Wilder talks a lot about attitude and team spirit.
He obviously knows and likes BBD and his attitude, and as indicated by the Derby view from, attracting players to the club at the moment could be difficult with the potential of points deductions and ownership struggles, so I have some respect for anyone choosing to come her right now.
The only reason fans aren’t feeling very excited by this signing is that we’ve had him before, but his stats are generally that of that of at least a play-off level forward, with the odd season as a truly top level championship striker. If he was someone new with similar stats there would much more buzz about it.
I think wilder is at his best wheeling and dealing with scraps and bringing the best / finding good fits out of previously average players.
I think we’ll end up mid table this season, maybe scrape play offs if we don’t get a points deduction, and flirt with relegation if we do, but I don’t think we’ve done too bad business under very difficult circumstances. If we get lucky with injuries we could end up being comfortably in the play offs.
Anyway, never mind all that, Mrs Bladeaway is Chilean and she’s over the moon!