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The Rory delay £4m record signing


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That was such a long time ago you've got to factor in the inflations! I bought a double decker chocolate bar today and it was like 45p or something. Now I can't remember when Delap signed or how much double deckers were at the time but let's say they were probably about 30p. I'm no mathematician but by my calculations that means the transfer record is actually £4m plus 15 pence (i.e. original transfer fee plus the cost difference Double Decker 2012 less Double Decker 2002 or whatever).

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I was listening to Durham on the way home last night and he couldnt believe Stoke had given hom another year on his contract.

He has had a bad season.

 

Considering he wants regular football so am I. Imagine he will go out on loan if a decent offer comes along. He wasn't as bad for us as some make out, but yeah, he isn't a worldbeater.

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Decrap looked like an inspired signing at the time, but it turned out that he preferred to hoof it over his shoulder rather than be brave, control the ball and pass it deliberately to a Saint. Took the easy way out time after time, as Wotton did several years later.

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I'm not sure Wotton took 'the easy way out'? His first touch and his positional play were so poor he often took the only way out!

 

He was a player of his times, Lge one and his legs had gone, right signing, wrong player!

 

I loved his commitment (Southend away, Watford away, JPT final etc), I enjoyed the journey, I'm sure he did too,

 

I wonder if he still worries about us as much as we still worry about him?

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I predict we will make several significant and surprising signings, as said 'undisclosed' , but we are back, and as Cortese has already said as we are ahead of schedule re the 5 year plan the funds will be avaliable.

 

If rumours were to be believed if hooper had come in January that would have smashed the Delap record

 

' sometimes he's good , usually cr*p'

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