournemouth have done with the decent prospect Callum Wilson and Huddersfield did last season with Nakhi Wells and as we did previously with Alf and Morrison himself.

Dead-beat older injured players like Ferdinand are not the way forward IMHO but at least with this transfer Hector will get a couple of weeks to prove himself which might not have happened if Morrison were still around.
I wonder if anybody would pay such silly money for Pearce who, IMHO is no better than Morrison but is liked more by the fans because he fist-pumps at the end of games.

Kind of shit on your own parade there. We sold Morrison for a hefty profit because he clearly didn't want to be here and in doing so we now have the opportunity to give a young product of our own academy a go which, as you so rightly pointed out, he wouldn't have got otherwise. To supplement this promotion of youth we have brought in a widely experienced CB for nothing who still has a fair few miles left on the clock.

Personally I prefer this method compared to buying other clubs up and coming young players. The academy costs a lot of money and it needs to produce in order to be worth it, which by the look of things it now is.

Add to that the fact we may still look to recruit the likes of the alfie's and morro's of this world and we look in very good shape indeed.

[Gunny Fishcake]

Probably the most expensive donkey ever to grace the planet

[Extended-Phenotype]

Fcuk off Morro never liked you anyway

Genius in its simplicity

[SCIAG]

called up by Scotland.

I do not remember this. I thought Morrison was eligible for England and Ireland but capped by neither?

[Arch]

... it is a shame that we now sell 23 year-olds to bring in crocked 29 year-olds which IMHO is no way to build a team for the future.

I feel like you got called on this exact point a few pages back, Victor. We didn't sell Morrison in order to bring in Ferdinand. Evidently the plan was to have both. If anything Ferdinand replaces Gorkss. It may have been better business for Cardiff, but let's get the facts straight.

[JakeTheRoyal]

He'll always be shit

[Royal Rother]

This is a fair punt by Cardiff-they sell their centre-back for £8 million and buy another one for £3 million.
We all know that he is not worth that much but to the outside world here is a player with some Premier League experience , who has been captain of his club and called up by Scotland.
This is what parachute payments also come in handy for whereas some other clubs just pocket the parachute money and......do very little to give themselves the chance of getting promotion.

I have no grievance with Morrison-£250,000 to buy, £3,000,000 to sell so he owes us nothing but it is a shame that we now sell 23 year-olds to bring in crocked 29 year-olds which IMHO is no way to build a team for the future.
I would much rather see us buying players from lower levels again, just as Bournemouth have done with the decent prospect Callum Wilson and Huddersfield did last season with Nakhi Wells and as we did previously with Alf and Morrison himself.

Dead-beat older injured players like Ferdinand are not the way forward IMHO but at least with this transfer Hector will get a couple of weeks to prove himself which might not have happened if Morrison were still around.
I wonder if anybody would pay such silly money for Pearce who, IMHO is no better than Morrison but is liked more by the fans because he fist-pumps at the end of games.

Love the way that there's no negative reaction towards Cardiff (selling an excellent player and buying a duff even though you admit said duff is way overpriced) but you find all sorts of angles to criticise Reading...

[Nameless]

No one yet. The move came about very quickly so Adkins hasn't had a chance to identify a replacement yet.

Sorry, but if your scouting network isn't keeping tabs on players you'd be interested in for every position then it's incompetent.

There will be scouting reports on hundreds of players and probably Atkins will be able to put a wish list together quite quickly. But to think that the club has the resources to update this stuff in real time is being a bit optimistic. Looks like Cardiff fell into the trap of working off less than current info on players....

[Victor Meldrew]

This is a fair punt by Cardiff-they sell their centre-back for £8 million and buy another one for £3 million.
We all know that he is not worth that much but to the outside world here is a player with some Premier League experience , who has been captain of his club and called up by Scotland.
This is what parachute payments also come in handy for whereas some other clubs just pocket the parachute money and......do very little to give themselves the chance of getting promotion.

I have no grievance with Morrison-£250,000 to buy, £3,000,000 to sell so he owes us nothing but it is a shame that we now sell 23 year-olds to bring in crocked 29 year-olds which IMHO is no way to build a team for the future.
I would much rather see us buying players from lower levels again, just as Bournemouth have done with the decent prospect Callum Wilson and Huddersfield did last season with Nakhi Wells and as we did previously with Alf and Morrison himself.

Dead-beat older injured players like Ferdinand are not the way forward IMHO but at least with this transfer Hector will get a couple of weeks to prove himself which might not have happened if Morrison were still around.
I wonder if anybody would pay such silly money for Pearce who, IMHO is no better than Morrison but is liked more by the fans because he fist-pumps at the end of games.

Love the way that there's no negative reaction towards Cardiff (selling an excellent player and buying a duff even though you admit said duff is way overpriced) but you find all sorts of angles to criticise Reading...

"Excellent" and "Duff" are yet to be proven and they are £5 million better off.
Anyway what do you know about the Football League, I thought you were all loved up with pub football?.
Oh and, stop stalking me the minute I post anything.