Barry Fry has told Wolves they will have to cough up a cool £5m for transfer target Aaron McLean.
In a phone call to the Express & Star, the Peterborough director of football said McLean can go – if Wolves pay £3m now and £2m when they win promotion to the Premier League, plus a sell-on.
Sources had suggested Wolves may prise the 25-year-old away for £1.75m.
The former Birmingham boss admits McLean wants to leave, and Wolves is his preferred destination.
But Fry is adamant the player won’t be leaving Posh for anything less than £5m.
“I’ve told Mick McCarthy twice and Jez Moxey at the chairmen’s meeting last week the price is £5m – £3m straight away plus a sell-on and £2m when you get to the Premier League, because if you get Aaron, that’s where he’ll take you,” said Fry.
“Mick says there’s no way we’ll get that, but that’s the price. It doesn’t matter that his best mate is Michael Kightly or he wants to play for Wolves, that’s the price.
“We’ve had two bids from Wolves of £1m and £1.5m and turned them both down.
“I’ve heard they are preparing a third offer but we haven’t heard anything.
“Steve Morgan has put £30m into the club – well then spend it, take a gamble.”
McLean may now feel forced into submitting a transfer request to try to persuade Peterborough to sell at a more reasonable price.
Watford and Sheffield United are also interested, but Fry claims the London Road club have already received higher bids.
“There’s been interest from six other clubs, and we’ve had higher bids than Wolves have offered,” he added.
“We understand he wants to go, but he won’t go for anything less than we’ve said. If Wolves want him, they have to pay the money.
“My chairman bought him to get us to the Championship.
“Aaron’s a prolific goalscorer and if he gets us into the Championship, he’ll be worth £7m, £8m, £9m.”
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Sorry Barry but we wont pay that, not a chance in hell, marlon king would be cheaper than that, we wouldnt pay mor than 3 for lafferty what makes fry think we will pay 5 for mclean, i dont think even QPR would pay that,
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get him!!!!!! we need some one like hm even if we have loads of strikers!.
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lol got to love fat bazza aint ya!!
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There’s no way we should pay that much for him. Yes, he’s scored a bucketful last season but in a vastly inferior league. Taking a gamble is one thing, taking the p1$$ is something else!
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lmfao - c’mon who phoned the e&s pretending to be barry fry?
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5 million for a league 1 striker ? we wouldnt even pay 3m for lafferty Save our money
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Sorry Barry Fry but you are talking out of your a…!
£5M for a player relegated from League 1, you are having a larf ain’t you?
Who do you think McLean is Ronaldo?
Go back to your calculator and do your sums again and you will find that £1.5M now, another £500,000 if Wolves get promotion and another £1M after he has played 20 Prem games, all adding up to £3M, would be a damn good price for a player whose standard is unknown and quality has yet to be proven.
If you seriously believe ANY player from League 2, which you are in, is worth £5M then you should see a psychiatrist very quickly because you have totally lost your marbles!
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get him.
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erm a league 2 striker you mean!!! Barry Fry is such an idiot, wonder who that higher offer was from.. maybe real madrid have turned there attention from ronaldo? what a complete joke! And for the record maclean is not a premiership striker his first touch is dreadful and he misses some sitters. Time to move on… its maclean i feel sorry for!
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Take no notice what fry says what does he know about players and values how many did he buy for the blues that turned ot to be useless, anyway we dont need him.
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Barry Fry for England Manager!!!
He’s clearly lost his marbles!!!
UP THE WOLVES!!!!
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Fry has always been a clown, just another prank!
I would imagine £1.75M would be done deal, if we wait awhile.
Not so sure he is worth it mind!
Lafferty at £3M was a better deal, IMO.
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Sometimes one has to take a gamble. Sometimes you have to trust your judgement.
2 million now…….500 000 if we go up and 10% of any sell on value in the future cos if he is worth 5 million then we won’t be able to keep him premiership or no premiership.
Bet Fry will accept that..
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5m ( hahaha ) thanks Bazza ! you just made my day.
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Forget him & Boot Mad Mick out, break the bank for Paul Ince !!!!
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lmao 5 mil!
Hes shorter, older and less proven than SEB and we got him for £1.5 mil wasit!
Id still prefer freddy over him anyday and all this talk about Lafferty leaves me very confused. Why wu du prefer lafferty? Whats he proven. Iv seen or heard nothin remarkable of him. Hes just a young kevin kyle.
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Not bad for a player who was scouted at the same time as kightly !
