Cheese Me Posted 18 August 2009 Posted 18 August 2009 We're almost certainly not going to get any kind of fee for him It's also quite likely we'll have to pay DJ to leave as he'll go on to lesser wages at Blackpool and by law we can't force him to accept that so we'll need to sweeten the deal. So we pay to get rid of him, less than if we terminated his contract, but still potentially as much as 50% of his wages (which if he's on £20k/week would mean we pay £1/2 million for every year he has left) Pretty poor business but better than paying a million a year for him to do nothing. DJ gets to go and play football again, Blackpool get the player they want on a free transfer and within their wage structure and we save some money. If we can get any kind of deal that's significantly better than this I'll be very pleased. That's assuming he is genuinely on that kind of money as a basic wage of course which is ludicrous if so.
Hackneyisblue Posted 18 August 2009 Posted 18 August 2009 According to someone on the Blackpool site a fee of 300k was agreed last season.
MPH Posted 18 August 2009 Posted 18 August 2009 What is his weekly wage? found a photo of him collecting his most recent pay packet... disgraceful!!
Wycombe Fox Posted 18 August 2009 Posted 18 August 2009 I should've read the previous page prior to posting a repeat!!
Jimmy Posted 19 August 2009 Posted 19 August 2009 Read a quote from Ollie on teletext and he says the latest move started as a loan and progressed from there, so one way or another I think he'll be there by the end of the transfer window
Heart-Shaped Fox Posted 19 August 2009 Posted 19 August 2009 when does DJ contract run out anyone know? Pretty sure its 2011.
Guest Posted 19 August 2009 Posted 19 August 2009 found a photo of him collecting his most recent pay packet... disgraceful!! He's always rolling up in his horse and cart
Alexikokopops Posted 19 August 2009 Posted 19 August 2009 when does DJ contract run out anyone know? Pretty sure its 2011. Oh dear were fooked. <_< For future reference
dogadug Posted 19 August 2009 Posted 19 August 2009 Well he's in the reserves squad against Sheff U. tonight, this could be the match where he scores 10 goals, and looks amazing, and gets back into the 1st team........ but I doubt it!!
Thracian Posted 19 August 2009 Posted 19 August 2009 Well he's in the reserves squad against Sheff U. tonight, this could be the match where he scores 10 goals, and looks amazing, and gets back into the 1st team........ but I doubt it!! Me too. Not even as a temporary convenience. But you live in hope.
ACF Posted 20 August 2009 Posted 20 August 2009 Well he's in the reserves squad against Sheff U. tonight, this could be the match where he scores 10 goals, and looks amazing, and gets back into the 1st team........ but I doubt it!! Me too. Not even as a temporary convenience. But you live in hope.
davieG Posted 21 August 2009 Posted 21 August 2009 From the Merc Blackpool boss Ian Holloway has admitted his attempts to sign DJ Campbell could be doomed to failure. Holloway has been trying to entice the 27-year-old away from the Walkers Stadium after the striker spent a successful spell on loan at Bloomfield Road last season. Holloway had revealed he had been given permission to speak to Campbell by City boss Nigel Pearson. However, Holloway said he has been unable to reach an agreement with Campbell over personal terms. Campbell has two years of his four-year contract to run at City but it seems he has no future at the club. TIN.adverts.adWriteDC('article-detail-impact-tile', '452x118'); Despite injuries to Steve Howard and Martyn Waghorn, and his impressive double against Sheffield United reserves on Tuesday night, Pearson has confirmed he would not be included in the squad for tomorrow's visit of Barnsley. Holloway wants Campbell to resurrect his career at Bloomfield Road, where he scored nine times in 20 appearances during his loan spell last season. City were paying half of Campbell's wages during his stint on the north west coast and he may have to accept a big pay cut to make the move permanent, and that appears to be the stumbling block. Pearson has refused to discuss Campbell's future but Holloway has revealed negotiations have been taking place. "We have tried to finalise a deal with Leicester for DJ Campbell but whether that is going to work or not, I don't know," said the former City boss. "I think we are too far apart on his personal terms. "It is not my fault that he has a contract there that lasts another two years. "That's not looking good, but we have tried. I have tried to push it and get him. He wanted to come, his manager allowed me to speak to him but at the moment it doesn't look very positive. "I left it to his agent last night to try to finalise it but whether it will or not I don't know. "We have lost nine goals out of our team because that's what DJ scored for us. "We borrowed DJ last year who got us nine goals. We paid only half of his wages and now I can't get that same deal. They won't let him out. "We've got to try to buy him and I am trying to do that. "How much did they pay for him? £2m. How much is he on now? His team got promoted so his wages went up. So I'm snookered. But there will be people out there who I can find." Campbell has failed to establish himself since arriving from Birmingham City for an initial fee of £1.6 million in July, 2007 and has scored just four times in 35 appearances for City. His future has been in doubt ever since he publicly said he did not want to return to Leicester during his Blackpool loan spell.
