The contractual agreement only means Orlando have to accept our offer. It doesn't force Dike to agree to sign. If someone else also bids and they accept that, he can choose to go to them instead
There's a lot of surmising and supposition on this thread. The only people who know the ins and outs of the deal are the people at the two clubs who signed the deal
If we’re a championship club next season we’ll be getting plenty of bids for our players. Most of them are on decent contracts. I’d be selling Anderson’s or Helik if we can get reasonable bids for market value. I think with Halme/Sol and Kitchin we’ve cover in that position. The money could be used to tie down dyke depending on the agreed fee - that’s if it is a few million. Getting rid of a defender to bring in Dyke would be a no brainier and balance the books ‘IF’ the fee is a few mill. We’ve got to break our record transfer at some point but it’ll only happen if we have 1/2 go out the door aswell. Can easily see dyke going for 10/20/30... million in the English game in a few years time. If we have a pre-agreed fee that we can stretch to somehow it’d be the most important business we’d do this decade! Simple get him signed & cash in on him in a year or twos time.
Kitching hadn't even kicked a ball for us and you think he'd be able to step into Mads or Mickael's shoes!? We want another crack next season ( assuming we don't go up this) and keeping that defensive partnership will be key.