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wolfe-I reckon it was happy_baggie he has a sense of humour-he must have to support the baggies (only joking happy)
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Get real people are talking less than that for Kightly who is proven out this level. GET STUFFED! MOVE ON WOLVES!
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Kris Boyd for £2.5m from Rangers looks a far better buy than this lad! Get to him before Cardiff do!!!!
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ha!ha! ha! why dont we just give you 10.lmao
up the wolves
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barry fry - u r a pathetic moron!! stuff ‘em and that money and move on 2 better targets who would b better than mclean!!
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Can i have some of what ‘Fry’s ate all the pies’ is having please? I have never known any drugs in the Northern hemisphere so potent to make someone talk such utter, utter rubbish!!!
If we can’t have him for less than £2,000,000 then i’d leave well alone. Bully scored a lot more at the same level, and was only a 20-25 goal a season striker at this level.
He’s no revelation, in fact i’ve heard he’s a bit prone to being a bit of a donkey at times. One good season in league 2 doesn’t make a £5,000,000 player. Get a grip people!!!
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18.john wolf!?!? he has a sense of humour he must support the baggies? remember what league your in mate… DOING IT THE MOWBRAY WAY
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we could buy peterbro’ for that price then sell it back to barry for £10m he would think he had a bargain , football? he should be in comedy
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Grow up Fry we all know you’re a joker from your days at blues.
The Guy wants to come here and at the end of the day they will let him go to us as the players rule the clubs of today.
Will he be happy rotting there or come to a great club with great fans..plus treble his money etc..
Enough said..
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Tipton, you’re on the big boys board again. Off you go now, there’s a good lad.
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5 million ha ha ha ha ha Barry Frys obviously been smoking the funny stuff.1.75 is over the top for an unproven striker in this division.Dream on Barry
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If the idiot MM can pay over a million for elliot then who knows.
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Quote from Paddy McCourt Yesterday…
McCourt was plucked from Derry City and has been tipped to make a huge impact at Parkhead, but he could well have been gracing The Premier League had West Brom been quicker to the punch.
“I was all set to sign for West Brom,” the Irish winger told The Daily Record. “I was down there with them and then got the call from Celtic. From that moment on I was only going to one place. I always wanted to play for a BIG CLUB.
ENOUGH SAID..
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I knew my Barry Fry impression was good - but the Ronaldo impression i did to MM was even better - he offered me 15k a week and said I can have Freddies shirt…
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Should get Kevin Phillips now the albion can’t afford him any more.Guarantee us 20 goals with SEB heping him.Remember the last striker they gave us.
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Fair play to Barry Fry, he’s just making it clear that he doesn’t to lose his best player. For a player who’s scored goals in League two, I personaly believe we’ve already offered over the odds, and should move on.
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What is this guy on?
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Barry Fry has lost the plot. It’s a scam to talk the guy up to £2m I reckon.
No-one will pay £5m for him, so he’ll hand in a request and become demotivated, if he doesn;t go somewhere he will then become a Posh player who doesn;t score manay goals and then will be worth £200k.
Barry Fry is playing games with the lads career.
You can’t blamehim for wanting to get more money for their good palyers, but you have to be sensible about it. Good job the final say won’t be down to mad man Barry.
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No 30.
You where doing really well, but your final
punctuation let you down.
Must try harder!
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This is just Barrow Boy Fry just trying to get more wedge. He knows McLean’s leaving, he’s gonna get as much as he can for him. Quite right really, thats his job! But Fry knows full well he won’t get £5M. Just trying his luck. Stick to your guns Wolves!
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LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL
Sorry Barry Fry has just made me laugh. What a plonker. The same Barry Fry who has 50 players on Birmingham City books when he was managed and he didnt know half of the players names. What an idiot! McLean £5M probably he will come to us for £2M with a player going the other way too plus add ons.
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36.
That was taken from the morning papers you fool!!
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£175,000 for a 25 year old who has never played above Div. 4 would be acceptable if you want to take a chance. £1.75M; only if the bulk of the fee is in some really tough to meet add ons.
The only response to £5M should involve digits and gestures !
Regarding all these striker targets.
It appears MM is using the scattergun approach. If you pull the trigger often enough, the law of averages says you will hit the barn door eventually. Trouble is, the same law says the horse will have bolted before you do.
Which is pretty much what happened last season.
And is what will happen next season if the defence is not attended to damn quick.
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I’d rather take a risk on Alan gow.
