CONFIRMED Kalvin Phillips

[ChipButtyBlade]

Google searches show he’s currrently on £150,000 a week.

Next season we have none of the £45 million (2025 rate) or £35 million (2026 rate) parachute payments……on a financial level we’ll become a mid table club.
What’s an average Championship wage…would you say £12,000 a week?

I would suggest the highest we can afford for a loan player is about £25,000 a week.

Really doubt Man City would let him join us where we pay £25K an week and they pay £125K a week.

City would still be paying him 150k just to mope about the Etihad..why not let him get game time and save 25k per week.

 

[Badger Blade]

I'd have him back when you look at the amount of rotten loans we've had in this year.

Maybe we get him in and decide to only have 3 loans instead of 5 or find some other way of being creative with the budget.

Midfield of Phillips, Riedewald (if he stays), Peck (if he stays), Arblaster, Rothwell and AN Other should be a decent enough pool to pick from at this level.

I'd be more worried about who we get in at the back and how fit Campbell is when he comes back in the summer because we can't be relying on Bamford alone.

 

[mattbianco1]

Google searches show he’s currrently on £150,000 a week.

Next season we have none of the £45 million (2025 rate) or £35 million (2026 rate) parachute payments……on a financial level we’ll become a mid table club.
What’s an average Championship wage…would you say £12,000 a week?

Depends how you look at it.
We wouldn't pay his full wages, but lets say we did, that's £6m over the season (40 weeks)

If we split it 50/50, it's a £3m outlay.

I would say a realistic subsidised wage would be £40k-£50k, so ~£1.6m-£2m. Can we pick up a better holding midfielder for a £2m transfer fee? That's before they then need paying

 

[DifferentClass]

Of course he wants to come back, he’s done at top level.

Problem is he will want top level wages

Citeh will be paying most of it.

 

[BrayfordsBushyBeard]

Unfortunately players get injured that’s life , look at Isaac! Don’t recall Phillips being injury prone previously but I might be wrong . If he fits into our wage structure next season I genuinely can’t believe people thinking it would be a poor signing we are 17th in the championship , he’s not old and past it he’s just not played regularly enough in the past year or so . I for one would be very happy for him to come back.
As ever UTB !

 

[Sheffsteel]

Unfortunately players get injured that’s life , look at Isaac! Don’t recall Phillips being injury prone previously but I might be wrong . If he fits into our wage structure next season I genuinely can’t believe people thinking it would be a poor signing we are 17th in the championship , he’s not old and past it he’s just not played regularly enough in the past year or so . I for one would be very happy for him to come back.
As ever UTB !

I’d be happy to have him back too…..but you can gaurantee there would be loads on here complaining.
It’s not his fault he’s being overpaid by Man City…..on his £150K a week…..as you say he’s still quite young…currently aged 30.

 

[54yrblade]

'Gaffer, bad news. Kalvin's leg just fell completely off'

Wilder 'He's a good lad in the dressing room. Added value now.'

 

[madeinsheffield]

Depends how you look at it.
We wouldn't pay his full wages, but lets say we did, that's £6m over the season (40 weeks)

If we split it 50/50, it's a £3m outlay.

I would say a realistic subsidised wage would be £40k-£50k, so ~£1.6m-£2m. Can we pick up a better holding midfielder for a £2m transfer fee? That's before they then need paying

That's applying sense and logic, I 100% agree

 

[Berkshire Blade]

Unfortunately players get injured that’s life , look at Isaac! Don’t recall Phillips being injury prone previously but I might be wrong . If he fits into our wage structure next season I genuinely can’t believe people thinking it would be a poor signing we are 17th in the championship , he’s not old and past it he’s just not played regularly enough in the past year or so . I for one would be very happy for him to come back.
As ever UTB !

Look how much football he's played in the past 6 years.

 

[Bladesman]

 

[Chimes]

This would be a wretched signing and a huge red flag that the club cannot learn it's lessons and has no idea what it needs to do to progress. Please please please jettison this crocked clogger.

 

[Willglynning]

Midfield of Phillips, Riedewald (if he stays), Peck (if he stays), Arblaster, Rothwell and AN Other should be a decent enough pool to pick from at this level.

That’s been our midfield since January (sans ‘AN other’), and it’s not been remotely consistent enough.

 

[Guesty]

It would be incredibly stupid to go for Phillips again after he let us down massively, and the utter failure of nearly all such reclamation projects recently. Incredibly stupid.

