Outgoing? Tom Cannon

[TJ blade]

If Cannon goes to Preston, could we send Campbell back to Stoke?

 

[Keen Blade]

We should go and get Brian Deane from Donny - only £40k ...
Oh shit , I've woken up

 

[Sithblade]

We should go and get Brian Deane from Donny - only £40k ...
Oh shit , I've woken up

Doesn't seem to happen as much with quality players in the lower leagues on your doorstep who you could have picked up cheap. Deano, Stan, Ian and Glyn Snodin, Gerry Forrest, Bobby Mimms, Steve Agnew, Gerry Taggert.

 

[Blade56]

If Cannon goes to Preston, could we send Campbell back to Stoke?

Campbell has just signed a new deal with us. He obviously figures in Wilders plans

 

[Big.Dane.w]

Had a quick look on the Preston forum, they seem fine with having Cannon and most believe wages won’t be an issue but they think we’re asking too much for him. Hopefully we’ve just gone in high and an agreement can be made somewhere in the middle.

 

[ATL Recs]

Campbell has just signed a new deal with us. He obviously figures in Wilders plans

Does he ? or does it make him a sellable asset

 

[Brian Deane]

We should go and get Brian Deane from Donny - only £40k ...
Oh shit , I've woken up

I'm too busy ripping floors up and decorating, sorting the new garden borders and layout.
Walking the dog and finding time to fit my 40hour shift in atm..............and breathe.....

 

[Keen Blade]

Campbell has just signed a new deal with us. He obviously figures in Wilders plans

Yeh he's planning springs for his boots so he can jump for a header

 

[Keen Blade]

I'm too busy ripping floors up and decorating, sorting the new garden borders and layout.
Walking the dog and finding time to fit my 40hour shift in atm..............and breathe.....

You must be match-fit then !

 

[TJ blade]

Campbell has just signed a new deal with us. He obviously figures in Wilders plans

Preston could buy one , get one cheaper

 

[Brian Deane]

You must be match-fit then !

Fit to a degree, but nowhere near match fitness.

 

[Brownieblade]

People now desperately hoping that Preston received decent money lol

I still think loan will be the most likely outcome for a move away if Cannon does go

 

[JD88]

Be surprised if Preston got the money for the fee and his alleged wages.

 

[mattbianco1]

Clarkson... a man with lots of common sense

 

[Lucky1979]

I’d say his inability to play football is reason it’s not worked out for him

 

[bertieblade]

These clips and certain aspects of his play at bdtbl indicate that he does make runs, could it be that you just give up making them when our style of play ensure our midfield players never release the ball quickly enough?

 

[3Cheers4Ramirez]

Last season he had Hamer, Brooks, O'Hare and Bamford to supply him

We were capable enough of creating and scoring

He has absolutely no excuse

Even less excuse for his total lack of fight, desire and physicality

He is simply a toss player who needs wank opponents and easy chances plated up to him

He'd score a few somewhere like Peterborough

 

[Blade58]

I’m ok with him leaving provided CW is given money to get a permanent replacement and not another loan

 

[joe casey]

These clips and certain aspects of his play at bdtbl indicate that he does make runs, could it be that you just give up making them when our style of play ensure our midfield players never release the ball quickly enough?

Gus Hamer made 13 assists last season, more than anyone else in the league. Not a single one for Tom Cannon.
I'd suggest the passes exist the competent striker did not.

 

[Blade In Flame]

We should go and get Brian Deane from Donny - only £40k ...
Oh shit , I've woken up

That was a long shower, Mr Ewing.

 

[KMC-1889]

Clarkson... a man with lots of common sense

Teams don’t defend that against us. He can’t run in behind when the team set up to defend their box.

They do this because they know our only route to goal is that little triangle thing we do with Seriki and a midfielder.

 

[Millhousesblade1889]

I’m ok with him leaving provided CW is given money to get a permanent replacement and not another loan

I cant see anyone paying £5-7m but if they did I don't think you'd see any of that re-invested unfortunately.

 

[Houston_Blade]

I’m ok with him leaving provided CW is given money to get a permanent replacement and not another loan

I’m ok with him leaving, as long as Wilder isn’t given any money for a replacement to waste on shite like Cannon or Brewster.

 

[Tarqs]

I’m ok with him leaving, as long as Wilder isn’t given any money for a replacement to waste on shite like Cannon or Brewster.

Don't worry, after being bitten by the England and Irish options, we've got Lyndon Dykes earmarked.

 

[ben1987]

I’m not buying into this sentiment it’s the team and not the player one bit.

