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ferrarilover wrote:I'm not necessarily saying he was worth a ton of money, but we've managed to get nothing, absolutely literally nothing for him.

We could have had him killed, removed his organs and sold them on Lithuanian eBay for £500,so to get nothing really is genuinely impressive.

Matt.

Nah mate.. I would have undersold him. lol Now got two kidneys. only need one,, any bidders.. right leg left.. only one. sold to highest bidder.. spare arm.. secondhand who will bid me.

I suspect there was a down payment.. cant imagine anyone being let go like that with the new regime. unless they are infected with the Torbay virus.. we won nothing therefore we are worth nothing..

Bristol City announce today Levi Ives their reserve left back and Bristol Rovers offer Billy Bodin 3 month contract after impressing in preseason.

arcadia wrote:Bristol City announce today Levi Ives their reserve left back and Bristol Rovers offer Billy Bodin 3 month contract after impressing in preseason.

Nice one Ives, only for the money we can get. Bodin 3 month contract? Not a fantastic deal for him.

lucy6lucy wrote: Nice one Ives, only for the money we can get. Bodin 3 month contract? Not a fantastic deal for him.

It's good when you've got nothing!

Somebody mentioned I'd be worried because Bristol City signed Ives. Not at all worried as he was your weakest link when we played you last season but maybe he just had a bad game against us. More worried when City can pay 2.5m for French striker. But in all honesty City are so many light years ahead of us now it isn't worth worrying about. Many years when I have been watching Rovers City have been above us but always felt if we played them we could beat them and we did on many occasions.The last few years that has gone and I just would not want to play them now!!! As regards Bodin i havent seen him play so cannot comment.
Good luck this season. I have a feeling you are going to have a good season with a very good Manager.

Levi has joined Bristol City's under-21 squad, he has not joined as their reserve fullback.

That is quite a big difference, I do not think you will see him feature in the first team for quite some time, if ever.

The good thing for Levi is that he is very much the same "natural" style as Bristol City's current fullbacks, but this is a club who have just spent over £2m on a virtually unheard of French forward and I would be surprised if Steve Cotterill has ever seen Levi play

On Beyond the Penn Inn Roundabout forum, & on Bristol City chat forum, there are postings that Levi has left City to return home. If true, we won't get any appearance money in the future !

If true, what a waste of a talent. Raw, obviously, but we could have continued to develop him instead of him losing out completely, and us too!!

This was mentioned the other day, I thought maybe it was for international duty.

Maybe he was not up to it? Was never convinced about his abilities.

Appreciate he was, and still is, young, but I always felt he had an opinion of his abilities that outstripped his delivery

Maybe going back home and finding a club to get regular first team football would be the best for him. Try and emulate O'Kane's career path.

Arcadia certainly knows his stuff, he said Ives was destined to play in the Premiership......................................

Doesn't surprise me, never saw the hype that surrounded him. The fact that Bristol City gave him a chance in their development squad is utterly meaningless, clubs across the top 2 divisions fill up their development squads every season, in the hope they get 1-2 players out of it, most fall by the wayside.

Didn't he land on the wrong side of the law recently?