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Bratt condemns silly bids

24 Jan 2007 - 12:47:56

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Port Vale chairman Bill Bratt has revealed that he has dismissed ridiculous offers for striker Leon Constantine who was on the verge of signing for Barnsley earlier this month.

Vale accepted a bid of £125,000 from the Championship strugglers for their top scorer only for Constantine to turn down the move.

"We'd need a replacement so, if someone offered us £50,000 to £100,000 there'd be no point unless we could get a player in," Bratt told the Stoke Sentinel. "We might as well keep him until the end of the season.

"Football isn't a game where anyone does you favours. If they can pinch your best players for next to nothing, then clubs will try that.

"People do try it on and I don't blame them. If we could get people in for nothing we would - that's just the way it is in football.

"We've had phone calls offering silly money for a couple of our players, but we can't give our players away.

"We need Leon to try to get us up this season."