Rumour Mill

Quite an interesting thread on Cook on the Walsall forum, ranging from his signing through to the present day:

https://upthesaddlers.com/t/cookie/761

If nothing else, it’s a brilliant case study in the fickleness of football fans. After a few games he’s a world beater, by November he’s a talentless, non-League fat boy - their best player and an absolute goal machine who shouldn’t be sold for less than £750k by January and then back to being an overweight, unfit clogger come the end of the season.

It sounds like some of his issues are still there - capable of being a bit lazy and by no means a natural athlete. However, he scored 18 in a relegated League One side and averaged 25 a season in his previous three years in the Conference.

I know football’s never that simple but that’s got to be the record of someone capable of bagging 20+ in League Two.

That said, if there’s an opportunity for him to move on from Walsall, and it sounds like there is, surely Tranmere would be the obvious destination?

Quoted from Poojah

Quite an interesting thread on Cook on the Walsall forum, ranging from his signing through to the present day:

https://upthesaddlers.com/t/cookie/761

If nothing else, it’s a brilliant case study in the fickleness of football fans. After a few games he’s a world beater, by November he’s a talentless, non-League fat boy - their best player and an absolute goal machine who shouldn’t be sold for less than £750k by January and then back to being an overweight, unfit clogger come the end of the season.

It sounds like some of his issues are still there - capable of being a bit lazy and by no means a natural athlete. However, he scored 18 in a relegated League One side and averaged 25 a season in his previous three years in the Conference.

I know football’s never that simple but that’s got to be the record of someone capable of bagging 20+ in League Two.

That said, if there’s an opportunity for him to move on from Walsall, and it sounds like there is, surely Tranmere would be the obvious destination?

Think he is an out and out confidence player...when its going well he is there....when it isnt he is far far away.....always gave me the impression he gets unhappy very quickly which i think results in marmite opinions from supporters.
Never seen him as a link up player or target man or sprinter but someone who needs the service from wide....if we dont solve that problem then little point in signing him IMO.

Maybe there is something in this, I mean how often does Town come out and publicly acknowledge potential transfers, unless the deal is done.

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I thought he got homesick while he was here.
If that's the case again probably Carlisle would be a natural option for him

I'd be happy to see him back, strongly felt we didn't play to his strengths when we had him and have been proven correct since, in this jolleyball team he'll be banging them in

When he was with us before it became obvious he wasn’t a Hurst (&Scott) type striker. A goal scorer, but not one to run around a lot. Because we were one of the better teams he got plenty of chances to score. IMO just what we needed at the time, but in our current situation, and if he hasn’t addressed the non-athletic side, are we going to create enough opportunities for him?

So far it’s only interest/rumours BUT if town managed to pull off signing cook and Devitt that would be 2 very good additions for this level, Devitt the creative player we’ve been missing since Embleton got injured and cook’s got goals in him.. could be an interesting few weeks UTM

Matt dean just confirmed Walsall have received bid for Andy Cook but doesn’t say who from  

Quoted from OllieGTFC

Matt dean just confirmed Walsall have received bid for Andy Cook but doesn’t say who from  

No, it say's they've yet to receive a bid

Quoted from KingstonMariner

When he was with us before it became obvious he wasn’t a Hurst (&Scott) type striker. A goal scorer, but not one to run around a lot. Because we were one of the better teams he got plenty of chances to score. IMO just what we needed at the time, but in our current situation, and if he hasn’t addressed the non-athletic side, are we going to create enough opportunities for him?

Wes Thomas wasn't really a bust-a-gut kind of striker and he did ok, to the point that we missed him quite a bit when he was absent (although I think that's as much down to the lack of striking options and service as much as anything else).  

I suppose it all falls down to who's paired with someone like Andy Cook.  Of the current crop, I think if you could pair him up with Vernam and Jordan Cook you've probably got a bit of everything in there.  If you somehow managed to mix him with another creative player like Devitt, you're probably not far off a very, very good frontline.  

Who knows.  Does seem funny that we're in for players who I would normally expect us to be priced out for...