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Think Carl Baker is decent. Used to watch him a few times when he was at Coventry, think he'll do well in this league

Three seasons at Championship level for City. Three seasons of non-existent shite. Effective in League 1 (Because it's an appalling standard of football in comparison to the Championship) but I can't see him - especially at 32 - doing much next season.
 

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Honestly one of, if not the best player for us. If he doesn't do ok I'll be worried.
 

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Three seasons at Championship level for City. Three seasons of non-existent shite. Effective in League 1 (Because it's an appalling standard of football in comparison to the Championship) but I can't see him - especially at 32 - doing much next season.

He's 32? fucking hell i thought he was about 25/26
 

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Shows how non-existent he was. One good season (Well half a season) for Stockport in League one when he got something like 15 goals from midfield. Then three with us in the championship, dropped down with us and found his level for a season and a half. Obviously does well in such an attack minded and in League one terms quality team as MK.
 

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Yeah didn't know he was that old either, may not be that good at 32!
 

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Nicky Maynard been released by Cardiff, maybe a return to Bristol City.
No thanks - was a c*** about leaving, and has never been the same since that injury.

Apart from the money - I bet he deeply regrets leaving us.

The grass isn't always greener on the other side - as has also been proved with Baldock.
 
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No thanks - was a c*** about leaving, and has never been the same since that injury.

Apart from the money - I bet he deeply regrets leaving us.

The grass isn't always greener on the other side - as has also been proved with Baldock.

I would take Maynard back :animatedf:

If not I hope he joins another Championship club. That way we can look forward to giving him another 'friendly' welcome :bg:
 
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I would take Maynard back :animatedf:

He hasn't been the same player since his long-term injury in 2010. Plus he's a absolutely horrible personality, so no thank you. Imagine replacing JET with Nicky Maynard. I think I'd cry.
 

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He hasn't been the same player since his long-term injury in 2010. Plus he's a absolutely horrible personality, so no thank you. Imagine replacing JET with Nicky Maynard. I think I'd cry.

I know but it would be pretty risk free, with no fee involved, most likely on reduced wages from when we last had him. He hasn't been given a proper run in a side for years. If he was half as good as the Nicky Maynard we had circa 2009 then it would be well worth it. Only 28 so I wouldn't write him off just yet in terms of getting his career back on track.
 

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I know but it would be pretty risk free, with no fee involved, most likely on reduced wages from when we last had him. He hasn't been given a proper run in a side for years. If he was half as good as the Nicky Maynard we had circa 2009 then it would be well worth it. Only 28 so I wouldn't write him off just yet in terms of getting his career back on track.

Even if he was anything like the old Maynard, which I'm almost certain he wouldn't be, why would you want him back after how he acted the last time he was at the club? It's the complete opposite of what our current squad is - a past-it, whiny, injury-prone player with a terrible attitude.
 

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Even if he was anything like the old Maynard, which I'm almost certain he wouldn't be, why would you want him back after how he acted the last time he was at the club? It's the complete opposite of what our current squad is - a past-it, whiny, injury-prone player with a terrible attitude.

I do agree with what you're saying mate, I'm just playing devils advocate really. Would I take want him back? Probably not if I was being sensible. But then I think about goals like this and my mind sways towards the idea :lol:

 

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Speaking from some sort of experience, we had a similar situation (kind of) to what's happening here. 2 years ago we could have played over paid mercenaries (Roger Johnson and Jamie O'Hara) that were supposed to be good players, or we could have played players from our academy. We went with the former option and it ended up in us being relegated to League 1. If I were you I'd leave well alone, you don't want a player who could potentially have a toxic personality in your changing room, as it could have the same effect on the rest of your squad.
 

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Speaking from some sort of experience, we had a similar situation (kind of) to what's happening here. 2 years ago we could have played over paid mercenaries (Roger Johnson and Jamie O'Hara) that were supposed to be good players, or we could have played players from our academy. We went with the former option and it ended up in us being relegated to League 1. If I were you I'd leave well alone, you don't want a player who could potentially have a toxic personality in your changing room, as it could have the same effect on the rest of your squad.

To be fair he only turned 'toxic' after we rejected a £6m bid for him. We decided it best to reject massive money to keep a player who wanted out so it was never going to end well, safe to say it didn't. In the 3 seasons before that there were never any issues or mentions of a bad attitude though.
 

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It's a shame we live in a time that it's considered the norm for that to happen. I don't really see the point in contracts in football (in their current format anyway) as most players don't really give a shit for them. Say a player signs a 3 year deal, has a great first year and a big club come in for him and try and tempt him with over inflated wages and a higher league. The player is all too happy to throw his toys out of the pram and demand a transfer even though his documents state he's contracted to the club for another 2 years. Yet it's all well and good when you have players who sit in the reserves, do fuck all and collect £35,000 per week in wages though (again, happened at Wolves)...
 

