Quote:He was on the bench for them yesterday against Orient (FA Trophy)Fiftyyearsarover
Just read that Dover have said that he never told them about going to Ebbsfleet he never turned up for training and was then spotted watching an Ebbsfleet game ,the plot thickens
Quote:Who would you drop to bring him into the starting line up? In recent games one or other of them usually scores.Jack of all Trades
Just a thought, with the way the team has been playing over the last two/three months and the confidence being shown in every game, would he if recalled, do any better?
Quote:4ever_Yardley
Cue Thin Lizzy: 'Waiting for an Alabi'.
Quote:You might as well throw your £1 coin in Jesters bucket!rossb07
Sounds like a cheeky £1 bet on him to be top goal-scorer in L2 next year with us. Imagine the odds...
Quote:Im off to see Brian Downey's Alive & Dangerous in London straight after the Orient game.hong kong roverQuote:4ever_Yardley
Cue Thin Lizzy: 'Waiting for an Alabi'.
nice one, probably right up there as one of my fave Lizzy songs. luv Phil Lynotts thumping bass line in that tune and those dual guitars are something else.. rock n roll
Quote:efc0trfc3Quote:Im off to see Brian Downey's Alive & Dangerous in London straight after the Orient game.hong kong roverQuote:4ever_Yardley
Cue Thin Lizzy: 'Waiting for an Alabi'.
nice one, probably right up there as one of my fave Lizzy songs. luv Phil Lynotts thumping bass line in that tune and those dual guitars are something else.. rock n roll
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My money is on Cook and Norwood being sent off in the second leg of our play-off semi-final win against Dover (our 9 men protecting a 2 goal lead), and then an Alabi hat-trick at Wembley gaining us promotion.
Quote:Jack of all Trades
Tribunal to meet today to settle compensation fee.
Chester are hoping for a "Five figure fee"
Quote:Jack of all Trades
Tribunal to meet today to settle compensation fee.
Chester are hoping for a "Five figure fee"
Quote:mini_andy
£22.5k 😳
That £22,499 more then he’s worth!!
Someone call the police, theirs been a robbery!!!
Quote:mogsy73
Seems about right to me - he did great for Chester last yr, and we were quite pleased to take him off their hands when he was banging them in pre-season - agree with poster above, what he has done for us is irrelevant
Quote:Chesterblue
Fair enough for a 17 goal young striker. The fact that he hasn't performed since his transfer has nothing to do with the tribunal fee
Quote:Phil65Quote:Chesterblue
Fair enough for a 17 goal young striker. The fact that he hasn't performed since his transfer has nothing to do with the tribunal fee
I'm glad it's made someone's day, on your forum, at the thought that this might cause us some financial problems. My concern for your current predicament has just vanished. Hope your new board is as incompetent as the last when it comes to financial matters.
p.s. Can I have a refund for last night.
Quote:YiggsyQuote:Phil65Quote:Chesterblue
Fair enough for a 17 goal young striker. The fact that he hasn't performed since his transfer has nothing to do with the tribunal fee
I'm glad it's made someone's day, on your forum, at the thought that this might cause us some financial problems. My concern for your current predicament has just vanished. Hope your new board is as incompetent as the last when it comes to financial matters.
p.s. Can I have a refund for last night.
Phil.... Chester are crying out for a competent accountant to balance the books. Given your recent fiasco in wildly underestimating the number of faithful Sutton fans at Barrow I feel your vocation in life has arrived.
Quote:Chesterblue
Sorry but you're talking rubbish. Chester allocated £25k in the budget for the sale of Alabi so talk of £70k is well off the mark.
Quote:pezQuote:Chesterblue
Sorry but you're talking rubbish. Chester allocated £25k in the budget for the sale of Alabi so talk of £70k is well off the mark.
Go check Matt Jones' (Radio City Journo) Twitter feed!
Im not talking rubbish, Im reporting what Ive read on Twitter!
Now jogon back to your own forum while you still have one!
Quote:Problem with that is you could well say the reason we are in the current catch up phase rather than being top of the League was because we gave him a chance at the beginning of this season and didn't start with Cook in the early matches which cost us early points!TranmereFan
Should give him another chance, if not now, then preseason.
Quote:ADDQuote:Problem with that is you could well say the reason we are in the current catch up phase rather than being top of the League was because we gave him a chance at the beginning of this season and didn't start with Cook in the early matches which cost us early points!TranmereFan
Should give him another chance, if not now, then preseason.
We are best IMO to try and offload him early in close season as otherwise he causes 2 problems... one another year's salary and second difficulty bringing in another striker as we theoretically have him still available...
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Don’t buy the lack of confidence arguement - he scored 5 in a half didn’t he pre season?
Quote:Matt34Quote:pezQuote:Chesterblue
Sorry but you're talking rubbish. Chester allocated £25k in the budget for the sale of Alabi so talk of £70k is well off the mark.
Go check Matt Jones' (Radio City Journo) Twitter feed!
Im not talking rubbish, Im reporting what Ive read on Twitter!
Now jogon back to your own forum while you still have one!
What makes you think Twitter has the right info and not dud info? Is it not possible twitter can have some dud info on it. After all surely people associated with Chester might have a little more knowledge on Chester FC matters sometimes, than media people on social media do.
The media gets things wrong plenty of times. I have not read this twitter listing as you put it, but it could have been wrong. To put absolute store in it and dismiss a Chester fans view of things as rubbish, might be a bit remiss possibly?
