Bostock balls-up; is the stepfather to blame for a Crystal Palace-Spurs feud?…
by Dexter on May 31st, 2008
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As tactless acts go, sending over a letter to ‘request a price’ for Crystal Palace’s midfield superstar John Bostock takes some beating; especially if you throw in the fact that this letter arrived at Palace HQ the night of their second leg play-off tussle with Bristol City. The culprits were Spurs, but the focus of Palace chairman Simon Jordan’s molten rage is Bostock’s stepfather Mick Brown, who he has accused of engineering a move to White Hart Lane. Simon Jordan yesterday opened his cakehole and unleashed a top quality rant, he even managed to get a reference to the Usual Suspects in there:
“He [Brown] looked me in the eye on three occasions and categorically assured me that the boy wanted to stay at Palace.
“Then he tells me that a member of our coaching staff, some mythical Keyser Söze figure [a character from the film The Usual Suspects], told him that John was not Neil Warnock’s type of player and that he had no future at the club.
“That is a blatant lie. The man is a barefaced liar. It’s all about money, which is pitiful when it reaches the level of a 16-year-old. If John had wanted to join Tottenham then fair enough, just say so. Why did we have to go through the whole charade of his step-father’s litany of lies?” (Guardian)
So is the step-dad a sly git, or is he just looking out for his step-son?
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Tagged Under: bostock, Crystal Palace FC, simon jordan, Spurs, tottenham
GuySpur - May 31st, 2008 at 12:39 pm
All Jordan does is rant, he needs to let go and chill out. Haha. I can understand his frustration but we have players poached from us too, it just happens. We took Sol up from an average Forward to a world class defender and we got nothing for him. Crystal Palace will be well compensated and Jordan knows that. Every time he speaks he just embarrasses himself and Crystal Palace, a club I actually tend to like.
Deano - May 31st, 2008 at 1:07 pm
Shut up Jordan… Shut up Warnock (but with a nose like that, shouldn’t it be Warlock?)… Palace are SHITE, why on Earth would he want to stay?
It’s over now, and John is a ‘yid’… Get on with Your lives!!!
[with_teeth] - May 31st, 2008 at 1:08 pm
He probably would have stayed at Palace if they were promoted, thus why his step father left the club in limbo. I’d be angry as a fan but as a championship club you can’t hold on to one of the best british talents and you have to let the player climb the ladder. “The cream always rises to the top”
JimB - May 31st, 2008 at 1:37 pm
As far as I can tell, there is no feud between Spurs and Crystal Palace - only a lack of agreement as to the appropriate level of compensation that Spurs must pay. Spurs have done nothing wrong.
Simon Jordan is a pompous, gobby, publicity hungry, orange skinned and fop haired plonker. But, in this case, I do feel sympathy for him. I too would feel immensely frustrated and let down if such a highly regarded young player left my club before even signing a professional contract.
JD - May 31st, 2008 at 1:52 pm
100% correct guy spur !! nobody wanted to hear our tales of woe when that traitor campbell defacted for “MONEY” “JORDAN IS A LOUD MOUTH CRY BABY” the lad would most definitly stagnate under warnock another watery mouth has been , “CRYSTAL PALACE” are probly a good club who will only go up and down as each season go`s by they will never be a force , so the lad will most likely play premiership football at spurs before palace are promoted so how long JORDON do you want him to wait on your ambition`s .
Doonsbury - May 31st, 2008 at 1:57 pm
I wonder how much any club has to do with the development of any player. If Crystal Palace made John Bostock what he is then go make another one. I don’t blame Jordan for being upset and wanting as much compensation as possible but the boy has just turned 16. Palace don’t own him and if he doesn’t want to be there that’s just tough. If it was just about money pay him £500,000 a year - he will be worth £20m in 4 years time and pay them back 10 times over.
Anonymous - May 31st, 2008 at 2:05 pm
anyone seen this bostock guy? can you tell us if he’s any good?
John White - May 31st, 2008 at 2:12 pm
“As tactless acts go, sending over a letter to ‘request a price’ for Crystal Palace’s midfield superstar John Bostock takes some beating; especially if you throw in the fact that this letter arrived at Palace HQ the night of their second leg play-off tussle with Bristol City”
I can’t understand why you think the businesslike approach of formally requesting a price from a club for a schoolboy player who has the legal power to leave that club for compensation, is regarded as tactless. Furthermore, the only problem with the request arriving before a big match would surely be if the player were in some way involved in the match, since he might then be in the wrong frame of mind to play, but in this case, the Palace management didn’t even think he was good enough to be in the squad.
