Chris Wood having medical at Newcastle

[IanMcL]

Chris Wood has done us proud, throughout his stay.

U wish him all the best.

It does look like Newcastle don't think they can escape, so by taking out our main striker, they gain a place at our expense.

Sad day indeed. Fingers crossed that there is a Dyche fit striker out there! Mind you, none of our team are Dyche fit, this season, for some reason.

[Gordaleman]

He offers amongst the best stats in the PL as seen on Sky Sports, more PL goals this season than JayRod, Barnes and Vydra and at least an option to play up front against Leicester and Watford as we will only have one fit striker available striker if he goes. (Jayrod by the way - absolutely banging them in the PL this season NOT )

What you mean is he used to. Not any more. If Nwscatle pay 20 million or more for him, then they are doing us a favour.

[LaLigaClaret]

He's French isn't he?

No he comes from the Ivorian Coast but plays for a French club team.

[bf2k]

I won’t lie, I’m disappointed, but maybe this is the crossroads we’ve needed to get to, to force some change. It’s now an opportunity for Dyche to develop a new style of play in the final third. Wood has been brilliant for us since signing. His defensive work (especially on corners) will be dearly missed. A vastly underrated player going to a rival is a kick in the southerlies. Time for us to press on!

This were exactly my thoughts when I heard the news.

[claretgoss]

No he comes from the Ivorian Coast but plays for a French club team.

He was born in the Ivory Coast but has never represented them. He's played for all the France national youth teams up to under-21 level

[LaLigaClaret]

What you mean is he used to. Not any more. If Nwscatle pay 20 million or more for him, then they are doing us a favour.

No I mean what I said. The facts support this. He offers far more than the other players I mentioned which answered your original quote. Only if we replace him with someone better will they have done us a favour. The Pl is not exactly brimming with better strikers at £25m.

[CrosspoolClarets]

The three games this season he came off after around 60 mins we improved each time, drew all three and were all against top half teams. Not guaranteed we get worse.

He will get goals up there, but a big lump isn’t suited to time on the bench either and he will get plenty of that.

I’d like to stay optimistic and I’m glad it is Jan 12th. I’m also glad we will hopefully see less long ball. When we play like we can we look good.

[thelaughingclaret]

No I mean what I said. The facts support this. He offers far more than the other players I mentioned which answered your original quote. Only if we replace him with someone better will they have done us a favour. The Pl is not exactly brimming with better strikers at £25m.

Hence why the club need to look abroad. They did it with Cornet, we need to continue in that vain.

[Gordaleman]

No I mean what I said. The facts support this. He offers far more than the other players I mentioned which answered your original quote. Only if we replace him with someone better will they have done us a favour. The Pl is not exactly brimming with better strikers at £25m.

We have better strikers already, they just haven't been given the chance they deserve. It really beggars belief that people think wood is PL class. Most of the goals he's scored were tap ins that even I could have scored. With the service he's had, he should have scored two or three times more.

[CrosspoolClarets]

Oh, by my reckoning, Wood will become the 12th highest transfer fee in world football for a 30+ year old, if the fee is indeed £25m.

Source - transfermarkt.com record transfer filter.

That’ll do me.

[Gordaleman]

Oh, by my reckoning, Wood will become the 12th highest transfer fee in world football for a 30+ year old, if the fee is indeed £25m.

Source - transfermarkt.com record transfer filter.

That’ll do me.

So far as I'm concerned, it's good riddance. The sooner we get players who are 'Interested' in playing for the club, the better. Wood proves week in, week out that he couldn't care less.

[GodIsADeeJay81]

We have better strikers already, they just haven't been given the chance they deserve. It really beggars belief that people think wood is PL class. Most of the goals he's scored were tap ins that even I could have scored. With the service he's had, he should have scored two or three times more.

I think it was Ruud Van Nistelrooy who scored the majority of his goals in the 6yd box.

It doesn't matter what sort of goals Wood scored, he did it regularly enough considering how few chances we made for him and he was definitely PL class/Quality during his time here.
He's just had a poor season so far, but he's far from alone in that respect.

[Gordaleman]

I think it was Ruud Van Nistelrooy who scored the majority of his goals in the 6yd box.

It doesn't matter what sort of goals Wood scored, he did it regularly enough considering how few chances we made for him and he was definitely PL class/Quality during his time here.
He's just had a poor season so far, but he's far from alone in that respect.

With the accent on 'Did it'. No longer. He's boring and predictable.

[elwaclaret]

Chris Wood has been a great fit for Burnley, but rather than being tired, Wood has been sulking because he wasn’t sold/in demand after sweeping the awards board last season. I think the Olympics allowed people to get in his head and this seasons performances have been the result. I thank him for his efforts up to this season, I’m glad he’s out of the dressing room. And happy he’s made for life, but hopes he frustrates the hell out of Newcastle fans for the rest of the season, and bottles it. From this season on I say best of luck to him.

Let’s get some ambition FOR Burnley in, not just themselves and let’s get some positivity in the dressing room.

[GodIsADeeJay81]

With the accent on 'Did it'. No longer. He's boring and predictable.

Wood is or the team is?
Like I said, we've a number of players out of form.

[Gordaleman]

Wood is or the team is?
Like I said, we've a number of players out of form.

Yes, a lot of players are fed up of putting the effort in, just for Wood to miss the chances created.

[GodIsADeeJay81]

Ok

[Vegas Claret]

works out at just over 23 million if he has his numbers right. He's not often wrong, I'm sure he broke Cornet long before anyone else

[elwaclaret]

Want the announcement made. Like not being able to mourn.

[FCBurnley]

Sure you’ll find out in the mourning !

[Burnleyareback2]

If Newcastles interest in Tarkowski was true and he would accept Newcastle I wonder if we could sell at a combined (eg) £40m

With the detail of the deal being £38m for Wood and £2m for Tarkowski. That would certainly bring down the sell on fee for Brentford.

[HunterST_BFC]

If Newcastles interest in Tarkowski was true and he would accept Newcastle I wonder if we could sell at a combined (eg) £40m

With the detail of the deal being £38m for Wood and £2m for Tarkowski. That would certainly bring down the sell on fee for Brentford.

It's a Master plan so we can't hit 13 players - all games postponed.
Season ended etc etc

[ClaretinJapan]

Philliskirk could still do a job.

[WiscoClaret]

Of course this is hypothetical but I’m wondering what the rules are:

Could a team, backed say by the finance of an oil rich country, buy up most of the players from a team thereby rendering them unable to compete? I suspect many of our players have release clauses in their contracts like Wood. Is it conceivable that Newcastle trigger 5-6 of our (or any other team’s) player’s release clauses and then we simply don’t have a team on say, the last day of the window?

Is there a rule against this kind of behavior?

[Vegas Claret]

well if we or anyone don't have a team then we can't play, every game postponed because they've set a precedent, season would never end. I hope they do it, would be ******* hilarious

[RammyClaret61]

Didn’t Rovers do this in the early 90’s? When they bought Duncan Shearer £800,000 on deadline day from Swindon Town for the only reason, to stop him scoring for their promotion rivals. Thus Rovers sneaked into the play-off places at Swindon’s expense. Shearer only playing 6 times and then at the end of the season sold him to Aberdeen for £500,000. But it worked, and their fans still say they never bought success.

[Spiral]

Covid protocols aside, in normal times if a club can't field a team that's their problem. AFAIK there's no legal, regulatory or rules-based framework prohibiting that scenario from happening because it has never happened before and the rules have never needed to be invented. The moment some sorry sods becomes the victim of it, then and only then will there be a scramble to put in place a set of rules to stop it from happening again and embarrassing the league.

[ClaretMov]

He's French isn't he?

Fulgini was born in Ivory Coast to an Italian father, and a New Caledonian mother, he's never played a full international game only French U17 upto U21 so I suppose he could probably be picked to play for France, Italy or maybe even Côte d'Ivoire

[blake's wand]

Not overly worried about Wood going - my main concern is replacing him in Jan. If Newcastle with all the money in the world to pay whatever wages they want, have gone for Wood - what are we going to find?

[CnBtruntru]

Chris Wood has done us proud, throughout his stay.

U wish him all the best.

It does look like Newcastle don't think they can escape, so by taking out our main striker, they gain a place at our expense.

Sad day indeed. Fingers crossed that there is a Dyche fit striker out there! Mind you, none of our team are Dyche fit, this season, for some reason.

Bit like quite a few who use this board, all becoming old codgers, includes myself

[CharlieinNewMexico]

Not overly worried about Wood going - my main concern is replacing him in Jan. If Newcastle with all the money in the world to pay whatever wages they want, have gone for Wood - what are we going to find?

Maybe we’ve already scouted 2 overseas strikers at around 8m each, a CM at 8m, and leaves us wages spare for the big loan / giveaway deal like Barkley or Ramsey.

4 immediate upgrades to areas we desparately need funded completely by Wood and maybe Pace dipping about 3m out of his pocket for those extra wages.

I’d take that and I’m sure so would he.

[RalphCoatesComb]

There are lots of serious questions to be answered re this proposed signing.

Who is involved at Burnley?

Can BFC stop it happening?

Did Sean know? What are his thoughts on the matter?

Who instigated this? Wood? His Agent? Alan Pace?

If we can’t stop it, how ethical is it? (A post on a Newcastle forum said it all for me) :

“Weakening a relegation rival”

Is that the new Newcastle way

Is this “Judas II? The return of the backstabber” ?

Obviously, lots will come out today and, no doubt, things will be hidden from us fans. Whatever happens, it seems like a sad day for Burnley Football Club and football as a game.

[Vintage Claret 1946]

This could backfire on Newcastle as they not only seem to have targeted Burnley but there area rumours that they area also targeting Norwich and Watford.

If has been reported we are to receive £25M for Wood, hopefully this additional capital will be re-invested in the first team could mean we replace an out of form striker with a striker / midfielder thus making our team better. If this turns out to be the case I would say Alan Pace has done a good deal.

