Premier League new boys offer £6m plus for Rodriguez (From Lancashire Telegraph)
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Premier League new boys offer £6m plus for Rodriguez
8:10am Thursday 24th May 2012 in Sport
By Suzanne Geldard, Burnley FC reporter
COVETED CLARET Burnley top goalscorer Jay Rodriguez is attracting the interest of numerous clubs this summer
SOUTHAMPTON have raised the stakes in the race to sign Jay Rodriguez after launching a bid in excess of £6m for the Burnley hot shot.
The Premier League newcomers had an estimated £5m bid for the in-demand striker turned down last summer but have returned meaning business this time round.
Burnley are yet to respond to the bid as the interest in the striker hots up.
Former Blackburn Rovers boss Sam Allardyce is also understood to be eyeing Rodriguez as he prepares to take West Ham United back into the Premier League after winning the Championship play offs.
Allardyce was in talks with Hammers co-owner David Sullivan about budgets and targets hours after beating Blackpool in the Wembley final last weekend.
Southampton’s bid though is likely to leave the Hammers’ interest dead in the water with Allardyce understood to be ready to spend no more than £5m on him.
Clarets' top scorer Rodriguez has been linked with a host of top flight teams, including fellow Premier League newcomers Reading and Fulham.
Burnley’s Championship rivals Cardiff City were yesterday said to have put in a £5.5m bid for Rodriguez, although the club has not received a firm offer from the Welsh club.
However, even if Cardiff were to confirm their interest with an official approach it is unlikely to be enough to entice Rodriguez.
The Burnley-born forward would not be expected to set his sights lower than the Premier League if he was to move on this summer, as seems inevitable given the volume of enquiries, no matter how far Cardiff might be prepared to push the boat out for his signature.
With a year left to run on his Clarets contract, any move would be based on a football decision, with a realistic opportunity to develop at a higher level.
Burnley are resigned to losing the striker this summer but will be setting their sights high with regards the price they are looking to sell him for.
It is understood the club value him somewhere in the region of £8m and, with a number of clubs battling it out for him, are hopeful their expectations could be realised.
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Comments (53)
8:26am Thu 24 May 12
gudari says...
10:09am Thu 24 May 12
Gaz M says...
10:11am Thu 24 May 12
claretmeandyou says...
10:58am Thu 24 May 12
vintageclaret says...
11:01am Thu 24 May 12
vintageclaret says...
Must be a song in that question somewhere!
Perhaps second line could be Chicken Pluckers took them everyone.
Now go away back to your Chuckle Bros site. Silly little inane person
11:49am Thu 24 May 12
midas says...
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Read the accounts and you will see where the money has gone - its not difficult!
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How do you know that there hasn't been talks with JR? Perhaps he wants more money than we can afford - remember we don't do 86% of turnover in wages!!!
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Perhaps he has indicated he wants to play in the Premiership next season and will leave when his contract expires.
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Of course they need money, can you point to a club that doesn't?
11:53am Thu 24 May 12
midas says...
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One thing for certain is that JR will go for more money than Holliet!
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Never mind a cold winter its going to be a cold summer at Ewood - sorted out whose going to be manager or any transfer targets or pre season training.
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Has Mr Rao got his appetite back yet? bless couldn't eat with all the worry about the poor fans - but brighten up - they are in it for the long haul and want to make the fans happy.
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Problem is he didn't specify which fans :-) lets all laugh at Rovers!!
12:09pm Thu 24 May 12
vintageclaret says...
Now swim back off to your sludge infested pond lowlife.
Time to face reality with the club you claim to support, now it is having a reality check all you 'Premier Matches Only Fans' are checking out trying to find a decent club to support (your real reason for constantly being on BFC threads) and you are not wanted.
12:19pm Thu 24 May 12
Keep Darwen Green says...
12:24pm Thu 24 May 12
vintageclaret says...
Push off you shameless hussy!!
LMAO
12:54pm Thu 24 May 12
bburnrover says...
2:55pm Thu 24 May 12
ClaretSince94 says...
And, not that I don't enjoy Rovers fans making themselves look more stupid than would be already suggested by the fact they are Rovers fans, maybe try and rack that poor excuse of a brain you've got and recall that in the last 3 games we faced each other the sides were seperated by a single goal.
