Any truth in these Brayford to Burton rumours?

[Blade in Brid]

We complain about players attitudes and we still are fickle with our thinking . It wasn't that long back We All wanted Brayford as our talisman.

The bloke has been injured and will want to prove something to himself and to us.

He is not a Clough man , he is a Bladesman . Let's build around Brayford and Billy . Ok we may have paid over the odds but what's new . The bloke took a paycut , so let's embrace what he can bring to the team.

We sometimes don't help ourselves , back the bloke not fuck him off.

God help Wilder if we lose three on the spin.

Totally agree Lord Bos

 

[YES Blade]

A league one club spending £1.5m on a right back and making him your highest paid player is an absolutely mental decision!

Ok pay that for a 20+ goal a season striker or a attacking midfielder who scores goals and creates a shit a load as well. But a right back?

Brayford is a quality player when on form but we appear to have blown a big part of our budget on him which was clearly the wrong decision. I don't even need hindsight to come to that conclusion either.

 

[mattbianco1]

"Brayford has been a stand out player for us"

oh, you meant the bit 2 years ago. Silly me.

Bit difficult to play when injured.

 

[Pierre's PC]

I need some validation from Magic on this.

Magic is love, Magic is life!

 

[Blade58]

As of today, the only players I want to see sold off, or at least out of the club are those that CW has transfer listed

We have a depleted squad. We are desperate for signings. We have half a defence and yet reading posts on here I see some want to deplete further and lower what little quality we have left

Unbelievable Jeff

 

[Grappler]

Brayford to Burton is a rumour, pure and simple. He is happy in Sheffield, happy where he lives, his girlfriend is settled. OK, it's not a massive commute to Burton, but I don't see him going to Burton.

 

[Thorpy]

George Williams would have been a better option and free. Brayford has been nothing special since we signed him, injury prone and on high wages. If he continues to be injury prone then we're stuck with him until 2018, on high wages and probably in league 1.

george who? never heard of him, and the injury record of brayford was good until the bad injury against swindon, then a freak injury in training. Its about time we kept our better players and add to the team with more good players. oh and by the way you seem to have an issue with jb dont you?

 

[Pierre's PC]

george who? never heard of him, and the injury record of brayford was good until the bad injury against swindon, then a freak injury in training. Its about time we kept our better players and add to the team with more good players. oh and by the way you seem to have an issue with jb dont you?

Robbie is this guy

http://m.worcesternews.co.uk/news/14489079.Barber_calls_for_tax_on_beards/

 

[A_Blade1889]

Could we actually try supporting a player for once? Sharp, Brayford & Basham need to be the core of our squad.

Sharp & Brayford took pay cuts to join United when they could have played at a higher level. Some of our "fans" have a go at both Brayford & sharp on Twitter. It's not their fault Adkins was completely clueless!

So how about we try supporting Wilder & all the players, as I'm confident wilder will not accept anything less than 100% effory, compared to last year, that will be a great start.

 

[robbiez666]

Could we actually try supporting a player for once? Sharp, Brayford & Basham need to be the core of our squad.

Sharp & Brayford took pay cuts to join United when they could have played at a higher level. Some of our "fans" have a go at both Brayford & sharp on Twitter. It's not their fault Adkins was completely clueless!

So how about we try supporting Wilder & all the players, as I'm confident wilder will not accept anything less than 100% effory, compared to last year, that will be a great start.

You raise a good point about supporting a player. I support the club, and those players playing for the club.

If by selling Brayford it would allow us to bring in 3 players who would strengthen the squad overall, then we should sell him.

There are the obvious issues around our Board actually re-investing player profits in the team, but if they were to do so, we'd be better overall for it.

Right back is down the list of important positions. As to an earlier question about better right backs than Brayford in this league,

The PFA team of the year included:

2015

RB Reece Wabara (Barnsley/Wigan) free
LB Rico Henry - Walsall youth

2014

RB Nathan Byrne (Swindon) free
LB Joe Bryan (Bristol C) youth

No one fee has been paid for any of the fullbacks in the last 2 teams of the year.

Brayford is probably the top wage earner. He's on a contract until 2018. We're not showing anything thus far which would make me believe we're likely to go up, so we'd again have his wages next season in League 1. He's had two bad injuries in the last two years. I hope he fully recovers and his injury problems are behind him but we've seen other players (James Wallace anyone?) who never recover. If he has another long lay-off this season then his value is virtually £0.

