Daryl Dike's immediate future is at Orlando

No idea if a previous posters claim that he's on $130k a year are true or not, but if correct then that's £1800 a week.
All the media hype of numerous Prem clubs looking at him is just that, baseless hype at the moment. I really can't see how anyone, even a footballer could expect to jump from £1800 to £20000 a week. If he or his agent are genuinely demanding that I reckon he'll still be at Orlando next season, despite the top job he did for us.
Today's news, next week's chip papers.

 

Get me defending the owners ....I better go and lie down....
Dammed if they do dammed if they don't.....
However if it is down to the players demands re wages then all I can say ...for once is ......well done BFC for not being held to ransom and not breaking our tight wage structure in this instance.

..theres plenty of fish out there willing to give their all for a regular starting place ...( and I don't mean Billy either lol)
Well done DM....stick to your guns and tell the so called agents where they can get off

 

Yes

 

After his first couple of games for us it should've been obvious to everyone there was almost zero chance he'd sign permanently. He's big, quick, skillful and runs himself into the ground every match. The guy has 'big time' written all over him.

He's still got a lot to prove but there's enough big clubs out there who can gamble way more money on him than us. Our best shot might be that a prem club buys him and we get him on loan again to continue his development.

 

You actually said " I can only assume " regarding the transfer fee , its the rest of your comment which makes a lot of assumptions as well , I might be reading it wrong but it reads like a pop at the club based on assumptions , if I am wrong I apologise

 

DD did a great job while he was here but just wondering given his indifferent performances in the 2 play off games, albeit with not a lot of service, if he already knew he was leaving no matter what or if someone from another club had approached him or his agent unofficially.
Anyway thanks for the memories DD and good luck in the future
Meanwhile we still have a very good squad of players to go into next season with and the conversations we're having on here are a lot better than the ones on some massive clubs forum

 

It was good whilst we had him in a reds shirt. Bit of context here, Joe Piggott is available on a free, had a good season in a struggling league 1 team. Most would think he'd be a target for us, but he's been targeted by Birmingham who by all accounts are willing to pay him between 15k-20k per week plus a signing bonus.

Birmingham are a financial mess, yet they keep offering daft money.

Football is a mess, no point joining the headcases in such ridiculously bad business practices.

 

Will be interesting to hear Murphy's take on this. If the agreed fee was within our reach, as the club had suggested, they should've triggered it and made an offer to the player. If he says no, he says no.

No idea why we felt the need to make a point of the option to buy in the first place. It was a successful loan, and at the time of signing, it was a player the coach was happy to sign, in a position he said he needed to strengthen. Seemed like a bit of a vanity statement.

 

It's the least surprising news of the close season.

The only way we'd have got him is if he'd been so so and we took a punt on him, at which point it would rightly be argued whether it was too high a risk anyway.

He's a freakishful powerful lad and likeable and down to earth. His technical skill levels are well under par even for the championship, but people will see the number of goals in a handful of games and be wowed by it.

Hope he does well but his career trajectory could still easily follow that of Jozy Altidore. But I hope he does well and hope he recalls his time more fondly than being kicked up and down for a few months without much protection from referees and having to head balls with snow on them.

What is the most bizarre though has been our actions and communications to something that was always likely to happen and has been commented on here for months once he popped a few goals in. A fee is one thing, wages are another. To maintain a pretence we could get him was far too hyperbolic given the circumstances.

 

Excellent summary. The problem is hyperbole from fans. If we hadn't acted as if we were going to sign him, it would have been a sign of lack of ambition and the board would be questioned.

If we had made a deal to do so, he had turned out crap and we had to sign someone we didn't want in the end, that would have been a lack of foresight lumbering us with poor players.

As it is, he was great. He's not coming back as we won't be able to afford him. This is the way BFC operates. The board will now be criticised for not just stating openly that that is the reason.

This doesn't take into account that at the start of his loan, some ambiguous wording had to be used to allow for several different scenarios to develop. Also, if we just state 'we haven't any money/we can't afford X/he wants way too much', it makes us look poor and implies ill will in the relationship between club and player.

Basically, it's a modern extension of Don Rowing's 'undisclosed fee's. I understand that some people want, and expect to be given information on what the club is doing, but there has to be a limit to that on order to allow for business to be conducted in a way that allows it to get done without exposure. Transfer rumours start bidding wars etc, especially when you're a club who have to find value as your entire business model is based upon this.

 

That's exactly what I assumed. No blame can be placed on the club - in a strange way it's just a shame that he performed so well I guess! I'd imagine that the wages he'll be looking for now would be many times what he'd have been happy with in January, and that takes us out of the running.

 

Prior to today’s news there have been innumerable posts on a multiple of threads discussing the prospects of Daryl Dike signing permanently for the Reds and it safe to say that 99% of said posts didn’t give us a snow ball in hells chance of getting him, even if we’d gotten promoted. I am therefore really at a loss to understand how put out people generally are with the confirmation of what we all ‘knew’ was going to happen as now actually happened

 

A lovely statement thanking Dike was put out by the club today which was nice to read.

 

Interesting fact:

 

My thoughts exactly, if wed just signed jim on loan to help us out till end of season then fair enough, but to say weve first option to buy at a price at round about we usually pay is very poor in my opion, dane should av kept his mouth shut chatting rubbish, if we had a chance if we got promoted then just say that, not into getting our fans hopes up its wrong, hope you learn frm this dane we dont do billy liars here.

 

If you don't get what happened by now it's pointless anyone even trying to explain it.