The situation is this: Bostock has agreed to join Tottenham, because he feels he will progress better there than at Palace and be paid more for doing so. Palace have no say in the matter. All they can do is negotiate compensation.
Jordan’s rants are merely a cynical attempt to set the agenda when compensation is decided by a tribunal, since after his insulting comments he has made it extremely unlikely that there will be satisfactory direct negotiations between the two clubs.
stoney - May 31st, 2008 at 2:14 pm
boo hoo simon jordan. All about money. Don’t be such a hypocrite. All he does is flaunt his wealth in everybody’s face. Always crowing about how he’s so rich and spent millions on this and that. He got done plane and simple and is now feeling sorry for himself. If he was such a good business man, as he’s always telling everybody, surely he could have convinced bostock to stay. Having said that, i’ve been to selhurst and it’s an absolute hole. Even with his gallons of tango tan he couldn’t polish that turd of a club enough to keep him. Tears in the rain pal. Nobody cares what you think.
Barry - May 31st, 2008 at 2:16 pm
Jordans just bitter cause he lost what clearly must be an incredible talent to a better club. If this kid is that good then for his sake he needs to be learning of the likes of Berbatov, Keane and Co and not at palace. If money was the main factor and he was that good then i am sure as an investment jordan could of paid twice what spurs are paying him (they have a very rigid wage structure at youth level) and then sold him at who knows what to any club when he had proved himself on a regular basis.
JimB - May 31st, 2008 at 2:38 pm
To Anonymous - I’ve never seen Bostock play but I’ve heard people within the game talk about him for a couple of years now, saying that he is a rare talent. Rare for England, that is, because he is technically so accomplished. I’ve heard him variously desribed as similar to Fabregas or like Huddlestone with mobility.
By all accounts, he has uncanny composure, an excellent reading of the game and great skill. He is highly intelligent and has a great attitude, both on and off the pitch. Finally, he is a genune athlete. I read an article yesterday which said that he could have been an international sprinter. He also has great stamina. And, at 6′1, he is also a strong lad and useful in the air. In the four games that he played for Palace’s first team (as a mere 15/16 year old), he apparently looked to the manor born and dictated the pace of the game.
The fact that Chelsea, Arsenal, Man Utd and even Barcelona have tried to sign him is a pretty good indication of the regard in which he is held.
Sounds pretty good to me!
Richie - May 31st, 2008 at 2:49 pm
Palace fans are upset because John Bostock is a season ticket holder and claimed “he wanted to be Palace’s youngest-ever captain”.
His stepdad told Jordan repeatedly Bostock was going to sign before the end of the season and went back on his word.
All he could have done was sign a 2 year deal and leave after putting a season in so Palace can get some games out of him and receieve a proper transfer fee - not some minisule compensation.
What’s the point in having an academy if you produce a good player and a bigger club comes along and poaches them? At least Spurs got lots of games out of Sol Campbell.
Luca Galanti - May 31st, 2008 at 5:49 pm
A quote from Bostock…..
“In the youth team at Palace, it is too easy. Even though most of the players are two years older than me, it is not a challenge. In my last game for the club, against Watford (youth), I scored two and it was just too easy”
Quite clearly a jumped up little shite who believes in his own hype. Palace are better off without him.
simonjordansatangolookingfuckstick&neilwarnockslovebyatch - May 31st, 2008 at 7:39 pm
simon jordan’s just a perma tanned twat who knows fuck all about football & neil (the penguin’s love child) warncock makes a bottle of jif look like a bottle of evian he’s that bitter, who in there right mind would want to wallow in the championship when they have the chance of playing with the likes of keane, hutton etc.
if he wanted a crash course in shite football he should have stayed at selhurst park, neither of these knobheads have done fuck all for football and the sooner they piss off the better !
JimB - May 31st, 2008 at 9:55 pm
Luca - yes, Bostock’s cocky alright. Arrogant even. But he has a great attitude and work ethic to go with it. Besides, there’s nothing wrong with a bit of arrogance in the right doses. It translates into confidence on the ball - not a characteristic readily associated with English players.