If Burton come in with a good offer, as long as all the transfer fee and wages saved is given to Wilder to bring other players in we should take it in my opinion.

 

[Silent Blade]

The PFA team of the year included:

2015

RB Reece Wabara (Barnsley/Wigan) free
LB Rico Henry - Walsall youth

2014

RB Nathan Byrne (Swindon) free
LB Joe Bryan (Bristol C) youth

.

All rubbish!

 

[Treeton Blade]

All rubbish!

Rico Henry rubbish?, you sure?, looks a player to me.

 

[Silent Blade]

Rico Henry rubbish?, you sure?, looks a player to me.

Was being sarcastic, that's all! I get fed up of player suggestions. Really sick of them.

CW and AK know a lot of players throughout the league and know about the contracts the players are on, how much their agents are demanding, know how much fee their clubs will demand etc etc a lot lot more than these posters who keep making player suggestions

 

[Liaminho9]

Rico Henry rubbish?, you sure?, looks a player to me.

He was torn apart by Basham at the Lane towards the end of the season... He has potential but needs a lot of work.

 

[Finn Keane o' Balmaqueen]

Was being sarcastic, that's all! I get fed up of player suggestions. Really sick of them.

CW and AK know a lot of players throughout the league and know about the contracts the players are on, how much their agents are demanding, know how much fee their clubs will demand etc etc a lot lot more than these posters who keep making player suggestions

Every Saturday in the season after The Football League Show has finished, there's always one thread about how we should sign, be able to sign, buy immediately by "experts" who judge a player by a few seconds on the TV.

Bet ya can't wait for Saturday night, first weekend in August!!

 

[billyblademan]

Every Saturday in the season after The Football League Show has finished, there's always one thread about how we should sign, be able to sign, buy immediately by "experts" who judge a player by a few seconds on the TV.

Bet ya can't wait for Saturday night, first weekend in August!!

Already can't wait to see which Bolton player will tear us ragged

 

[Treeton Blade]

He was torn apart by Basham at the Lane towards the end of the season... He has potential but needs a lot of work.

Yes I agree, Adkins got the tactics spot on that day, defending isnt Henrys strong point.

 

[Grappler]

Was being sarcastic, that's all! I get fed up of player suggestions. Really sick of them.

CW and AK know a lot of players throughout the league and know about the contracts the players are on, how much their agents are demanding, know how much fee their clubs will demand etc etc a lot lot more than these posters who keep making player suggestions

It's a bit of light hearted fun, silent. I don't take it too seriously, just like 99% of the "rumours" are never correct, and only a few people really seem to be in-the-know.

 

[TonyAgana]

Adkins got the tactics spot on that day

A broken clock, and all that...

 

[Treeton Blade]

A broken clock, and all that...

You might be right,

Swindon away
Walsall home

 

[A_Blade1889]

I have no confidence in the board re-investing any money. Brayford when fit, is the best right back in the league, and would not be out of place in the championship. We consistently haven't replaced players we've sold.

 

[1danewhitehouse]

George Williams would have been a better option and free. Brayford has been nothing special since we signed him, injury prone and on high wages. If he continues to be injury prone then we're stuck with him until 2018, on high wages and probably in league 1.

He suffered one serious injury as a result of a player landing on his leg as he intervened superbly to clear up a Jay McEveley mess. Anybody would have suffered the same injury if the same thing had happened to them (the way the leg was extended, the opposing player landing on it etc.). He returned from that injury 7 months later (despite it keeping most players out for about a year). He then suffered a calf injury towards the end of last season. He’s now fit again.


So that’s one muscle strain/tear in the 18 months since we signed him. Wouldn’t exactly call that injury “prone”. Just very unfortunate that the other injury happened the way it did. Same thing happened to LJF and it finished him. Then again, he had Kuqi and Maguire land together on his knee.



Long

Brayford

Hussey

Duffy

Basham

Billy

Adams


We have 5 remaining players (plus hopefully our 2 new additions) that are first team standard. Getting rid of any of them would be damaging and should only be considered if teams are willing to pay way over the odds for them.


We already need to add at least 4 players to have a competitive first team before we start on any strength in depth. Let’s not increase that number unless we absolutely have to.

