Southend Rubbish 'Eastwood Deal'

Eastwood
By Scott Cooper
June 17 2007

SOUTHEND United have moved to rubbish rumours that striker Freddy Eastwood is set to join Wolves within the next few days.

Southend United boss Steve Tilson has this evening rubbished reports that a deal between Wolves, Southend and Freddy Eastwood had been agreed.

The Express and Star reported last week that a deal had been struck with the southern club and on Saturday ran a story stating the Welsh International would sign "within days" but Southend have tonight dismissed the reports.

Speaking to the clubs official website, Steve Tilson tonight said "It's all hollow speculation at the moment. Wolves have so far only made one low offer and that was immediately rejected."

It was reported that a first bid of £750,000 had been rejected by Southend however Tilson confirmed the offer made by Wolves was for £1.5M, a figure which still doesn't match their valuation.

"The Chairman doesn't want to sell Freddy and an offer of £1.5 million is well below the market value of such a proven goalscorer. For the time being he is a Southend player and that is fine with all of us." added Tilson