Blues reject Stoke’s £16m double bid
Tuesday 28th June 2011, 2:00PM BST.
Birmingham today rejected a £16million double bid from Stoke for Scott Dann and Cameron Jerome.
The Potters made the double bid on St Andrew’s as they looked to build their squad for next season’s Europa League challenge. However, Blues have rejected the offer.
Stoke were linked with a £12million move for Dann earlier this month and made a £4million bid for striker Jerome in January.
New Birmingham manager Chris Hughton has admitted he is resigned to losing his top stars following relegation from the Championship.
But Hughton insisted the club will play hardball over the fee with Blues refusing to sell their stars on the cheap.
Dann has been linked with Liverpool and Arsenal after impressing at St Andrew’s since a £3.5million move from Coventry in 2009.
But the former Walsall defender missed Blues’ Carling Cup victory over Arsenal in February with an Achilles injury, which also ruled him out of Blues’ relegation battle.
The duo are set to follow Craig Gardner out of St Andrew’s, with the midfielder expected to complete a £6million move to Sunderland today.
The former Villa trainee top scored with 10 goals last term at St Andrew’s.
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wouldn’t give 16 quid for ‘em
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Blues will end up pricing themselves out of deals and end up with unhappy players, a depressed locker room and a strain on everyone involved.
Personally £4m for Jerome is hilarious. He’s worse than Heskey. £12m for Dann is very fair but with the price Blackburn got for Phil Jones, it’s not surprising to see Blues hold out for more but, very unwise to do so.
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What a joke this twopenny club are none of the players they have are worth the silly money they want for them as we will see next year.
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Surely that’s 15.99 million for Dann then? 4 mill for Jerome? Madness!
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Lmaooooooo ……snatch their hands off you nutters !
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Mick is going to bid £22mil for Dann and Johnson
It is agreed Blues will also throw in Carr, Gardner and the pie lady from the tilton road end.
Apparantly Mick says she has potential and always puts a shift in on a saturday (rumour has it that blues paid her to secretly nobble Berra with the past the sell by date balti pies, as he has a soft spot for them)
Also, Karen Brady is rumoured to make a return to Blues if the pie lady leaves as she feels she was only taken to west ham for “glamour value” and wants to repay the blues fans for all of the kind words they said about her when she left.
Mick has also indicated that if he can not make the signings he wants, he will sign as a player if they can match his pay demands – He stated “I’m better than any of the rubbish they have at the back, and I can put a decent shift in, I don’t know where that idiot of a manager got them players from”. To which clipboard Connor reminded him he was the manager that signed them!!!
Love, Mick McCarthy Barnsleys Greatest
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blues are holding out for 8 million for that donkey according to the papers,
as dave said theyre pricing themselves out of moves but putting ridiculous prices on championship players heads, on the brightside this could hammer another nail in the birmingham city coffin!!
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Greedy little club !
I hope they hold out, and no one comes in for what there after, have a bad season, cant afford to pay the players there silly wages, and have to sell them in poundland !
it’s no more than they deserve…..
Feel sorry for there fan’s doh
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