CONFIRMED Callum O'Hare - signs for Wrexham

[Blade56]

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

It’s not about how much we get. Money is only good enough if it brings in an equivalent or better replacement(s).

 

[Hamer's Right Peg]

Has to be a 10m+ fee at this stage of the window.

 

[Keen Blade]

Doherty
BBD
Phillips
Bamford
Jairo
Choudhary

Either going back or have no resale value.

May as well have a badly programmed computer in charge and save Wilder's salary

 

[Blade56]

May as well have a badly programmed computer in charge and save Wilder's salary

We did have but Wilder out thought it and it went into skip with fax machibe

 

[Ron_Justice]

It's all profit V's what we paid, but still, £5M feel low for his position, skill set and contract length. £7.5M/£8M okay, talk, £10M, where do we sign?

However, there better be an agent on speed dial, this late in the window, with a ready made replacement.

Could this be a position for a highly rated PL loan? With a decent fee incoming, maybe being able to pay more of the wage for a PL Wonderkid would make us a more appealing destination for the Parent Club?

 

[Champagneblade]

Good player , held a team together

Had a good song too

 

[Blood Red]

If he is to leave. We must achieve the maximum fee possible. Will we use the incoming money?. I have my doubts.

 

[Lord Eddard Muir]

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

He'll have been tapping Louis Reed up the other week.

 

[Bladesman101]

£10m accept it. We all know that this season is a write off, I’d snatch 16th now with a view of committing to a younger, fresher squad for next season.

 

[ben1987]

£10m accept it. We all know that this season is a write off, I’d snatch 16th now with a view of committing to a younger, fresher squad for next season.

Committing to a younger, fresher squad for next season would involve signing some now.

We are committing to an aging, injury prone squad of journeymen for the next 2/3 seasons currently

 

[Kozzy_is_my_Dad]

£10m accept it. We all know that this season is a write off, I’d snatch 16th now with a view of committing to a younger, fresher squad for next season.

And play who, creatively?

 

[ChipButtyBlade]

What do you mean ‘become’ ?

I mean absolute dog shit boring..if O'Hare goes.....................I would defo miss Cooper hoofing every kick out to the little fella.

 

[Bladesman101]

And play who, creatively?

I accept it will make us a weaker squad but if safety was guaranteed then I can’t be arsed with the whole needing to sell desperation of next season

 

[Bladesman101]

Committing to a younger, fresher squad for next season would involve signing some now.

We are committing to an aging, injury prone squad of journeymen for the next 2/3 seasons currently

I hope we change this desperate transfer policy we seem to have adopted

 

[Blade56]

He'll have been tapping Louis Reed up the other week.

You’ve said it now

 

[scouseblade]

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.

Sell our now only creative player to cash in and then we'll complain even more when we play hoof ball. Its madness. We should be offering him a new deal not selling him.

 

[blades_95]

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

A truly awful character. Even forgetting he played for Wednesday, unbelievable arrogance for a lower Championship quality player. Also bullies youth team players.

I really really hope Wilder stays as far away from him as possible.

 

[Blade56]

Has to be a 10m+ fee at this stage of the window.

This would strengthen them, weaken us and we’ll not see £10m or £10 quid reinvested.

If this happens it will confirm an asset stripping exercise.

 

[billyblademan]

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.

You’re still thinking about the bad news aren’t you?

 

[S64 Blade]

Sell our now only creative player to cash in and then we'll complain even more when we play hoof ball. Its madness. We should be offering him a new deal not selling him.

I’d be staggered if he’d sign a new deal with us in our current state.

 

[JohnDenver]

At the beginning of the summer we knew we’d need to ditch some high earners, and COH is one of the candidates. So I trust we have a list of realistic replacements.

However, the later we leave the sale the harder it becomes to recruit. So unless the deal is made contingent on his replacements, it’d be extremely foolish to sell now.

It also highlights the questionable decision to let Brooks go so early. Did we believe it had to be done early, and no equivalent or better offers would be tabled? It’s not like selling Brooks unlocked any other deals.