suffolk fox Posted 21 August 2009 Posted 21 August 2009 He has obviously really upset Nigel Person and I believe he will never play for Leicester again even if he was the only striker we had at the club. Campbell is obviously a greedy git! He doesn't care about taking a pay cut and play footie regularly which he would do at Blackpool. For that reason let him rot in the reserves for ever!!!!
dogadug Posted 21 August 2009 Posted 21 August 2009 I don't think he gives a damn about whether he's made to rot in the reserves or not, he just cares about the money!
Jon the Hat Posted 21 August 2009 Posted 21 August 2009 Again - not DJ's fault we gave him the contract of a lifetime. You are mad if you think he should walk away from it. He is never going to be a top class striker and is getting on in age. If he took a pay cut he could earn less over the next what 6 years than he could earn on this contract in 2. He has his financial future to think about. If I was advising him I would absolutley tell him to sit tight unless the club pay up his contract. He is absolutley doing the right thing for himself and his family. I am sure he would love to be playing, but like most of us job satisfaction comes second to financial security.
MPH Posted 21 August 2009 Posted 21 August 2009 I don't think he gives a damn about whether he's made to rot in the reserves or not, he just cares about the money! its a very worrying thought but you might be even a small bit right...... He has the opportunity to place regular first team football at a club and manager that seem to idolize him after last season and he still doesnt want it.. I do understand he doesnt want a big pay cut and footballers have short careers.... im guessing he has put all his eggs in one basket and doesnt have much to do after his football career...
davieG Posted 21 August 2009 Posted 21 August 2009 Again - not DJ's fault we gave him the contract of a lifetime. You are mad if you think he should walk away from it. He is never going to be a top class striker and is getting on in age. If he took a pay cut he could earn less over the next what 6 years than he could earn on this contract in 2. He has his financial future to think about. If I was advising him I would absolutley tell him to sit tight unless the club pay up his contract. He is absolutley doing the right thing for himself and his family. I am sure he would love to be playing, but like most of us job satisfaction comes second to financial security. This, and maybe just maybe it's helped Mandaric to finally get the message about how to run a football club and not to recruit guys to manage it that are obviously way out of their depth and to think twice before paying huge sum of money and overly long contracts on badly researched players. I like a manager who uses any transfer funds like it's his own money and every fee paid should be treated like it's all he's got. I don't want success at any price leastwise not administration or the demise of Leicester City FC.
suffolk fox Posted 21 August 2009 Posted 21 August 2009 It's just a crying shame that it is at the demise of our club!!! Thanks to the incompetent buffoons i.e Allen and even Mandaric for signing him up and paying him the ridiculous wage in the first place!!! Perhaps that's the reason we have not signed decent strikers i.e. Lita, Cox.... Campbell is bleeding us dry!!!!! I understand financial security but he is a git! After all he can't be getting job satisfaction he his paid to be a so called pro footballer!
Ozwin Posted 21 August 2009 Posted 21 August 2009 Send him to Blackpool and pay a % of his wages for 6 months or something?
