Re: Rumours 2 : Sun Jul 22, 2018 8:01 am  

rubber duckie wrote:

I think the opposite. All its done it lesson the competition to buy him by adding a zero to the price.

Nah you don’t just sign an extension then leave next week.

Re: Rumours 2 : Sun Jul 22, 2018 1:52 pm  

rubber duckie wrote:

I think the opposite. All its done it lesson the competition to buy him by adding a zero to the price.

If we wanted to beat the competition we could have just added a zero to the price ourselves.

Tom Johnstone won't be joining Warrington. If he wanted to join us, and felt a move was possible, he wouldn't have made it more difficult for us by making us pay a higher transfer fee. Look at how it happens in football...when Sanchez, Coutinho, Mahrez etc wanted moves, they didn't go signing new contracts with their existing clubs to do them a favour by making the richer club cough up a bigger fee...

The fact that he has signed a new deal suggests that either a) we weren't really in for him; b) he didn't really want to come; c) Wakefield have given him a contract that he prefers to anything he could have got at Warrington or elsewhere.

There is zero chance that Johnstone will be signing for Warrington next season.

Re: Rumours 2 : Sun Jul 22, 2018 3:22 pm  

See our new signing scored again today...then again I could of scored against that lot

Re: Rumours 2 : Sun Jul 22, 2018 4:46 pm  

Not saying Johnstone will join wire but
Contacts only mean more money has to be
Paid. Coutinho and luis Suarez did sign fresh
Contracts at Liverpool but still got sold a year
later.

Re: Rumours 2 : Sun Jul 22, 2018 5:25 pm  

We are not signing johnstone. Stop creating and supplying bullshit. This isnt even worthy of being a rumour..

Re: Rumours 2 : Mon Jul 23, 2018 7:40 am  

Never a try wrote:

Not saying Johnstone will join wire but
Contacts only mean more money has to be
Paid. Coutinho and luis Suarez did sign fresh
Contracts at Liverpool but still got sold a year
later.

Story in League express says no buy out clause.

Re: Rumours 2 : Mon Jul 23, 2018 7:41 am  

karetaker wrote:

Story in League express says no buy out clause.

Any contract can be terminated by mutual agreement. Not saying we are signing him though.

Re: Rumours 2 : Mon Jul 23, 2018 7:59 am  

TheFloater wrote:

We are not signing johnstone. Stop creating and supplying bullshit. This isnt even worthy of being a rumour..

You do know what a rumour is...you should given your success rate.

Re: Rumours 2 : Mon Jul 23, 2018 8:20 am  

sally cinnamon wrote:

If we wanted to beat the competition we could have just added a zero to the price ourselves.

Tom Johnstone won't be joining Warrington. If he wanted to join us, and felt a move was possible, he wouldn't have made it more difficult for us by making us pay a higher transfer fee. Look at how it happens in football...when Sanchez, Coutinho, Mahrez etc wanted moves, they didn't go signing new contracts with their existing clubs to do them a favour by making the richer club cough up a bigger fee...

The fact that he has signed a new deal suggests that either a) we weren't really in for him; b) he didn't really want to come; c) Wakefield have given him a contract that he prefers to anything he could have got at Warrington or elsewhere.

There is zero chance that Johnstone will be signing for Warrington next season.

I think what happened was his agent was courting offers from rival clubs to strengthen his negotiating position for his new contract. Johnson clearly prefers to be a big fish in a small pool and be happy to be the star name in a small club side that will not challenge for honours in the short to medium term at best. If he was an ambitious player he would look to attract Saints, Leeds or Wigan.

Re: Rumours 2 : Mon Jul 23, 2018 12:01 pm  

I hope we don't sign Johnstone actually. Why? Becuse we're geting too good at waving Simon Moran's chequebook around and not so good at finding gems of our own.

If I was Trinity I'd feel the same about us as I used to about Wigan in the 80s, and that's not intended as a compliment.