Boro join race to sign Cardiff winger and Forest target Whittingham

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Tuesday, August 17, 2010
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MIDDLESBROUGH have joined the race to sign Nottingham Forest target Peter Whittingham.

Boro boss Gordon Strachan is understood to be plotting to use the £2.3m raised through the sale of keeper Brad Jones to Liverpool to bid for the winger.

Forest have already had at least one bid for Whittingham rejected, with the Welsh side reacting angrily to suggestions that he was keen on a move to the City Ground.

But the player is in the last year of his contract and is understood to be reticent to sign a new deal.

So Cardiff would be happy to see a bidding war develop for the player, who scored 20 goals as they secured a top six finish in the Championship last season.

Whittingham suffered a blow to the head in the 2-1 win at Derby County at the weekend, but was able to continue after lengthy treatment.

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    by worriedred, nottm

    Thursday, August 19 2010, 12:55PM

    “Adrian - i agree. The other alternative is he's selling up and waiting for the deal to go through.......!? The clubs actions since May just havent stacked up and surely any sane person looking at the evidence can see.....I think there's more to it all, there has to be!?”

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    by adrian, Toton

    Wednesday, August 18 2010, 5:15PM

    “I reda the daily Mail most days.. in their football pages there is about a third of a page with all the info on who is chasing who and who is signing who etc etc... for the first time since the play offs Nottm Forest are mentioned....
    for being charged with the players behaviour against Leeds !!!.. like I posted before a couple of months ago... my opinion only of course !! but ND wants rid of BD.... no signings and BD gets frustrated and resigns OR results go so poorly ND sacks BD brings in A N Other.. few signings in Jan 2011 results turn and ND says we can build on this for 2011/12 promotion push... my opinion only of course !!!!”

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    by Ilson red, Ilkeston

    Wednesday, August 18 2010, 4:06PM

    “We all need to support the squad we have got, not what we might be getting or can't have. Billy could leave tomorrow along with Doughty and any of the players and leave us completly shafted but it's the club we support not the powers that be that are pulling the strings behind closed doors.....you reds.”

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    by redweaver, nottingham

    Wednesday, August 18 2010, 1:38PM

    “the season ticket holder discount revocation is a little naughty on the clubs side but from what i understand (and i may be wrong) the club no longer own the club shop. hence the reason for the dicount revocation.

    anyway some supporters are annoyed that they'll lose out on 20 quids worth of discount, but still expect the chairman to inject cash.

    i know you have a right to vent your anger the same as the rest but there comes a time when it's just drivel pouring from your selfish mouth.

    i want to see premiership football at the city ground!
    do you not think that (as the current costs of football are) that will not incur another price hike for tickets? it's £28 quid a match now. the point is football is none of the working class people's business nowadays, just look at the situation liverpool find themselves in. if they cannot get finance in place pretty soon then they will be acquired by the royal bank of scotland which rather ironically, would mean liverppol would be owned by the tax payer (well about 70%).

    i wonder what would happen then?”

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    by red weaver, the real world

    Wednesday, August 18 2010, 1:06PM

    “percy and rob are pretty close to spot on.

    rules ae being discussed to bring about a fluid cap on what clubs can spend. i hear that this will be llinked rigidly to the clubs income and debt must be cleared from the clubs yearly income. now this is bad bad news for most clubs. the 25 man squad is just the tip of the iceburg.

    let's be clear the f.a's main responsibility is to the game and they have finally realised that the current affairs are unsustainable.

    i'm sure some of you will remember the days when players lived on the same street as you and me. now we'll never see those days again but a serious reduction in costs is needed if clubs like ourselves ever hope to bring in crowds of 50,000.

    anyway, my point is that football is in a transitional period right now and risking our future now could cost the fans the most. i must also add that fans are the life blood to all clubs but we are all ill informed opinionated gobsh1tes. aren't we, honestly. my two pence is worth more than yours, etc. i don't mind admitting it. i could run the club better than anyone else. (this is not sarcasm, it's self belief, we all have it but) none of us have the money to put forest where they are now, so unfortunately for me i'll have to continue being a gobsh1te, who thinks he knows better and could do better. well until i win the lottery.
    u reds”

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