Beckford Transfer - Latest
By Rich Baggott
January 8 2010
After three days of celebrating the success of the victory of Manchester United last weekend, all media attention has now turned to the fate of wantaway striker, Jermaine Beckford with rumours, discussions, thoughts and forums all over the internet hardly talking of anything else.
January 8 2010
After three days of celebrating the success of the victory of Manchester United last weekend, all media attention has now turned to the fate of wantaway striker, Jermaine Beckford with rumours, discussions, thoughts and forums all over the internet hardly talking of anything else.
Last night, one website reported the striker had actually signed for Newcastle United but that news was not supported by statements from either club and has fizzled out this morning. The quote apparently from Beckford of "I'm off to Newcastle" should really have told most people that this was nothing more than an American Soccer site getting over excited, reading the various headlines and making assumptions the deal had been completed. Not like the Americans to make decisions based on rumours and speculation and no concrete evidence!!
The news at the moment is that there is no news! Simon Grayson has expressed disappointment that confirmation of a transfer request had been made public but it remains unclear where the source of this newsworthy gem has come from? Was it Leeds, Beckfords agent or Newcastle? The official statement from Leeds United did not indicate disappointment at the publicity as one may have come to expect but did go to the lengths of including the date, 30th December for some reason?
Grayson meanwhile is carrying on business as usual in his media statements. Beckford is available for selection and hopes the fans will continue to back any team he picks, although whether this is a bluff to interested parties or not remains to be seen. The match on Saturday is one of the few reamining fixtures not yet affected by the weather and if Beckford does play, it will be interesting to see how Elland Road react to their former hero still wearing the white shirt.
Grayson has now conceded that Beckford will not sign another contract with Leeds, and will either go now or at the end of the season, but he will be going.
What is fairly common knowledge is that Leeds value Beckford around the £2m mark and are issuing strong words that he will not go for less than his value. Newcastle are said to have upped two earlier offers to £1.5m and Aston Villa are also said to be interested.
One thing we can be sure of, a lot of the publicity, statements and deliberately leaked rumours are just part of a major game of bluffs and double bluffs between rival clubs and agents, each with their own agenda. As fans, we are just the pawns in a massive game of Chess!
Your move!
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| 8 Jan, 2010 09:03 | Report |
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| 8 Jan, 2010 09:22 | Report |
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Grayson is now saying Beckford won't sign at the end of the season either even if he did stay - saying we cannot compete with the money he could command.
So I say get rid now and invest in a striker that could fire us up the Championship - IUf Beckford is not going to be here next year, lets start building for life in the Champtionship - If a striker cannot do the business in this league, we can hardly expect them to do it for us next year.
So I say get rid now and invest in a striker that could fire us up the Championship - IUf Beckford is not going to be here next year, lets start building for life in the Champtionship - If a striker cannot do the business in this league, we can hardly expect them to do it for us next year.
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| 8 Jan, 2010 09:26 | Report |
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Despite his remarkable goal scoring record over the last season and a half, Beckford's departure should not dent our hopes of automatic promotion. We are in a great position to ensure that. If we disregard all this talk about his transfer and assume that he is staying, he could get injured and be sidelined for much of the remaining four months. Still Leeds will get promoted, without needing to sign a replacement. Our current resources in attack should be sufficient. Good luck to Beckford if he goes.
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I can see no way that SG will play Beckford on Saturday. There will certainly be a hostile reaction and anyway last Sunday was Beckford's swan song. We are playing the second worse team in the division so it should be 3 points for the taking. Beckford will be gone long before the next game. It wouldn't surprise me if he already has signed for another team but part of the deal means SG having a replacement sorted to replace him before going public.
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Quote:Big BB
Hope this is now settled quickly.
I cannot see SG playing Bex on Saturday as the ER crowd will be hostile!!
Time for him to leave and for SG to bring in another hero.
No one should be hostile to him while he's still prepared to play for us, it's counter productive. If he's still here let him keep banging them in until he goes, then be as hostile as you like! (I don't mean you personally B
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Barcodes game v Reading on saturday is off.
Gives them a few more days to play hardball.
Ashley just needs to dig a bit deeper into his pockets and pay us £2million and give Wealdstone £500k on top as their 20%!
£2.5million for a striker that has scored 78 goals in 120 odd games is a bargain. Bex can fire them all the way back to the Prem and the £35million+ Ashley can look forward to then.
Cheap deal IMO
Gives them a few more days to play hardball.
Ashley just needs to dig a bit deeper into his pockets and pay us £2million and give Wealdstone £500k on top as their 20%!
£2.5million for a striker that has scored 78 goals in 120 odd games is a bargain. Bex can fire them all the way back to the Prem and the £35million+ Ashley can look forward to then.
Cheap deal IMO
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