Sheffield Wednesday Rumours Archive May 09 2012

09 May 2012 21:44:19
Antonio said he wants to stay at Wednesday hope reading want to sell him

He may be thinking this but has not stated publicly yet.

It would be great to get Antonio, DJ has already enquired so now as always its up to the parent club....

Antonio as said in public he wants to come, he stated at the award evening sunday night

09 May 2012 16:24:22
Our lasses dad told me Wednesday trying to bring kenwayne Jones back on season long loan but dunno how try this is but he doesn't get a sniff at stoke

Doubt Kenwyne would want to drop down to Championship. And Pulis said in January that Kenwyne wasn't going anywhere, but that might have changed by now. Hope like anything it's true, but I can't see them letting their 27yo £8m record-signing just go out on loan with very little chance of making it permanent.

09 May 2012 13:55:30
Just heard this:

Madine has already been sold to Ipswich for £3M.

Rhodes coming to Hillsborough after play offs!

Are you having a laugh, I am rolling around in stiches, 3m for that and why would Rhodes come to you when West Brom are sniffing around him??

Wednesday will not sel madine! why get promoted and sell your best asset? he's improving loads just needs to calm down of the field

Not a chance, of rhodes

Rhodes wud be great 'if' Huddersfield fail to go up... But if higher profile clubs come in he'd prob go there, wud be nice if his dad cud pull a few strings seein as hes part of our staff!

As for Madine goin 'HAHA', he aint goin no where, just had his bail conditions switched so he can attend the celebration tonight

It appears Trigger and his disgruntled pals are back on here posting rubbish.
Never mind, we are promoted and they are not. Nuff said.
Also, I'm sure we will have the last laugh when the Blunts a knocked out by Stevenage in the play offs.

Madine has a court case in July for Assault and ABH. Who would buy a player with this hanging over them? Therefore absolutely stupid rumour. Rhodes will leave Huddersfield if they are not promoted. He lacks pace which rules out Premiership (if he had pace his record would have meant he would have gone at last transfer window) and means goalscoring in Championship will be harder. Hence price will be nowhere near some of figures quoted.

Why would Rhodes come to us, they might go up yet

Plus West Brom want Rhodes, njot a chance will we get Rhodes dont talk rubbish

To answer the previous posters question - "Madine has a court case in July for Assault and ABH. Who would buy a player with this hanging over them?" - Wednesday bought Madine when he had a case of arson pending! He may have been found not guilty (or maybe acquitted, not sure) of that charge, but least not forget that he also had an previous conviction for assault, for which he was sentenced to 250 hours community payback.

I sincerely hope that we sell Madine this summer. He is an arrogant, disruptive, horrible s**t, who is more of a liability than an asset to the club. Talk such as "he is young, he will calm down, give him a chance" is short-sighted nonsense. His behaviour will only get worse over time. Does anyone credit the likes of Aaron Ramsey (same age as Madine) with being a model professional because he is young?....no, so the suggestion that a player should be excused from appalling behaviour simply they are in their early 20s.

Bottom line, Madine is just not that good anyway. He was 5th top scorer in the division, but compare his number goals scored as a proportion of the overall number of goals scored by his team and he is way below the 4 players above him in the scoring chart, and indeed many of the players below him.

Why is that significant? “ because in a high scoring, successful side like Wednesday have been this season, should you not expect a more from your leading striker? He does not even offer much to the team beyond the goals he scored (I could accept that from a player like Rhodes, who scored 46% of his teams goals, as opposed to Madine's 22%).

O'Grady is better at holding the ball up, winning flick-ons and generally physically bossing opposing defences (he was at League 1 level at least), Lowe is far better at getting behind defences, working hard to force mistakes and, crucially, at scoring (much better return for minutes on the pitch this season). Don't get me wrong, I don't think either of the above are the answer to our striking needs for next season, but at least they are good professionals who give their all.

That cannot be said of Madine, who has had criminal charges hanging over him for much of his short time at S6, who was out injured¯ with a broken toe (widely understood to be a fighting injury¯ from his exploits in town) and who undoubtedly decided he was not going to put a shift in after Megson had (quite rightly) had a go at him for his indiscretions (remember the 4 or 5 awful and plainly lazy performances before Jones came in?). The Owls need at least 2 new strikers for next season, probably 3, which is a tall task to get 2 or 3 good enough on the money which we will have available “ Dave Jones, please take anything you can get for Madine now to boost the coffers and avoid this person from further bringing bad news to the door of our beloved club. UTO, WTID

Was it u who madine punched??theres obviously an underlining problem here.madines our top goal scorer and the youngest off our strikers and majority of our squad.hes highly rated at this level a lot of clubs would love his services and he's only gona get better!

Madine will stay, may end up being fringe, but will still stay, i think rhodes would be up for Wednesday, he was at the final game and his dad works here already, however would only come if hudders DONT get promotion

09 May 2012 01:50:33
Anthony Gerrard centre back of Cardiff rumoured to be joining Sheffield Wednesday

Not bad but rather have someone else defo not Alex Bruce.. maybe if he was like his dad Steve Bruce then it would be a different story but he's not.

Gerard not regular first teamer at Cardiff and notwanted by club. This is agent trying to get his man a move. Apparently well down Wednesday list of potential recruits.