 

[1danewhitehouse]

There m's no doubt Brayford can be a top player - but you have to balance that against the players we can't sign as s result of paying him.

UTB

Yes, we could sign 3 or 4 players probably for the money he will be on but I’m sick to death of quantity over quality. Let’s keep our quality and look to add to it releasing those not good enough. We can carry a smaller squad to allow us greater quality in our first 11. We don’t need a 30 man squad of senior pros. We only need about 18-20 with young development players supplementing that.

 

[1danewhitehouse]

Could you be more precise and tell me when, since we signed him permanently, he's been a stand-out player? Basham has stood out more.

Our upturn after the Shrewsbury debacle coincided with his return. He gave us a spark when he came back. Granted it only lasted about a month but during that time we climbed back into playoff contention and we finally saw some good performances for Paul Coutts! After Old Trafford he went on a bit of a run making mistakes but still gave us some drive and energy going forwards until he got injured. Using him as our target man at goal kicks probably didn’t play to his strengths mind.

 

[1danewhitehouse]

Does anyone really think Wilder will have a say in who leaves?

Selling club. Established L1.

Folks dreaming he might be the player he was back in the loan spell, but what if he's s the player that's been here since permanent?

Then he’ll only be in the top 2 or 3 right backs in this league instead of being the best by a mile. We really shouldn’t be looking to strip out the only bits of remaining quality we have.

 

[1danewhitehouse]

Was being sarcastic, that's all! I get fed up of player suggestions. Really sick of them.

CW and AK know a lot of players throughout the league and know about the contracts the players are on, how much their agents are demanding, know how much fee their clubs will demand etc etc a lot lot more than these posters who keep making player suggestions

Are you suggesting Foxy and Linz disable the “player suggestion” tool on the forum?


Personally, I like the suggestions, considering the pros and cons of which players might come good and kick on, looking back at your suggestions to see if you made good calls etc. As long as people actually acknowledge the point that the pros do have far more knowledge in terms of costs/ accessibility of players etc. and that some of our suggestions might be unrealistic for reasons we don’t know about, then I see no issue with talking over player suggestions. It’s when people start demanding that the club “should” sign a specific player and that they are stupid not to without the insider info to have any idea how practical it may or may not be that they fall down.

 

[alcoblade]

Yes, we could sign 3 or 4 players probably for the money he will be on but I’m sick to death of quantity over quality. Let’s keep our quality and look to add to it releasing those not good enough. We can carry a smaller squad to allow us greater quality in our first 11. We don’t need a 30 man squad of senior pros. We only need about 18-20 with young development players supplementing that.

I agree with the sentiment. However, for £5000 per week you should be able to purchase top quality for this division.

I suspect Brayford is on 3X that (purely speculation), and if so, and if we can't make the necessary reinforcements elsewhere because of financial constraints, then we should consider doing business.

Of course, the reality that we've fucked up just about every purchase in the last decade taints this view somewhat, but the gist that we can't blindly say "we must keep player X" without considering the impact on the ability to sign player "Y" and "Z", holds true.

UTB

 

[1danewhitehouse]

I agree with the sentiment. However, for £5000 per week you should be able to purchase top quality for this division.

I suspect Brayford is on 3X that (purely speculation), and if so, and if we can't make the necessary reinforcements elsewhere because of financial constraints, then we should consider doing business.

Of course, the reality that we've fucked up just about every purchase in the last decade taints this view somewhat, but the gist that we can't blindly say "we must keep player X" without considering the impact on the ability to sign player "Y" and "Z", holds true.

UTB

I agree with the last bit but I'd only consider selling Brayford if we got similar money to what we paid for him. That's the only way I could see us following it up with a couple of really credible signings.

 

[LenTednTony]

I agree with the sentiment. However, for £5000 per week you should be able to purchase top quality for this division.

I suspect Brayford is on 3X that (purely speculation), and if so, and if we can't make the necessary reinforcements elsewhere because of financial constraints, then we should consider doing business.

Of course, the reality that we've fucked up just about every purchase in the last decade taints this view somewhat, but the gist that we can't blindly say "we must keep player X" without considering the impact on the ability to sign player "Y" and "Z", holds true.

UTB

It also makes me think that if we did sell him there would be those complaining about us selling our best players. There really is no pleasing people......especially Blades.

 

[Bladeloyal]

Never sell quality .and brayford after a full pre season will tear this league a new one .the lad can play