CONFIRMED Callum O'Hare - signs for Wrexham

[Eric_Brooks]

Who have we brought in on high wages?

Doherty
BBD
Phillips
Bamford
Jairo
Choudhary

Either going back or have no resale value.

 

[Hamer's Right Peg]

Have to at least demand Windass in return

 

[Blade56]

Simple answer we can't. O Hare is all over the pitch not just doing his thing up front, we will never get another if we sell. The resolve is how much influence the manager has on the owners. All those you mention may be good acquisitions in a flowing team who may benefit, we aint. I hope he stays he is so good to watch

Losing COH would change the whole team dynamic. I can see Wilder publicly falling out with owners if this happens but like his previous fall out with owners at Northampton (I think).
If not he and others are complicit.

 

[S64 Blade]

I’m on the fence a bit. On one side, he’s one of our best players and it’s yet another talent we’d be letting go and more than likely, downgrading on.

On the flip side, if we can get good money for him now, we should. He’ll otherwise have one year left on his deal and be sold on the relative cheap next summer, something we’ve been doing way too much of in recent years (Ndiaye, Berge, Bogle, Anel, Brooks and Hamer). It’s probably our last chance to get good money for him.

I guess on balance I am less bothered about him leaving as it makes good business sense for the right price. I am more concerned with what’d be next. Who do we bring in? Where’s our next pipeline of saleable assets/players that can grow with us? If we can’t address that side of the equation than the first part becomes irrelevant over the medium/long-term.

 

[Blade56]

A massive test on the owners resolve, 6 to 8 million may prise him away, we are destined for minus 12 pts anyway so what difference would he make, we are not going up and can possibly still survive with the manager and players we have left. If the manager then leaves we are truly fucked, so lets just hope this is all bollocks and the main men will hold their own...........for now

 

[Blade56]

Great just get rid of all the players we had with technical ability......Brookes,Hamer,O'Hare.............we will become the most boring team to watch.

Bettis acting for owners pulls off rubber mask and it’s………

 

[Jan Age]

Great just get rid of all the players we had with technical ability......Brookes,Hamer,O'Hare.............we will become the most boring team to watch.

What do you mean ‘become’ ?

 

[mattbianco1]

He was a free transfer. So ANY fee can be booked at 100% profit, a la Brooks

 

[Spadge54]

Letting him go would be insane, you have literally taken away the whole goals and assist pretty much (apart from burrows and bamford) from last season and haven’t replaced and probably won’t.

 

[ben1987]

Could anyone really blame him if he did go somewhere?

He signed for a promotion hopeful, we are no where fucking near one of those anymore

He signed to play with his mate, we’ve sold him

He signed to play football. He’s now the only player we have physically capable of maintaining a high intensity press. But in reality he’s pressing the balls that McGuinness and Tanganga have lumped over his head for the 47th time.

I would usually say at this point anyone bar Wrexham because Parkinson’s football is shite but the mad thing is that even Parkinson’s Wrexham play more football than we do these days.

 

[Champagneblade]

I don’t think he will be sold. It’s very late to be doing that.

Just a couple of thoughts i find interesting:

He’s arguably the only reason to play 4-2-3-1 now.

Unless you move BBD or Chong into the 10 role, you could argue then the remaining staff lend themselves more to a simple 4-4-2; Donovan and BBD out wide and then perm 2 from Bamford, Oné, Cannon and Campbell. Alternatively 3-5-2 with two out and out forward players.

Who else could fill in for him? Peck perhaps? Arblaster? I think Peck played further forward when he came through.

If he went I’d imagine Chris Wilder might ditch the idea of a 10 entirely and get a big target man.

Other thing is, what price would make you sell? If someone offered 10m then it would be hard to turn down.

If someone offered 5m I think we’d be knocking it back. How much do you reckon would be simply too compelling?

 

[Champagneblade]

What do you mean ‘become’ ?

To compare this season to historical events, I’m thinking the Somme.

 

[Bladeloyal]

Would this be part of their plans to raise as much money to pay the Prince what he's owed?

Deary me

 

[Millhousesblade1889]

If I had the confidence we could sign 2 good wingers with the sale fee I think I’d be open to the idea….however we won’t, so it would be daft to sell

 

[SwissBlade]

If I had the confidence we could sign 2 good wingers with the sale fee I think I’d be open to the idea….however we won’t, so it would be daft to sell

Yeah we’d really struggle to get anyone in at this short notice.

