[Official Site] Hull City exercise Wilks option

As long as Hull have complied fully with the terms of the buy option from the January deal there's nothing we could do about preventing this now, even if we'd wanted to (which on the evidence base to date we wouldn't).

If it proves to be detrimental to us then that goes back to the January decision but I'm prepared to cut even our Board some slack for not knowing that Coronavirus would mean we were finishing the season in July. Wilks is only going to be playing the games he would have played anyway.

1-0 Boro anyway.

 

Ffs whitey lol talk about putting a curse on it

 

From their site back in Jan, they had the option.

 

The season hasn't ended yet, so how can they exercise the option already?

If we didn't have any wiggle room in this then it wouldn't have taken this long for it to be negotiated.

Relegation will cost far more than any transfer fee plus wages saved for 6 games and, sods law, he's increased the chances of that happening in the first game we could have prevented him from playing in.

 

It would have taken this long for it to be negotiated if they were trying to negotiate a loan extension without exercising the option to buy until they know what league they are in.

We didn’t have the opportunity to say no, it was already agreed. They were just trying to extend the loan until the end of the season and we said no, if you want him, you buy him. It was reported as such weeks ago.

 

It's rubbish for us but if we're being fair, when they loaned him, it was to play all remaining games of the season. As the loan window hasn't opened back up, it's unfair that when teams can't get new players in they can lose players they brought in to see out the season because of a technicality that no-one could have predicted.