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#11757 - 04/24/02 10:18 AM
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Portsmouth boss Harry Redknapp has admitted he is coming to Tynecastle on Sunday to have a look at Ricardo Fuller.
Craig Levein has been unable to offer the player the sort of contract he is looking for, and the fee of £1million to his Jamaican club Tivoli Gardens is too large a sum for the Edinburgh outfit.
But it appears that Redknapp can afford to fork out for the talented striker, and he said: "We're going to have a look at him this weekend in the Celtic match. I've heard good reports about Fuller and what he can do, so we have to take a look.
"We need a lot of new players for next season and Fuller is one who interests me."
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#11758 - 04/24/02 01:02 PM
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oonuh did get warn hearts.
Dpowell and Burton might be over there as well.
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#11759 - 04/25/02 09:25 AM
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Reports north of the border suggest Pompey boss Harry Redknapp will be in Edinburgh at the weekend to run his eye over Hearts' Jamaican striker Ricardo Fuller against Celtic.
The forward is available for a fee of £1.25 million from his Jamaican club Tivoli Gardens as his loan spell at Tynecastle comes to an end and the Scots side seem unable to find the cash to sign him.
Pompey are certainly in the market for another striker after selling Peter Crouch to Aston Villa for £5 million in March and also announcing they are allowing Argentinian striker Leo Biagini return to his Spanish club Real Mallorca at the end of a three month loan.
The fee would not seem to present a problem. Redknapp has publically indicated he has a budget of £2 million to rebuild the side over the summer, but may yet wheel and deal to boost that sum.
Mandaric has also pledged to dip into his personal fortune once more to finance signings and the 23-year-old Fuller would certainly fit the bill. 'Harry will have enough money to spend on what he believes he will need to build a competitive team,' the Chairman said.
'We're going to have a look at him this weekend in the Celtic match,' Redknapp reportedly told The Scotsman newspaper. 'I've heard good reports about him and what he can do, so we have to take a look. We need a lot of new players for next season and Fuller is one that interests me to help the club go in the right direction. Playing against an excellent Celtic side is a good test for any player and will help to show us what he can do.'
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#11760 - 04/25/02 04:28 PM
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I have given up just about all hope of us keeping Ricardo. It will be a shame, but please don't blame Hearts. We gave him a chance, and we were the only club in Europe who were going to, and he took it. He lightened up many a dull match, becoming a hate figure with rival teams because of his exiting play, Hibs and Dunfermline are good examples. He leaves with my best wishes. If he can improve his consistency and finishing, he can become a great player for the team he plays for and for Jamacia. I really hope he has an awful match as it is the only chance we have. I hope Reggae boyz realise that if we had money to spend, then we would spend it, I don't know if you have heard, but Motherwell have gone into administration this week because they spent to much and took too many risks. Maybe Levein might want to get another Jamacian on loan and give them a chance, no doubt Fuller would advise them to. If we, as expected, don't sign Fuller, will any Reggae boyz still check out Hearts results? Keep the faith, it's what football (and Hearts) is all about. Come on lads, one last push!
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#11761 - 04/25/02 05:26 PM
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it seems as if the vultures are swarming hf
and to be fair u have him hope and he gave ur season hope and even now there is still hopes of europe
as i said all the yout needs is some playing time to settle down and bloom
there are a lot of youngsters who just need some polishing up who can play for hearts u just need to give them a chance
scarlett..and others and they will work hard to make their name is just to set up the link between jff and hearts
cause right now we just need to get the youngsters out to europe and get a good football attitude
[This message has been edited by gigo (edited 04-25-2002).]
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#11762 - 04/26/02 09:21 AM
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Fuller set to make move south
By Alan Douglas
Divorce papers were served on Hearts yesterday by the man charged with the task of finding a new club for eccentric striker Ricardo Fuller.
Agent Philip Graham, who brokered the loan deal to give Hearts first option on Fuller, believes the Tynecastle club have cooled their interest in his 23-year-old client.
The player won over Hearts' support after a series of electrifying displays and a bagful of exciting goals but the cash-strapped Premier League side would have to pay Jamaican club Tivoli Gardens £1million if his stay in Edinburgh is to be prolonged.
