[Archived] Steve Bruce

[broadsword]

"If I read one more "Jewish boy done good" article about Gold, I will impale myself on one of his dildoes" - Simon Jordan 

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All time classic of all time! Not 'alf mate!

[Ricky]

Another comical Brucie post

"It's never been my slant to say what we have and what we haven't done, but there has been a bid for the striker at Cardiff,"

So it's not his slant to say what he has or hasn't done but he has made a bid for the player... lol.

[Presty On Tour]

Another comical Brucie post

So it's not his slant to say what he has or hasn't done but he has made a bid for the player... lol.

jerome according to skysports

http://home.skysports.com/list.asp?hlid=38...ome+bid+snubbed

[gumboots]

Good to hear Bruce say he doesn't have to sell Heskey. Please don't then unless it's to some other rubbish team so he can go down with them again.

[FourLaneBlue]

It's good to see that relegation hasn't stopped Birmingham being A BIG CLUB.

Take for example their new signing, Jerome...

"The West Midlands club will pay a basic £3million for the 19-year-old England Under-21 international which could rise to £4million."

Jerome's first words to the press conference were...

'I'm delighted to be joining a big club like this,'

Maybe if you keep saying it enough Cameron it'll eventually be true!

[neekoy]

Read further down FLB, there not just big but MASSIVE

I am glad we didn't put a bid in for the young man, he obviously has no 'effin idea

[philipl]

Just seen that most places are now listing the Premiership clubs for the 2006/7 season.

Somehow, everything looks cleaner now we don't have big club ahead of us in the alphabetic list.

[Philly Rover ®]

Everything I ever said about Steve Bruce... I take it all back.

Anyone who can get £5.5 million for Emile Heskey is a veritable genius in my book.

[1864roverite]

yes he is

replacing heskey the dollop with bruno n'gotty anf jeff kenna !

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[RevidgeBlue]

Everything I ever said about Steve Bruce... I take it all back.

Anyone who can get £5.5 million for Emile Heskey is a veritable genius in my book.

Say what you like about the Birmingham hierarchy but they certainly drive a hard bargain when someone leaves.

3m for Savage and now 5.5m for Heskey.

Good grief! That's 1.1m per goal for Wigan next season then!

And then Bruce wastes it all. I caught a glimpse of Jeff Kenna being interviewed on SSN last night with the sound turned down. Is he still playing? I presumed he'd landed a managerial role somewhere.

[Bing]

Jeff Kenna is out of contract and looking for a club. He's just training with Brum at the moment.

[1864roverite]

brum news reporting Kenna offered a pay as you play deal for 3 months

[herbergeehh]

Okay, a little roundup:

- Birmingham relegated (actually had to scroll down past Barnsley and next to Burnley to find them on newsnow!)

- Cunningham plus a few other senior players released

- Heskey sold for a stunning £5,5m

- Pennant will stay, unless someone pay silly money

- In: Cameron Jerome, Stephen Kelly and Neil Danns, they are now linked with the out-of-contract Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink.

Can someone please explain how the hell they can afford to strenghten their squad after being relegated?

Birmingham my favourite for promotion, sadly.

[RovertheHill]

Because they are owned by porn barons worth nearly a billion quid between them...

[Fife Rover]

Okay, a little roundup:

- Birmingham relegated (actually had to scroll down past Barnsley and next to Burnley to find them on newsnow!)

- Cunningham plus a few other senior players released

- Heskey sold for a stunning £5,5m

- Pennant will stay, unless someone pay silly money

- In: Cameron Jerome, Stephen Kelly and Neil Danns, they are now linked with the out-of-contract Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink.

Can someone please explain how the hell they can afford to strenghten their squad after being relegated?

Birmingham my favourite for promotion, sadly.

Oh wouldn't it be lovely to "steal" JFH from right under the nose of "big club"; just as he is about to sign on the dotted line!!

[herbergeehh]

Because they are owned by porn barons worth nearly a billion quid between them...

So basically you're saying the owners are willing to gamble on promotion, despite sending out negative signals on a regular basis for a while now? Granted, the Heskey sale has covered the three signings, and I'm sure they cut costs quite a lot when they released Cunningham & co., but surely the 20m (??) loss has to be covered somewhere?

... that being said, they still have to replace the released players. (does anyone have a full list of the players released, Dunn is still there isn't he?)

[1864roverite]

They have let go Sutton/Melchiot/Lazaridis/Anderton/Vaesen/Kuqi/Clapham/Butt and Cunningham. Izzet has retired.They have also released several reserve team players. They have sold Heskey. They have bought Jerome and the right back from Spuds.

Thats a fair turnover of staff.

They are linked with a 3m move for Collins John, the sale of emille will fund that.

On average relegation will have cost them 15-20m.

They will receive a parachute payment for going down but at the very least they will HAVE to get back up first time of asking. I cannot see brum surviving another season in the Championship and with the likes of

Leeds/Sunderland/WBA/Ipswich/Preston/Palace/Leicester/Hull/Stoke/Norwich/Wolves/Coventry/Southampton and Derby it is not going tobe easy getting back.

I dont think we will see them top flight for a few years at best.

[neekoy]

I dont think we will see them top flight for a few years at best.

I have a tear in happiness at that statement

[modes98]

I dont think we will see them top flight for a few years at best.

They have got in some good players, however they are trying the standard trick of keeping most of your players and trying to get them to play premiership football against teams who will bully them off the ball.

I doubt they will come straight back up, but there fans already have them down as league winners.

[RovertheHill]

So basically you're saying the owners are willing to gamble on promotion, despite sending out negative signals on a regular basis for a while now? Granted, the Heskey sale has covered the three signings, and I'm sure they cut costs quite a lot when they released Cunningham & co., but surely the 20m (??) loss has to be covered somewhere?

... that being said, they still have to replace the released players. (does anyone have a full list of the players released, Dunn is still there isn't he?)

I'm simply speculating. You yourself say the £20m loss has to be covered somewhere. It's most likely that the club as a trading entity has a near limitless overdraft and loan facility because of its owners. Or alternatively, they are loaning the money? I don't know, but their financial position won't be anywhere near as dire as other relegated clubs (unless the porn kings do actually pull out - no pun intended )

[American]

To re-itterate what someone else said, the balloon payment will handle the 20 million, but only if they come right back up next season.

[modes98]

Oh wouldn't it be lovely to "steal" JFH from right under the nose of "big club"; just as he is about to sign on the dotted line!!

Charlton - By the looks of it he will sign for them.

[Neil Weaver]

Oh wouldn't it be lovely to "steal" JFH from right under the nose of "big club"; just as he is about to sign on the dotted line!!

Don't know if I'm alone in this, but I'd rather him take 40k per week of Brum's money than ours when he's contributing about as much as Pandiani.

[philipl]

I agree 1864 with your assessment. Militating against Brum are:

- Bruce's managerial ability.

- Brum have to build a promotion squad from the bottom up with the number of sackings they've had.

- Very few relegated clubs back bounce at first time of asking; Sunderland and Baggies are the recent exceptions and they were BIG CLUB's fellow travellers in distress so have to be contenders again.

- Southampton, Norwich and Palace will be desperate to go up as this is the last season of relegation parachute payments for them.

Besides which we will have the entertaining thought of Simon Jordan and Gold/Sullivan making polite conversation before the Palace v Brum games.

[DudeAbides]

They really believe they are coming straight back up lol