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Who the hell do you lot think you are with your ‘He ain’t worth it’ and the stupid one ‘Barry Fry is playing games with the lads career’ NO he’s contracted to us, y’know our player and if you want him you’ll have to pay, lets face it clever Mick has done it in the past hasn’t he? You may think you are dealing with a tin pot little club but believe me you ain’t. We have money, our owner is minted and we have ambition. So basically put up or shut up, cos you have been told by fat Bazza. Loving It!
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Quite right Grumpy Ole Man!
MM never wanted Eastwood in the first place but he ran out of options! His talk that he was the key signing and that he would build his team around him always sounded hollow and so it proved!
Contrast that with Ipswich who clearly identify who they want and why they want him…Norris and McAuley….and quietly pursue their target under the radar and get him before anyone else has a sniff.
We’re all loud talk, pursuing everyone in the headlines and failing to deliver.
Oh yes….and that’s the same Ipswich who appointed a bright younf manager with potential that but for a late Olofinjana goal would have finished above us!
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Forget it!
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5 Million would be enough for a bionic re-build of Steve Bull.Lets do that instead.
Oh BUL-LY BUL-LY
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No 36 - You where doing well ? I think you mean “were” doing well. Your spelling or possible lack of understanding of the English language probably let you down, but then I’m not surprised. Off you go then………..
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Not sure if we are going to get this one. Peterborough are not under pressure to sell, so it will be down to the player.
36 - you should re-read your own comment before you have a go at other people’s grammar - and you call us Dingles!!
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What a disgrace to a wonderful name.
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So they will only get £3million for him as Wolves won’t see the Premiership only on Match Of The Day !
That Barry Fry is just a spouting character and is trying to get something for nothing. Wolves should turn the tables on Barry and offer £2m and £3m if they get Premiership football within 3 years.
So how come Peterborough are not in the Premiership with McLean ?
IT’S BOSTIN BEING A BAGGIE !!!
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FORGET THIS BLOKE…
KRIS BOYD FROM RANGERS LETS BID 3MILL!!!!
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Mclean is worth £5 million,in the same way that Stephen Ward is worth £4 million and Stephen Eliott is worth £6 million, perhaps Barry fry would like to spend £50 million on Hennessy or Ebanks-Blake or £75 million for Kites.
Barry you are as mad as a badger but we love you.
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£5m? Is it April 1st?
What if we gave them Elliott, S Ward, J Bothroyd, D Potter, N Collins, and a pie and a pint??? Or and not forgetting a note promising Posh a “Good Shift” from MM and Moxey???
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5 MILLION! is bazza on drugs? i would turn my attention to someone like k.boyd or b.healy
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Looking at matters from outside the box, imagine the outcry if Wolves had sold Steve Bull in his prime, for anything less than £5 million?
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I haven’t laughed as much in ages! Baz you are such a twit. There is no way we would spend that on an unknown talent. You were a joke when you were at Brum and clearly some things never change.
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and I thought Mick was mad! Barry is one can short of a four pack!
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5 mill for a league 2 striker?
no chance 2 mill would be around the right price
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tipton-crappie-wow you have won a league title for the first time in 88 years-super,weeeeeee, lets all have a disco,cretin.
You are only in the prem to make up the numbers then you will be back were you belong-just to excist like you have done since you were formed!
Any way I was’nt talking to you and when I want to talk “football” it certainly won’t be with the likes of you, matey!
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49-remember you said that when you are crying at the end of next season, yoyoing,yoyoing,yoyoing.
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£1.75 million was too much in my opinion, but this kind of money is ridiculous. There are proven strikers out there for this kind of money.
Offer £3million to Rangers for Kris Boyd, He has a far better goalscoring record, is the same age and even has a 1 in 2 record at international level. That is the kind of striker we should be looking at.
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Good old Bazza. I still remember the night we played the Blue Noses and Bazza gave a debut to some no-mark with the number 50 shirt on!
He really is mad
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I think Barry Fry is mistaken in adding another zero here. McLean is worth no more than £500,000. He is 25 and has no experience in the higher leagues.
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If we don’t get a class defense, then we will have to continue relying on forwards putting in a shift and helping out the defense.
Forget these expensive, speculative attackers, and buy some class defenders. Then - some sort of organized mid-field might be a novelty as well.
How disfunctional has this club become?
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for £5 million you can have Fry as well as you all love him so much.
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Why are you all talking about 5 mill ? Read the articel again. Hes only gonna cost you 3 mill. The 5 mill is if you go up !!!!
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Barry is simply trying to get the most he can for this player, and I do hope he ends up with Wolves. What happened to the good old transfer tribunial?
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Sorry Barry–still selling things at the door–Don´t come to mine–Not at that price.
