Marley Watkins

Both. We assumed he was our player for the taking, without considering Wigan may have offered to up his wages, above a level that we were willing to match. A fairly naive decision, made at the time the loan terms were agreed. I think if we'd triggered the clause earlier in the loan spell we may have landed him, but with Wigan struggling in January they realised it would be cheaper to up his wages than to take the £400k & find a replacement elsewhere.

 

To be fair to Bfc and we fans, Morsy was making all the right noises on social media.

Maybe Morsy is just a crafty bar steward and used his time at oakwell as a means to get himself a better deal.

We knew what money he was on at wigan when we took him on loan, and maybe we were prepared to match that, or maybe he intimated that he would take a cut to come to oakwell as a free agent just to get games?

Let's face it, most of the people we idolise worship the green god.




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Hecky was publicly critical of our handling of the Morsey transfer, a fee was agreed with Wigan, we could have agreed personal terms at any point during his loan spell, however we left it till he went back to Wigan before we tried to finalize, at that point Wigan knew how well he had played, they were desperate to get points, he played well in a couple of games, offered him daft money & he resigned.

Totally BFC's fault, no one else's, wanting to sign someone on the cheap & left it too late, he probably just wanted 'realistic' championship wages, nowt wrong with that...

 

The other side of it is that we could be lumbered paying someone 10k a week for 3 years as oppose to taking someone on loan who may be as good or better with their wages subsidised heavily by their parent club.
People were up in arms that we couldn't sign Pearson then got brownhill who was better then got morsey who was the same and finally got James who was better again.
I, like a lot of you would like to see 11 of our own lads every week but it's not the 80s and no one else is playing by those rules either.

 

Worked well for us given our meteoric slide down tbe table after he left....

 

That wasn't solely down to losing Morsy though.

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I know just having a tease.

 

The story I've heard is we tried offering Wigan less than the fee already agreed so they weren't happy and recalled him. From then on it was always unlikely we'd sign him as Joyce wanted him.

 

Or give him 10k a week.

 

Legally Wigan had to honour the terms of the agreement as long as Barnsley didn't change the terms of said agreement . But we did .

 

Being reported that Marley has agreed terms with Norwich City. Presumably sanctioned by their incoming manager. Speculation is the latter is German. That suggests it's either Wagner but more likely to be Uwe Rosler.

 

Germans bombed our chippy

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I just heard the same from a Norwich fan on both Watkins and Rosler. He was surprised at potential Watkins deal, "we have plenty of wingers!"

 

Yes but Morsy wasn't legally obliged to sign for us. We could never match what Wigan decided to give him even if we had offered them twice what we agreed he would have stayed with them.


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I understand we had agreed terms with Morsy (not 10k) .The wages wasn't the problem.

 

Norwich still have a lot of money to blow about. Parachute payments the main part of that. They have a very strong squad and I'd see him being like Sam ****all, a bit part player. He hasn't even carved out his best position with us. If he wants more money and wants to extend his career, why not go to Bristol City?

 

Mate yes he was . The terms of the contract had been agreed by both clubs and player so wages weren't an issue . Linton thought he was doing a del boy but fell through the trap door . Bloody tool .

 

Weird Marley got that deal pretty quickly sorted out it would seem.


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It's not quite how I heard it. We dithered over the fee. I doubt whether Linton alone was complicit in that. Two clubs can't decide a players wages. That's absolutely not how it ever works. While we dithered Morsy's agent told him how much Wigan would pay him. We could not match it. Whatever Linton did or did not do had little relevance


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