 

[S64 Blade]

He was a free transfer. So ANY fee can be booked at 100% profit, a la Brooks

That may be so, but if you manage to acquire a Rolex for ‘free’ you don’t want to sell it for £50 either.

 

[Blade56]

Yeah we’d really struggle to get anyone in at this short notice.

Wilders little black book will have loads of former projects players on speed dial.

 

[mattbianco1]

That may be so, but if you manage to acquire a Rolex for ‘free’ you don’t want to sell it for £50 either.

True, but personal Rolex's aren't governed by SCR

 

[Blade56]

We’ll know if he’s not in tomorrow’s line up. Still time for him to be playing for Wrexham tomorrow.

 

[HAP]

Wilders little black book will have loads of former projects players on speed dial.

Is that Kieran Dowell?

 

[Kenilworth]

I don’t think he will be sold. It’s very late to be doing that.

Just a couple of thoughts i find interesting:

He’s arguably the only reason to play 4-2-3-1 now.

Unless you move BBD or Chong into the 10 role, you could argue then the remaining staff lend themselves more to a simple 4-4-2; Donovan and BBD out wide and then perm 2 from Bamford, Oné, Cannon and Campbell. Alternatively 3-5-2 with two out and out forward players.

Who else could fill in for him? Peck perhaps? Arblaster? I think Peck played further forward when he came through.

If he went I’d imagine Chris Wilder might ditch the idea of a 10 entirely and get a big target man.

Other thing is, what price would make you sell? If someone offered 10m then it would be hard to turn down.

If someone offered 5m I think we’d be knocking it back. How much do you reckon would be simply too compelling?

I can see that happening.

 

[Weasel]

That may be so, but if you manage to acquire a Rolex for ‘free’ you don’t want to sell it for £50 either.

And it wasnt a 'free' transfer. I think it was well known at the time that O'Hare reveived a rather generous signing on fee from United which ran into the millions. The transfer fee as such went to the player rather than Coventry as he had ran down his contract. So if we gave him away cheaply, weve also wrote off the 'fee' that we gave to him as an enticement to sign on with us in the first place.

Anyway, i wouldnt be at all surprised if Deadly Danny from the Stir, was acting on the request of the club to run a story about this when the club have no intention of selling. Adding a story about one of our better players leaving (he wont be) takes fans thoughts away from Utds failure so far to get the necessary number of signings in through the door. When we only sign one more and the 'we will be exploring the free agents market' shout goes up, it will be caveated with the 'and the club had to stay strong to resist last minute approaches for our own players....'. The fans are suddenly then thinking, 'well we didnt bring in what we needed, but at least we didnt lose our better players'....

In business, its like giving out bad information in the old shit sandwich. You start off telling the staff things that are fairly positive, then drop in the shit message that pisses people off, then add in some positive news again. So, 1) Were looking to bring in a few players, 2) The current best players may be sold, 3) We didnt get the new players we wanted... but at least our better players are still here, so everyone can be happy again.

 

[Ron_Justice]

He was a free transfer. So ANY fee can be booked at 100% profit, a la Brooks

I'd completely forgotten he was a free agent. Still think the £5M figures I'm seeing are a bit on the tight side.

 

[GeorgeDonis1889]

Relegation would become a concern if this happens

 

[Cuypers]

What a start to the week ffs

 

[Champagneblade]

To me, he’s one of few players in the opposition’s half who matches the workrate of Ndiaye and he was exceptional off the ball.

I just wish he had similar ball control.

 

[The Fox]

Is that Kieran Dowell?

Good player , held a team together

 

[Super Furry Blades]

Don't want windass anywhere near this club absolutely detest him

How well do you know him ??

 

[Blade58]

Relegation would become a concern if this happens

It’s a concern regardless imo

 

[Keen Blade]

He's not a winger and we don't play a no.10.

Hypothetically, would you take 8m and swap him for two wingers. A Cleary and Rak-Saki? I probably would.

We don't play a no.10 ?
That's not the only thing we don't play
We don't play ANY TYPE of cohesive attacking football
I sat in stunned silence at Cardiff whilst Cannon drifted out to the RW and we lumped endless high balls up to CoH , the teeny tiniest player on the pitch.
I tried to get hold of a consultant psychiatrist on emergency call so they could come and Section the manager and the entire team , based on 5 minutes observation of the empirical evidence on the pitch.