Wannabe2 said:
I still think we will have a hard nosed forward,why would you talk to Rosehill if you weren't going to go down that road. We only play Clan 4 times,we only play Manchester 4 times, but who wants to be beat up 8 times, lots of Devils fans won't. We don't have a history of a team that others can take liberties with, and I don't believe we will this season. One tough Cookie of a forward now and this team will be the envy of everyone if they are honest. A Rosehill type signing and then let the other pretenders worry about us.
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I'm not convinced we were pipped at the post by Clan for Rosehill like Simms and others are suggesting.
Ulmer confirmed that he'd been speaking with Lord since last week and a deal was done pretty quickly. Both he and Rosehill are non-EU passport holders so we could only sign one.
My guess is that Rosehill was being touted around by his agent to lots of teams in Europe, and Lord made some enquiries. Rosehill wanted big wages though whilst Lord wanted to use his final big budget contract on a big scorer. So whilst Lord was tying up a deal with Ulmer, Rosehill's agent went back to Clan and said "Hey, Cardiff want to sign my player too. You going to up your offer and do or deal or lose him to a rival?"
So Finnerty pays the big bucks and then tells Simms he stole a player from under Cardiff's noses.