CONFIRMED Hamer joins Coventry

[MayorOJC]

What’s the point in having a box to box midfielder that can’t run box to box for 90 minutes and has no positional discipline?

Crowbarring him on the left last season looks to have spoiled him. We took an aggressive, creative midfielder and turned him into a luxury show pony.

And he totally got away with any criticism for that throw in against Mansfield the shithouse.

This is going to be Kieffer Moore seller regret times 100 on here if it happens. Especially if a championship team gets him. Half of you don't know what we have.

 

[CPB]

This is going to be Kieffer Moore seller regret times 100 on here if it happens. Especially if a championship team gets him. Half of you don't know what we have.

Said it a bit back. He hasn't been in form like last season of course. But fans seem to have written the narrative we will be better off without him. We've done it before too.

Is it not possible he could find his form again too and then we have best midfielder in the division again?

Obv. The fact he has 18 months left means the fee will be starting to get lower. Let's not be silly and let him go too low if we do.
£10m this window and £7m if it the summer.

Guess we will just have to see how it plays out.

 

[ATL Recs]

I think your correct - especially as clubs will see he hasn't been in the team, its certainly worth testing us at that price. I can see us letting him go for 8m so long as Wilder has the opportunity to go out and get a LW. He might like that for balance anyway with O'Hare doing a good job as the roving creative off the left. Wilder isn't afraid to sell a big player to fund investment in the squad which he think will make the team better.

With that said. I would keep him and let him run down the contract for that price. 18months of Hamer seems worth the money to me (easy to say when its not my money!). Especially, as at the end of that period we are likely to be competing for promotion (if we don't pull off a miracle this season), and if we go up surely he would extend, and even if we don't he'll be 30 and we may be his best option.

We will be a mid range budget club next season likely to lose Ohare and other assets so doubtful that we will be competing with the likes of West Ham Wolves Burnley Southampton Birmingham and ( gulp) Wrexham

 

[Bladesman]

 

[PaulPeschBlade]

Our performances picked up when he was injured.

His all round performances since have been a bit disappointing but he still possesses that bit of magic that most others in the squad don't (see Sunday).

I'm always willing to cut players some slack who have personal stuff going off. The reaction of many to Godfrey because of his earnings stinks imho.

If Gus wants to go then I'd like a bit more but £6 mill as a fee and presumably significant wages could be used very well. Emphasis on could.

No the didn’t


I have never seen a poster post as much drivel as you

Hamer is our best player by a mile

 

[bartman]

We play him out of position. He's a box to box midfielder that gets thrown on to the left wing. Is he worth less than Nathan Broadbent, Kyogo Furuhashi, Finn Azaz... £14m less than Mads Hermansson?? We need we to sell our players at 2026 prices, because whoever we buy his replacement from sure will.

He is both currently a box to box midfield player. He is not fit enough to do that. He can give us moments of magic but is he consistent enough.

We are a Championship club so we will.uave to sell players( as we are most likely not getting promoted).I agree £6mill is maybe not enough at the moment but I can't see anyone bidding over £10 mill for him. His value will now reduce if doesn't sign another contract so commom sense would suggest that, if he won't extend his contract, we should maximise transfer income and reduce a significant proportion of wages.

 

[PaulPeschBlade]

£6 million


Tell them to fork off and say sign this contract for £35,000 gus


Some absolute whoppers in our fan base who now don’t rate Hamer because he was out for 2 months


Best player we have by a mile hopefully Wilder isn’t as deluded

 

[SUFC Guy]

I have never seen a poster post as much drivel as you

 

[Davalon]

No the didn’t


I have never seen a poster post as much drivel as you

Hamer is our best player by a mile

 

[S40BLADE]

£6 million


Tell them to fork off and say sign this contract for £35,000 gus”


Some absolute whoppers in our fan base who now don’t rate Hamer because he was out for 2 months


Best player we have by a mile hopefully Wilder isn’t as deluded

Already getting paid a quite heavier whack than that from us at the minute, is always relaxed and not pushy as we’ve treated him well. Nice lad ol Gus hope he gets his boyhood move in the summer thats if he even wants to leave then

 

[3Cheers4Ramirez]

Keeping Hamer in the summer was an acceptable gamble if we built a promotion squad. But we didn't do anything like it

But I also doubt we received any tempting bid over 8m

If we can't get over 6m now then we might as well leave it till the summer because I think we have more to play for than we might have

 

[mattbianco1]

Keeping Hamer in the summer was an acceptable gamble if we built a promotion squad. But we didn't do anything like it

We didn't do anything.... Yet !!

 

[3Cheers4Ramirez]

We didn't do anything.... Yet !!

Yep, that's what I'm getting at - after this window, we might have a chance (CB crucial)

And if so it would be best to have Fat Gus as an option, he could easily be the difference at crunch time

 

[mattbianco1]

Yep, that's what I'm getting at - after this window, we might have a chance (CB crucial)

And if so it would be best to have Fat Gus as an option, he could easily be the difference at crunch time

If Hamer is happy coming in off the bench, I think that's the best option.

O'Hare has offered much more this season.

