Ricky Holmes - now at Southend (p4)

Interestingly Ricky flew in to Faro, Portugal earlier today as we saw him at the airport.

hope he can get back playing soon though. Waste of talent

paulie8290 said:

Looks set to sign for AFC Wimbledon

As he's still under contract at Sheffield Utd, are they subsidising this as he would be taking a massive pay cut?

His back injury is bad hence Sheffield Utd releasing him

he can’t cut it in the Championship

Wouldn’t want him in the Champ but he would still be our best (only winger) 

thanks but no thanks. We have moved on. 

Oggy Red said:

Ricky may be transfer listed by Sheff Utd, but he's still under contract.

If he has a serious injury, he's not going to pass any new club's medical.
He'll first need to spend the summer receiving treatment at Sheff Utd. 


Wilder was also Holmes' manager at Northampton, before bringing him to Sheff Utd.

I’ts a very big NO from me.

golfaddick said:

I know, lets assemble a squad made up from all the has beens, wantaways & general players of yesteryear shall we. I'll start with the ones already mentioned so far this week ;

Hariott
Cousins
Watt
Holmes
Shelvey

You can get KR to manage them as well if you like. I will stick with LB & the team he wants to assemble if you don't mind - which wont include any of the above thats for sure. 

No Shelvey? Don't be an idiot. 

And Bowyer might want to assemble an squad, but he might not have a choice as to which one he can assemble. 

I'd use as back up or if we needed to change system to included genuine wingers. I like Dazzlers  team above  
Not normally a fan of people coming back but Holmes if he can find his quality likewise if Fosu ever fits the system and gets firing they would be useful.

cafcfan1990 said:

Wouldn’t want him in the Champ but he would still be our best (only winger) 

Taylor spends 50% of his time out wide, and we need two  strikers to get on the end of chances created by Lyle.

johnnybev1987 said:

soapboxsam said:

cafcfan1990 said:

Wouldn’t want him in the Champ but he would still be our best (only winger) 

Taylor spends 50% of his time out wide, and we need two  strikers to get on the end of chances created by Lyle.

More reason to get a proper winger, or get Fosu to sort his life out! Get Taylor back in the middle and running behind defenders. 

Bows doesn't do wingers.

Unless you're saying he's been wrong all season?

Be surprised if Ricky Holmes goes to Wombles for 100k, only place I've seen that is one of those useless twitter itk accounts and the well informed BexleyBoy on ITTV...

Can see him out on loan again, maybe even back to Northampton or some other league 2 club and finishing his career non league. Shame cause he really was a bright spark here 

killerandflash said:

Braziliance said:

Be surprised if Ricky Holmes goes to Wombles for 100k, only place I've seen that is one of those useless twitter itk accounts and the well informed BexleyBoy on ITTV...

Can see him out on loan again, maybe even back to Northampton or some other league 2 club and finishing his career non league. Shame cause he really was a bright spark here 

If Holmes is fit he'll go to a much better team than AFC on loan or permanently, as he's a quality player at L1 level

On the other hand, if he's still hampered by his back(?) injury, why would anyone take him on?

It's more that I can't see a club like Wimbledon spending that kind of money. One of their recent signings was from Metropolitan Police FC, that's their market. 

I also don't see many clubs taking a gamble with his injury record. I think Blades will pay him off and he will end up in a league 1 lower half or challenging league 2 club. 

Ricky Holmes was superb in his first season for us.  He and Josh Magennis were a breath of fresh air.  We had suffered seasons of negative, sideways moves - and suddenly here was a midfield player who carried the ball from defence to attack, provided goals and scored them, too.  Holmes also scored direct from free-kicks outside the box, the son of Yann Kermorgant.

Bowyer at that time was still tending carp at his fishing lakes in France.

We had watched with horror midfielders like Poyet, Kashi and many others who were simply incapable of attacking, aggressive play.  Holmes is contracted at Sheffield United for another year, but has been made available for transfer.

It's a pity that serious injury has stunted the career of such a skilful, intelligent and progressive player.  

cafctom said:

Think it’s a little unfair to suggest that he isn’t Championship quality - especially based on how good he was for us.

Also let’s not forget that this Sheffield United side is the best they’ve had in over a decade - not being able to break into it certainly doesn’t mean you’re not a good player.

Ricky Holmes at his best is absolute quality. Anyone suggesting otherwise clearly wasn’t watching when he was playing for us.

He was quality apart from his crossing which wasn't.
He's had a long term back injury and been out for months.

Signed for Northampton.