CONFIRMED Ehije Ukaki signs from Botev Plovdiv - 3 year contract

[Jimmy Fleck]

 

[Uganda Blade]

... plays for same club as January signing Christian Nwachukwu... Who still hasn't got a work permit as far as we know

 

[Jimmy Fleck]

plays for same club as January signing Christian Nwachukwu... Who still hasn't got a work permit as far as we know

I believe he does but has had fitness issues.

 

[GeorgeDonis1889]

This worries me. Especially that he plays for the same club as one of the others they've already signed. What are the odds a random Bulgarian club has 2 players that are good enough to step up? Really hope these owners know what they're doing.

 

[Uganda Blade]

I believe he does but has had fitness issues.

Oh OK. Thanks — I hadn't heard that.

 

[Harry's Game]

What is his work permit situation?

 

[Bladey_blade]

Guaranteed to bring success to the lane

 

[Gin&Juice]

Robotos vs Gritty Wilder coming to the front.

 

[Bladey_blade]

What is his work permit situation?

Played 28/30 games which is encouraging

 

[Keef Chedwyn]

Anyone got any Ukaki videos?

 

[mattbianco1]

At this point I think we're just starting Football Manager careers in random countries and seeing who's potential increases the most

 

[Ron_Justice]

If he's cheap enough, crack on. The issue is the ESC (Exceptional Sporting Circumstances’) stuff. 'Clubs in the top two divisions of English football have four ESC slots available to them, two of which Cáceres and Nwachukwu are understood to have filled.'

Can't keep filling those spots without their being a progression path. Won't be long until we've blocked any future paths and we're looking at 'mutual termination' for players because if they don't make it with us, they'll be a tough sell to anyone else.

 

[Ron_Justice]

What is his work permit situation?

Can get in via the ESC route, but the club might be reluctant to fill up the allowance with players who just 'might' be good enough.

 

[Berkshire Blade]

If he's cheap enough, crack on. The issue is the ESC (Exceptional Sporting Circumstances’) stuff. 'Clubs in the top two divisions of English football have four ESC slots available to them, two of which Cáceres and Nwachukwu are understood to have filled.'

Can't keep filling those spots without their being a progression path. Won't be long until we've blocked any future paths and we're looking at 'mutual termination' for players because if they don't make it with us, they'll be a tough sell to anyone else.

That's why so many clubs have multi club ownership. Ship the flops out

 

[Ron_Justice]

That's why so many clubs have multi club ownership. Ship the flops out

If the players are costing £1M a punt and l don't imagine their contract value is particularly high, terminations a pay-off probably isn't that hard a pill to swallow. Not ideal, but gotta be better than the risk with a £10M/£18M player that 'flops'....

 

[Groucho Blade]

Presumably the AI modellers know we need bigger, fitter, faster, stronger…

 

[Silent Blade]

What is his work permit situation?

Ball_Sup (Phil) is yer man!

 

[Danetheblade]

Ehije Ukaki - Player profile 24/25

Ehije Ukaki, 20, from Nigeria ➤ Botev Plovdiv, since 2023 ➤ Right Winger ➤ Market value: €700k ➤ * Oct 2, 2004 in , Nigeria

www.transfermarkt.co.uk

 

[Danetheblade]

Only 5ft 9.. I’d be quite keen on seeing what the search parameters are on the system. Not a dig, just curious as to how it’s picked two players from the same squad, of the same nationality.

 

[Blade56]

This is what I like to hear…..

“We will do this by continuing the forward thinking work we have already begun,” they added, “to address some of the foundations at the club that underpin our ability to succeed. We are working tirelessly to become stronger in the crucial area of recruitment. We will do this by using data and analytics far more effectively to recruit the best and brightest talent.”

 

[Lord Eddard Muir]

"We are working tirelessly to leverage our unparallelled knowledge of one particular corner of the Bulgarian second division"

 

[FTPE]

Presumably the AI modellers know we need bigger, fitter, faster, stronger…

That's one hell of a highlight reel.

 

[Ron_Justice]

Ball_Sup (Phil) is yer man!

I suspect Phil's judgment won't be particularly glowing.

 

[loyalblade95]

This worries me. Especially that he plays for the same club as one of the others they've already signed. What are the odds a random Bulgarian club has 2 players that are good enough to step up? Really hope these owners know what they're doing.

Didn't that Bulgaria club play a few games in the Europa Conference League last season, before January?

Pretty sure they said that Nwachukwu had played a few games for them in the ECL.

 

[Gin&Juice]

What if Wilder was rouge AI all along, trying to warn us of the dangers? hmm

insert Matt Le Tissier thinking face

 

[Danetheblade]

Didn't that Bulgaria club play a few games in the Europa Conference League last season, before January?

Pretty sure they said that Nwachukwu had played a few games for them in the ECL.

Scored once I think. Played 4/5 games

 

[s20Blade]

Giggs and Scholes once both played for the same team.

Also Belgium chocolate is immense!

On a serious note I'm all for the AI players sitting in the reserves for a season or so in hope to come good when we get as much as the rest of the scrubbers. If we left it to Wilder he'd just want the old band back Mcburnie Egan etc.

 

[Bath Blade]

Guaranteed to bring success to the lane
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Any chance of finding an African player with playoff-final-win as a middle name?

 

[Paris_Blade]

No issues with the principle of scouting players like this. My concern is it feels like Chelsea's American idea of just collecting players almost aimlessly.

 

[LurkerBlade]

I think he's number 4 - youtube search on his name shows him scoring from RW and RB

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ehije+ukaki