Anyone who has seen Jay play knows he's a potential England international and his fee should reflect this but with only a year left on his deal I think anything over £6.5 million would be good business. The fact that we've got a top class Championship level strike force without Jay helps soften the blow of losing him as well.
3:11pm Thu 24 May 12
no ney never says...
I too would like to keep Jay but that's something EH knew would happen, so clearly he began preparing for it last season with the players he brought in.
Sadly there is no planning at the bstrds since the already confused fans are now joined by the club owners and manager stating that they are all 'confused'.
30 odd years is all you have left and we know that will soon disappear along with all the premiership football fans who took advantage of bstrds offer of 99p season tickets. They are off to wigan or manchester to continue watching top flight football.
Our transfer out values are on the up where as yours will begin to decline. Young talent are already seeing Burnley as giving them a better chance in football than what will be lower league bstrds.
Howe the lads
3:59pm Thu 24 May 12
Harwoodstblue says...
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4:13pm Thu 24 May 12
burnleyglentoran says...
The joker who posts as "claret me and you is actually non othe than the multifaceted shcitziod formerly known as "Tetleydrinker"
He's the guy who Fellow Claret "nottetleydrinker" named himself after.
He used to come on the burnley stories and lord it over us about B******ds superiority.
He also used to go on non football topics and slag the town, the people and anything to do with Burnley.
He popped up on some real happy, totally non-football, stories and soiled them with weird remarks.
As "tetley drinker" he was banned and tried a series of names before settling on Keep Darwen Green.
Yesterday he posted on the story headed - "Burnley poised to start bidding for Leeds midfielder Clayton" as "Claret me and you" and as usual made negative remarks pretending to be a claret and, as usual a nasty side-swipe at Barry Kilby.
I pointed out what the crack was to another poster who was falling for the bait and then when you read the posts further down you can see he forgets to log out as one of his names and starts to ramble as another person.
Ignore this clown who pretends to one of us and just wants to sh1t stir and whenever possible make snidey remarks about Mr, Kilby and Burnley's finances.
Coming from a B******d fan with all their woes you'd think he'd keep his head down but, given his use of many names and personas and the weird obsession with ALL THINGS Burnley I reckon he's best left alone and well and truly ignored.
NO NAY NEVER
4:14pm Thu 24 May 12
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midas says...
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5:15pm Thu 24 May 12
Jimmy Jambone says...
She seems OK... for a Communist. I'd probably let KDG clean my toilets or wash my car, but I wouldn't want her living next door to me, in the unlikely event anyone from Blackburn could possibly afford to live in my neighbourhood.
5:28pm Thu 24 May 12
Harwoodstblue says...
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5:52pm Thu 24 May 12
no ney never says...
Howe the lads
5:55pm Thu 24 May 12
Harwoodstblue says...
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6:59pm Thu 24 May 12
JPB says...
silence :)
7:30pm Thu 24 May 12
nontetleysdog says...
Lots of angry inbreds who are jealous of the fact the clarets are being run as a stable business, unlike down at deadwood were they can't even find a base for pre-season training
I have heard from a reliable source that one of the local gypsy caravan site's is to let steve keans team use one of their 'tread mills' that are usually used for training fighting dags. that should shift a few pound off David dunce's fat rear.
7:38pm Thu 24 May 12
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RupertsReason says...
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Harwoodstblue says...
8:15pm Thu 24 May 12
nontetleysdog says...
Never mind i am sure one of the travellers will put you up from the local caravan site around Trampwood
Maybe our hero steve kean could even give you a job when the season kicks off as they are always after a good "circus freak" at Dumpwood for pre-match entertainment.
10:25pm Thu 24 May 12
gudari says...
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gudari says...
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Harwoodstblue says...
11:04pm Thu 24 May 12
flyingv1 says...
Why don't you come over to the real side - you know you want to.
A bit strange asking Rovers fans to go away, if only you would do the same?
All the best.
UTC (unclean charity taker)
11:18pm Thu 24 May 12
Keep Darwen Green says...
Ultra Tight Chinos
Uncle Tom Cobbly
Under The Carpet
Untie The Clown
Using The Cousin
Unique Tea Cup.
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