He also makes a good point. Training and playing with Palace’s youth team is no good for him now. He’s like the really bright kid at school whose development is held back because he has to share lessons with the averagely intelligent or downright thick kids.
Training with Tottenham’s first team, as he has been promised, will accelerate his development enormously. Honestly, do you think he will learn more from training alongside Palace’s promising youngsters and never-will-be’s (with all due respect) or from training alongside players like Modric, King, Keane, Bale, Hutton, Woodgate, Gilberto, Malbranque etc….maybe even Berbatov too….and, who knows, maybe Giovani dos Santos? Will he learn more by training under an internationally revered coach like Juande Ramos or a coach like Neil Warnock who - bless him - is a passionate motivator but hardly a staunch believer in the slick passing style of football to which Bostock is ideally suited?
WhyteleafeEagle - May 31st, 2008 at 10:53 pm
Can’t wait for Bostock to leave Spurs when his contract expires and head off to Man U or Barcelona - then let’s see what you cocky Spurs fans say then! He’s going to be a very good player and will only use Spurs for as long as it suits him… Everything Bostock’s said in the papers recently has been a contradiction - I don’t think he’s been straight with anyone about this whole saga. He went back on his word to Palace - pure and simple. Palace should get £5m plus for him, if any tribunal worth their salt has anything to do with it.
Boycie - June 1st, 2008 at 7:51 am
I wish some of you would read what he ( simon Jordan ) said. He’s not blaming Spurs at all. Read what he said properly! It would also be good if some of the writers had a little bit of grey matter between their ears! Especially the last one !!!
Boycie - June 1st, 2008 at 7:53 am
Sorry, didn’t mean the last one, i meant simonjordansatangolookingfuckstick&neilwarnockslovebyatch. Thick or what !!!!
Luca Galanti - June 2nd, 2008 at 7:43 am
JimB i understand your point but its about more than that as far as Johny Big Bollocks is concerned. Heres another quote from him back in November…..
Football’s not about the money or anything else. It’s about kicking the ball around a pitch. Wherever you can do that you should stay. I remember seeing Sasa Curcic coming on and doing his magic and I remember watching Attilio Lombardo - he was one of my favourite players. He was just different. Players come and go but he left a mark on the club. It’s always been my local club. Watching them every week I know we don’t play the most attractive football in the whole of London but I just love Palace. I always have done and always will. I’ve always played for the club so if I’m playing here I wouldn’t want to be anywhere else.”
Reading quotes like that from him just makes it even worse from a palace fans point of view and i’m sure if this happened to be a spurs youngster who had chose to sign for Manu then you would feel exactly the same.
I think everyone knows (apart from spurs fans) Bostock would be better off playing first team football for Palace on a regular basis rather than reserve team football with Spurs. Spurs have a habit of ruining young talent. Give it a season and i’m sure you will see Bostock sent out to a league one or championship club on loan.
Palace Pete - June 2nd, 2008 at 9:08 am
JB is really Shit it’s all a big con by Palace and you yid mugs have fallen for it ha ha
RayParlourforPresident - June 2nd, 2008 at 10:04 am
question - if he is that good why has he chosen Spurs over one of the big clubs??
you say that Arsenal, Man U and others have all looked at him, I can’t imagine him settling for a team that didn’t even make the top half of the premiership if he was in any way of interest to the bigger clubs….
sounds to me like he will do exactly the same thing to Spurs in a couple of years time, use you to get experience in the 1st team then move onto a club that will fulfill his ambitions. Sounds an awful lot like that overrated tosser Bentley if you ask me
Bear in mind he is still a schoolboy player, his value will shoot up with some 1st team games for Spurs but you can only give him UEFA Cup exposure… If he is that good then it simply won’t be enough (look at Rooney) still, at least you will get some money for him if that does happen.
Also - someone commented on him learning his trade with Berbatov and Keane - bearing in mind that a) berba may not be there next season and b) the guy hasn’t exactly been straight with his current club do you really want him developing his attitude from Berbatov???
the article is pure sour grapes from Jordan and frankly quite childish to take it out on Spurs when they are not his issue.
Eagles - October 23rd, 2008 at 11:13 am
I was just wondering how it was going for wee Johnnie learning from the likes of Keane and Berbatov? At least there may be hope for you all - he might have learned a thing or two from Tom Soares who successfully had your team up at the Brittania Stadium. Good work Tommy!