Stubbs vetoed big striker deals

PREVIOUS boss Alan Stubbs vetoed deals for two big-money strikers this summer because he considered them overpriced.

Tony Stewart revealed that the Millers ended their interest in Millwall's Lee Gregory and Walsall's Tom Bradshaw - now at Barnsley - on the manger's advice.

The chairman told the Advertiser: "We bid £1.5 million for Lee Gregory and Millwall said they'd accept it and then asked for £1.6 million. Alan Stubbs said 'don't pay it,' but no-one has snapped Gregory up have they?

"Tom Bradshaw we'd got for half-a-million pounds. He was going to come for his medical the next day and then we had a call saying Barnsley had gone in for him and you need to pay £650,000. Again I went to Alan Stubbs and said do go in at £650,000 and he said 'no, it's too much.'

"That was the manager's call, not mine. He's the gaffer and he manages."

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