Ipswich's 'Toon' Joy After Losing Carroll
Last updated : 16 August 2007 By Footy Mad - Editor
After all ... who else would pay £5m for Titus Bramble? Let's put that one down to 'charity', because the Tractor Boys were in financal trouble.
Carroll snubbed the offer from Ipswich (and another 20 other clubs) and took Sam Allardyce's advice and joined Preston.
But it is not all doom and gloom for Ipswich, as they look like picking up a healthy £400,000 windfall because of the transfer of Kieron Dyer to West Ham.
Ipswich Town are in line to receive 20% on any profit over the £6m the Magpies paid Town for Dyer in 1999.
The Hammers are hoping to persuade Newcastle to take £6m, with an extra £1m in add-ons.
The 28-year-old midfielder has wanted to return to his Ipswich home to be near his long-term partner and two children, although, let's face it ... it's taken him eight years to make that decision (he left Ipswich in 1999).