Another question for the forum 
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I suppose it’s the way of the loan market.
You win some and lose some.
Stoke sent us Okagbue on loan, offered him a contract but he chose to leave and join us.
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Puts my theory to piss this morning 
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It was a shade premature to be fair.
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Doug Taylor was much maligned on here but there’s a player there, I wish him well.
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You never know - he might come back one day.
I didnt know you’d been speaking to Mrs WV mate?
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Yes it does look like that decision was made at ‘group level’ not at a club level.
I wonder which club was paying his salary ??
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A similar situation is developing with Ahui.
Signed him for 18 months with a years extension as soon as his Drogheda contract run out… then loaned him back to Drogheda for 12 months.
I know we can recall him back now, but I suspect he’ll stay there until the end of their season in November.
He was due to join us for pre season for to assess what route was best for him according to MS.
However he hasn’t played recently due to a knee injury, we don’t know where he is in terms of fitness etc now
Can see a case for him returning to Drogheda until Jan now, especially as we have cover for RWB and RCB which seem to be his preferred positions
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Any news on Harry Williams?!! I’ve not even heard a rumour about him!
Not sure if this has already been posted but stumbled upon this regarding DJT
Not a fan of low possession football so probably for the best he didnt renew (amongst the obvious other reasons) 
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I can accept mistakes, but I can’t accept incompetence, and Trivela are looking more and more incompetent by the day!
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“It is understood that is because the clubs’ owners, the Trivela Group, were of the belief that there would be significant compensation involved if the striker was to join a club outside Ireland on a permanent basis.”
Brutal.
"Drogheda are experts at getting results despite not having much of the ball and when asked about what he was most looking forward to about playing for Bohs.
He said: “Maybe being on the other side of the possession!"
Even more so 
Sounds to me like fannying about signing players with us just to be loaned out to their other club bit them on the arse. If they’d signed him with Drogheda they’d have probably got something. And the “Trivela front foot football” looks like it made it over to Ireland too.
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I’m a bit confused by this. ( I know it’s not hard)
I was always under the impression that if one of these transfers happened where the player moved outside of England, no compensation would be due. Since Walsall held his registration, we would only have been due compensation if he moved in England?
Regardless, this multi-club ownership has some murky parts to it, highlighted in that article. I don’t like it a lot. It feels like the whole DJT thing was for Drogheda’s benefit, not Walsall’s, and that is wrong in my view.
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You’re correct.
It appears Trivela weren’t under the same impression though.
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Be interesting to know % of his wages Drogheda paid and how much it cost us to give him another year.
Maybe Trivela will compensate us for what they thought they could make on DJT by doing it
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and you’re back in the room!
Looks like, from that, that DJT was only signed up last year as a way to try and circumvent Drogs having to pay us compo and still have their man…
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They got a trophy and a complete turnaround in their league fortunes from it though. We got just more Walsallness!
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