Hamer was the CH play of the season last year with 10 goals and 8 assists in 44 games.
O'Hare so far, after 25 games has 7 goals and 5 assists.
On track to produce better than Hamer last year.

If we could get get £15m for Hamer, I'd take it as I feel Wilder would find some gems for that.

Anything less than £10m and it's not worth talking

 

[TJ blade]

Madness if we sell him! Yes he's not having a brilliant season, yes he suffers from injurys, but we've got nobody in the team whats scores goals as good as he does.

 

[Toronto Blade]

If he is sold ,we usually underate our players Someone will steal a good deal we are not rich club so we might have to take the cheap offer

 

[chesblade]

Be just our luck Wrexham put an offer in

 

[john Mathison]

Back to our dismal performance on Sunday, who else but Gus could have scored our first goal??????? Bamford???? Cannon??????
Its no surprise other clubs are watching on with interest.

 

[bladesince64]

Sometimes you only realize how good something (or somebody) is when it's (they) gone.

I love Gus, love his skill, love his positivity, love his unpredictability and when was the last time we had a player who could hit a thunderbolt of a shot like the goal v Mansfield - Michael Brown?

 

[Wards]

Too many Unitedites would sooner watch a team full of cloggers and revert to the perennial underdog tag.

Get rid of Gus and it's a slow erosion of skill and flair until we become the next Stoke or Norwich.

 

[Stretch]

We are a better team when he doesn't start these days, but I have to be honest, I always feel like we have a real asset and game changer when he is on the bench.

He is inconsistent, but when he is actually on it he is still one of the best players in the division and I think most championship managers would walk over hot coals to sign him.

If the price is right be should probably cash in, but I wouldn't be in a rush just yet.

 

[Roygbiv]

Are any of the clubs mentioned closer to his family whom we understand , and accept as a reason to leave without a quibble ( I do anyway ), though??

I've thought a parting of the ways inevitable all season, but if he isn't going " home " business becomes business.

Depends on what countries his missus get can get a visa in I think.

 

[Slug]

I can see us taking a lowish fee just to free up wages. Can probably get 2 decent players for the wages he's on who will actually make the first team. We can't afford him if he's not going to be our best player and he can't even get in the team at the moment. I think £8m is the absolute most we'll hold out for but I can see it being lower

You would imagine that it would be at least a 3 year deal for whoever signs him. That would take us to the summer of 2029 and Gus will have just turned 32.

With the shape he is in now, I'm not sure he will make it as a top 2 level player by the end of that time.

Buying clubs will know this and also how happy we will be to get his massive wages off the books, so can't see us getting much more than the figures quoted.

However, with it being so low, I do still think we could get a similar figure in the summer, so it might be worth a gamble to keep and have him as a potential match winner on the bench.

 

[Davalon]

Too many Unitedites would sooner watch a team full of cloggers and revert to the perennial underdog tag.

Get rid of Gus and it's a slow erosion of skill and flair until we become the next Stoke or Norwich.

Not sure it's that simple.

I'm one of those who has been frustrated by a proportion of our fanbase for plenty of years who seem more interested in work horses and percentage football than the type of football that brings more sustainable success.

I'm a fan of Gus but this season his contribution has been very fleeting rather than consistently taking games by the scruff of the neck.

We also started scoring more goals in his absence.

 

[Nick Jansky]

If he is sold ,we usually underate our players

Do we? Who are the recent examples of that?

 

[PrestwichBlade]

Do we? Who are the recent examples of that?

I think some people still think it's like 1997 or something.

 

[Roygbiv]

You would imagine that it would be at least a 3 year deal for whoever signs him. That would take us to the summer of 2029 and Gus will have just turned 32.

With the shape he is in now, I'm not sure he will make it as a top 2 level player by the end of that time.

Buying clubs will know this and also how happy we will be to get his massive wages off the books, so can't see us getting much more than the figures quoted.

However, with it being so low, I do still think we could get a similar figure in the summer, so it might be worth a gamble to keep and have him as a potential match winner on the bench.

Totally agree with this. The money probably isn't worth taking right now if we think there will still be interest in the summer

 

[ISZA ⚔️]

Sell Chong, Matos, AI lads, Shackelele, McGuinness.

Combined they’ll be on more. Could scrape around £4m for that lot? And we get to keep a bums-off-seats player.

Simple this football lark.

 

[FriethBlade]

Too many Unitedites would sooner watch a team full of cloggers and revert to the perennial underdog tag.

Get rid of Gus and it's a slow erosion of skill and flair until we become the next Stoke or Norwich.

Exactly Wards. Let's go back to basics, why do we watch football? We watch it because we love our team, the camaraderie, the days out, the excitement, the memories etc.

The excitement and memories for me are the promotion winning days, beating the pigs 3-1 and 4-2 at their place, winning at Leicester, bouncing around with your sons when Tyrese puts the ball in the Wednesday net and the mercurial players.

Those mercurial players are, the TCs, the Sabellas, the Glynn Hodges, the Ilimans....and the Gus Hamers. They are once a decade kind of players and when you have one you do your utmost to keep them.

 

[ThatJa]

He won't go this window.