 

[Brian Deane]

That’s been our midfield since January (sans ‘AN other’), and it’s not been remotely consistent enough.

Clearly not, looking at the table.

 

[Gimli]

Assuming we aren’t paying a lot of his current salary, signing him on loan in January made some sense - we had an issue of depth in midfield with Blaster still not fully recovered, Jairo only capable of an hour for some reason, Davies being a permanent fixture on the treatment table, Soumare being inconsistent and Matos being terrible. Coupled with the potential ability that KP had meant that it was a relatively small risk for big potential reward.

Having seen his clear injury/fitness issues it makes a great deal less sense to go for him again in Summer.

Surely the point of signing him in January was to give him a chance to prove himself and therefore help us climb the table whilst also helping himself to resurrect his career and rebuild his reputation.

That hasn’t happened and I’d be against giving it another go.

 

[dc_blade]

Players from outside the UK also exist.

 

[Roygbiv]

Players from outside the UK also exist.

Can't sign foreign players because Soumare wasn't very good

 

[Torrix1889]

Players from outside the UK also exist.

they do.....but unfortunately that is not our Managers MO. If Wilder stays then expect our 26-27 squad to be mainly full of good solid Championship pro's from the UK #brexitblades

 

[sheepbridge]

If we intend to spend somewhere between £3m and £6m on a player for one year with zero resale value then I'd rather spend it on a decent prospect who might improve the team long term and increase in value. A 30 year old who has hardly played for a few years and is injured after two games for the remainder of the season seems insane, no matter how good he was 5 years ago.

 

[Danetheblade]

This is the most Wilder signing in history. Signs him this season, gets sent off, when he plays, he’s laughably bad, then gets injured. “I know, let’s try get him back” fuck my life

 

[dc_blade]

they do.....but unfortunately that is not our Managers MO. If Wilder stays then expect our 26-27 squad to be mainly full of good solid Championship pro's from the UK #brexitblades

I’m not writing off Phillips. Bamford was great this season when a lot expected him to fail (including me). Maybe KP will be the same.

Seems to me, though, that the forward-thinking approach would be to generate a list of holding midfielders from across Europe who fit the bill of what we’re looking for and then Wilder can choose. Doesn’t that give you a better chance of getting value for money?

 

[Danetheblade]

I’m not writing off Phillips. Bamford was great this season when a lot expected him to fail (including me). Maybe KP will be the same.

Seems to me, though, that the forward-thinking approach would be to generate a list of holding midfielders from across Europe who fit the bill of what we’re looking for and then Wilder can choose. Doesn’t that give you a better chance of getting value for money?

See the words in bold as to why that won’t ever happen. We’d be lucky to go as far as Calais under Wilder.

 

[dc_blade]

See the words in bold as to why that won’t ever happen. We’d be lucky to go as far as Calais under Wilder.

I don’t think it’s just Wilder. Or rather, most clubs would balance Wilder’s outlook on squad building with a DoF or even a CEO whose job it is to consider different options. Bettis seems to just defer to the gaffer.

 

[Danetheblade]

I don’t think it’s just Wilder. Or rather, most clubs would balance Wilder’s outlook on squad building with a DoF or even a CEO whose job it is to consider different options. Bettis seems to just defer to the gaffer.

Agree, I think most clubs would do it their way regardless of what Wilder thought, though.. if they had such an operation Wilder wouldn’t be there as he won’t/can’t work under such conditions.

 

[sitwell]

Can't sign foreign players because Soumare wasn't very good

Grbic, Slimane ,Traore, Coulibaly ,Larucci. World beaters.

 

[Danetheblade]

Grbic, Slimane ,Traore, Coulibaly ,Larucci. World beaters.

Burke, Rodwell, Godfrey, Phillips, Rothwell, Ings. PASHUN

 

[Kenilworth]

Grbic, Slimane ,Traore, Coulibaly ,Larucci. World beaters.

Don’t forget that Souza was from Barnsley

 

[sitwell]

Burke, Rodwell, Godfrey, Phillips, Rothwell, Ings. PASHUN

The point was foreigners The best one weve got ,Hamer, you all want to get rid of.

 

[Danetheblade]

The point was foreigners The best one weve got ,Hamer, you all want to get rid of.

Your point was poor foreign signings, my points that they’re not exclusive to foreign signings, we’ve made a fuck tonne of poor British ones.

 

[Kenilworth]

Your point was poor foreign signings, my points that they’re not exclusive to foreign signings, we’ve made a fuck tonne of poor British ones.

Every club does.