CONFIRMED John Brayford - Contract Mutually Terminated

[Davalon]

Wonder how much it's cost to pay him off with no incoming fee either.

What a monumental waste of money he's been.

(And before anyone jumps in I'm not blaming anyone).

 

[ForgeBlade]

Goodbye John, and thanks for some wonderful memories during a truly dark time in our history. Shame he never reached the heights of his loan spell once he was bought, but I wish him all the best.

 

[1973Blade]

Sad really that his career with us has ended with him being a forgotten man. When he signed for us he was our most popular signing for years.

 

[DronnieBlade]

Good luck John.

A quality player, hampered in recent times by a bad injury, picked up in a Blades shirt.

One bad crack on the knee away from having his career ended.

A player once hero worshipped by the throngs on here, pitifully vilified by the very same individuals some months later. Fickle ? Fuck me dead !

You know who you are. Hang your heads in shame.

Again, good luck in your future career John. May it last a long time.

UTB

#hatethehaters

 

[blade too long]

Good move for both parties , hes off our wage bill and he can find a club prepared to get him fit again

thanks for the cup run , highlight till CW came

 

[LSF]

Not keen on that. He'll take a pay cut from what he was earning with us and he'll go somewhere for free. If he's taking the pay cut, we could've taken the fee; no matter what that might have been.

Bad business.

Bad business? We'll see, but factor in the manager just didn't rate him in more ways than one.
Crucial factors imho.

 

[Deaneandagana]

Good luck John.

A quality player, hampered in recent times by a bad injury, picked up in a Blades shirt.

One bad crack on the knee away from having his career ended.

A player once hero worshipped by the throngs on here, pitifully vilified by the very same individuals some months later. Fickle ? Fuck me dead !

You know who you are. Hang your heads in shame.

Again, good luck in your future career John. May it last a long time.

UTB

#hatethehaters

Absolute rubbish, the guy didn't want to play for us, the very people paying his wages & his exorbitant bonuses.

Poor.

 

[DronnieBlade]

Absolute rubbish, the guy didn't want to play for us, the very people paying his wages & his exorbitant bonuses.

Poor.

Whatever.

UTB

 

[Bert]

Good move for both parties , hes off our wage bill and he can find a club prepared to get him fit again

thanks for the cup run , highlight till CW came

Not a good move for us. We've paid him off and not received a transfer fee.

 

[wizadry]

Clough has had our pants down again.

 

[Stretch]

Good luck John. I'll never forget this.....

 

[Grizzly blade]

Why have we waited till today to bid for some players anyway?

Absolute rubbish, the guy didn't want to play for us, the very people paying his wages & his exorbitant bonuses.

Poor.

He didn't want to play for Adkins.
But let's not forget, he only came to United to play for a Clough....who we then sacked.
When he was on loan, most....in fact nearly all were demanding the club go all out to get him permanently. We couldn't afford it, and in the end managed to broker a deal with Cardiff and the player to a position where we could over several months.
Then from that point on the injury did for him. Never the same player and then some fans turned.
I however wish him well. Never done any harm to this club in my opinion. Wilder doesn't want him so he's gone. No bad remarks from me.

 

[Tezza1889]

It's not a great bit of business..

Unless he had an option of a further year like Hammond had.. if so we may have had another year of loaning him out after this season..

Trust in wilder.... hope he signs for somebody else other than Burton, now he's a feeebie... imagine cloughies face....

 

[Fulwood Blade]

Good luck John.

A quality player, hampered in recent times by a bad injury, picked up in a Blades shirt.

One bad crack on the knee away from having his career ended.

A player once hero worshipped by the throngs on here, pitifully vilified by the very same individuals some months later. Fickle ? Fuck me dead !

You know who you are. Hang your heads in shame.

Again, good luck in your future career John. May it last a long time.

UTB

#hatethehaters

Below is his career based on Wiki

2006–2008 Burton Albion 77 (7)
2008–2010 Crewe Alexandra 81 (2)
2010–2013 Derby County 109 (3)
2013–2015 Cardiff City 26 (0)
2014 → Sheffield United (loan) 15 (1)
2015–2017 Sheffield United 44 (2)
2016–2017 → Burton Albion (loan) 33 (0)

Can you point out the "quality" ?

I too wish him luck where ever he ends up - but would hardly call his career to date as based around being a quality player. For quality I would expect to have seen some bigger clubs on the list or bigger clubs want to try and sign him.

UTB

 

[DronnieBlade]

Below is his career based on Wiki

2006–2008 Burton Albion 77 (7)
2008–2010 Crewe Alexandra 81 (2)
2010–2013 Derby County 109 (3)
2013–2015 Cardiff City 26 (0)
2014 → Sheffield United (loan) 15 (1)
2015–2017 Sheffield United 44 (2)
2016–2017 → Burton Albion (loan) 33 (0)

Can you point out the "quality" ?

I too wish him luck where ever he ends up - but would hardly call his career to date as based around being a quality player. For quality I would expect to have seen some bigger clubs on the list or bigger clubs want to try and sign him.

