DJ Campbell

[Corky]

Wise was all done and dusted over a couple of weeks, wasn't it? The DJ problem has gone on for years!

Sadly, Danny, it wasn't, it was longer and more painful than that.

[maddog]

We're going to end up stuck with him i rekon.

Then he will score 20 goals to get us promoted before signing a new deal

[Matt]

We're going to end up stuck with him i rekon.

Then he will score 20 goals to get us promoted before signing a new deal

You twat.

[smudger63]

Well if it was up to me, i wouldn`t sell campbell to Blackpool, for anything under a million quid.

They had him on loan the season before last, and he helped them stay up, then last season he went there again, and his goals were insrtumental in them getting into the play offs and ultimately promoted.

On both occasions, we paid a large percentage of his wages, so to me, we`re quite entitled to try and claw some of that money back.

If on the other hand, they don`t feel campbell is worth the money, then fine.

They`re will most likely be championship clubs that will be interested in him, due to his good form, at the end of last season, and i would be willing to sell him for half a million to them.

We`ve done Blackpool enough favours, now its time for them to put up or shut up!

[Legend_in_blue]

Considering the number of goals he scored last season in his limited appearances for a tangerine outfit, I can't believe the cheek of this huge premiership club with 3 stands and a piece of scaffolding held together with plywood baulking at the prospect of paying £1 million+.

What cheek.

If they can't stump up that amount of cash having just got their hands on £60 million they can rot next season in the premiership and finish with a total of 10 points.

Total joke.

[Lineker's Left Foot]

Considering the number of goals he scored last season in his limited appearances for a tangerine outfit, I can't believe the cheek of this huge premiership club with 3 stands and a piece of scaffolding held together with plywood baulking at the prospect of paying £1 million+.

What cheek.

If they can't stump up that amount of cash having just got their hands on £60 million they can rot next season in the premiership and finish with a total of 10 points.

Total joke.

Yep let Blackpool and DJ both rot next season. The former in the Premiership and the latter with us !!

[Bugg]

I'm sure he doesn't care whether he's rotting with us since he'll be taking the ridiculous wages we're giving him, so sell him to Blackpool for £1million and get it over and done with.

[Neil_LCFC]

I'm sure he doesn't care whether he's rotting with us since he'll be taking the ridiculous wages we're giving him, so sell him to Blackpool for £1million and get it over and done with.

That's the problem they don't want to pay £1m or I'm sure the deal would be done by now (if they are willing to pay him more than £90 a week that is)

[sapalmer]

That's the problem they don't want to pay £1m or I'm sure the deal would be done by now (if they are willing to pay him more than £90 a week that is)

It is not quite as straighforward as it appears - my understanding is that DJ would want to at least match his wages so lets say 20k for 3 years which is 3m plus 1m (Transfer Fee) means that they would spend 4m on DJ. So i am sure that even though they have a big budget they will not be spending that much on too many players plus I wonder if they have worked out that he may not be premiership class!!

[poopbutt]

that's what the joke is, he's saying Leicester are going to mess it up but it's his extortionate wage demands. if you want to go so much, you'll take a cut. you complete and utter ****

[Neil_LCFC]

It is not quite as straighforward as it appears - my understanding is that DJ would want to at least match his wages so lets say 20k for 3 years which is 3m plus 1m (Transfer Fee) means that they would spend 4m on DJ. So i am sure that even though they have a big budget they will not be spending that much on too many players plus I wonder if they have worked out that he may not be premiership class!!

He only has 1 year on his contract so why do they need to match 20k for 3 years ? surely they can say we will give you 20k while we are in the premier 8k if we go down or something similar. There is no way he will get a 3 year 20k deal with Blackpool or anyone else ever again !

[Jon the Hat]

I have often defended Campbell's right to stick aorund and collect his wage, and I stand by that. Seeing as he was a labourer before his stroke of luck in football I seriously doubt he is going to be pursuing a high earning career outside of football once the game is up. He is therefore doing what we all do day in day out - putting aside his personal benefit - clearly anyone would rather be playing football than not - to ensure the best possible financial future for his family.

Now, this being his clear position, he is now trying to negotiate the best 3 year deal he can with Blackpool. They will not want to spend too much, so they will try and offset his wages with a lower transfer fee. He should look at it on the basis of 1 year near his current wage to compensate for his leaving his City contract, and 2 years on something more sensible like £8k a week - perhaps with a clause that if they stay up he gets the £20k a week for another season.

On the other hand City are playing a risky game if they don;t have other enquiries. No one in the Championship is going to pay him £20k a week, and no one else in the Prem will want him. I expect the club to agree an undiscolsed fee shortly, which will be much less than £1m, but can be talked up.

