Omar retired?

Think it's time to drop the romance with Bogle, absolutely will remain in our hearts forever for his goals, certainly at Wembley but the stark reality is he's not cut it at a higher level, maybe he's come to realise that himself and rather than take a backwards step he thinks it's best to walk away from the game and try a new venture. He's earned some good coin as since leaving BP and is hoping he can make at a song writer, something he probably has more passion for rather than football. I'll wish him all the best and thank him for what he did for us..

Sometimes people get tired of a career even if it's something they did well at and want a change before it's too late. We had a goalkeeper who didn't actually want to play and then decided they'd rather play cricket so maybe Omar decided his calling is elsewhere. He could still play part time football as he focuses on something else. He could carry on as a pro but maybe the time off due to Covid made him think about what he wants and how much of his time football eats up.

If he did retire for a career change then I'll wish him well in his future endeavours and respect for his time with us.  

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Bit harsh....

Not really Herts. He did well for us over a relatively short time and we sold him on for a profit so we thank him for that. But since then ...... ?

Quoted from TheRonRaffertyFanClub

If you have a player with a regular record of starting OK at a new club and then being left out it takes no imagination at all to see it will happen again. Just look at his record since he left Town.

How have you managed to deduce that his record since leaving town (in the Championship, top end of L1 and Dutch prem) is a because he’d “rather not do the work”, as opposed to maybe just struggling to make a success of going from Conference north up 4 divisions in 18 months?

Quoted from TheRonRaffertyFanClub

Not really Herts. He did well for us over a relatively short time and we sold him on for a profit so we thank him for that. But since then ...... ?

Moving to Wigan was a good move for us in terms of a profit but a bad move for him after only 7 months playing at EFL level and only a year prior to that at full time.

Going to a p1ss poor Championship side was a silly move he wasn’t the answer for Wigan and Wigan in their situation at the time wasn’t the answer for him.

He then went to a yo yo club (at best) when he signed for Cardiff. He was with Warnock for a bit and I’d suggest if he had an attitude problem Warnock would have had him down the road permanently rather than loaning him out.

From a career development point of view moving to a relegation threatened club or one that looks to be consistently chasing the dream requires an immediate impact something that Omar with very limited full time experience was unlikely to deliver.

The retirement bit is interesting though as  as he’s not been picked up yet maybe he’s thinking it’s time to look at something else. Maybe like Osborne he’ll go back to being a big fish in a small pond.

Quoted from HertsGTFC

Maybe like Osborne he’ll go back to being a big fish in a small pond.

I was hoping he'd do that at GTFC!

Quoted from TheRonRaffertyFanClub

If you have a player with a regular record of starting OK at a new club and then being left out it takes no imagination at all to see it will happen again. Just look at his record since he left Town.

8 goals in 21 starts (50 appearances in total) in the Championship? That’s literally a more impressive recent record than any striker we’ve signed in probably the last 15 years or so. A fit Omar Bogle would be the best striker in League Two by some margin in my opinion.

Regardless, I hope whatever’s going on in Omar’s life he’s in a good place. He’ll always be up there as one of my all-time Town heroes - his three goals in the play-offs in 2016 were so, so important for us. His contribution to GTFC should never be forgotten.

Quoted from HertsGTFC

Going to a p1ss poor Championship side was a silly move he wasn’t the answer for Wigan and Wigan in their situation at the time wasn’t the answer for him.

This is another argument I don’t fully understand. Without knowing the finer details of his contract at Wigan, I’m fairly confident that move will have earned Omar close to if not more than £1m, after tax. For a young man who would not have been exceptionally wealthy at the time, how was he meant to turn that down?

Should he have waited for a better offer from a bigger club? He signed for Wigan late on transfer deadline day; he could have held on and then gone and done his cruciate in training the next day. A bird in the hand and all that...

Very drastic if he has quit. He only had one and a half seasons here, so to go straight to the Championship after that little experience, no wonder he's struggled. He should have gone back a few steps and started again, possibly in League One. I'm sure some clubs would have been in contact with him. I'm sure his ego has played a part in it if he has just given up.

He needs to sort himself out and make the most of his ability .