Anyone that had watched him more than 2/3 times before we even signed him knew he was a terrible fit. Way too passive and ineffective in all round play to be ever worth that kind of sum.

So what he can look ok in a very specific circumstance in a game when he gets an inch perfect through ball, a sleeping defender and he’s able to touch bang goal. What does that make up? <5% of a football match. The other 95% of the game we may as well play with 10 men because he has no other outstanding attribute, not one. If the defence is even half alive to his movement he gets shrugged off the ball like a child.

He’s not fuckin Haaland so he’s nowhere near good enough to focus the whole teams game plan around.

I could totally forgive him if the goals hadn’t arrived but he ran his bollocks off in the channels, linked up and held the ball up but no, nothing in those areas because he’s small, slow, weak, not at all skillful and nesh. He was favourite to the ball more than once again Birmingham and curved his run or slowed down to avoid a collision, allowed the defender in front and then stuck a half arsed leg out after. It’s unforgivable.

A certain Billy Sharp was known as a fox in the box, poacher type forward but Billy did everything Cannon does not. When he wasn’t scoring goals he ran the channels, used his body well, held the ball up back to goal and shithoused us no end of set pieces. He was a stocky, determined, tenacious, bitey little fucker who contributed to the team. He was phenomenal linking MGW and Ndiyae.

I’d love to see us recoup a chunk of the cannon money, I’d be absolutely astounded if he ever truly became the 10m man. Hes not that young anymore and his all round game is miles off.

 

[davidblade]

I’m driving past Preston this afternoon. Does he want a lift

 

[S17 Blade 1889]

From Wiki/Opta i think

Sheffield United (Jan 2025 Onward):
Following his recall by Leicester and permanent transfer to Sheffield United in January 2025, he received 3 big chances across 15 league appearances (mostly as a rotation option/substitute).


During the 2025/26 season, Tom Cannon had 11 big (high-quality) chances created for him by his Sheffield United teammates across 37 total appearances.

Compared to the previous campaign, Cannon operated primarily in a rotational role—often split between start assignments (19 starts) and impact substitute appearances (17 off the bench in the Championship).

So we didn't create that much for him to be fair. Though still happy for him to go i think he needs it.

 

[Working Class Hero]

I once saw Chris Morgan score a bicycle kick. We never seemed to play it to him for a bicycle kick ever again after that. He'd have scored a lot more goals if we set the team up to play to his bicycle kicking strengths.

This actually makes more sense than the Tom Cannon argument, as I've seen Tom Cannon be played a through ball god knows how many times, for him to be outpaced by the defender, outmuscled by the defender, or miss the one-on-one. I genuinely never saw Morgan get another bicycle kick opportunity.

 

[Bladesman]

I’m not buying into this sentiment it’s the team and not the player one bit.

Anyone that had watched him more than 2/3 times before we even signed him knew he was a terrible fit. Way too passive and ineffective in all round play to be ever worth that kind of sum.

So what he can look ok in a very specific circumstance in a game when he gets an inch perfect through ball, a sleeping defender and he’s able to touch bang goal. What does that make up? <5% of a football match. The other 95% of the game we may as well play with 10 men because he has no other outstanding attribute, not one. If the defence is even half alive to his movement he gets shrugged off the ball like a child.

He’s not fuckin Haaland so he’s nowhere near good enough to focus the whole teams game plan around.

I could totally forgive him if the goals hadn’t arrived but he ran his bollocks off in the channels, linked up and held the ball up but no, nothing in those areas because he’s small, slow, weak, not at all skillful and nesh. He was favourite to the ball more than once again Birmingham and curved his run or slowed down to avoid a collision, allowed the defender in front and then stuck a half arsed leg out after. It’s unforgivable.

A certain Billy Sharp was known as a fox in the box, poacher type forward but Billy did everything Cannon does not. When he wasn’t scoring goals he ran the channels, used his body well, held the ball up back to goal and shithoused us no end of set pieces. He was a stocky, determined, tenacious, bitey little fucker who contributed to the team. He was phenomenal linking MGW and Ndiyae.

I’d love to see us recoup a chunk of the cannon money, I’d be absolutely astounded if he ever truly became the 10m man. Hes not that young anymore and his all round game is miles off.

Like I said previously even Brewster put the graft in and got the odd assist.

 

[The Fox]

I think Tom Cannon knows he needs to move on to restart his career, I think the club know the same . Finding the right fit for him at a new club at a value that suits sufc is the tricky bit .

We've seen a few players over the years who just didnt work for us , hes just one to add to the list .

Hope for his snd the clubs sake a comprise can be reached.