Jennings to have talks tomorrow..

According to the Daily Fail, mind.

Love the "ambitious Barnsley" comment.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2342833/Dale-Jenning-set-talks-Barnsley.html

 

Are we really getting our **** together? I don't like the sound of this....

 

I'll believe it when I see it.


Ideal world -


1. We get Bradford away in the cup draw tomorrow so I only have a 20 minute journey.

2. COG signs on Tuesday.

3. On Wednesday we get a decent local derby on the opening day at Oakwell (Huddersfield would be quite fitting).

4. Cranie signs.

5. Steele and Hassell's futures are resolved ASAP so we can move on.

6. Jennings signs.

7. Oakwell gets spruced up a tad, apart from the West Stand, obviously.

8. We sign some 7 foot tall Eastern European centre half who has a name like Basterdize.

9. Jon Stead signs as cover for COG.

10. We extend the deals of Mellis, Dawson, Perkins, Wiseman, Golbourne, Dagnall etc.



Then I'll believe our **** is together. Dunt ask for much.

 

Interesting reading how he ended up at Bayern - obviously they didn't have a scouting network in league 1! They don't even have one for our Premier league.

Apparently during his excellent season with Tranmere he scored 2 goals against MK Dons and ripped Dietmar Hamann apart (a good friend of the Bayern Munich General Manager Christian Nerlinger), subsequently leading to him being subbed after 45 mins. Nerlinger was in Merseyside at the time trying to get Leighton Baines to sign for them. Hamann told him about Jenkins and why he was substituted at half time etc and the interest began from there. Also, before he went to Bayern, Tranmere rejected a £600,000 bid from West Ham in the January transfer window.

I thought his contract was about to expire, but even £250,000 (reported) would be good business for a 20 year old (with clear potential, especially under Flicker/Melon/Scott) who signed for £1.7million a couple of years back. Still a risk because he has had quite a few injuries and i am sure there is a big difference between the intensity of German reserve football/league 1, and the Championship. However, the 'ex big club-require release clause in contract-rough diamonds' of this world have served us well in the past (Hammill/Vaz Te) and are the sort of player we should be looking at.

I expect the talks to go as follows:

Don: Hi, welcome to England and more importantly Oakwell. First of all i am sorry you had to travel all the way over here for your medical, the club procedure for medicals has been revamped and assurances made, after the last player we signed from abroad sneakily sent us a fake picture of himself. Turned out he was morbidly obese and had photoshoped David Beckham's body onto his Egyptian face, we need to see all potential recruits running on a John Stone's treadmill now. Sorry you cant speak to David, he is on holiday for 2 weeks at a Dulux training camp in Peru and is desperately trying to find the right shade of grey to enable us to bring in a brick **** house of a centre half.

Dale: i want 140% of Bobby Hassell's wages and a release clause low enough to fit in with Mick Mcarthy's next clubs budget

Don gets a calculator and a crystal ball out.

*knock on door*

Maurice and Ben walk in.....

We don't get raped

 

There's a fee cos he's under 24...even though he's been released from his contract cost he couldn't settle in Germany..

 

Would be a cracking signing but cannot see it happening.

Huddersfield and Wednesday are also rumoured to be after him and are more of an attractive proposition at this moment.

And do little old Barnsley do business with Bayern Munich

 

If Maurice is involved it will be a test of how well he can convince someone to join us.

As ever though it will come down to money and length of contract, I suspect we would offer two years maximum.

 

I didn't think that applied

When a player was moving from one country to another? For example, we didn't pay a transfer fee to Motherwell for Jim O'Brien in 2010, when he was only 22 at the time.

 

How are you on crosses?

 

Re: I didn't think that applied

Seeing as we've paid £250 000 for the lad, proof (if proof were needed) that JLWBigLil's footballing knowledge rests somewhere between nowt & bugger all!