 

[bertieblade]

At the beginning of the summer we knew we’d need to ditch some high earners, and COH is one of the candidates. So I trust we have a list of realistic replacements.

However, the later we leave the sale the harder it becomes to recruit. So unless the deal is made contingent on his replacements, it’d be extremely foolish to sell now.

It also highlights the questionable decision to let Brooks go so early. Did we believe it had to be done early, and no equivalent or better offers would be tabled? It’s not like selling Brooks unlocked any other deals.

Brooks was sold when he was as we needed profit prior to year end

 

[bertieblade]

And play who, creatively?

We do not need creative players, we just lump it forward for Bamford and cannon to chase. Does not work but that is what we do

 

[Macfarlane21]

The only way im happy with losing O'Hare is 8m+ which is directly put back into the team to bring in Reyes Cleary and another decent winger with good potential.

Daniel Job — Kongsvinger
Likely fee: £2.5–4m
Age: 20
Position: RW/LW
He produced 13 goal contributions last season. Norwich have reportedly been looking at him.

Adrian Blake — Utrecht
Likely fee: £2.5m
Age: 20
Position: LW/RW
Young, English, quick and capable of playing both sides. Both old firm clubs and Wolves looking at him.

 

[CaptainMorgans]

I'm not against selling O'Hare, or any player for that matter... there has to be a replacement plan though.

We've already sold Brooks and Hamer. Lose O'Hare and I'm struggling to see a goal threat.

Seriki is sounding like a longer term injury. Choudhury and McCallum aren't exactly flying full backs.

Teams that can't score goals end up in relegation battles.

 

[NerdyBlade]

Doherty
BBD
Phillips
Bamford
Jairo
Choudhary

Either going back or have no resale value.

Doherty was a free agent, so wages won't have been that high considering the offers he'll have had, same with Bamford and Riedewald.

City paying the majority of Phillips wage, and Choudry won't be on massive wages either

But other than that, you don't have an argument?

 

[Super Furry Blades]

A truly awful character. Even forgetting he played for Wednesday, unbelievable arrogance for a lower Championship quality player. Also bullies youth team players.

I really really hope Wilder stays as far away from him as possible.

Now who does that remind me of ....?
Gary fucking Madine ( a player i hated seeing in a blades shirt )
But for some reason most people were happy to see him arrive.
And hes the type wilder would definitely be interested in ....Its his football club & he Doesn't care what anyone else thinks

 

[JohnDenver]

Brooks was sold when he was as we needed profit prior to year end

Fair point. It’s just a shame we couldn’t sell the high earners early on.

 

[brownblade]

Not even exaggerating when I say there's no point watching a single match if we sell O'Hare.

 

[ben1987]

I hope we change this desperate transfer policy we seem to have adopted

I can’t see it can you?

And you know what, I think this season it’s a trade off. They’re trying to get some experienced pros in to make sure we stay up.

However, it’s going to harm the club in the long run.

We are now no longer a parachute club, so we don’t have a financial advantage anymore. Non-parachute clubs are reliant on finding players that either come in on the cheap and impact the first team enough to take them up OR make a big profit on so they can help support the club and sign the next batch of players at the same time.

We are signing players and assembling a squad that’ll will do neither of those things. We won’t be good enough to go up and no one we are bringing in will go on and provide us with a profit because their best days are behind them.

Wolves fans said Doherty’s legs had gone, he was slow and unavailable. He plays 60 odd minutes against Blackburn, isn’t able to start the next game in Seikis absence which forces us to chuck an inexperienced young lad in out of position. We then have to go out and look for another right back - so we go after a 28 year old defensive midfielder who Leicester can’t wait to give away, so he’ll never make us owt either.

if they’d come out and said ‘we are now no longer a parachute club, we need to cut our cloth and work on a 2/3/4 year plan’ and proceeded to look at young players, with high ceiling and potential re-sale value then I think a lot of the fans would have been slightly disappointed but see the bigger picture and been patient and reluctantly accepted 2/3 season of mediocrity for the greater good. We just don’t seem to have a plan for anything beyond this season
. At all.