aberdeen face competition in striker bid

Dons in chase to get the Wright man

 

By Paul SMith

 

Published: 09/07/2008

 

Aberdeen have opened talks with Darlington as they target forward Tommy Wright. The 23-year-old has fallen down the pecking order at the English League 2 side following the arrival of former Clyde player Adam Proudlock.

 

That has alerted a string of clubs to Wright’s availability and the Dons are among those who have expressed an interest.

 

Aberdeen have not yet made a bid for the former Leicester City trainee and face competition for his services.

 

Cheltenham Town are understood to have already had an offer rejected by Darlington and at least one other English side has also had an approach rebuffed.

 

Aberdeen were prepared to pay about £50,000 for Southend United’s Irish forward Richie Foran and can afford to pay a fee for the right player.

 

Wright, a former England under-19 international, has a record of 17 goals in 46 league starts for Darlington and has caught the eye of Jimmy Calderwood and his scouting team.

 

Although currently recovering from a knee oper- ation, Wright is expected to be fit for the start of the season.

 

After beginning his career at the Walkers Stadium, Wright went on to play for Brentford and Blackpool on loan before a move to Barnsley.

 

At Oakwell he had a spell on loan at Walsall and then Darlington before completing a free transfer move to the Quakers in January last year.

 

While Calderwood attempts to strengthen his attacking options, the move for defender Tim Bakens has stalled.

 

The Press and Journal revealed yesterday that the Dutchman was unhappy with the initial contract offer from the Dons.

 

Calderwood has since confirmed the wage problem and said: “I had contact from Tim’s agent on Tuesday morning. We made him an offer and the agent made us a counter-offer. If the terms we have now been quoted are what he wants then he will not be coming"

Thing is that is putting me off, he scored something like 13 goals a season at that level, that isna alot, is it?  Compare it to others at that level is is an affa small amount, i'm sure it was manc don and myself talking about a couple of players in that league that scored something around 30 goals last season, they'd be a better options to be fair.

Kingston?

 

The standard is abysmal, there isn't much doubt about that. You do have to wonder why no-one in England higher up the league wants to take a punt on the guy with the money on offer down there.

 

Good to see the board making some real money available though but I would have preferred it had they coughed some dough to keep Hart. Be nice if this fella does his bit and appreciates in value, a return on the investment would be nice.

 

Pretty much my feelings when I saw that Touzani was going as well as all the rest that left.  losing Russell the season before for a hefty fee is fair enough, but then letting your next best player go for buttons when in reality something could have been done to keep him is incredibly short sighted and dare I say it, it ultimately cost us in the long run last season.

I actually didnt notice that this guy is 6ft!! Great the long ball tactics that Jc will deploy is going to be great to watch next season. 

 

 

Glad the alcohol is going to come into affect for my ability to see for most games next season!   

I think with Peter Thomson, the fact he is an international and perhaps the parallels with Kevin Doyle, have made him a more exciting proposition.  I watched that Youtube that someone posted the other day, and while I appreciate its difficult to make an informed judgement from a couple of minutes of video, the standard of goalkeeping and defending was reminiscent of Saturday afternoon down my local park in Nottingham.

 

he'd be a gamble... but, as reading found out, one that could pay-off big time!

 

I watched him in the derby when I was in Belfast and his positioning and off the ball running were excellent.

 

Good strikers instinct I thought.

Have heard that Cheltenham maybe one of the clubs looking at Thompson . I came up for a game against Killie about 5 years ago when

pele was manager. Think we scraped a draw that day, I remember saying to my dad that a couple of cheltenham players could have done a better job for us that day. Never did I think after the season we've had we'd be looking at the same players.

We've bid £100,000 for this lad. 

 

Hahaha!

 

Bollocks we have