Incoming? Lewis Grabban

[IOM Blade]

http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11683/7303419/Steel-City-giants-eye-Grabban

 

[Patrick Suffaux]

Blades and Pigs both interested according to this.

http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11095/7303419/

 

[Patrick Suffaux]

Merge

 

[Student Blade]

Absolutely quality player of fifa 12!! star player in my Rotherham side at the moment!! He single handedly knocked out Man U in the League Cup!!!

Sign him up.

 

[Bergen Blade]

The right type of player to look at, young, quick, decent goal record and hopefully within our wage budget.

 

[broomhillblade]

United have had a good association with Rotherham over the years. I hope this is still the case. It would be galling if Wednesday pinched him from under our noses - and then he went on to score a hatful of goals.

 

[broomhillblade]

Merge

A merger with the Owls? Never!

;-)

 

[Russ]

Lets Grabbim

 

[moDtheGod]

That joke was like your avatar...

 

[Kenilworth]

Not so keen on a player with a muff on his chin.

 

[DuncDisorderly]

Is he Brazilian..?

 

[Russ]

Nope, but looks like he needs one...

 

[SotonBlade]

Unsubstantiated rumours on Twitter that we are in talks with Rotherham about 24yr old Striker Lewis Grabban.

 

[lingsbord]

Is that you Chris or have we another Blade down there?

 

[Kev Gee]

Would be a good signing. Has bags of pace. Can we afford his fee?

 

[Blade58]

Unsubstantiated rumours on Twitter that we are in talks with Rotherham about 24yr old Striker Lewis Grabban.

who's doing the tweeting? Is it a RS journo or someone random?

 

[louthblade]

One tweet is from Paddys blades mad comedian. According to bladesmad sky are saying a club other than Crawley have made an offer. Who knows

 

[creswell blade]

a yahoo sports page says the same...

Lewis Grabban could yet leave Rotherham after manager Steve Evans revealed two more League One clubs had shown interest in the striker. Grabban turned down a move to Crawley last week but talks between the two parties are back on, while Evans said one of the two other interested clubs had made an offer for the 24-year-old.
"There is more interest than just Crawley now, so something may develop there," Evans said. "But I think I have documented that if Lewis Grabban is here on July 2 when we report back, he won't be going anywhere else.
"(Chief operating officer) Paul Douglas has spoken to two clubs and one said they would come back in the next 24 hours, the other spoke to us on Monday and made an offer.

"That offer has now been passed from Paul to the board and the board will decide whether that offer is acceptable to them. They are League One clubs, he certainly won't be going anywhere in League Two."

 

[creswell blade]

after a bit of snooping around on twitter i found a few rumours that mk dons maybe the other league 1 side showing intrest

 

[Bladesman]

I think it is MK Dons sadly.

 

[sheffielder]

I think it is MK Dons sadly.

Why do you say sadly?

 

[Bladesman]

Well I don't like MK Plastic and it would be sad to sign them sign a decent player.

 

[sheffielder]

Well I don't like MK Plastic and it would be sad to sign them sign a decent player.

I think we should have a good chance to get him considering we won't have to move, if we do want him.. worries me there will be a transfer fee involved unless we are going to chuck some reserves at them.

 

[creswell blade]

I think we should have a good chance to get him considering we won't have to move, if we do want him.. worries me there will be a transfer fee involved unless we are going to chuck some reserves at them.

According to a few reports ive seen Rotherham accepted Crawleys bid of 150,000 the reason the deal fell threw was down to the fact the Crawley and Grabban couldnt agree personal terms. I know United are struggling for cash but im sure where not that skint we carnt match Crawleys offer

 

[Bladesman]

According to a few reports ive seen Rotherham accepted Crawleys bid of 150,000 the reason the deal fell threw was down to the fact the Crawley and Grabban couldnt agree personal terms. I know United are struggling for cash but im sure where not that skint we carnt match Crawleys offer

We have saved a fair few quid trimming the wages so maybe a cheeky bid under MK's nose wouldn't go a miss.

 

[oaklandrdblade]

I've seen him play once and really wasn't impressed by him, he needs good service and if he's not getting it he's an absolute passenger. Looked like the sort of player who will only score half the goals he should.

 

[Patrick Suffaux]

Looks a decent lower league striker but even for a nominal fee we would be gambling by using up wages.

The one thing we need to get absolutely right this summer is our recruitment of strikers. I would sooner see us go for proven League One scorers (if available). If Hoskins can get himself fit for August I would rather United go back in for him.

 

[Gareth]

I think he could be an excellent addidition.... If we could sign up Hoskins too we could have 4 strikers up front that all offer something very different and more importantly goals!

 

[Gareth]

I think he could be an excellent addidition.... If we could sign up Hoskins too we could have 4 strikers up front that all offer something very different and more importantly goals!

 

[creswell blade]

Could be too late...

Sky Sports understands that Bournemouth have won the race to sign Rotherham striker Lewis Grabban.
The highly-rated 24-year-old has been linked with a number of third tier clubs, with it expected to be only a matter of time before he starts climbing the league ladder.
Rotherham's failure to secure promotion out of League Two has left them vulnerable to offers from afar.
Crawley have already made one approach for Grabban

but, after lengthy discussions, failed to reach an agreement.

The Millers had been hoping that he would see out the final year of his contract and grace their newly-constructed New York Stadium in 2012/13. It would, however, appear as though Bournemouth

have convinced Grabban to join their efforts to clamber out of League One.