Ian Maatsen

[cdbearsfan]

https://www.theguardian.com/football/1998/nov/06/newsstory.sport4

[PeterWithesShin]

That's not a realease clause.

[cdbearsfan]

No, reading that it seems to be more of a "chat clause". Alan Partridge would approve. I'm still not sure why we paid more than five million, though. That Doug was so Devil-may-care when it came to spending.

[PeterWithesShin]

Because there was no releasse clause and Coventry didn't want to sell, especially to us, I don't blame them for getting every penny they could. Fat lot of good it did the batch eating twats though.

[cdbearsfan]

What's the point of a clause that allows a player to talk to a club if he can't then sign for them? Strange.

[PeterWithesShin]

There's been a few of them in the past, Suarez was a well known one. I don't think they really exist any more.

[algy]

There's been a few of them in the past, Suarez was a well known one. I don't think they really exist any more.

Replaced by a 'nice sit down, a cup of tea, and a slice of cake ' clause now, I believe. There's more money in football these days you see

[eamonn]

So Dion was on the same money at us as he was at Cov. Poor fella.

[ASHTONVILLA]

Really good signing this.

It's interesting that it is in a position where we probably already most strong with two excellent left backs. Pretty sure one of them will now be sold, but the club certainly seem to think no position can't be improved (except maybe striker and GK).

[LeeB]

So Dion was on the same money at us as he was at Cov. Poor fella.

I remember seeing on Teletext that Blackburn and Middlesborough were in for Dublin at £5m + and thinking "Fancy paying that for that donkey".

[Toronto Villa]

I realized overnight I want this deal to happen mainly because of the probable spelling disasters. Two a’s in Maatsen will become one a or many more a’s. And autocorrect is going to have a field day. So along with Iling-Junior and Barrenechea, let the spelling nightmare’s commence.

Ross Barkley by comparison is boring.

[paul_e]

Really good signing this.

It's interesting that it is in a position where we probably already most strong with two excellent left backs. Pretty sure one of them will now be sold, but the club certainly seem to think no position can't be improved (except maybe striker and GK).

This is all about age. We have 2 good left backs but they're both the wrong side of 30. From the deals in January and again now I think there's clearly a focus on adding younger players to the squad.

[chrisw1]

I realized overnight I want this deal to happen mainly because of the probable spelling disasters. Two a’s in Maatsen will become one a or many more a’s. And autocorrect is going to have a field day. So along with Iling-Junior and Barrenechea, let the spelling nightmare’s commence.

Ross Barkley by comparison is boring.

I dunno, Barclay has potential.

[Toronto Villa]

I realized overnight I want this deal to happen mainly because of the probable spelling disasters. Two a’s in Maatsen will become one a or many more a’s. And autocorrect is going to have a field day. So along with Iling-Junior and Barrenechea, let the spelling nightmare’s commence.

Ross Barkley by comparison is boring.

I dunno, Barclay has potential.

True. And you know that e in his last name is going missing too.

[eamonn]

So Dion was on the same money at us as he was at Cov. Poor fella.

I remember seeing on Teletext that Blackburn and Middlesborough were in for Dublin at £5m + and thinking "Fancy paying that for that donkey".

And within 3 games of joining us, he had 7 goals to put us top of the table! I wonder if anyone else has made such an immediate impact for us/anyone.

Stan Collymore managed 7 goals in total for us.