| Tom Lawrence 08:04 - Aug 15 with 4227 views | blue442 |
Off to derby for 7 milkion. Means we will have to play him twice.
Strange they rejected the first offer of 7 million if this is the case |  |
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| Tom Lawrence on 08:06 - Aug 15 with 3100 views | Reuser_is_God |
Oh no I'm sh1tting myself.
I'd imagine the first offer was rejected because Leicester didn't like how the instalments were going to be paid. |  |
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| Tom Lawrence on 08:09 - Aug 15 with 3069 views | itfcjoe |
Can't say I'm overly worried at prospect of playing him |  |
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| Tom Lawrence on 08:13 - Aug 15 with 3046 views | NewcyBlue |
7 milkion? Pull the udder one... |  |
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| Tom Lawrence on 08:17 - Aug 15 with 3015 views | Herbivore |
He is very good. Next you'll be telling us Didz is overrated! |  |
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| Tom Lawrence on 08:21 - Aug 15 with 2987 views | tcblue |
He really dug us out of the crapper last season but I still think Fraser was a better player and Celina looks at least as good. | | | |
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| Tom Lawrence on 08:17 - Aug 15 by Herbivore |
He is very good. Next you'll be telling us Didz is overrated! |
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| Tom Lawrence on 08:31 - Aug 15 with 2933 views | blue442 |
| Tom Lawrence on 08:13 - Aug 15 by NewcyBlue |
7 milkion? Pull the udder one... |
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| Tom Lawrence on 08:33 - Aug 15 with 2920 views | chicoazul |
Derby make me laugh. |  |
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| Tom Lawrence on 08:36 - Aug 15 with 2892 views | ElderGrizzly |
| Tom Lawrence on 08:09 - Aug 15 by itfcjoe |
Can't say I'm overly worried at prospect of playing him |
I'm more surprised he hasn't taken one of the PL options open to him being reported.
If he was going to get a move to another PL club, it was off the back of last season |  | | |
| Tom Lawrence on 08:38 - Aug 15 with 2882 views | itfcjoe |
| Tom Lawrence on 08:36 - Aug 15 by ElderGrizzly |
I'm more surprised he hasn't taken one of the PL options open to him being reported.
If he was going to get a move to another PL club, it was off the back of last season |
I heard towards end of last season that him to Derby was a done deal - increase in wages up to either £25k or £30k a week.
Obviously wasn't as done as this person made out, but it must have been in the pipeline for ages.
The only way someone like Lawrence will get a proper opportunity in the PL is with one of the newly promoted sides or to get promoted - and in reality Derby probably pay as much as Huddersfield and Brighton without relegation clauses which will mean he is on less in this league if they do go down! | |
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| Tom Lawrence on 08:40 - Aug 15 with 2871 views | Kieran_Knows |
| Tom Lawrence on 08:36 - Aug 15 by ElderGrizzly |
I'm more surprised he hasn't taken one of the PL options open to him being reported.
If he was going to get a move to another PL club, it was off the back of last season |
He was never going to be playing Prem football this season, not a chance. |  |
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| Tom Lawrence on 08:44 - Aug 15 with 2852 views | m14_blue |
| Tom Lawrence on 08:21 - Aug 15 by tcblue |
He really dug us out of the crapper last season but I still think Fraser was a better player and Celina looks at least as good. |
Fraser was (and is) in a different class to Lawrence.
His injury was where it all started to go wrong. | | | |
| Tom Lawrence on 09:25 - Aug 15 with 2742 views | Swailsey |
I love how TL is now a terrible player once he has left us.
He was never in the same league as Fraser, but he still kept us up last year and was head and shoulders our best outfield player.
People are funny. |  |
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| Tom Lawrence on 09:41 - Aug 15 with 2673 views | tcblue |
| Tom Lawrence on 09:25 - Aug 15 by Swailsey |
I love how TL is now a terrible player once he has left us.
He was never in the same league as Fraser, but he still kept us up last year and was head and shoulders our best outfield player.
People are funny. |
Nobody has said he is a terrible player, homeslice | | | |
| Tom Lawrence on 09:51 - Aug 15 with 2632 views | Heathlander |
| Tom Lawrence on 09:41 - Aug 15 by tcblue |
Nobody has said he is a terrible player, homeslice |
Homeslice!!! Had to look that up on the urban dictionary.
I like it, gonna start using it. |  | | |
| Tom Lawrence on 09:55 - Aug 15 with 2611 views | Steve_M |
| Tom Lawrence on 09:25 - Aug 15 by Swailsey |
I love how TL is now a terrible player once he has left us.
He was never in the same league as Fraser, but he still kept us up last year and was head and shoulders our best outfield player.
People are funny. |
I think, and did at the time, that the run of goals from December to February masked a degree of streakiness in form. He's a very good player but not yet consistently good enough to play at a higher level.
He should do well for Derby but I still hope they feck things up again. |  |
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| Tom Lawrence on 09:59 - Aug 15 with 2584 views | Kieran_Knows |
| Tom Lawrence on 09:55 - Aug 15 by Steve_M |
I think, and did at the time, that the run of goals from December to February masked a degree of streakiness in form. He's a very good player but not yet consistently good enough to play at a higher level.
He should do well for Derby but I still hope they feck things up again. |
Spot on. He's a very good player, and whilst he hit that purple patch between December and February, where everything he hit, flew in (and ultimately them goals, as well as Bart being in top form probably kept us up), I can't honestly remember him doing all that much throughout the course of the season.
