new O'Hara interview

agree with a lot of that DJ

as I have said repeatedly, JOH was fit enough to play 90 minute U21 games - and to score us a few goals and make a few as well - so is not a million miles off being fully first team game fit. he will have injury issues; with his groin/back/stomach muscle problems it will require some special exercises and a different training regime to the rest of the squad but that's nothing that plenty of other footballers haven't gone through as well.

so if we stop believing that he is not fit from a stamina point of view, and he is available for sale/loan, then what else could be the reason for him not getting a club? two things: his wage and the risk of him breaking down as soon as he gets two or three games in one week.

a lot of clubs don't have the money to throw around these days that they might have done five years ago. your Bolton/blackpool/wolves/leeds end of the market are all struggling with the reality of life after the premier league and know that they need to keep costs down. what has also become more and more clear is that if you don't pay silly wages you still end up with the same calibre of players because ultimately the whole salary structure outside of the prem falls back to more realistic levels. except for the likes of qpr and fulham who continue to gamble on a rich owner's funds but who would be completely bankrupt if ever the sugar-daddy money disappears.

JOH could get a club tomorrow if he said he'd play for free. he's still a bigger talent then 90% of players outside the premier league. last season he sat tight thinking something would turn up; this season he is realising that nobody is going to offer him £30,000 pw and if he wants to play again in the next two years he is going to have to drop his demands. wolves have been very good, IMO, in sticking to its principles that we don't just pay these people off or pay most of their wages for them to play elsewhere. and no matter what we think of the likes of RJ or ward, they both accepted that and took a big drop in pay to go and play for other clubs.

ultimately, if JOH decides he would rather hang his boots up, take his £3m or so off wolves for the next two years and give up on football that's his choice. I won't understand it or agree with it, but I am not going to abuse him for it either. none of us know what he's got going on his life (no matter how much certain posters have created their own HellOK ideas and tried to spread them as FACTs!), or how he feels about a sport that has caused him a fair amount of pain over the past few years. if this teaches wolves an expensive lesson about how we sign contracts for players, and handle them on relegation, should we get back to the premier league some time soon then that's one small positive. JOH fees won't sink us as badly as bullard did for Hull. but clubs need to understand contracts work both ways - we want loyalty from players when they sign a deal and equally the club has to pay what it owes.

Agree with that gb. And your final point is important in understanding the contracts we offered players. When we were negotiating contracts with players in the hope they would keep us in the Premier League did anyone really expect us to include the attractive clause of ' and this is what will happen to your pay if we are in League One in two years'. When offering contracts you are offering money and selling ambition. Hindsight is something that can make all of us sound very clever

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Exactly. He can't ask for a move.

When a player leaves a club they stop paying him the day he leaves. Same as with anyone in any job. There isn't a separate employment law for footballers

the general rule on transfers is that if the player hasn't requested he gets a percentage (around 10% I think) of the fee. if he requests a move he gets no cut of the fee. either way he probably gets his own signing on fee from his new club.

this isn't really an issue for JOH, who the club has suggested can leave on a free and who would only attract a minimal fee anyway.

Also, he has said he is looking to leave hasn't he?

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Oh look, yet another O'Hara story

Yep, we really need this clown at the club don't we.

I don't even care if its true or false, this shít is beyond a joke.

Did see someone mention this several days ago from nowhere, seemed he had heard something after all.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/danielle-lloyds-footballer-husband-jamie-3919499#.U9QnHC359eo.twitter

This takes the absolute biscuit for hypocrisy - Cinci indignant at someone being unfaithful and having no respect for women.