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1st choice left back as soon as he is fit.
Definitely with Wood - double figures this season and a game that doesn't rely on pace. I'd give him two years.Agree. Think giving Chris Wood another year would be a smart move also. Leaves us with less work to do on a tight budget this summer if we keep those three around IMO.
Aren't Wood's wages meant to be huge though? (rumoured 90k/wk)Definitely with Wood - double figures this season and a game that doesn't rely on pace. I'd give him two years.
The average PL weekly salary is around £60k PW and it's always going to be higher for a striker. There's the odd one that won't be the highest earner that's not a striker or someone that has a "highest earner" clause in their contract but by and large it will usually be a striker. Finding one on less than Wood won't be easyAren't Wood's wages meant to be huge though? (rumoured 90k/wk)
Depends what league we're in as to whether we can resign him or not really. In the likely event we're back in the Champ, then I don't think we'll have a choice in the matter tbh.
Agreed, especially with our recruiters.The average PL weekly salary is around £60k PW and it's always going to be higher for a striker. There's the odd one that won't be the highest earner that's not a striker or someone that has a "highest earner" clause in their contract but by and large it will usually be a striker. Finding one on less than Wood won't be easy
Wood for an extra year will cost maybe £4m ish. If he’d been fit all season he probably gets 15 goals this season. He also seems a good sort, one of the senior pros and we know what we get. Unless there is an amazing option on a free who isn’t gonna get snaffled by someone else it makes sense to extend him. He’d also do well in championship if it came to that.The average PL weekly salary is around £60k PW and it's always going to be higher for a striker. There's the odd one that won't be the highest earner that's not a striker or someone that has a "highest earner" clause in their contract but by and large it will usually be a striker. Finding one on less than Wood won't be easy
The irony being they were pretty widely criticised for bringing the player in we are talking about extending.Agreed, especially with our recruiters.
I think the question is, do we keep both Wood and Taiwo given both struggling to be available for selection? Either would be too expensive as third option (when we play one up top) and I'd be really fearful if we haven't brought in another striker as I have no faith in those two being fit.Wood for an extra year will cost maybe £4m ish. If he’d been fit all season he probably gets 15 goals this season. He also seems a good sort, one of the senior pros and we know what we get. Unless there is an amazing option on a free who isn’t gonna get snaffled by someone else it makes sense to extend him. He’d also do well in championship if it came to that.
Wood was run in to the ground through January which probably hasn’t helped.I think the question is, do we keep both Wood and Taiwo given both struggling to be available for selection? Either would be too expensive as third option (when we play one up top) and I'd be really fearful if we haven't brought in another striker as I have no faith in those two being fit.
But on the face of it, keeping the second top per minute goalscorer in the PL is a no brainer.
Rightly so too. Wood was an awful fit for Cooper's style. Having to change manager to compensate and get something from that deal is nothing to be happy about. It's a perfect example of how much the club lacks joined up thinking with it's recruitment strategies.The irony being they were pretty widely criticised for bringing the player in we are talking about extending.
Just because he failed to use him correctly doesn't make him an awful fit, and you don't always want/need a drop in replacement - although granted, I always feel we were/are a more like for like striker short.Rightly so too. Wood was an awful fit for Cooper's style. Having to change manager to compensate and get something from that deal is nothing to be happy about. It's a perfect example of how much the club lacks joined up thinking with it's recruitment strategies.
You buy the players for the manager, not give him players which don't suit him. That's not the managers fault, that's the recruiters.Just because he failed to use him correctly doesn't make him an awful fit, and you don't always want/need a drop in replacement - although granted, I always feel we were/are a more like for like striker short.
Edit: I'll add that, as much as I love him, Cooper's use of Wood was baffling.
Nope! Give a coach a proven premier league goalscorer and it's down to the him to get the best out of him. Treating him as a Taiwo drop in was ridiculous - he has different attributes... and I'd suggest that for a forward that's a plus within a squad, since it allows for a different approach.You buy the players for the manager, not give him players which don't suit him. That's not the managers fault, that's the recruiters.
You buy the players for the manager, not give him players which don't suit him.
Ah, so clubs have been targeting and buying players which don't suit the manager. Got you. My mistake.We may not like it, but that's not how football has worked for about 20 years.
Managers have to get the most out of players. Wood is the second best goalscorer per minute this year in the PL.
Cooper failing to utilise that ability is absolutely a failure on his part.
Clubs have been buying players they think are quality players (yes with some thought as to current manager but certainly not that being the overriding criteria).Ah, so clubs have been buying players which don't suit the manager. Got you. My mistake.
Oh I agree with your first claim, but most do so with a view to the current manager in charge being able to use them too.Clubs have been buying players they think are quality players (yes with some thought as to current manager but certainly not that being the overriding criteria).
Players are more costly than managers and the average managerial life span is tiny these days. Clubs can't afford to turn over their playing staff every time a manager moves on.
And regardless if a manager can't use a goalscorer, that's a major problem.
I'm not putting it all on Cooper. There are 1000s of other issues.aOh I agree with your first claim, but most do so with a view to the current manager in charge being able to use them too.
There's a reason Davis and Surridge fit straight into the side like a glove, and Wood didn't. That's because Murphy was getting players to suit Coops and his style, whereas the current lot weren't.
Putting that all on the manager is a bit laughable tbh.
Oh I definitely think Coops could have done better with him, but with how Coops setup I wasn't surprised it didn't work either. Coops needs an Awoniyi/Davis bulker option for his MO to work. Wood isn't that.I'm not putting it all on Cooper. There are 1000s of other issues.a
But surely you have to accept that him being unable to correctly utilise a player that is now the second most effective goal scorer in the PL is a significant failure on his part?
Because they were playing in the second division?There's a reason Davis and Surridge fit straight into the side like a glove, and Wood didn't.
Nope, because Murphy was well aware that Coops style benefitted from having a bulker like Davis up top, and a natural finisher as a backup, occasional/last 20 option. Wood isn't a bulker, Awoniyi is but was injured. Another bulker is what was needed for Coops. Fortunately, because he's a great manager anyway, we stayed up regardless, largely down to said bulker - Awoniyi - making his return.Because they were playing in the second division?
Neither was Surridge. Or Grabban for that matter.Oh I definitely think Coops could have done better with him, but with how Coops setup I wasn't surprised it didn't work either. Coops needs an Awoniyi/Davis bulker option for his MO to work. Wood isn't that.