[SIGNED perm] Ben Wilmot

Discussion in 'The Transfer List' started by UEA_Hornet, Mar 4, 2018.

  1. Steve Leo Beleck

    Steve Leo Beleck Squad Player

    Sessegnon isn't a left back, ask any Fulham fan. He was wasted there and they weren't particularly impressed with his defending, it's when he's been pushed further forward that he's really taken off this season. He's an attacking wide midfielder.
     
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  2. Mighty Mo

    Mighty Mo Reservist

    Deal off according to The Sun
     
  3. oxhey67

    oxhey67 Squad Player

    Well that got exciting before nosediving into disappointment.

    A bit like the team as a whole on the pitch in the last couple of seasons really.
     
  4. The undeniable truth

    The undeniable truth First Team Captain

    Man at ESSO garage says we may be in for a young defender at Stevenage but face competition.
     
  5. reids

    reids First Team

    Yeah, but Spurs often play with 3 at the back, so he'd be a wing-backs.
     
  6. UEA_Hornet

    UEA_Hornet First Team Captain

    And it's live!!!
     
  7. Burnsy

    Burnsy First Team

    Haha. I could understand us being gazumped by Spurs/Arsenal etc - but if it’s true that we’ve been frightened off by a 500k price tag for a (reputedly) very big English talent who would have come here, we look incredibly tinpot.

    If he goes elsewhere and fulfills his promise, I’ll always remember that Marvin Zeegelaar cost 6 times as much as he would have.
     
  8. Heidar

    Heidar Squad Player

    My understanding is that he failed his medical.

    He was in "too good of shape".
     
  9. Steve Leo Beleck

    Steve Leo Beleck Squad Player

    Don't really understand us balking at a ~£1 million price tag for a young English prospect who's played quite a few games in Division 2. We paid £4 million for Sinclair whose only goal in senior football at the time was against a Conference team in a cup tie. And we paid £6 million for a Belgian lump with chronic fitness problems. Why not gamble a fraction of that on a young English centre back?
     
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  10. Oscar calling

    Oscar calling Squad Player

    Maybe his Agent is demanding a long contract on too high a wage. Arsenal, Spurs and Liverpool would no doubt offer a much higher salary.
     
  11. Hairyfrog

    Hairyfrog Squad Player

    No way would you not recoup any money on him, even if he doesn't make the premiership grade.
     
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  12. Moose

    Moose First Team Captain

    No one else appears to be in a rush to sign him for £1m.

    It’s easy to forget that it is real money. £500k extra = 250,000 cups of tea in sales, that, given the pace with which they are served at the Vic represents about 50 years of beverage profits. That’s shouldn’t be squandered on a possibly tinpot Willmot.
     
  13. reids

    reids First Team

    Or one match of ours shown on Sky in return for someone that could potentially be a mainstay of our defence for 15 years. And that's the gamble of the transfer market.
     
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  14. RookeryDad

    RookeryDad Squad Player

    And Fulham.

    They've won almost every game since Slav, in a characteristically shrewd move, put him up top.
     
  15. RookeryDad

    RookeryDad Squad Player

    Teapot Wilmot.
     
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  16. Heidar

    Heidar Squad Player

    Wilpot
     
  17. I Blame Pozzo

    I Blame Pozzo First Team

    Carrot?
     
  18. RookeryDad

    RookeryDad Squad Player

    How are the rainbow carrots faring?
     
  19. I Blame Pozzo

    I Blame Pozzo First Team

    Disappointing RD I'd say.
    Spindly and not much flavour and the yellow variety taste like a feeble parsnip.
    I shall continue looking,as we do for a centre back!
     
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  20. lowerrous

    lowerrous First Team

    Gone to Everton m8
     
  21. luke_golden

    luke_golden Space Cadet

    Very sad that we Wilmot be signing this lad.
     
  22. domthehornet

    domthehornet Moderator Staff Member

    Still in discussions with a club and won't play again for Stevenage this season.
     
  23. GoingDown

    GoingDown "The Stability"

    Done deal, love what the Pozzo's are doing lately in trying to get us a young British core.
     
  24. Steve Leo Beleck

    Steve Leo Beleck Squad Player

    Not going to believe this until Rupert Murdoch himself confirms it.
     
  25. RookeryDad

    RookeryDad Squad Player

    Maybe carrots are orange, pure & simple.

    Btw, do your carrots work for tennis as well?
     
  26. Oscar calling

    Oscar calling Squad Player

  27. domthehornet

    domthehornet Moderator Staff Member

    We are reviving our interest in him according to the Daily Mail.
     
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  28. hornetboy1

    hornetboy1 First Team Captain

  29. I Blame Pozzo

    I Blame Pozzo First Team

  30. ITK platypus

    ITK platypus Squad Player

    Why would he want to come to us? Surely a step backwards??
     
  31. GoingDown

    GoingDown "The Stability"

    Considering I already bought a shirt with his name on, this better be back on. Sitting at ******* 50p on ebay atm.
     
  32. kenbolka

    kenbolka Academy Graduate

    just announced as a permanent signing by the club official twitter
     
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  33. PowerJugs

    PowerJugs Doyley Fanatic

  34. The uninformed

    The uninformed Academy Graduate

    That has come from absolutely nowhere! Awesome stuff though
     
  35. Mighty Mo

    Mighty Mo Reservist

    Happy days!
    Welcome Ben.

    Is that the new away kit?
     

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