Over a month ago, the player had a full medical examination and the results on the player's fitness were encouraging. But since then, Fuller has hit a goalscoring drought and has not found the net for 11 games.
Now it seems his representative has lost patience. Graham said: 'Hearts were very, very keen before now but, strangely, they seem to have cooled. With the season only having five games to go, it is looking more and more unlikely it will happen - especially with clubs bigger than Hearts now showing interest.
'There is a lot of interest from down south. I phoned Chris Robinson two or three weeks ago and he said Hearts were not in a position to do anything at that time. It is not an option for Ricardo to go back to Tivoli Gardens and I am actively looking for a club because I can't wait for Hearts any longer.
'I have to be pro-active because it is my responsibility to get him something else. It seems a bit strange that things have changed because, at the start, there seemed to be real, real desire to do a deal.'
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#11763 - 04/26/02 09:57 AM
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i hope fuller rock 2 pass celtic this weekend
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#11764 - 04/26/02 12:16 PM
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Hearts was not forthcoming in their dealings with Fuller. They did not exercise all their options as they were trying to get fuller for little or nothing. If they did not believe that Fuller was worth all that TG wanted all they had to do was offer him a sum of say $250,000 and 75% of the sell on fee. or make payments based on performance.
Hearts wanted to get Fuller for little or nothing and their strategy was there for the world to see. They tried to use the fact that Fuller may have like it at Hearts to tug at his emotions instead of treating this as a business.
Hearts is to be blamed for going hard line also and I firmly believe that they thought that since we are newcomers to the market we would be like the Africans and be cheap labor.
I guarantee you all that as soon as Fuller signed the contract he would have been valued at over 2 million pounds.
Why didn't Hearts put the sell on options on the table if they really wanted Fuller?
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#11765 - 04/26/02 12:51 PM
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good point shatta
plus at such a young age u goin to buy the yout on potential
and u caan expect the yout to be there scoring evetryday
esp when he has been doing a lot of assists
and providing goals for his teamates
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#11766 - 04/26/02 05:16 PM
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I think Hearts just don't think TG is big enough to pay £1million. Even if they had Pele. To them it is like shopping at the swap meet. You just don't buy anything at the swap meet for £1million. The whole swap meet is not worth £1million. Simple.
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#11767 - 04/26/02 05:43 PM
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Originally posted by ddread:
I think Hearts just don't think TG is big enough to pay £1million. Even if they had Pele. To them it is like shopping at the swap meet. You just don't buy anything at the swap meet for £1million. The whole swap meet is not worth £1million. Simple.
careful dread u stepping on holy ground
i wonder if it was a yout from some youth academy like real madrid or barcelona
them woulda inna dem long argument yah
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#11768 - 04/26/02 07:39 PM
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enough is enough fuller is to leave hearts
hearts played with his mind, mess around with tivoli(hearts)wanting fuller for nothing, and only to used(fuller)him.
fuller is to leave the users and get back to his scoring game harry redknapp knows football players the whole game and see fuller as a future.
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#11769 - 04/27/02 09:03 AM
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Originally posted by Shatta_Cleve:
Hearts was not forthcoming in their dealings with Fuller. They did not exercise all their options as they were trying to get fuller for little or nothing. If they did not believe that Fuller was worth all that TG wanted all they had to do was offer him a sum of say $250,000 and 75% of the sell on fee. or make payments based on performance.
Hearts wanted to get Fuller for little or nothing and their strategy was there for the world to see. They tried to use the fact that Fuller may have like it at Hearts to tug at his emotions instead of treating this as a business.
Hearts is to be blamed for going hard line also and I firmly believe that they thought that since we are newcomers to the market we would be like the Africans and be cheap labor.
I guarantee you all that as soon as Fuller signed the contract he would have been valued at over 2 million pounds.
Why didn't Hearts put the sell on options on the table if they really wanted Fuller?
They can't fool me
If Fuller suffered a career ending injury while at Hearts, we would be doomed. Hearts are not cash strapped in comparison to other SPL sides (look at Motherwell) and we cannot take risks, whereas £1 million to an English 1st division side is nothing. Don't you think if a Premiership team was interested, then a deal would already be tied up?
