Gone Elsewhere Conor Coady

[Bladeinleeds]

Isn’t he the wolves captain who played every minute last season and getting England buzz.

Absolutely no chance they are selling him imo.

 

[Tunstall Fred]

Isn’t he the wolves captain who played every minute last season and getting England buzz.

Absolutely no chance they are selling him imo.

At £7 million, they are giving him away

 

[Bladesman]

If he is going for 7mil then we should certainly be looking at him.

 

[SwitchBLADE Smiles]

No way that Wolves are going to sell their captain for £7 million.

 

[Oldun]

We missed the boat with Coady when we assumed he was too expensive after his loan with us and didn’t bother enquiring - only for Huddersfield to buy him for £450,000. That turned out well for us. Great player, Wolves won’t be letting him go anywhere.

 

[YES Blade]

We missed the boat with Coady when we assumed he was too expensive after his loan with us and didn’t bother enquiring - only for Huddersfield to buy him for £450,000. That turned out well for us. Great player, Wolves won’t be letting him go anywhere.

Or more likely, we tried to sign him but Coady decided to sign for a Championship club rather than a League One club.

 

[LJBlade]

Or more likely, we tried to sign him but Coady decided to sign for a Championship club rather than a League One club.

Which is exactly what happened, as I've said on here plenty of times before.

 

[Patrick Suffaux]

17m would be more believable

 

[Oldun]

Which is exactly what happened, as I've said on here plenty of times before.

Well you have been wrong on here plenty of times then!

 

[LJBlade]

Well you have been wrong on here plenty of times then!

Coady himself must have been wrong then, or just lying to me.

 

[Oldun]

Coady himself must have been wrong then, or just lying to me.

Or just told you what he thought you wanted to hear?

 

[LJBlade]

Or just told you what he thought you wanted to hear?

There was no reason for him to do so as I didn't care either way.

 

[AdamSufc1997]

Unfortunately we missed that chance of signing him penny pinching, won't have a chance

 

[LoughboroBlade]

Unfortunately we missed that chance of signing him penny pinching, won't have a chance

Not completely a disaster ultimately. When we realised we couldn’t get our first choice of an all-round midfielder that could double-up as a defender, we went to a cheap out-of-contract option.

The rest is history.

 

[Booker4]

17m would be more believable

Probably more like £27m, he's close to an England call up and is still relatively young.

 

[Mouth of the South]

Not completely a disaster ultimately. When we realised we couldn’t get our first choice of an all-round midfielder that could double-up as a defender, we went to a cheap out-of-contract option.

The rest is history.

Didn't Utd sign James Wallace instead of Coady?

 

[ChipButtyBlade]

Villa sign another.

 

[LoughboroBlade]

Didn't Utd sign James Wallace instead of Coady?

We signed both Wallace and Basham the same summer. Wallace struck me as a one-position-only player – at a push two, if you count the treatment table. He wasn’t someone with the multi-position versatility of Coady.

 

[Booker4]

Villa sign another.

The El Ghazi and Hause deal were agreed in principle to be a permanent deal so my guess is they were much easier to sort out then starting from scratch.

I don't think Villa will be in the relegation scrap to be honest, not the way they're going about recruitment and they already have Grealish and McGinn who I think will flourish in the Prem - not that I don't think Fleck and Norwood won't be.

I'm more concerned with the recruitment of Burnley, Norwich and Brighton and in particular who wins the race for Ollie McBurnie.

Saying that, who knows, maybe Villa will do a Fulham and spend a fortune and get relegated!

 

[Ricky]

We could have had John McGinn and (possibly) Coady that summer. That would've just about sorted our midfield for L1. Then there was Duffy for 50k when we flogged Blackman in January 2013.

But why bother investing a few hundred grand in sure things. How many of those players did we senselessly ignore pre Wilder...

What awful, penny pinchingly backward days those were. Clueless, from top to bottom.

 

[ChipButtyBlade]

I think Villa will be a safe bet to stay up.

 

[JackSUFC]

I think Villa will be a safe bet to stay up.

They’ll re-establish themselves as a PL club again. Doubt they’ll go down for years.

 

[Guesty]

Or more likely, we tried to sign him but Coady decided to sign for a Championship club rather than a League One club.

That's as maybe, but there was some serious misinformation about how much we bid for Coady.

 

[Oldun]

That's as maybe, but there was some serious misinformation about how much we bid for Coady.

Yeh there is. We didn’t.

 

[alcoblade]

We missed the boat with Coady when we assumed he was too expensive after his loan with us and didn’t bother enquiring - only for Huddersfield to buy him for £450,000. That turned out well for us. Great player, Wolves won’t be letting him go anywhere.

How do you know we didn’t enquire, and what wage was he demanding?

 

[Bladeinleeds]

We could have had John McGinn and (possibly) Coady that summer. That would've just about sorted our midfield for L1. Then there was Duffy for 50k when we flogged Blackman in January 2013.

But why bother investing a few hundred grand in sure things. How many of those players did we senselessly ignore pre Wilder...

What awful, penny pinchingly backward days those were. Clueless, from top to bottom.

All in retrospect though isn’t it.

Would you really have trusted any of our managers pre wilder with the players? They might have had a good season but we’d have sold them for a million or so ala Murphy straight away so the point would have been moot by the time wilder arrived.

With that midfield there might never have been a fleck or coutts and finding the perfect 2 players centrebacks for the current system.

Wilder was what was needed to pull the club together and imo he needed to cut his teeth properly in the league to get where he is with Alan knill today.

 

[I should coco]

What awful, penny pinchingly backward days those were. Clueless, from top to bottom.

We had quite a decent budget but HRH and his retinue persuaded NC to blow it on the Beard.

Don't let that stop you rewriting history though....

 

[Moan? Nope-I saw Longhorn]

Or more likely, we tried to sign him but Coady decided to sign for a Championship club rather than a League One club.

Aye and ultimately we signed Coutts ( the following January) 'instead' so hardly the disaster some folk (now) describe

 

[CaptainMorgans]

Wilder confirmed today that he tried to sign Conor Coady. Not sure that was ever made official. He'd have been superb for us.

 

[LoughboroBlade]

Wilder confirmed today that he tried to sign Conor Coady. Not sure that was ever made official. He'd have been superb for us.

He said in a Radio Sheffield interview at the time we bid in 2017 that a bid had gone in.