As James Tarkowsky has made it plain he does not wish to remain at Burnley FC and his performances appear to have been affected, I would like to see him moved on in this transfer window and replaced with someone like Nat Phillips from Liverpool.

[milkcrate_mosh]

With the service he's had, he should have scored two or three times more.

He should have scored 150 goals in 150 premier league games?

[Top Claret]

If Newcastles interest in Tarkowski was true and he would accept Newcastle I wonder if we could sell at a combined (eg) £40m

With the detail of the deal being £38m for Wood and £2m for Tarkowski. That would certainly bring down the sell on fee for Brentford.

Now your talking.. We really need to make the Newcastle situation into the best interest of our club financially.

[claretgoss]

Fulgini was born in Ivory Coast to an Italian father, and a New Caledonian mother, he's never played a full international game only French U17 upto U21 so I suppose he could probably be picked to play for France, Italy or maybe even Côte d'Ivoire

Yeah was just saying that he's not involved at the current African Cup of Nations, as had been suggested

[Dark Cloud]

I'm not unduly worried about Wood going. I'm a bit bothered about where he's gone to as obviously they are in the poo along with us, but if we ended up getting more than we paid for him after the goals we've had from him and at 31 years old, then a club like us really has little choice. What I seriously hope is that we have targets already well advanced to spend the money on as they could well give us the much needed boost to kick start our season.

[Leisure]

What I seriously hope is that we have targets already well advanced to spend the money on as they could well give us the much needed boost to kick start our season.

If we (apparently) had none or little money available to spend in this window and Newcastle's interest in Wood is only very recent, then we may not have been actively looking for incomings. Plus with our very precarious relegation position we may have difficulty attracting better players that what we already have. Hope that's not the case thought!

[claret2018]

I still think Newcastle will go down. A hapless manager with a transfer policy that seems to be “quick let’s throw loads of cash at anybody” and a team already in free fall.

[Dark Cloud]

If we (apparently) had none or little money available to spend in this window and Newcastle's interest in Wood is only very recent, then we may not have been actively looking for incomings. Plus with our very precarious relegation position we may have difficulty attracting better players that what we already have. Hope that's not the case thought!

I totally agree that being in the bottom 3 makes attracting good players much harder and that was my worry going into this window and yes, having £25 million sitting in the bank to spend doesn't necessarily alter that fact.

[Iloveyoubrady]

For the offer to be accepted, we have CLEARLY got very good money for him as we wouldn’t have sold to a premier league relegation rival. It’s now about investing well in a bid to rebuild this squad - weather that’s to stay up this year or get back up next year, it doesn’t matter, but we need new players. Sky sports reporting two main target replacements overseas already. Fingers crossed.

[cockneyclaret]

Sky sports reporting two main target replacements overseas already. Fingers crossed.

Any names of these players yet?

[MarkGreen]

Doesn't look right

[tarkys_ears]

The more and more I think about this... I cannot believe it. What an oustanding piece of business.

£25m. Let that sink in.

We've literally won the lottery.

As long as this money gets reinvested, it'll be the best thing thats happened to us for years.

I'm just praying it goes through before someone comes to their senses.

[NewClaret]

The more and more I think about this... I cannot believe it. What an oustanding piece of business.

£25m. Let that sink in.

We've literally won the lottery.

As long as this money gets reinvested, it'll be the best thing thats happened to us for years.

I'm just praying it goes through before someone comes to their senses.

Shhhhhh. The Saudi’s might be reading this. Wait till it’s signed & sealed!!

[jedi_master]

I just think Dyche and Pace have looked at our situation and have decided to twist rather than stick. No more to it than that.

We were going down with Wood, they’re going to look at trying something new. I really think that is the extent of it, and I agree with them - we were going down.

[Zenwisdom]

Can only say good luck try and keep onside
otherwise you will be good company for Jeff on the bench
Let’s hope Dyche has a trick up his sleeve

[Lancasterclaret]

Its only a good deal if we sign a replacement this window

Otherwise it isn't, as we've no hope of staying up with a half fit Barnes, Vydra with a hernia and Jay

But I'm erring on the side of good deal at the moment tbh, simply because we can't keep pretending that the side that has served us so well over the past few seasons is still doing a job, because it clearly isn't

Time will tell

[Newcastleclaret93]

Its only a good deal if we sign a replacement this window

Otherwise it isn't, as we've no hope of staying up with a half fit Barnes, Vydra with a hernia and Jay

But I'm erring on the side of good deal at the moment tbh, simply because we can't keep pretending that the side that has served us so well over the past few seasons is still doing a job, because it clearly isn't

Time will tell

With Cornet gone and Chris Wood sold I believe Ben Mee is now our top scorer for the next 3-4 fixtures. Get him up top.

[SouthLondonexile]

Disappointed by this news.
His form this season has been poor, but that doesn’t make him a bad player.
Events dear boy events - Covid and a run of five postponed games have prevented us getting a grip on this season.