Jores Okore

[LeeB]

Jores has posted this on his twitter about the article.

http://twitter.com/JoresOkore/status/698534256021213186

If that's the true then they want bloody shooting.

Can someone other than Stevie Wonder or David Blunkett please have the final say on who does or doesn't get a new contract?

[Villa in Denmark]

Forgot to mention, it reads as though he was contacted by Ekstra Bladet because of rumour there'd been enquiries about him in January. Of which there'd apparently been 7 or 8 from PL, La Liga and Bundesliga clubs to which he'd said that he'd got no interest in bailing out half way through the season.

[PeterWithesShin]

It's hardly a surprise we haven't opened talks yet as he's missed so many games through injury and now we don't know what division we'll be in next season. Strikes me, and I could of be wrong, that he's stropping a bit that a) we haven't offered a contract, and b) that the second he was fit he wasn't in the first team.

[Toronto Villa]

Jores has posted this on his twitter about the article.

http://twitter.com/JoresOkore/status/698534256021213186

If that's the true then they want bloody shooting.

Can someone other than Stevie Wonder or David Blunkett please have the final say on who does or doesn't get a new contract?

The club have said they don't want a Delph situation again so this will be the first test of that since then. What's daft though is for Okore to come out in public with this now, and then in trying to correct it he only makes it worse with his final sentence. What good does that do?

[Dante Lavelli]

It's hardly a surprise we haven't opened talks yet as he's missed so many games through injury and now we don't know what division we'll be in next season. Strikes me, and I could of be wrong, that he's stropping a bit that a) we haven't offered a contract, and b) that the second he was fit he wasn't in the first team.

I disagree.  He is PL quality and we need as many players of that ilk, regardless of which division we're in.
If he is willing to sign we'd be daft not to be talking.

[Mister E]

We should give him a new contract and if R happens a buying club would need to get their lucre out and pay us big for him.

[OCD]

It's hardly a surprise we haven't opened talks yet as he's missed so many games through injury and now we don't know what division we'll be in next season. Strikes me, and I could of be wrong, that he's stropping a bit that a) we haven't offered a contract, and b) that the second he was fit he wasn't in the first team.

I can understand negotiations being on hold until we know where we are but it is concerning when he says there has been no interest from the club in starting talks. There's nothing wrong with saying 'we want you to extend your stay with us, we just need to know where we'll be' or 'we want you to stay...if we stay up, we're looking at this sort of figure. If we go down, it will look like this.'

[dave.woodhall]

What's really wrong is a player - any player, at any club - talking publicly like this.

[Dante Lavelli]

What's really wrong is a player - any player, at any club - talking publicly like this.

I agree.

The only legitimate mitigating circumstances i can think of - that he's been politely asking for talks but has been met by silence - is an even worse scenario because it means our board are drunk at the wheel. 

[PeterWithesShin]

Even if that is the case he should keep his mouth shut, not be spouting out this kind of the thing just before an important game.

[Mister E]

Even if that is the case he should keep his mouth shut, not be spouting out this kind of the thing just before an important game.

Perhaps he's angling for a move to Redscouse ....

[Dave]

What's really wrong is a player - any player, at any club - talking publicly like this.

Why? He'll either sign a contract with us or sign for somebody else. Him talking publicly isn't going to stop one of those from happening.

[john e]

What's really wrong is a player - any player, at any club - talking publicly like this.

Why? He'll either sign a contract with us or sign for somebody else. Him talking publicly isn't going to stop one of those from happening.

that's the same for every player at every club though
Still doesn't make it a good thing to do

[Dante Lavelli]

What's really wrong is a player - any player, at any club - talking publicly like this.

Why? He'll either sign a contract with us or sign for somebody else. Him talking publicly isn't going to stop one of those from happening.

Why? ...because it creates unnecessary uncertainty and media focus, keep it private and within the walls of the club.
I cannot imagine that the player benefits from the speculation either - unless they're really shallow and crave media attention.

[Phil from the upper holte]

Why would the club offer someone a deal with 13 Games to go. Bloody ridiculous, especially when he's only played 34 games due to injury