Also many Chester fans are probably just ordinary people like we are, so to be honest I never see the need to start rubbishing other peoples fans, unless certain individuals bring it on themselves I:E: people who commit acts of hooliganism; but then I wouldn't tar them all with the same brush, because of whichever club they played for.
Personally I agree with the fee. They are a club with around 2,000 fans who sold a 17 goal player, who hasn't fitted in and I bet Chelsea fans were not as sniffy about Shevchenko. They knew their club were paying £30,000,000 for a poacher but he didn't fit in, same as Sutton didn't for £10,000,000, a previous club transfer record, but I would like to think in both instances, the respective managers were not lambasted massively by people using hindsight to justify a managers take on who he was buying months earlier.
Ask yourselves this, if the fee had been paid upfront and not in a tribunal case and you knew a player scoring 17 goals in the same division as Tranmere, was coming for £22,500 before he'd even kicked a ball against a friendly side, how aggrieved would you have been?
Many people on here seem aggrieved because they have hindsight on their side, which is a blurred view of things. You should judge his fee potential on his previous at Chester and not his X months at Tranmere. Chester have been fairly awarded and considering he went to a club with a bigger ground, previous 2nd tier pedigree and more than double the fans, any drop-off in potential value since arrival, could arguably be offset against a small boost in value for going to a higher spec club, so Tranmere could potentially try to flog him for the purchase value anyway.
Quote:To be clear I wasn't blaming Alabi. MM chooses the team and imo he got it badly wrong by effectively dropping Cook to play Alabi in his place. Yes there were other factors but we set off in completely the wrong way. Whatever League we are in next season let's not repeat the same mistake.Phil65Quote:ADDQuote:Problem with that is you could well say the reason we are in the current catch up phase rather than being top of the League was because we gave him a chance at the beginning of this season and didn't start with Cook in the early matches which cost us early points!TranmereFan
Should give him another chance, if not now, then preseason.
We are best IMO to try and offload him early in close season as otherwise he causes 2 problems... one another year's salary and second difficulty bringing in another striker as we theoretically have him still available...
I think that's extremely harsh even thinking of blaming Alabi for our current position. We under-performed as a team early in the season. Scapegoat comes to mind.
Quote:ADDQuote:To be clear I wasn't blaming Alabi. MM chooses the team and imo he got it badly wrong by effectively dropping Cook to play Alabi in his place. Yes there were other factors but we set off in completely the wrong way. Whatever League we are in next season let's not repeat the same mistake.Phil65Quote:ADDQuote:Problem with that is you could well say the reason we are in the current catch up phase rather than being top of the League was because we gave him a chance at the beginning of this season and didn't start with Cook in the early matches which cost us early points!TranmereFan
Should give him another chance, if not now, then preseason.
We are best IMO to try and offload him early in close season as otherwise he causes 2 problems... one another year's salary and second difficulty bringing in another striker as we theoretically have him still available...
I think that's extremely harsh even thinking of blaming Alabi for our current position. We under-performed as a team early in the season. Scapegoat comes to mind.
Quote:pez
But it wouldn't be the first time Matt34 rubbished one of my posts on here.
He obviously considers himself more informed than the rest of us?
Quote:Matt34Quote:pez
But it wouldn't be the first time Matt34 rubbished one of my posts on here.
He obviously considers himself more informed than the rest of us?
Well you were asking for this to be rubbished by posting it as your assertion is nowhere near the truth, whether you believe that or not.
1. I know about as m
uch on this issue or any issue as you do if not less sometimes.
2. You rubbished a fan of the selling club and quoted someone with some "possible" inside track, as a person who's word was practically gospel, as if an actual Chester fan couldn't be more informed about this matter or that Matt Jones couldn't be less informed or off the mark a bit.
Your comments to the fan were a little unfair and it was a tad naive to express sentiments, that might make it look as if Matt Jones can be considered a potent authority on all Tranmere matters, that he chooses to inform people about.
I've never rubbished anything you have said before and wouldn't do out of respect, but to be objective, then yes I felt the need to question the validity of the twitter content, you basically used to be a bit disrespectful to a Chester fan, who admittedly accused you of talking rubbish, which was a tad unnecessary but wasn't swearing or trying to act a bit like Dai Kwondo and come across as superior; he reported his understanding of the issue, as did you, which both of you had a right to do.
Matt Jones may well have inside track, but it won't always make him right, that's just being honest.
However in hindsight some of my post was just making general comparisons between the situation in hand and one or two other similar ones, so the whole post was not a direct assessment of yours, so I could have been clearer about which parts were and which parts weren't, so I can accept that as a slight mistake on my part.
Quote:pez
Imo its £22..5k that could have been spent in reinforcing the team and pushing hard for that automatic spot, but instead its money we'll never get back as I dont see Alabi being worth anywhere near that should we decide to offload him.
Quote:pez
Let's hope someone comes in for Alabi during the Summer as I fail to see how he fits into our team. There are a few others that also need to go for the same reason.
Quote:rossb07
Speculatively, he could do a job in the league up with us as we'd need to be a more counter-attacking team.
All being said, i won't be writing him off just yet. He's still a Rovers player under contract until 2019 after all...
Quote:Matt34Quote:pez
Let's hope someone comes in for Alabi during the Summer as I fail to see how he fits into our team. There are a few others that also need to go for the same reason.
The hard thing would be if Alibi went somewhere else in the NL and bagged 4-5 in his first 10 games, because then you wonder why he couldn't do that for you, especially if it was a club perceived not to have quite as much overall squad quality as Tranmere, as that should then in theory hinder his ability to score more than help.