Spurs midfielder claims ‘it was hard to leave Palace’, despite stitching former club up
by stresster on August 6th, 2008
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It’s probably the last things that fans of Crystal Palace wanted to hear. One minute, you have a young quality midfielder on the books, rated at around the £2 million mark, next thing a tribunal has decided that the player can move to a Premier League club for £700,000 instead.
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However, Setanta report that it was a wrench for John Bostock to leave Selhurst Park, despite his father seemingly playing an important role in ensuring the move to Tottenham went ahead. We’re not sure Eagles fans will be ready to forgive this act of betrayal just yet!
“I can’t believe how difficult it was to leave Crystal Palace,” he told Total Youth Football.
“I’ve supported them my whole life and will always love the club.
“But when we thought about the bigger picture it seemed like I might get a better football education at Spurs and we felt that was the most important thing.
“[Spurs] showed me the development plan they have in place for me and I was seriously impressed.
“They will train me hard and develop my strengths and weaknesses in equal measure, which will hopefully turn me into a key player for their first team in the next few years.
“It just felt right to go there.”
Palace chairman Simon Jordan has reserved the most anger for the FA, being critical of how they arrive at a player’s valuation. Indeed, this transfer has caused him to question whether he wants to be involved in football anymore, and who can blame him when star quality gets removed from the club for next to nothing.
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Tagged Under: Crystal Palace FC, John Bostock, simon jordan, tottenham
spurfect one - August 6th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
i thought he was free of his contract so he did nothing wrong in my eyes.
bob - August 6th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
He’s much better than Jenas.
meesterlee - August 6th, 2008 at 4:00 pm
To be fair if his gifts as a midfielder are as good as is reputed, he can only benefit from leaving Palace. Warnock has a reputation for direct football which has a tendency to bypass the midfield, at least Tottenham have a tradition of good passing football that can support his development and he will undoubtedly be given opportunities should he prove good enough, youngsters are often given a chance at Tottenham. The shame about the whole process was not the fee decided by tribunal, but that there weren’t sell on clauses attached to the signing whereby Palace could benefit should he move to another club (I could be wrong, but I understand there are no such clauses…)
The Special One - August 6th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
I agree with spurfect one, my understanding was that the young man was out of contract, and that Spurs and Place could not agree on a fee, and that because of he’s age it automatically goes to arbitration! Lets get the facts straight.
Anonymous - August 6th, 2008 at 5:24 pm
Shut up and fuck-off, you Judas.
Look In The Mirror! - August 6th, 2008 at 7:07 pm
Yet another anti-Spurs nonsense article from CaughtOffside
gopher 1882 - August 6th, 2008 at 8:08 pm
He was out of contract and Spurs offered more than the fee that you are quoting but Jordan wasn’t happy.
The original fee is for £700k but if he plays more than 40 games it automatically goes up to £1.25m. Nearly twice what you are quoting. Everyone twists things their own way to make them look contraversial. It’s a good price for an untested 16 year old who is out of contract whichever way those sorry palace fans want to look at it!!!
Alex - August 6th, 2008 at 8:51 pm
lol spurs plebs your youth academy is the worst in the country your going to ruin a fantastic player still i like i fucki*G care go rot in hell
Alex - August 6th, 2008 at 8:53 pm
p.s your got more chance of winning the lottery then the premier so throw all that cash at it then fail and go into administration
bill - August 6th, 2008 at 9:52 pm
If Bostock makes the grade and spurs sell him on then palace recieve £3 million, but your story sounds better dosn’t it.
Jordon done the same with a player at Luton but thats ok when palace do it.
Palace played Dartford in a pre season friendly the other week, when asked for their team sheet Palace took the p*ss out of their hosts by filling the team sheet in with mickey mouse names!
Where was the orange man then, standing up for the little guy.
leso - August 6th, 2008 at 9:55 pm
Hello, MR JORDON…lol.
Billiospur - August 6th, 2008 at 11:24 pm
fed up with this bollerx.hes gone to a better home and future at spurs
and palace got a poor deal because they were greedy…..tuf
Dan - August 6th, 2008 at 11:40 pm
He was out of contract, and you say he is valued at 2mil, yet didn’t Spurs offer Palace 2.5mil in the first place? But Jordan got greedy and wanted 5mil, so it went to arbitration, and they told us to give Palace 700k UPFRONT, rising to over 2mil. Worst….website….ever.