we could only do loan swaps with other Championship or lower division sides so is this really an option ? Who could we swop and for whom ? Would the player we get in be better than the one that goes out ? Any decent player is not going to be loaned out by their Club are they ? If we loaned say Ambrose to Derby and got Robbie Savage in as a swap would we have got the better end of the deal ? Would we want Robbie Savage for example ? I can't see us loaning Dean Sinclair to Cardiff and getting McCormack in excahnge can you ? Will be interesting what transpires from this.
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So when Mr Pardew said he was going to start playing his best team from now on, what he meant was ''when I've finished assembling it''.
After 22 months, 32 signings (loan and permanent) and £13 mill spent in transfer fees , he still hasn't got a ''best team'' until he's brought a couple more players in...
That's what has driven some of us to despair.
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indeed, indeed. Shame that his best team includes 10 players currently at other clubs.
Or someone who really rates Andy Gray or Ambrose and would give us someone decent in return.
could work well depending on who we get. Tommy Smith from Watford would do for me.
That won't be happening as you will see from the thread entitled "Trust Me".
I get the idea but Tommy Smith ? He's like Varney, you love him cause he works hard but he can't score goals.
Surely we can't let a striker go for a centre half as that would leave us with only three strikers to pick from.
Don't know much about him other than his initials (O.G.). But I think he's got more goals than Luke Varney...
I'm sure it is all confidence but I think McLeod will play Saturday.
quite, but Pards hasn't realised that yet.
On the alleged Ambrose-Campo swap, both Magilton and Ipswich chief exec Derek Bowden insist that Parkinson spoke to them about it at Portman Rd last week.
Yet Mr Pardew says : "Campo was never coming here. That was never a goer."
So why did Parkinson raise it with them? Did he do so without Pardew's approval?
Very odd...
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“There was an enquiry last week. Phil Parkinson spoke to Jim after the game, but it’s not gone any further than that at the moment. It’s not dead, but it hasn’t gone any further than there being an enquiry.
“We haven’t talked to Charlton about Darren Ambrose, but Phil Parkinson spoke to Jim about a possible swap and it’s not dead, it’s being looked at. Whether it will happen or not I don’t know.”
One just wonders why Mr Pardew apparently knew nothing about it. Like I said, it's odd. Not necessarily sinister. But undeniably odd.
Parkinson may well have asked "What about Campo? Why's he not playing?" to which Magilton said "Why, are you interested".
Of course there is no way that the CEO or manager of a club like Ipswich would build up a story to generate interest in one of their highly paid but not in the first XI players so that other clubs could contact them ; - )
So when he says : "Campo was never coming here. That was never a goer"
he quite possibly means 'we made the enquiry and it's not going to work so it's not a goer'.
Instead it comes out with the clear implication : 'whatever gave you that silly idea ? I never would have contemplated that in a 100 years'.
Similarly, when he says he's decided to play our best team from now on, it probably means something quite different in his head to how it sounds on paper.
He's under the cosh and as he tries to spin his way out of trouble, his tongue is currently working faster than his brain.
As I've said before in interviews he can read the telephone book, quote 15th century Albanian poetry or sing the whole of West Side Story for all I care.
Just put out a winner team on matchdays. That's all I want. Don't care if he is witty, clever, says you know or innit all the time either. Just get the team winning.
Not sure which part of mine you disagree wth. I hope it's not my belief that "when he says he's decided to play our best team from now on, it probably means something quite different in his head to how it sounds on paper''. Because if it really does mean what it sounds like, then he really is a bigger fool than I think.
I'm actually trying to give him the benefit of the doubt here by saying his tongue is working faster than his brain !
It was the "not very good with words at the moment". He is, IMHO, an articulate and intelligent man who knows what to say and when to say it to the press. It was one of the things that people loved about him when he came.
However that is, as we agree, not very important if the team isn't winning or in fact if it is.
Actually, I don't think he's very articulate. I think he's very eloquent.They're quite different things.
There's certainly nothing articulate about statements like "The problem was their two goals" (said ater Shef Wed).
He comes out with too many of these hostages to fortune that are right up there with 'game of two halves'. You kind of know what is meant but taken at face value it's rich material for stand-up comedians who want to take the piss out of football.
It may be apocryphyal but one manager in the 1970s allegedly claimed that we had just witnessed ''a game of three halves''. Can't remember who it is supposed to have been. Malcolm Allison, perhaps? (another manager who was very eloquent but not articulate).