[Joel G]

that's what the joke is, he's saying Leicester are going to mess it up but it's his extortionate wage demands. if you want to go so much, you'll take a cut. you complete and utter ****

The bloke is an absolute joke. He was saying in interviews at the end of the season that "he loved Blackpool" and that he hoped Leicester wouldn't do anything "stupid". If he loved Blackpool as much as he suggests then why didn't he join them last summer when they made a bid for him? I seem to recall that he failed to agree personal terms. Clearly he loves rotting in our reserves on £20k a week a lot more than he loves Blackpool. Only now they can that they can afford his overpriced demands is he seemingly interested in a permanent move. I'm surprised that Blackpool fans haven't picked up on that more.

[Lineker's Left Foot]

Sod it, let DJ rot for another year or so in the reserves AND NP and SW can pick up a cheap player from non-league football to replace him. I'm sure they know of a couple.

[Jimmy]

Sod it, let DJ rot for another year or so in the reserves AND NP and SW can pick up a cheap player from non-league football to replace him. I'm sure they know of a couple.

if DJ stays here most of our summer targets won't get signed

[Legend_in_blue]

The bloke is an absolute joke. He was saying in interviews at the end of the season that "he loved Blackpool" and that he hoped Leicester wouldn't do anything "stupid". If he loved Blackpool as much as he suggests then why didn't he join them last summer when they made a bid for him? I seem to recall that he failed to agree personal terms. Clearly he loves rotting in our reserves on £20k a week a lot more than he loves Blackpool. Only now they can that they can afford his overpriced demands is he seemingly interested in a permanent move. I'm surprised that Blackpool fans haven't picked up on that more.

Having watched yet another Sky Sports News exclusive from sunny Blackpool today, the people don't come across as being particularly bright.

[Thracian]

Way before the start of last season I said we'd need to score 75 goals plus to secure promotion. We failed miserably by having the Capello approach of scoring one and defending it rather than scoring one and scoring again.

Yes, i know i'm in a minority in saying I don't think we did as well as we could last season but the fact is we lacked pace for much of the time and rarely attacked in full force or in such a way as to disrupt defences.

That we have had successive managers who seem to have been unable to utilise the ability of an impish, difficult-to-mark player like DJ while we have persisted with more predictable forwards like Kermorghant, Howard, Fryatt is a sad reflection to our attitude towards scoring and which will see us continue to underperform in terms of goals "for".

And I don't see the signing of old timers like Solano and, potentially, Pires, as likely to solve the problem. I'll just welcome the day we have a genuinely attacking manager at the club instead of another "play-the-averages" professional. Even Holloway learned the error of his ways and went on the attack when he left here, in stark contrast to his blanket defence approach for us - at Burnley for example.

Our non-committal approach to our first play-offs game against Cardiff said it all for me. But there were many others - at places like Barnsley and S****horpe for a start. Attacking with pace and manueverability is the key to going up. And I see no alternatives.

Which means we either utilise someone like DJ or purchase other players like him. Personality considerations would have sod all to do with it for me,

DJ of course is just one of our problems. We need to score more goals from midfield, need to be much faster to attack as a unit and need mobile attacking full-backs to compliment that approach. In fact so little about our playing philosophy has changed. And that's our biggest problem.

At least four players simply weren't good enough last season - that's a more than a third of the team were they all used at once.

[Criggers]

We need to score more goals from midfield, need to be much faster to attack as a unit and need mobile attacking full-backs to compliment that approach.

I believe Kennedy is a step in the right direction for you then? Shame its him and Bruno at left back though rather than kennedy being a right back.

To be in the top 2, pace up top is required, but those players don't come cheap. So whilst its fairly obvious to point out what we need, it doesn't mean we can afford it and there are not that many available either. We don't have £2m to spend on someone like Maynard (by the sounds of it at least) because we wasted £2m on a twat like DJ Campbell.

[teblin]

That we have had successive managers who seem to have been unable to utilise the ability of an impish, difficult-to-mark player like DJ while we have persisted with more predictable forwards like Kermorghant, Howard, Fryatt is a sad reflection to our attitude towards scoring and which will see us continue to underperform in terms of goals "for".

I think the cardiff players and many others may feel that steve howard is very difficult to mark.

[Bettsj2]

Way before the start of last season I said we'd need to score 75 goals plus to secure promotion. We failed miserably by having the Capello approach of scoring one and defending it rather than scoring one and scoring again.

Yes, i know i'm in a minority in saying I don't think we did as well as we could last season but the fact is we lacked pace for much of the time and rarely attacked in full force or in such a way as to disrupt defences.

That we have had successive managers who seem to have been unable to utilise the ability of an impish, difficult-to-mark player like DJ while we have persisted with more predictable forwards like Kermorghant, Howard, Fryatt is a sad reflection to our attitude towards scoring and which will see us continue to underperform in terms of goals "for".