PS, I hope you aren't trying to compaire Hearts signing policies to a slave trade!
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#11770 - 04/27/02 10:14 AM
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no hf
it is a well know fact that a lot of AFRICAN ballers come to Europe and play for little or nothing and try to make their name
don't tkae it personally
is just the facts
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#11771 - 04/27/02 02:07 PM
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Originally posted by HeartsFan:
If Fuller suffered a career ending injury while at Hearts, we would be doomed.
HF, it is part of the risk you take when you are in business. Nothing in life is guranteed, but that does not mean that you do not take chance? Hearts could find a sponsor to come up with money for fuller. They were trying to play their hand to see if they could get him for nothing.
Think about it. Hearts is very interested, even now that Fuller has not scored in the last eleven. They have no doubt about his class. They really wanted to see him go through a long spell of not scoring and hope his value would drop.
Fuller should walk and not look back. Hearts is not the club for him.
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#11772 - 04/27/02 03:41 PM
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forgive me guys but i thought there was such a thing as insurance
or that is not a part of the scottish game
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#11773 - 04/27/02 05:02 PM
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Woah, you lot are being way too hard on Hearts over this. Hearts have to work within a budget, and its just as well they have been for the last few seasons considering the state the SPL now finds itself in.
Fuller has not scored for Hearts since the start of the year and his form has dipped quite a bit. Levein has publicly stated that Tivoli have not even spoken to Hearts and the club have been unable to contact the club directly as TG insist everything is done through Fuller's agent. It is the agent who has set the £1m asking fee and appears unwilling to negotiate.
The money to pay for Boo was never going to come from Hearts budget, an outside source was being sought to sign him then pay his wages. At first the offers were being made to become involved, but since his form dipped a few months back, interest has cooled. He has talent, no doubt about it, but currently Fuller is not worth a million.In fact if he was signed to one of the "big" sides in England that everyone seems so sure he could play for, its unlikely he would even be getting a game.
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#11774 - 04/28/02 01:37 AM
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people form dip all the while
lj
the yout is still young and has potential
the question now is why has his form dipped
when the man still a set up goals
look at the aberdeen game last
fuller was very influential in the 3rd goal
is not like the yout just running about the field and just huffing and puffing and blowing the place down
let us be objective here
as i said b4 the league has wised up to fuller and he will not be given the loads of space to run down the field
it is up to his teamates to pick up the slack and some have
the man is still very important to the side
even though he is not scoring at the moment
i hope to god this sunday is his day...bless
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#11775 - 04/28/02 04:04 AM
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I think Hearts inability to get insurance is the problem. If he had been knocking in the goals over the past 2 months, then we would have got the £1 million from a private backer (rumoured to be Leslie Deans, CR's no1 enemy)
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#11776 - 04/30/02 09:28 AM
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here is the response guys
Pompey ponder Fuller swoop ^top
Division One Portsmouth could be set to make a summer move for Hearts' on-loan Jamaican striker Ricardo Fuller after watching him at the weekend.
Fuller's finishing prowess would certainly have caught the eye of the watching Pompey representatives, scoring from virtually his side's only real chance in the humbling 4-1 defeat by Celtic's reserve side.
However, as in recent weeks, the Jamaican's all-round performance would hardly have had the scouts purring as he was as anonymous throughout as the rest of his ineffective team-mates.
Hearts' own interest in the £1million-rated Tivoli Gardens frontman has coolled dramatically in recent weeks as the former Charlton player struggles to recapture the glittering form he arrived with in the SPL.
With Craig Levein having already completed the capture of Dutch hitman Mark de Vries on a Bosman free contract Fuller's time at Tynecastle will soon come to an end and Harry Redknapp's Portsmouth are favourites to offer Fuller terms.
The English side have cash to splash following the sale of Peter Crouch to Aston Villa before the transfer deadline, and could thus afford the £1million Tivoli Gardens are demanding.
Fuller has scored six league goals for Levein's side since his arrival at the club, adding a further two to his tally in the Scottish Cup.
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