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30 & 36 - two thirds of that quote are correct. You just seem to have added in the last paragraph.
Nice try though !
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Mclean is a damn good player,but anything over
£2,000000 is ludicrous.
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If Wolves arent willing tu spend more than £2m on AARON MCLEAN …
why not go for CREWE’S League One Hotshot Striker NICKY MAYNARD … he scored 15 goals last season for crewe, lighting quick , good in the air and quality 1st touch and can score goals !!
Midlesbrough,Bolton,Wba And Ipswich All After Him !!
Also Crewe’s Chairman Has Said On Sky Sports He Would Let Him Go For The Right Price !!
I say we bid £1.5m And get him at Wolves …
Opinions Folks ?? UP THE WOLVES !!
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Having just returned from sandy pastures. it is still good to see that Barry Fry as still got a sense of humour. For 5 Million we could get numerous other quality players, if they have received better offers from other clubs why is he still entertaining us then!!!!
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Defence anyone???? or are we employing the famous 9 - 1 formation again.
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All this posturing in the transfer market sells season tickets because we are all still living in the hope that we can really make an impact one of the seasons and we don’t want to miss it. Financial kidology.
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If Wolves Arent Willing To Spend £2m Max On AARON MCLEAN … Why Not Try Some Of These ??
L.Dickinson-Stockport-22-St-English And 6.4 In Height !! Bid £1.5m And He Would Come To Wolves .. Scored 20 Goals For Stockport Last Season !!
N.Maynard-Crewe-21-St-English And 5.11 In Height !! Bid £1.5m And He Would Come To Wolves .. Scored 15 Goals For Crewe Last Season !!
A.Carroll-Newcastle-19-St-English And 6.3 In Height !! Bid £2m And He Would Come To Wolves .. We Need A Good Target Man To Hold Up The Ball Upfront !!
I Would Be Pleased To Get Any 3 Of Those Strikers Or Mclean !!
Opinions Folks !! UP THE WOLVES !!
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5 million?we must be mad,how can we justify spending that much on a striker when we have loads of them!!yes spend 5 million on a good defender but not on striker mick!we need defenders!xxx
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Well have to spent a bit to get the team changed for the positive, can’t spread the 10 quid that far. Unsure is Morgan REALLY has the dough, hasn’t got the bottle for this type of deal even if he does has the money. Plus MM will probably have him on the bench most of the season.
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Just goes to show how we have undone all that has been achieved over the last few years. We changed direction and started going for younger players who wanted to prove something. We also sent a message out to the football world that Wolves were not prepared to pay over the odds just because we had a rich beneficator in Haywood. It seems now, the publicity surrounding Morgan and the money that he was to plough into the club means clubs like Peterborough will hold Wolves to randsom. I am sure if McClean kicked up enough fuss, he would get his move. Peterborough cannot afford to see McClean go off the boil and see his current value, probably around the £2mil mark plummet.
Barry Fry is the laughing stock of the football league. Stick to your gun Barry and get nothing. However, we can’t criticise. We all know that Wolves take the same approach when it comes to our star players. The differnce is that Peterborough needs the money.
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Waste of money, forget him, defenders please.
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Wolves boo-boy said: Jun 22nd, 2008 at 10:21 pm Waste of money, forget him, defenders please.
Have you seen him play then? I guess not considering a stupid comment like that. I always thought Wolves fans were quite intelligent, it seems not.
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Number 77 - “The differnce is that Peterborough needs the money.”
You don’t know much about football then pal. Barry Fry is sod all to do with the powers that be at Posh, just an embarrassing mouthpiece that nobody likes. Darragh MacAnthony is the main man at London Rd, he’s spent a fortune on players and if you think you’ll get McLean on the cheap from him you’ve got another thing coming.
I suppose you’ll see for yourself in 2009/10 when we play you in the Championship!
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54 Kent Wolf - Just imagine if someone had sold Robbie Keane without a “sell on clause”
D’oh!
NB* How you keeping Kent - Hope you are well as can be and look forward to reading your comments next season!
All the best to you and yours!
Up the Wolves!
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If you want to sign a player that a club doesn’t want to sell you have to pay over the odds. If you get someone on the cheap then there is usually a reason and you usually end up with the likes of Elliott, Collins, Ward and Bothroyd.
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a paltry 4.5 mil for EB & 1.5 for Fred? And then a whopping 5 Mil on Mclean.
How much of this horse *it are we expected to swallow.
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Ridiculous price. On that basis we should be asking a similar amount for Freddie, due to his international record not club. As for Ebanks-Blake it would have to be double that.
