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Salad

Charlton asked the player and his agent to think of a number and then double it as Luke Varney signed his money-spinning, four-year deal at The Valley. In fact, go back to The Guardian's report last week and the story seemed to be that Varney and his man didn't even ask for the reported £20,000 a week. That's what they were offered. 'OK, where do I sign...' was the lad's response

surely this isn't true?

http://www.rickwaghorn.co.uk/full_article.asp?i=1366&w=0&a=0&part=0

BlackForestReds

Charlton asked the player and his agent to think of a number and then double it...

............

You really believe that? Really???

What makes you think that some blogger with no known links to the club has got an inside side line on our transfer negotiations?

stonemuse

Varney's goals get Charlton back into the Premiership at the first time of asking and it is very good business; what's not good for anyone else's business is the height at which Charlton have now set the bar wages-wise this summer.

That's what will have everyone pausing and gulping hard before deciding whether or not they want to run a coach and horses through their existing wage structures in a bid to capture the next Luke Varney, aka Billy Sharp.

So the impression that everyone gets is that we are now the big boys (in the Championship) ruining sensible wage structures.

Oggy Red

Well, truly an authenticated article.......

So here we have a Norwich City fan who's set himself up with a blog and maximised advertising revenue on a blatantly commercialised website.

This is an important personal income stream for him, like a private version of Teamtalk. Where does he get his information from? Evidently a bit cribbed from here and a bit from there - plus second-hand stories and gossip from the papers and other blogs. It's the way he gets people to visit his site and click on the advertising links - and lo!, he gets paid.

Have you seen anywhere authenticating Varney's wage?

I know I haven't. And no doubt he hasn't, either.

bingaddick

Total and utter loblox. What do you expect from a Norwich carrot-cruncher?



bingaddick (somewhere near...err...Norwich)

falconwood_1

Jez Moxey is such a fantastic Chief Executive.

How many seasons has he spent in the Premiership?

One.

Oh.

('Jez'. Says it all)

MCS

[cite]Posted By: bingaddick[/cite]bingaddick (somewhere near...err...Norwich)

i think you spelt Naaaaarrrrige wrong dude!! lol

Chris_from_Sidcup

If Varney is on anywhere close to 20k a week then i will be amazed. We're cutting our wage bill not adding to it. He was probably on about 2-3k at Crewe, he might be on 8-10k at us. But no more.