UTB

Do crap players have several 7 figure transfer fees on their CVs ?

Mostly championship level clubs ?

Do crap professionals command c£1m p.a contracts ?

Numpty post. Oh it's you.


Shocker !

UTB

 

[SandyMcBlade]

When some are pushing for another big money signing, it makes you think dunnit ...

 

[Kevincarterversion2.0]

We should really have got a fee for Brayford. No time for him after last season's lack of committment. I hope he enjoys his career disappearing at Burton.

 

[ucandomagic]

I remember a shining light at a dark time and I will always...



Now we all move on - wearing our Magic Hats.

 

[Fulwood Blade]

Do crap players have several 7 figure transfer fees on their CVs ?

Mostly championship level clubs ?

Do crap professionals command c£1m p.a contracts ?

Numpty post. Oh it's you.


Shocker !

UTB

lol

UTB

 

[Liverpool blade]

It's not a great bit of business..

Unless he had an option of a further year like Hammond had.. if so we may have had another year of loaning him out after this season..

Trust in wilder.... hope he signs for somebody else other than Burton, now he's a feeebie... imagine cloughies face....

Looking likely that he's gone to burton so clough will be happy!!. According to a mate, he turned down the dingles!!. Obviously only a roumor but we know that he has an affection for burton!. I M O. Utb

 

[Deaneandagana]

He didn't want to play for Adkins.
But let's not forget, he only came to United to play for a Clough....who we then sacked.
When he was on loan, most....in fact nearly all were demanding the club go all out to get him permanently. We couldn't afford it, and in the end managed to broker a deal with Cardiff and the player to a position where we could over several months.
Then from that point on the injury did for him. Never the same player and then some fans turned.
I however wish him well. Never done any harm to this club in my opinion. Wilder doesn't want him so he's gone. No bad remarks from me.

Which ever way you look at this, it represents an appalling piece of business.

Again United show an alarming lack of strategic long term thinking which ends up costing the club ridiculous amounts of money.

When will McCabe ever learn?

 

[LoughboroBlade]

Do crap players have several 7 figure transfer fees on their CVs ?

This guy has at least 5...

 

[Snowman]

It's not a great bit of business..

Unless he had an option of a further year like Hammond had.. if so we may have had another year of loaning him out after this season..

Trust in wilder.... hope he signs for somebody else other than Burton, now he's a feeebie... imagine cloughies face....

Don't be daft. Knew what was going on and post got shot down for over thinking. Clough just told him to stay put because he knew we needed him off the wages budget and they weren't paying a fee or his wages. We couldn't wait any longer. He knew if he did nowt he'd get him. If he signs for anyone else I will bare my arse on a photocopier and post it with an apology.

 

[Grizzly blade]

Which ever way you look at this, it represents an appalling piece of business.

Again United show an alarming lack of strategic long term thinking which ends up costing the club ridiculous amounts of money.

When will McCabe ever learn?

Of course they knew at the time he was going to be a shocking bit of business!
You do realise the long term strategy was as follows......Sign Brayford...get promoted...have championship quality player for season in that league.
We now know, that it instead went...sign Brayford...get Injured...not the same player...miss out on promotion...sack manager who gets best from him...appoint fucking idiot.

Yes it was poor business. At around the same time they signed Adams? Was that good business?

 

[Grizzly blade]

Don't be daft. Knew what was going on and post got shot down for over thinking. Clough just told him to stay put because he knew we needed him off the wages budget and they weren't paying a fee or his wages. We couldn't wait any longer. He knew if he did nowt he'd get him. If he signs for anyone else I will bare my arse on a photocopier and post it with an apology.

Exactly.
And reason Brayford suddenly got game time was to try and generate other interest. Problem was, that the player only wanted to go there....just like he did us when he was at Cardiff.

 

[adebo]

Let's hope he doesn't play out of his skin and keep Burton up at our expense! I'm really sad to see the guy go! I understand it I just don't like it. Thanks John and many of us will view you as a great blade! Good luck except against us!

 

[Fulwood Blade]

Do crap players have several 7 figure transfer fees on their CVs ?

Mostly championship level clubs ?

Do crap professionals command c£1m p.a contracts ?

Numpty post. Oh it's you.


Shocker !

UTB

after finishing laughing out loud - I'll answer you post.

Derby to Cardiff - upwards of £1m - yep, Derby had Cardiffs pants down - hardly pulled up any trees at Cardiff.

Cardiff then had out pants down with .....£1.3m - which apparently was the approx. fee.

As for £1m contract - that really went down well with our fans.

He's over rated fella - get over it - just looks at the playing stats - tells the story for me.

As for Numpty post.........coming from the king of numpty posts............as I said first LOL

UTB

 

[Edinblade]

Why are we terminating the contract of a player worth over 1 million?

 

[Harrisblade]

Absolute rubbish, the guy didn't want to play for us, the very people paying his wages & his exorbitant bonuses.

Poor.

You do realise that most of the very best footballers around the world feel the same way when they hear from their agents that a better club/pay packet/manager is out there waiting for them don't you?

 

[Fanny magnet]

Strange fella