RUMOUR: Nahki Wells

[Wycombe Royal]

Why would a club sacking their manager mean an owner is going to accept a "cheeky" bid for their star player?

1.The incoming manager might not rate the 'star player', might see the 'star player' as being associated with the outgoing manager and might want to bring in a new 'star player' that fits in more with his style of play.
2. If the outgoing manager has been sacked due to poor results, an incoming manager will want to change things around and stamp their own authority and personality on a squad and will gradually change it. The 'star player' might well command the highest transfer fee and therefore be the best way of generating income to fund a freshening up of the squad.
3. The incoming manager might 'blame' the 'star player' for not performing and being partly responsible for the outgoing manager's sacking and there could, therefore, be a basic lack of trust between the two from the outset.

Equally, there could be a number of reasons why an incoming manager might want to keep a 'star player' but you only have to look at the Le Fondre/Adkins relationship to see that an incoming manager will often have different ideas about the merits, or otherwise, of players in the squad he inherits.

But there is no incoming manager yet. So my point stands.

[Sutekh]

why clutch at straws over the vague possibility that Reading might try and be cheeky when you all know they won't. Huddersfield have no manager and won't for a few more days at least and even then the guy is going to want to know more about all the players in their squad they've inherited....

Close thread.

[M Brook]

Why would a club sacking their manager mean an owner is going to accept a "cheeky" bid for their star player?

1.The incoming manager might not rate the 'star player', might see the 'star player' as being associated with the outgoing manager and might want to bring in a new 'star player' that fits in more with his style of play.
2. If the outgoing manager has been sacked due to poor results, an incoming manager will want to change things around and stamp their own authority and personality on a squad and will gradually change it. The 'star player' might well command the highest transfer fee and therefore be the best way of generating income to fund a freshening up of the squad.
3. The incoming manager might 'blame' the 'star player' for not performing and being partly responsible for the outgoing manager's sacking and there could, therefore, be a basic lack of trust between the two from the outset.

Equally, there could be a number of reasons why an incoming manager might want to keep a 'star player' but you only have to look at the Le Fondre/Adkins relationship to see that an incoming manager will often have different ideas about the merits, or otherwise, of players in the squad he inherits.

But there is no incoming manager yet. So my point stands.

You asked a general question rather than a specific one, so my response still stands.

[Hoop Blah]

...you only have to look at the Le Fondre/Adkins relationship to see that an incoming manager will often have different ideas about the merits, or otherwise, of players in the squad he inherits.

Although Adkins didn't really have any different ideas about Le Fondre than McDermott did he?

[M Brook]

...you only have to look at the Le Fondre/Adkins relationship to see that an incoming manager will often have different ideas about the merits, or otherwise, of players in the squad he inherits.

Although Adkins didn't really have any different ideas about Le Fondre than McDermott did he?

In the end, they probably came to the same conclusion but when McDermot signed him he presumably thought he would be the 'star player'.

[Hoop Blah]

Why do you think that?

Do you think he thought the same of Akpan or Brett Williams?

[M Brook]

We have digressed to a rather pointless and trivial discussion.

Back to the boy Wells and his imminent arrival at the Stad de Mad

[Ian Royal]

M Brook having a bit of an uncharacteristic 'mare there.

[M Brook]

M Brook having a bit of an uncharacteristic 'mare there.

Not so sure about that (Br)Ian. I thought it was a game of two halves. HB started off on the front foot but I thought I came back strongly. He showed some defensive strength but I retaliated in kind and I think a draw was a fair result in the end.

Anyway, back to Nakhi.

[The Rouge]

It was a misunderstanding but still a recent post, so fair play if Brook shields himself from any flak given..

[Agent Balti]

Brook Shields....see what you did there. Well played.

[Only one Trevor Morley]

Twitter seems to think we may have bid again although that has been turned down.

[Tommio]

Twitter seems to think we may have bid again although that has been turned down.

It's not true, just people pretending to be itk

[MmmMonsterMunch]

This has to be true. If we had to sell McCarthy to balance the books then we would obviously stump up millions for Wells....

[SPARTA]

Twitter seems to think we may have bid again although that has been turned down.

It's a spotty little oik on the wind-up. As if we'd bid £4m to get anyone at this level.

[Royalwaster]

This has to be true. If we had to sell McCarthy to balance the books then we would obviously stump up millions for Wells....

We didn't sell McC to balance the books ... but agree that we also won't bid for NW as he'd cost too much.