With no Premiership club making a move yet, could it be that Joe Ledley will sign a new contract to improve his wages until he gets his chance? Joe and his agent have been adamant that would not happen but Dave Jones in yesterday's press conference said the sands are shifting.
“Our chairman had a discussion with Joe’s agent the other day. They put something to him. they will discuss it and see if it’s right.” said DJ.
However the club are playing hard ball with Hull City over Ross McCormack clearly angered by the conduct of Ross and his agent but also Hull City and their manager Phil Brown who has been telling the press that City's asking price is too high while causing unrest with the player.
Jones was forthright, "There are ways of going about business and I think it being plastered all over the papers is not the right way ... We turned the bid down from Hull because it wasn’t acceptable. Phil is coming out saying we spent £100,000 on a player and then a year later he thinks it unfair that we are asking for that. That is our valuation. He is our leading goal-scorer, he got 23 goals last season and he’s an international player too"
And he added, "Phil has to realise if I went for one of his players, he would have a price and no matter how much I harped on about it he would not budge on the price ... just as we are not going to budge on ours."
After stating that he could not replace Ross with the same calibre of player as Hull's bid, Jones had the parting shot, "If you want him, that’s the going rate and if you don’t want to pay it then go somewhere else.”
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