O Callaghan - Ipswich Bid Accepted

**youngirish** · 09/01/2007, 11:01 AM

http://www.eleven-a-side.com/acrosst...p?newsid=25976

**galwayhoop** · 09/01/2007, 11:02 AM

£70,000 - sounds cheap - when does his contract expire with cork

**drinkfeckarse** · 09/01/2007, 11:13 AM

Stephen Kenny has also apparently been asked to be kept informed of developments so I wouldn't rule anything out yet. I doubt he'll turn his back on Ipswich now though considering he's trained with them for a while and they will be able to offer more money than Dunfermline.

**lofty9** · 09/01/2007, 11:41 AM

http://ipswichtown.rivals.net/defaul...2&stid=8434700

Official site says bids turned down.

http://www.eadt.co.uk/content/eadt/sport/

Says DUnfermiline bid of £70k accepted by Cork.

**pete** · 09/01/2007, 12:45 PM

Ipswich are acting the maggot as they had him there for 2-3 months training so they know what they getting now & its not a gamble.

Don't care where he goes but at this stage of the saga £70k would be good business. He has a year left in his contract but has been paid for last 6 months despite not playing a 1st team game.

**elroy** · 09/01/2007, 3:50 PM

I know its a difficult situation and he is close enough to the end of his contract but €70k for a player of his level is rubbish. Championship clubs pay much more for players for League two and lower who wouldnt be as good. i think Irish clubs are gettin a raw deal when it comes to sales to UK clubs.

**NeilMcD** · 09/01/2007, 4:54 PM

Originally Posted by lofty9

http://ipswichtown.rivals.net/defaul...2&stid=8434700

Official site says bids turned down.

http://www.eadt.co.uk/content/eadt/sport/

Says DUnfermiline bid of £70k accepted by Cork.

Dont think thats an official site at all.

**DmanDmythDledge** · 09/01/2007, 5:03 PM

Originally Posted by elroy

I know its a difficult situation and he is close enough to the end of his contract but €70k for a player of his level is rubbish. Championship clubs pay much more for players for League two and lower who wouldnt be as good. i think Irish clubs are gettin a raw deal when it comes to sales to UK clubs.

I think in the circumstances there's not much Cork can do. Rico is refusing to play him and he wants to leave Cork. If they don't take what's on offer now his value will continue to diminish and if they refused again to sell in the summer he would leave the club for a free at the end of the year, after losing a transfer fee and the cost of his wages in the meantime with absolutely zero benefit to the club.

**SligoBrewer** · 09/01/2007, 5:50 PM

nothing about o'callaghan on the offical ipswich site.

http://www.itfc.premiumtv.co.uk/page...,10272,00.html

**pete** · 09/01/2007, 5:55 PM

I predict that within 1 hour of george signing for English/Scottish team he will have his own thread in the Ireland section here.

**gustavo** · 10/01/2007, 10:14 AM

This thread was opened in the Ireland section would you believe ! I moved it here as I found it ridiculous that just because it was an English team bidding for him it was deemed worthy of being there. I doubt if it was Drogheda say that was coughing up it would be there.