Nick Posted 21 August 2009 Posted 21 August 2009 Send him to Blackpool and pay a % of his wages for 6 months or something? They've offered that but we won't deal - we paid a large percentage of his wages when he was at Blackpool. This time we want rid. Rumour has it, that the main problem is that in his contract, it said he would get a 25% raise if we were promoted - the problem being it didn't specify from which league so he got it anyway without contributing..... that's why he's on so much money.
Thracian Posted 21 August 2009 Posted 21 August 2009 It's just a crying shame that it is at the demise of our club!!! Thanks to the incompetent buffoons i.e Allen and even Mandaric for signing him up and paying him the ridiculous wage in the first place!!!Perhaps that's the reason we have not signed decent strikers i.e. Lita, Cox.... Campbell is bleeding us dry!!!!! I understand financial security but he is a git! After all he can't be getting job satisfaction he his paid to be a so called pro footballer! Greedy git? We gave him his contract, presumably because we wanted him to play for us. I'd doubt there's a soul on here who would have rejected the contract or would voluntarily walk away from it for a new deal worth half the money. Not only that but we chose not to play the guy. Having a long term pelvic injury and the internal disagreement that reportedly caused didn't help. But DJ seemed to be in the frame well enough last close season but never got any sort of run in the team and was subsequently farmed out to Blackpool. It wouldn't be surprising if DJ's exile was as much to do with reducing his impact on our wage bill as it was to do with not needing him in the team. His outburst about wanting to stay at Blackpool was perfectly understandable in all the circumstances (if unquestionably misguided) and now we have a situation which seems very much like an impasse. It's a waste of money for City and it's no good to DJ's playing career but it's not all the fault of one side. Fryatt has mostly been a Chosen Man at City and was often played in preference to DJ when less than fully fit. In fact DJ had to look on as a spectator for much of the time while we got relegated however frustrating that would have been. That he showed his feelings about City in public did him no good. But he must have felt like an unwelcome guest for much of his time here. Nor do I suppose his reportedly lucrative contract would have endeared him to those who were perhaps getting less money but playing regularly in the team. However, that contract wasn't and isn't DJ's fault either. We gave him the contract. And it is we who choose not to use a guy who recently scored 9 goals in half a Championship season with Blackpool. Which doesn't suggest he's in any way unfit or unwilling to play.
maddog Posted 21 August 2009 Posted 21 August 2009 Greedy git? We gave him his contract, presumably because we wanted him to play for us. I'd doubt there's a soul on here who would have rejected the contract or would voluntarily walk away from it for a new deal worth half the money.Not only that but we chose not to play the guy. Having a long term pelvic injury and the internal disagreement that reportedly caused didn't help. But DJ seemed to be in the frame well enough last close season but never got any sort of run in the team and was subsequently farmed out to Blackpool. It wouldn't be surprising if DJ's exile was as much to do with reducing his impact on our wage bill as it was to do with not needing him in the team. His outburst about wanting to stay at Blackpool was perfectly understandable in all the circumstances (if unquestionably misguided) and now have a situation which seems very much like an impasse. It's a waste of money for City and it's no good to DJ's playing career but it's not all the fault of one side. Fryatt has mostly been a Chosen Man at City and was often played in preference to DJ when less than fully fit. In fact DJ had to look on as a spectator for much of the time while we got relegated however frustrating that would have been. That he showed his feelings about City in public did him no good. But he must have felt like an unwelcome guest for much of his time here. Nor do I suppose his reportedly lucrative contract would have endeared him to those who were perhaps getting less money but playing regularly in the team. However, that contract wasn't and isn't DJ's fault either. We gave him the contract. And it is we who choose not to use a guy who recently scored 9 goals in half a Championship season with Blackpool. Which doesn't suggest he's in any way unfit or unwilling to play. Certain players are favoured and played all the time, others are not. It's like that in football, and in life really.
Nick Posted 21 August 2009 Posted 21 August 2009 Certain players are favoured and played all the time, others are not.It's like that in football, and in life really. Maddog, foxestalk's last true philosopher.
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