Chris Wood (now playing for Nottingham Forest)

[Shearergol]

1 minute ago, Tomato Deuce said:

When both of your strikers are made of papier-mâché, it behooves to add a third.

Harsh on Isak. 

[James]

1 minute ago, Scotty66 said:

 

No but their wide players can score plenty, apart from Miggy we don't have any goal scorers. 

 

and yet the only regulars who haven’t scored for us this season are Botman and Pope

[Tsunami]

Good luck to him, did the job needed at the time. Also really pleased he’s agreed to move on.

 

We simply must have a replacement ready. We can’t rely on Wilson staying fit and we really don’t know what we’ve got with Isak yet.

 

I think Wood has been involved in all but 1 league game this season? Who is coming in, can’t wait.

[LiquidAK]

Amount of shit he gets from some sections of our fanbase is disgusting tbh. Helped keep us up, worked his arse off in every game. Hope he's a success there and recovers a bit of form without so much pressure on him. Part of our history now as a fairly important part of the team that kept us up and set the stage for the season we're having today.

[The Prophet]

Strange that there's nothing from our end yet. 

[TheInfiniteOdyssey]

To be honest, I really liked him when he was at Leeds and Burnley, he seemed such a physical presence and scored all kinds of goals. For whatever reason that player wasn’t the one we got here.

 

 

[Dokko]

Not even forest would buy him out right. Overall, a terrible signing. Hopefully our last big ticket transfer failure.

[Pilko]

Wonder if that 90+6 arrival versus Fulham was a wee bit of sentimentality from Howe, giving him a last brief run out at SJP?

 

Hopefully we bring in a good option to replace him. I'd love a young player who can play up front or wide right which knocks Murphy down the order a place. I always thought if our player trading this January stopped him and Wood getting minutes then we'd be in a better position to attack the second half of the season.

[James]

2 minutes ago, LiquidAK said:

Amount of shit he gets from some sections of our fanbase is disgusting tbh. Helped keep us up, worked his arse off in every game. Hope he's a success there and recovers a bit of form without so much pressure on him. Part of our history now as a fairly important part of the team that kept us up and set the stage for the season we're having today.

Howe, the coaches, and everyone who joined us in January 22 are heroes in my eyes as they could have all done a runner.

[SteV]

Forest obviously realised how influential he was in helping us stay up last year, and hope he does the same for them.

[Bimpy474]

Forest must be fucking mental.

[Lazarus]

5 minutes ago, The Prophet said:

Strange that there's nothing from our end yet. 

 

We arnt in a position to do a Chelsea and have 40 (or whatever it was)  players under contract.

[bowlingcrofty]

1 minute ago, Lazarus said:

 

We arnt in a position to do a Chelsea and have 40 (or whatever it was)  players under contract.

Think he meant from our journos 

[James]

Definitely is good business sense to hopefully  claw a few million back now.

 

Ashley would have just let him depreciate.

[Guybrush]

Good luck to him! I hope this means we're planning to bring someone in.

[The Prophet]

2 minutes ago, Lazarus said:

 

We arnt in a position to do a Chelsea and have 40 (or whatever it was)  players under contract.

 

I meant in term of reports. My post wasn't very clear.

[James]

15 minutes ago, Shearergol said:

Who plays up front for Arsenal if nketiah gets injured now? Do city have anyone after haaland and Alvarez? Do teams actually need 3 strikers?

 Suppose there is a question mark on whether Isak can consistently lead the line in his own or whether he will end up as a support striker.

 

Im sure Howe knows what he wants to do and whether we need a third striker.

[AJ9]

Good business. Ultimately he doesn’t fit into how we want to play football. Did a job for us when we achieved our number 1 objective of staying up. Not good enough to stay now though. 

[LiquidAK]

Hopefully we bring in someone young and raw who won't expect to play every week, but can grow into the team over the next few seasons, eventually taking Wilson's place as he ages out and challenging Isak for the starting spot.

[Shak]

Seems utterly inconceivable that we'd let Wood go if we didn't have someone lined up.

 

Unreasonably excited by this, just because I feel there must be something in the works.

[sempuki]

A great penalty taker but not much else. Played his part in our survival and revival to an extent. Excited to see who we bring in now.

[Abacus]

A good professional, not a bad word to say about him personally and hope it works out. Those goals last season were critical, and he's a nerveless penalty taker, even if it didn't really click with him here.

 

In the future, you can't see him being much more than a defensive / injury sub for us, just as he was used during the Arsenal game - so probably best for all concerned.

 

In which case, I take it all back and all hail Shola, hi-ho the loan-arranger!

[toontownman]

Easy with the thread change excitement, we are not out of the wood yet.

[Holloway]

This would be a nice start to the window, good luck big man

[Ben]

Good shithousery signing at the time which contributed to Burnley taking up one of the relegation spots, ultimately not good enough for what we need moving on.

 

The fact we've loaned him out 12 months after paying £25 million for him proves the owners aren't fucking about, I'm now convinced we'll bring a couple of purples in before the window shuts.