<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Leeds United are confident of completing a deal to sign West Ham striker Ashley Fletcher on loan. <a href="https://t.co/BTc4g8VX1j">pic.twitter.com/BTc4g8VX1j</a></p>— Transfer Centre Live (@TransferCentreL) <a href="https://twitter.com/TransferCentreL/status/825809617255071748">January 29, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> Anyone reckon we're still in for him?
Wouldn't have been surprised if we had made tentative inquries but couldn't honestly see us getting anywhere near him. Hull were after him under Phelan before he got sacked and now Leeds, who have a striker on £17grand a week are wanting him.
Surely it's worth just stumping up the wages for less then 6 months? He may be the difference between top 10 and play-offs. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Not for me. How does the rest of the squad react to that? We're on a knife edge as it is, trying to hold a squad together on relatively low wages.
They man up and accept he would be our best player like other teams do. Can't have everyone on the same wages. At the minute I bet Hammill is on the most and he's a bench warmer at the minute. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
What, like winnall, Bree and conor manned up? Like marley manned up, when he put a transfer request in? Like Josh has manned up when he's rejected a new contract? Only reason we've got James is because Leicester are paying a big slice of his salary. I don't think manning up is likely to be too effective.
Hard to see Leeds playing both Fletcher and Wood together. Maybe they have a deal to sell Wood for a hundred million lined up
West Ham will fund most of his wages. He is not guaranteed a start at Weeds. He loves BFC and would come back to us over Weeds. Given the above I would not be surprised if we put in a cheeky bid for him.
It's not a permanent player. It's a half year loan deal to help keep us where we are and better. Sure West Ham would help us with wages with how good we are at helping players develop. After all, like you say, Leicester are helping with James. We aren't offering someone a 4 year deal on 15k a week. THAT would piss them off. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
i don't think we do or don't know really. however we do know that we're facing a bit of an exodus, as our squad realise they're proper championship players now, and have seen what kind of money is on offer. at a critical time when we're trying to stop the bleeding, i'm not sure throwing money at a loan player for a few months, would go down too well, with permanent players who have only been offered a fraction. as i understand, the players needed to be consulted when when we made hammill our highest paid player. if that's true, that shows what an important a squad decision it was. obviously we can't do that every time we're trying to bring players in. i think that was an exceptional case, given the clamour to keep him at the time.
We wouldn't have to pay a 100% of his wages. Loans are usually 50% at most. Even so if I was a Barnsley player I'd accept Ashley is on a better contract and that he is a "Premiership player" and he is a good signing that will score a lot of goals. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk