After a leaked article was anonymously put into the public domain yesterday and after much speculation that Charlton Athletic had made an offer for Wood fans favourite Sorba Thomas, the Club can now publicly state, that Charlton have in fact made a bid but their kind offer falls a bit short of the Club’s valuation of the player, which they were made very aware of that before making their offer in writing.
We have out of respect to both Charlton Athletic, Steve Gallen and of course the player, reiterated our asking price to Charlton by detailing what would trigger our acceptance and we have also stated that we are very happy to take payments in stages to assist the player securing his move into the EFL.
Chairman Danny Hunter said, “We’ve carefully nurtured Sorba through our Academy and over the last three or four years given him a great first team shop window to showcase his talent. In truth, everyone has now seen his talent, knows his value as a player, what he represents and what his worth is to the Club.
“It’s very unfortunate that Sorbs was advised to pull out of our league game at King’s Lynn on Tuesday, to perhaps force through a move, but as my mother used to say, youth is wasted on the young. That said, as a smaller Club we must stand up to that type of behaviour and orchestrated bullying.
“What I can say is categorically is that, if Charlton Athletic, Barnsley, Peterborough United, Portsmouth, Sunderland, Middlesbrough, QPR or any of the other rumoured interested Clubs do match our valuation, then they can of course talk to the player and if Sorbs and his representatives then choose to go, he will leave Boreham Wood with our full blessing and well wishes. If our valuation is not met, then we expect Sorbs to act professionally, keep working hard and if he does that, then his talent will do the rest…
“Neither the Gaffer nor myself honestly wish to stand in his way, as he’s worked hard to get to where he presently sits, but everyone already knows that he really is an outstanding talent and you don’t sell the family silver for under the market value. We have also been patient and developed him beautifully here since he was 16. As such we do feel he genuinely has a true development value to this Football Club and we believe any fee has been honestly earned.” Hunter concluded.
Agents have too much control over the players! He has been with the club since 16 and been developed in that time, they should demand a fair amount for that development.
The same with Dills he has been with the club since he was 8 years old and this is modern day football, run by greedy agents.
“Neither the Gaffer nor myself honestly wish to stand in his way, as he’s worked hard to get to where he presently sits, but everyone already knows that he really is an outstanding talent and you don’t sell the family silver for under the market value."
Everything you say before the word but is bullshit.
You are standing in his way, he's a huge gamble for a league club and there's a risk you're over valuing him.
There's also a risk we've been quite unkind in our offer. As we don't know the figures I'll stand by Bowyer and Gallen.
Looks like to me that Phillips has had some bad guidance by his agent.
There plan seems to have backfired and left Dil in limbo!
Could also be the club are making a statement about how they will deal with players refusing to sign new contracts. Make no mistake, Dillon is in a bad position if he’s excluded from our squad. Yes I’m sure he’ll get a gig when his contract expires but his star will have fallen dramatically as will his earning potential.
Yeah I agree, its a good stance from the club for sure.
I have no sympathy for him or his agent. Treat the club who gave you a chance a bit better and you might go with there blessing.
A bit like the Boreham Wood player that we're trying to sign then
100%. Agents have a lot to answer for.
Teams will always try do things on the cheap and they are holding firm....fair play to them.
“Neither the Gaffer nor myself honestly wish to stand in his way, as he’s worked hard to get to where he presently sits, but everyone already knows that he really is an outstanding talent and you don’t sell the family silver for under the market value."
Everything you say before the word but is bullshit.
You are standing in his way, he's a huge gamble for a league club and there's a risk you're over valuing him.
But then are Boreham Wood doing any differently to how we acted with Bonne and QPR?
Thing is the "six figure sum" is a bit misleading, did we offer £100k and they want £250k for him or did we offer the former and they want close to £750k
In which case I would perhaps agree that they're asking too much
Dillon went on loan to Cheltenham. The club refused to let him go back there when he returned, and at the time he was kept as ballast on an extremely humble comparative wage, a legacy of coming through the ranks. Dillon has served the club well so far, and deserves now to be treated with respect not as a pawn in a player game. Although I suspect his agent could be doing a much better job.
Interesting statement. I hope it's the agent who's being seen as carrying out the 'orchestrated bullying' and not us. Given how regularly we've been kicked in the nuts by teams taking advantage of our troubles to nick our young players on the cheap I'd like to think we were just doing some standard negotiating. I have no issue with us paying a fair price to a non-league team for a player we want. Hope this goes through
“Neither the Gaffer nor myself honestly wish to stand in his way, as he’s worked hard to get to where he presently sits, but everyone already knows that he really is an outstanding talent and you don’t sell the family silver for under the market value."
Everything you say before the word but is bullshit.
You are standing in his way, he's a huge gamble for a league club and there's a risk you're over valuing him.
But we would do exactly the same thing. And have done so in the past. It's no different from a player going from League 1 or the Championship to the Premier League and the buying club expecting to get them on the cheap.
Think Gomez and if we'd been in a stronger position what we should and would have asked for him.
If they want more than we think he is worth, that is their right seeing as he is under contract with them. We get clubs doing this to us and to be fair we seem to do it to smaller clubs too.
In my opinion that's a reasonable statement from Borehamwood.
It does make me laugh when I see posts on here saying something like how dare Borehamwood stop the player making his dream move. Of course it is right to leak the bid so we can unsettle the player. And they should stand aside, accept whatever offer comes their way and be grateful for it.
Compare that to the outrage on here at what Celtic were doing to try and sign Doughty. Which was basically all the above!
I said this before but I'll say it again: why such resistance to Smyth? He's young, quick, hasn't found his feet yet, but according to people who know better than us has the ability to break through. He'd supplement our other forwards and we wouldn't necessarily depend on him. I know we only have room for 1 or 2 more players, but given a choice between him and Sorba Thomas, surely the one with league experience is preferable for a promotion push? Or we sign both!
Because a few articles call him a forward rather than a winger so some look at the stats and decide he’s an inexperienced striker who doesn’t score goals.
There will be a social media meltdown if he signs before the striker is announced.
No, Dillon should be treated as a player that wants out and is refusing to sign a new contract, left to rot in the reserves until someone comes in for him. He's chosen this path alongside his agent and if they can't drum up enough interest in him then tough titties
I said this before but I'll say it again: why such resistance to Smyth? He's young, quick, hasn't found his feet yet, but according to people who know better than us has the ability to break through. He'd supplement our other forwards and we wouldn't necessarily depend on him. I know we only have room for 1 or 2 more players, but given a choice between him and Sorba Thomas, surely the one with league experience is preferable for a promotion push? Or we sign both!
Because a few articles call him a forward rather than a winger so some look at the stats and decide he’s an inexperienced striker who doesn’t score goals.
There will be a social media meltdown if he signs before the striker is announced.
I think Smyth will be the Striker... Unless your talking about Thomas here?
I said this before but I'll say it again: why such resistance to Smyth? He's young, quick, hasn't found his feet yet, but according to people who know better than us has the ability to break through. He'd supplement our other forwards and we wouldn't necessarily depend on him. I know we only have room for 1 or 2 more players, but given a choice between him and Sorba Thomas, surely the one with league experience is preferable for a promotion push? Or we sign both!
That's always going to be a problem for any footballer, surely?
“Neither the Gaffer nor myself honestly wish to stand in his way, as he’s worked hard to get to where he presently sits, but everyone already knows that he really is an outstanding talent and you don’t sell the family silver for under the market value."
Everything you say before the word but is bullshit.
You are standing in his way, he's a huge gamble for a league club and there's a risk you're over valuing him.
But then are Boreham Wood doing any differently to how we acted with Bonne and QPR?
Thing is the "six figure sum" is a bit misleading, did we offer £100k and they want £250k for him or did we offer the former and they want close to £750k
In which case I would perhaps agree that they're asking too much
Depends how good he really is, something we can’t tell from a few stats and a highlights video.
Leicester paid £1m for Vardy from the same league 8 years ago. Under £1m is a bargain if he has Championship potential and can make an impact in League 1 this season. I’m sure Boreham Wood think he has at least that sort of potential, and we wouldn’t be interested if we saw League 1 as his limit.
“Neither the Gaffer nor myself honestly wish to stand in his way, as he’s worked hard to get to where he presently sits, but everyone already knows that he really is an outstanding talent and you don’t sell the family silver for under the market value."
Everything you say before the word but is bullshit.
You are standing in his way, he's a huge gamble for a league club and there's a risk you're over valuing him.
But then are Boreham Wood doing any differently to how we acted with Bonne and QPR?
Thing is the "six figure sum" is a bit misleading, did we offer £100k and they want £250k for him or did we offer the former and they want close to £750k
In which case I would perhaps agree that they're asking too much
Yeah as per my edit, it really depends on the amount. Personally I think £100k is a lot of money for a non league player. It's a huge gamble. If they're looking for £200k, like you say it's not much more especially from our perspective.
If they want more than £250k then the chairman is taking the mickey a bit.
“Neither the Gaffer nor myself honestly wish to stand in his way, as he’s worked hard to get to where he presently sits, but everyone already knows that he really is an outstanding talent and you don’t sell the family silver for under the market value."
Everything you say before the word but is bullshit.
You are standing in his way, he's a huge gamble for a league club and there's a risk you're over valuing him.
But then are Boreham Wood doing any differently to how we acted with Bonne and QPR?
Thing is the "six figure sum" is a bit misleading, did we offer £100k and they want £250k for him or did we offer the former and they want close to £750k
In which case I would perhaps agree that they're asking too much
Yeah as per my edit, it really depends on the amount. Personally I think £100k is a lot of money for a non league player. It's a huge gamble. If they're looking for £200k, like you say it's not much more especially from our perspective.
If they want more than £250k then the chairman is taking the mickey a bit.
Me and you really need to stop having to edit our posts
Not maybe the most sensible business decision but at least we would know that the extra £100-200k or whatever it is would massively help out a national league outfit in the current climate. I know we are not a charity but that sort of money is peanuts to TS especially with the Bonne & Grant money. if the gamble doesn't work its not exactly a costly one!
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After a leaked article was anonymously put into the public domain yesterday and after much speculation that Charlton Athletic had made an offer for Wood fans favourite Sorba Thomas, the Club can now publicly state, that Charlton have in fact made a bid but their kind offer falls a bit short of the Club’s valuation of the player, which they were made very aware of that before making their offer in writing.
We have out of respect to both Charlton Athletic, Steve Gallen and of course the player, reiterated our asking price to Charlton by detailing what would trigger our acceptance and we have also stated that we are very happy to take payments in stages to assist the player securing his move into the EFL.
Chairman Danny Hunter said, “We’ve carefully nurtured Sorba through our Academy and over the last three or four years given him a great first team shop window to showcase his talent. In truth, everyone has now seen his talent, knows his value as a player, what he represents and what his worth is to the Club.
“It’s very unfortunate that Sorbs was advised to pull out of our league game at King’s Lynn on Tuesday, to perhaps force through a move, but as my mother used to say, youth is wasted on the young. That said, as a smaller Club we must stand up to that type of behaviour and orchestrated bullying.
“What I can say is categorically is that, if Charlton Athletic, Barnsley, Peterborough United, Portsmouth, Sunderland, Middlesbrough, QPR or any of the other rumoured interested Clubs do match our valuation, then they can of course talk to the player and if Sorbs and his representatives then choose to go, he will leave Boreham Wood with our full blessing and well wishes. If our valuation is not met, then we expect Sorbs to act professionally, keep working hard and if he does that, then his talent will do the rest…
“Neither the Gaffer nor myself honestly wish to stand in his way, as he’s worked hard to get to where he presently sits, but everyone already knows that he really is an outstanding talent and you don’t sell the family silver for under the market value. We have also been patient and developed him beautifully here since he was 16. As such we do feel he genuinely has a true development value to this Football Club and we believe any fee has been honestly earned.” Hunter concluded.
OUR CLUB. OUR TOWN. OUR COMMUNITY.
The same with Dills he has been with the club since he was 8 years old and this is modern day football, run by greedy agents.
can understand their stance but surely we can’t be that much apart on a fee?
Everything you say before the word but is bullshit.
You are standing in his way, he's a huge gamble for a league club and there's a risk you're over valuing him.
There's also a risk we've been quite unkind in our offer. As we don't know the figures I'll stand by Bowyer and Gallen.
Excellent statement from their Chairman, and why should they let a talented young player that they have nurtured over a few years go on the cheap.
Thomas, Steve and Lee will make this happen if they feel the lad is worth it.
The usual game of bluff is taking place.
Teams will always try do things on the cheap and they are holding firm....fair play to them.
Thing is the "six figure sum" is a bit misleading, did we offer £100k and they want £250k for him or did we offer the former and they want close to £750k
In which case I would perhaps agree that they're asking too much
The club refused to let him go back there when he returned, and at the time he was kept as ballast on an extremely humble comparative wage, a legacy of coming through the ranks.
Dillon has served the club well so far, and deserves now to be treated with respect not as a pawn in a player game.
Although I suspect his agent could be doing a much better job.
Think Gomez and if we'd been in a stronger position what we should and would have asked for him.
It does make me laugh when I see posts on here saying something like how dare Borehamwood stop the player making his dream move. Of course it is right to leak the bid so we can unsettle the player. And they should stand aside, accept whatever offer comes their way and be grateful for it.
Compare that to the outrage on here at what Celtic were doing to try and sign Doughty. Which was basically all the above!
Ah, the hypocrisy of football fans!
There will be a social media meltdown if he signs before the striker is announced.
Off out for a bit, should be a signing by the time I’m back...
Leicester paid £1m for Vardy from the same league 8 years ago. Under £1m is a bargain if he has Championship potential and can make an impact in League 1 this season. I’m sure Boreham Wood think he has at least that sort of potential, and we wouldn’t be interested if we saw League 1 as his limit.
If they want more than £250k then the chairman is taking the mickey a bit.
Depending on how much they are asking of course.