Omar Bogle - set to leave Cardiff City in January.

Quoted from golfer

doubt if anyone on more tha £2k a week at Town - only Ollie

Pretty sure this is correct. Hanson defo not on 3k a week. I read somewhere our average wage is about £1000 a week, so I’d say the lower paid players in the squad are on 300-500 a week and the top earners on 1500-1800

In truth ,Bogle has achieved very little since leaving Town. Wigan off loaded him super fast and Cardiff have loaned him out to whoever would have him. He's been lucky in the fact that his lower league goals made him look -on paper- better that he actually is.But the sad fact is the higher placed clubs soon found him out.We've all seen his petulance on field when some defender takes the ball off him or he makes other stupid mistakes.That attitude has been his undoing. Until he sorts his head out he's never going to fullfill the promiss that so many have thought him capable of.Give me Amond anyday.

I got told 2-3k our marquee signings like Hanson and Green and just picked the high end but I really have no clue. Think Fenty said somewhere we had to pay out big bucks to get the likes of Hanson but if that's 2k not 3 then fair enough. Yes I heard average around £1000, youth grads will be a bit less of course which will counter the high earners to pad the squad out.

I can’t see it happening but if they can’t offload him maybe a loan till the end of the season would be a good deal for all involved .
He can prove he’s still got it and he’d have some friendly fans that would give him time to settle

When he was good, he was really good. At other times, he was a petulant twit who wasn’t a team player.
I’d rather us spend that sort of money on two team players.

Quoted from Stranger in the Park

In truth ,Bogle has achieved very little since leaving Town. Wigan off loaded him super fast and Cardiff have loaned him out to whoever would have him. He's been lucky in the fact that his lower league goals made him look -on paper- better that he actually is.But the sad fact is the higher placed clubs soon found him out.We've all seen his petulance on field when some defender takes the ball off him or he makes other stupid mistakes.That attitude has been his undoing. Until he sorts his head out he's never going to fullfill the promiss that so many have thought him capable of.Give me Amond anyday.

It sounds like you're judging his credentials as a League 2 player by using his failure (so far) at Championship level.

The fact that he hasn't broke through and succeeded at Championship level does not mean he wouldn't he any good if he came back down to League Two.

It seems mad to me that some people wouldn't want him back because he's not done much since he left us. He's been at Championship/League One all that time.

Let's not forget when he was in League Two playing in our average team he absolutely ripped it up. He was absolutely unplayable at times. Yeah he still had those tantrums and moments where he got frustrated if it wasn't going his way, but I'd rather see that than someone who just doesn't care.

Everyone raves about Podge Amond and plenty have said they'd rather have him back than Bogle. Sorry but it's the other way around for me. Podge was prolific in the conference and is a good L2 striker too. But Bogle was more prolific at the level we're at now, and could create and score goals on his own, whereas Podge (as great as he is at what he does) would need our "non-creative" team to create chances for him in the 18 yard box.

I'm not criticising Amond and of course I'd have him back here too. But Bogle could score goals on his own from anywhere and was on course for a goals return in this league similar to what Amond got in the conference.

Bear in mind it took us at least a year to sign him the first time if I remember rightly.
We were one league higher. He was semi pro. We struggled to get him here  
90s / 00s II can't remember us having many better  up front in the championship. Mendonca a given.

What that Aldershot video shows is how poor some of the goalkeepers in the Conference were.

I think he was a victim of circumstance. First game for Wigan, he scored twice and I remember loads of Leeds fans complaining why they hadn't signed him. He then got injured and the manager who signed him was sacked. New bloke comes in, wants to get rid. Downward spiral ever since.

Always thought Wigan was an odd choice. Also felt that he was desperate to get a move (in case it didn't happen) and probably being pushed by his agent.

He should have gone at the end of the season. With another 10 goals under his belt and a lot more choice.

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Easy to say with hindsight. If Wigan hadn't have changed manager, he might've played regularly for a side at the top of League 1 and scored a load of goals. If he'd stayed at GTFC he might've knackered his knee a week later and now be working at Solihull Leisure Centre. Who knows?

Certainly not me, anyway!