Agree with you, I think he's a very good player, and all the best to him, but IMHO, I never saw him going back to Leicester to become a first team player there, or neither at any other Prem club. | |
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| Tom Lawrence on 10:00 - Aug 15 with 2576 views | PJH |
| Tom Lawrence on 09:55 - Aug 15 by Steve_M |
I think, and did at the time, that the run of goals from December to February masked a degree of streakiness in form. He's a very good player but not yet consistently good enough to play at a higher level.
He should do well for Derby but I still hope they feck things up again. |
He was certainly "on fire" in that spell you mentioned but in retrospect he did not do a great deal either side of that spell.
I agree that he is a good player but probably inconsistent.
Also agree that he should do well at Derby and certainly agree that I hope that they again make a mess of it. |  | | |
| Tom Lawrence on 10:03 - Aug 15 with 2555 views | Guthrum |
| Tom Lawrence on 09:25 - Aug 15 by Swailsey |
I love how TL is now a terrible player once he has left us.
He was never in the same league as Fraser, but he still kept us up last year and was head and shoulders our best outfield player.
People are funny. |
I don't think he was a terrible player (clearly not), but neither was he so much better than someone like Huws that he is worth more than seven times as much.
Being head-and-shoulders above the rest of our outfield team in terms of effectiveness last season was not a difficult thing - and a lot of that came from his long-range shooting ability, by which he was able to get those vital goals.
Very glad we had him on loan. Would be happy to have got Lawrence on a permanent basis, but not at anywhere near that kind of money. |  |
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| Tom Lawrence on 10:07 - Aug 15 with 2534 views | PJH |
| Tom Lawrence on 10:03 - Aug 15 by Guthrum |
I don't think he was a terrible player (clearly not), but neither was he so much better than someone like Huws that he is worth more than seven times as much.
Being head-and-shoulders above the rest of our outfield team in terms of effectiveness last season was not a difficult thing - and a lot of that came from his long-range shooting ability, by which he was able to get those vital goals.
Very glad we had him on loan. Would be happy to have got Lawrence on a permanent basis, but not at anywhere near that kind of money. |
The only part of your post that I would dispute is "but not at anywhere near that kind of money".
We would not be paying anything like £7m for a player BUT in the current financial climate I would say that Lawrence is worth £7m or more. | | | |
| Tom Lawrence on 10:15 - Aug 15 with 2493 views | Radlett_blue |
| Tom Lawrence on 09:59 - Aug 15 by Kieran_Knows |
Spot on. He's a very good player, and whilst he hit that purple patch between December and February, where everything he hit, flew in (and ultimately them goals, as well as Bart being in top form probably kept us up), I can't honestly remember him doing all that much throughout the course of the season.
Agree with you, I think he's a very good player, and all the best to him, but IMHO, I never saw him going back to Leicester to become a first team player there, or neither at any other Prem club. |
I think some are underestimating him. 11 goals from midfield from 36 games is decent enough in a good team & we were a poor team for most of last season. Will be interesting to see what he does in a supposedly better team (although Derby have made a typical stuttering start). However, he will be more of a marked man this season. |  |
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| Tom Lawrence on 10:22 - Aug 15 with 2465 views | Guthrum |
| Tom Lawrence on 10:07 - Aug 15 by PJH |
The only part of your post that I would dispute is "but not at anywhere near that kind of money".
We would not be paying anything like £7m for a player BUT in the current financial climate I would say that Lawrence is worth £7m or more. |
Yes, that's true.
I was thinking more from the perspective of Ipswich, rather than the whole Championship (especially the freer-spending clubs like Derby). | |
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| Tom Lawrence on 10:25 - Aug 15 with 2450 views | Kieran_Knows |
| Tom Lawrence on 10:15 - Aug 15 by Radlett_blue |
I think some are underestimating him. 11 goals from midfield from 36 games is decent enough in a good team & we were a poor team for most of last season. Will be interesting to see what he does in a supposedly better team (although Derby have made a typical stuttering start). However, he will be more of a marked man this season. |
As I say, i'm certainly not underestimating him, he was a very good player for us ... I just don't think he's Prem quality. 11 goals from 36 games is very good, but if you take the 8 goals in 8 games out (I think it was that), you're looking at 3 goals in 28 matches, which is on about par with what the rest of our midfielders were on.
Good player, very grateful he did hit that purple patch, as otherwise, without them goals, and Bart in form, we probably would have been a lot closer to going down. | |
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| Tom Lawrence on 11:25 - Aug 15 with 2361 views | Swailsey |
| Tom Lawrence on 10:25 - Aug 15 by Kieran_Knows |
As I say, i'm certainly not underestimating him, he was a very good player for us ... I just don't think he's Prem quality. 11 goals from 36 games is very good, but if you take the 8 goals in 8 games out (I think it was that), you're looking at 3 goals in 28 matches, which is on about par with what the rest of our midfielders were on.
Good player, very grateful he did hit that purple patch, as otherwise, without them goals, and Bart in form, we probably would have been a lot closer to going down. |
Apologies if I came across as dismissive of people's opinions - a lot more has been said on Facebook and Twitter about him, along the lines of "good riddance, never needed him anyway, overrated".
It didn't take much to stand out last year, but he did - and whilst he isn't Prem quality (or certainly not Prem top 10 quality), he is certainly a very good player, who is easily good enough for a top team in this division.
He didn't do a lot other than score goals, but he did win a lot of fouls, kept other players distracted and was generally a thorn in the side of other players.
£7 million seems about right in this climate, but it is a huge amount. | |
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