WTF????

It is beyond belief, TL.

Almost as much as Jimmy Bullard allegedly asking Celtic for £75k per week and keeping a straight face.

As Les Bagg is fond of saying, it’s the game that will (already has?) eat itself

A Hull journalist on Talksport claimed Bullards wages could rise to £60k per week if he plays regularly for Hull due to display clauses in his contract.

jimmy bullard did not want to leave us FACT, when he signed his new contract just before our first premiership game v chelsea he had a clause in it to increase his wages with a contract extention if we stayed up, latics chose not to honour it and to make him available, they did a deal with fulham,bullard told paul jewell he didnt want to leave and was told he wasnt wanted,how do i know bullard himself told a number of people including myself in the starr inn in lymm after a fishing match that i was in along with bullard,
one of the lads who i was with that night,a fishing acquaintance,is still mates with bullard , i saw this person on saturday and bullards name cropped up in our conversation,he told me that hull were trying to off load him and his wages and only celtic wanted him,he had been up for a look round at celtic but decided he didnt want to go there,hull basically told him he was going like it or not,fo bullard has dug his heels in and refused.

now that may or may not be why he is demanding more money ,my contact only said he didnt want to go there – it just shows that sometimes there is more to the murky world of pro football than what the clubs/players/press tell us.

Hmmmmm! interesting story Mr Loudmouth, however, it’s not been written with your usual panache…………

………………..it’s as if someone else wrote on your behalf. Now you wouldn’t allow that now chap – would you.

;)

LMB – I don’t know Jimmy Bullard, nor do I know anyone that does know him but I have heard the same story (& very similar ones) from other people.
All I will say that is if a footballer was telling a story regarding him leaving a club to a bunch of fishing mates or drinking mates & he knows that a good proportion of those mates support the club he has just left, that is going to have a big bearing on the version of events that he tells those people.
That’s why I have taken these stories with a big pinch of salt, just as I have with those that I have heard direct from the club in the press & via people, who know people etc.. who work at Latics
Take a combination of all the version of events & you will probably get to somewhere nearer the truth

His contract conduct at Fulham, where he started to demand a new & improved contract very soon after returning from a major injury, having a handful of games under his belt & with a couple of years still left on his contract didn’t look too hot to me either

Now I aint saying that in the same circumstances I would have acted any differently, or would have done the same with the proposed switch to Celtic, but he’s as mercenary as the rest of um & the fact his carefully sculptured media image portrays him otherwise grates on me[/quote]

the trouble with your theory and reason behind bullards tale of events is, this took place in lymm ,warrington, none of the other people there to my knowledge ever watched wigan,i had never been in his company before that night and at the time he didnt know i watched wigan.

but the main reason his story, no matter how much he embellished his version,has a ring of truth to it,is latics did exactly the same to jason roberts not long after.

the rest is your opinion and paper message board rumour that you have used to form an opinion of bullard,all i know about this latest episode is
hull city have tried to force him into a move to celtic, which for what ever reason he doesnt want and that as i said in my first post,was told to me personally by someone who is still best of mates with jimmy bullard.