And I don't see the signing of old timers like Solano and, potentially, Pires, as likely to solve the problem. I'll just welcome the day we have a genuinely attacking manager at the club instead of another "play-the-averages" professional. Even Holloway learned the error of his ways and went on the attack when he left here, in stark contrast to his blanket defence approach for us - at Burnley for example.

Our non-committal approach to our first play-offs game against Cardiff said it all for me. But there were many others - at places like Barnsley and S****horpe for a start. Attacking with pace and manueverability is the key to going up. And I see no alternatives.

Which means we either utilise someone like DJ or purchase other players like him. Personality considerations would have sod all to do with it for me,

DJ of course is just one of our problems. We need to score more goals from midfield, need to be much faster to attack as a unit and need mobile attacking full-backs to compliment that approach. In fact so little about our playing philosophy has changed. And that's our biggest problem.

At least four players simply weren't good enough last season - that's a more than a third of the team were they all used at once.

Waghorn was one of our main strikers this season and he was plenty fast enough. Also the loan of Vaughan and the use of Dyer in the front 3 shows that NP recognises the need for pace in the front line and also take into account that he tried to sign Leroy Lita at the start of the season.

With regards to DJ, he had ample chance to work himself into the team in NP's first season but he wasnt interested. Also when he got back into the squad last season, he didnt particularly cover himself in glory. No-one can quite put their finger on why he doesnt play well for Leicester but Allen, Megson, Tash&Taggs, Holloway nor NP have been able to get anything out of him. It certainly is a mystery that's divided the fans but it's one that i'll definitely be glad to see the back of.

[SouthLondonFox]

Way before the start of last season I said we'd need to score 75 goals plus to secure promotion....... Even Holloway learned the error of his ways and went on the attack when he left here, in stark contrast to his blanket defence approach for us

Err, Blackpool got promoted, and scored.....74 goals.

Just sayin'

[CosbehFox]

At least four players simply weren't good enough last season - that's a more than a third of the team were they all used at once.

Good enough for what? Promotion? When we assembled the squad that wasn't the primary aim. The primary aim set by Pearson and the club was playoffs - and that's what they achieved (much to the surprise of the majority of us).

[surrifox]

Oh bugger, I keep opening this thread hoping to read that this tit has been taken off our hands but all it contains is idle speculation and non-Dudley related stuff

[Leicfox]

http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/sport/Talks-break-Leicester-City-striker-DJ-Campbell-s-Blackpool/article-2326108-detail/article.html

Talks break down over Leicester City striker DJ Campbell's move to Blackpool

DJ CampbellLeicester City chief executive Lee Hoos has admitted negotiations with Blackpool over the possible transfer of striker DJ Campbell have broken down.

The Mercury reported last week that negotiations between the two clubs had stopped because of their differences over Campbell's valuation.

Hoos admitted that contact with the Tangerines has now ended.

City are believed to be holding out for a fee of £1.5million for the striker, who has a year left on his contract at the Walkers Stadium.

But Blackpool are unwilling to pay anywhere close to that for the 28-year-old, who scored 11 times in 18 games while on loan at Bloomfield Road last season as the Tangerines won the play-offs and promotion to the Premier League.

There has even been speculation that Blackpool have tried to take Campbell on a free transfer, assuming that City simply want to get the player's wages off their books.

However, Hoos said Campbell is still very much a City player, although he is expecting interest from other clubs.

"There aren't really negotiations per se with Blackpool," said Hoos.

"They have been in contact with us and we have made our position known, and they have made their position known. And that is it.

"We have heard nothing since and, as of right now, he is a Leicester player. If he sticks a few in the back of the net next season for us, then there will be no problems with him coming back.

"Blackpool aren't there but there may be a couple of other clubs, you just don't know.

"He certainly hasn't done himself any harm with his performances at Blackpool. He is much more noticed now than he was before."

Campbell, who has said he wants to join Blackpool, has never shown his best form at the Walkers Stadium since arriving for £1.6m from Birmingham City three years ago and he has hardly figured in Nigel Pearson's team.

The City boss is now looking to off-load Campbell as he is one of the highest wage-earners at the club.

However, he has scored goals during two loan spells at Blackpool and one at Derby County last season, making him a sellable commodity in the transfer market.

[Bettsj2]

Not sure whether we're taking the best course of action.

He's made it perfectly clear that he wants to leave so if he stays next season, again he'll just be deadwood in our squad.

I can understand us wanting to re-coup £1.5m but as someone else pointed out, he kept Blackpool up and then he got them promoted so for them to want to pay next to nothing for him is an insult.