Get real Barry - the fat controllerII - on your school of thought Luke Moore would justify his price tag!
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Nice one Barry, always was good at making a silk purse out of a sows ear! Which you have to get used to if you ever manage the second City’s second team!
I understand he’s also owner at Posh, which means you know who’ll benefit most if that deal goes through…get real Barry., Fergie might be your manager but you’re not called Glazier!
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See George has slapped in a transfer request. Only three days ago he stated he wanted to get Wolves in the Premiership and that if he had scored more goals maybe we wouldnt have missed out on play-offs! Whos been whispering in his ear whilst playing for his country this month? Sunderlands my guess.Anyway, he signed a deal so at least we can get some cash for him, great player on his day and when he plays so do we, but did he do that often enough last year before he went to African Nations? I dont think so. Thanks George and see ya.
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George has handed in Transfer Request!
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I thought Wolves were ambitious, I guess they really are not. It makes me laugh that they thought they could take little ‘ol Peterborough as push overs and sign their best players. Think again, those days have thanfully gone where we have to sell our best players for peanuts. Say what you like about Mr Fry but he always gets a good deal if he’s selling or buying. Come on lets see Wolves really put their money where their mouths are. You never know, you may get back in the Prem and last two seasons with Aaron on board lol.
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I see Everton (or should it be NEVERton) have said 3m is too much for SEB, if thats the case Mr Fry ……..
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Spending money alone doesn’t get you out of the Championship as Wolves have been down this route before. We’ve wasted millions without progressing as a team and some signings have been diabolical.
Builidng a team is far more important at this level.
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90,WILFSKI,it does if yow buy the right player,like ermmmmmmm west brom,stoke,hull city, aye boing boing up the MOWBURY WAY
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Forget Barry Fry for being the first class idiot we know he is and if the lad really wants to play for us then he shoulds tell the Posh to live in the real world!
P.S. Kites must be worth £25 million by the same token!
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cant see it happening frys got him in adeath grip and will only let go if some one slaps the readies on the table.
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hahahaha, i wonder if barry fry has woke up yet, 5million is bloody rediculus, YES he is a great player at that level and scores bags full of goals, and YES i think he would be great in the championship, but! HE is unproven. if he is worth 5million then sylvain ebanks-blake must be worth 28million, and michael kightly must be 30million PLUS. no way mick SERIOUSLY LOOK ELSE WHERE!!!!
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i can’t see wolves spending that sort of money on anyone.
barry fry is just trying to up the price.
and to be honest i don’t trust mick to spend wisely if he is given a few pounds let alone a few million.
look at the amount of players he bought in for decent money, paying over the odds for them and now we can’t get rid off. ward,elliot,eastwood to name a few add up how much these 3 cost.
i always look forward to the new season with optimism but with mick in charge and if we don’t buy quality!!!! during the summer i worry about what will happen. but who knows he could turn it around and make me eat my words. i honestly hope he does.
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i see cardiff and brum are in for kris boyd at rangers.
quality, young, scottish, hungry wants to play football, goalscorer.
if we are going to spend 3-5 million on a player then he would be fantastic at wolves.
only downside is he doesn’t like running around defending but give him a chance in and around the box and he will score. so no chance of us going for him then!!!!
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TBH you will never get Mclean for less than £3million. We got promotion last year, we have serious ambitions and a chairman who has the money to say no when clubs make derogatory offers for our players. McLeod went to Charlton for a million and Mclean is leaps and bounds ahead of him so 1.75m will never do the deal. For Information of Tonymischi, our chairman and owner is Darragh MacAnthony, owner of MRI International, the world biggest
Overseas property development company! Fry wouldn’t see a penny!
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52. lol. My sentiments exactly!!
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97 PP We can get Clinton Morrisson for FREE and as far as MRI are concerned so what? Just because an owner has a certain amount of wealth does not mean that they are prepared to spend or risk most of it on your football club
£3m for McClean - Vs £3m for Kris Boyd - No comparison - Boyd wins hands down and Morrisson on a free - well says it all really - dream on Bazza Fry dream on……
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Go and get Clinton Morrisson then pal and enjoy a few more years in the Championship
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100 Hopefully with the right signings at the right prices we will be challenging again for promotion - thanks for your best wishes Hope Posh do well in whatever league your in!
Give Barry and Mr Posh our regards!
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100. 1. morrison is no better than what we have
2. WE DONT WANT STRIKERS!!!!!!!!!!!
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With regard to the next headline “Eastwood admits frustration”, Hartlebury Wolf Man admits Boredom!
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