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It's a shame we live in a time that it's considered the norm for that to happen. I don't really see the point in contracts in football (in their current format anyway) as most players don't really give a shit for them. Say a player signs a 3 year deal, has a great first year and a big club come in for him and try and tempt him with over inflated wages and a higher league. The player is all too happy to throw his toys out of the pram and demand a transfer even though his documents state he's contracted to the club for another 2 years. Yet it's all well and good when you have players who sit in the reserves, do fuck all and collect £35,000 per week in wages though (again, happened at Wolves)...

To be honest I don't know what we were ever thinking by not accepting that bid. He only had until the end of the season anyway so it would've been the perfect deal for both parties. For some reason we naively though he might sign a new deal. He didn't, and we only got £1.5m for him in the end.
 

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A few players out of contract, no announcement yet on who is actually staying and who is departing:

Adam Federici
Alex Pearce
Jem Karacan
Stephen Kelly
Danny Guthrie
Jure Travner
Yakubu
Ryan Edwards
 

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Mikkel Andersen and Zat Knight also.


Only see us keeping Karacan and Andersen I reckon. Most will go. I'm only really interested in keeping Federici and Karacan.
 

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Ryan Edwards has gone already
 

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Wonder if we will keep Anderson? Anderson did say he now wants more playing time.
 

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He's looked a bit ropey when I've seen him play.

He was very ropey up at Rotherham the other week.Could probably blame him for at least one of the goals up there.He also spilled a couple of shots in the first half.

I am yet to be convinced by him.If Federici goes he may well become our number one.
 

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I think we'll keep him as a cheap number 2. If Federici goes I can't see us bringing in two keepers and signing one who will be happy to sit on the bench every week.
 

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To be fair he only turned 'toxic' after we rejected a £6m bid for him. We decided it best to reject massive money to keep a player who wanted out so it was never going to end well, safe to say it didn't. In the 3 seasons before that there were never any issues or mentions of a bad attitude though.

Didn't we reject it because he made it pretty obvious he didn't want to move to a fellow championship club? Maybe wrong, was quite a while back. He did score some cracking goals, never the same after his injury.
 

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Didn't we reject it because he made it pretty obvious he didn't want to move to a fellow championship club? Maybe wrong, was quite a while back. He did score some cracking goals, never the same after his injury.

I can't exactly remember either, I do recall he wanted to go to a Premier League club ideally but Leicester were a very attractive prospect at the time so he definitely would've wanted to join them once the bid(s) came in, I have no doubts about that. Think about the money he would've been on for a start.

Anyway, whether he wanted to join a Championship club or not, how foolish were we to reject that bid. Absolute madness.
 

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Bakary Sako
Kevin Doyle
Leon Clarke
Jake Cassidy
Sam Ricketts

Sad to see Sako and Doyle leave. Sako will no doubt go to the Premier League and hopefully reach his potential as the great player Wolves fans know he can be. Doyle has been a great servant to the club, and pretty much kept us up on his own in the first PL season. Although he hasn't featured much in the last 2 years, he as always been very humble towards the fans and the club. Don't have a bad word to say about him and hope he enjoys his time in the MLS with Colorado Rapids.


 

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Just some of the deadwood/expensive mistakes that the club need to learn from:

Craig Mackail-Smith (lovely guy, can't knock his work rate, really unlucky with injuries, but my god that was a painful four years)
Kemy Agustein (biggest waster we've had since.. ever)
Paddy McCourt
Aaron Hughes
Vitalijs Maksimenko

Calderon and Ankergren offered new (presumably one-year) deals.
 

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We've released JET - where to start with that one? See the huge great thread in the L1 section. Also Dave Richards, a youth keeper who didn't play a minute for us.

Wade Elliott's been offered a coaching role with the U21s. Doesn't really have the engine for the Championship anymore but a great influence around the dressing room. Would be ideal, but I wouldn't blame him if he wanted to continue his playing career, still got enough quality for L1. And Marlon Pack's been offered a new deal. Happy with that, he's been outstanding since breaking into the starting lineup in February, fantastic range of passing, but he'll have to fight for his place once again next year as we'll be looking to add depth in midfield.

Of the players still under contract I'm sure we'll try and offload Adam El Abd but it may be tricky as he's on a decent wedge. Could end up with Bury again. Maybe Karleigh Osborne and Scott Wagstaff as well, depending on how many we can bring in over the summer.

Apparently Waggy does a lot behind the scenes, not sure just what that is but because of that we might keep him.

RELEASED:
Jay Emmanuel-Thomas (ST)
Dave Richards (GK)
Wade Elliot (offered a U21 coaching job for us, CM)
Lewis Hall (U21 player)
Gus Mafuta (U21 player)

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Marlon Pack (CM)

RETURNED TO PARENT CLUBS.
James Tavernier (FB)


George Saville went back to Wolves a few weeks ago.
 

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Released a load of youngsters.

Notable releases are:

Simon Church
Tal Ben Haim
Roger Johnson
Chris Eagles
Lawrie Wilson

Roger Johnson really is a pile of cack.
 

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