Olowu

[mushRTID]

Gone to Stockport.

Wow.

Not Championship and not down South.

Very disappointing.

[DonnyOsmond]

Sideways move. Poor really.

[RoversInSpain]

Bit of a kick in the teeth, and what was all that rubbish spouted about a church in London.
Footballers eh!
Hopefully he gets a good pay check to make it worth his while.

[Canadian Rover]

$$$$$

[big fat yorkshire pudding]

Not really.

They finished in the play offs last year.
Close to a big city.
Big budget and likely much more wages than we offered him.

We would all take it and massive luck to him, great guy.

It will be fascinating to see if last season was his true potential or just a good season, certainly improved massively Vs his previous seasons.

[MachoMadness]

To be fair he never said he wanted to move to the Championship or down south, these were just things that we assumed. Stockport have some serious money behind them and he'll be part of a team challenging for automatics, you imagine. Good move for him.

[RobTheRover]

https://youtu.be/bb6cBKE3WzQ?si=EZSXPQd8HVXN-jpJ

[sedwardsdrfc]

If we were a championship team and signed a L2 centre half who really had 1 very good season and a few hit/miss seasons all at L2 we’d be pissed.

Stockport is a club on the up that will be challenging and if they don’t go up its a good place to get a big move from.

[Ian Nimmo]

This is really disappointing and clearly seems to be a result of not always being first choice in his time with us.
The only other factor could be the money but there would need to be a massive difference between what we offered.

[ncRover]

$$$$$

Good for him!

[DonnyBazR0ver]

Surprised by his destination although Stockport are upwardly mobile and will probs be one of the favourites for promotion.  It's just football and a fact of life there's always teams prepared to pay a bit more so good luck to him. Nothing but admiration for his service and the way he conducted himself throughout.

Cards already marked for Stockport and Bolton then. Not bad benchmarks to compare really and who gets better value for money.

Edit. I wouldn't be surprised if Stockport weren't the only ones chasing Olowu's services.

[Filo]

Very disappointing, thought he had more about him than that

[anton123]

Love us to finish above Stockport or at least give them a good hiding at the moat

[jmt23]

The league one finances will have been distorted to buggery over the last couple of seasons with Brum Wrexham and Stockport, so no doubt they have offered far far more than we did.

He definitely accepted this offer well in advance of us gaining promotion - I’m not having one bit of the “injury” either.  As I mentioned in the Coffee with Joe thread, the questioning was very much around when you leave.

He’s a great lad and was a very good player for us, but I always got the feeling Grant didn’t fully believe in him. He dropped him despite being in the form of his life for Tom at the back end of the season before, during the winning streak.
I imagine that would also be on Joes mind when looking at deals and clubs.

I also imagine he will have been slightly conflicted leaving knowing we will be in the same league.

[Danmckay456]

Money talks  as per usual but we’ve done it to other clubs to our benefit , onwards and upwards for us we’ve lost better players in summers gone by and the grass isn’t always greener. Looking forward to Luke tearing him a new one next season

[NickDRFC]

Money talks  as per usual but we’ve done it to other clubs to our benefit , onwards and upwards for us we’ve lost better players in summers gone by and the grass isn’t always greener. Looking forward to Luke tearing him a new one next season

This is how I see it. Harry Clifton had been at Grimsby for the best part of a decade when a club with better chances of promotion came along and offered him a big pay rise and I don’t remember seeing any complaints then. How is this any different?

[Filo]

Money talks  as per usual but we’ve done it to other clubs to our benefit , onwards and upwards for us we’ve lost better players in summers gone by and the grass isn’t always greener. Looking forward to Luke tearing him a new one next season

This is how I see it. Harry Clifton had been at Grimsby for the best part of a decade when a club with better chances of promotion came along and offered him a big pay rise and I don’t remember seeing any complaints then. How is this any different?

Clifton hadn’t just won the league

[Danmckay456]

Came on a free left on a free - that how it goes sometimes

[Arsenal Of The North]

Best of luck to him, he was brilliant for us, but doesn’t owe us anything.

Moving to a team who will most likely challenge for the play offs winning most weeks and playing a lot now they lost 2 other CBs


Interesting that we turned a bid down in January from Stockport for him!

[RoversInSpain]

Good luck to him. I’d much rather see him leave than, Molyneux, Bailey, Sterry, Maxwell and McGrath (who incidentally has always been very decent for us)
Olowu was on the whole only very good for around a season when the team was doing well. Before that he was up there with Ro Sean Williams.
Not overly bothered he’s left, rather have McGrath

[TonySoprano]

1 decent season, injured for alot of it, and didn't miss him when he was injured.

I think Rovers offered him what he was worth, and for him to end up at Stockport tells me that alot of other clubs thought the same as Rovers.

[steve@dcfd]

Joe has decided to move on I never thought it would be a Championship club but believed it would be further South. It’s whether he will be starting every game they play with a 4 and with a 3 at the back but they have lost at least one centre back. He will probably be getting more money and should have a better chance of promotion but that’s not a given. He’s made the choice.

[colincramb]

People going into meltdown on social media over this. I don’t see the big deal. Players come and go all the time and that’s football. He’s gone to a club that at this minute in time, offers him a better chance of championship football - I was always doubtful he’d end up at a championship club when he left us and thought it was much more likely he’d go to a top end league one club.

Don’t really have an issue with it to be honest.

[Canadian Rover]

$$$$$

I don't hold it against home either.

Good for him!

[Metalmicky]

Ex player meltdown - claxon alert...

[Spilsby Red]

No issue with me. Thanks but not our player anymore. We move on

[GazLaz]

Known this for a while but wasn’t surprised when I found out. They have a bigger budget than us and will have been agreed before we were promoted.

[selby]

  Everybody happy, the player gets a chunk of any transfer fee they would have paid in January as a signing on fee, as does the agent, and a bigger wage every week, and hopefully the club paying over the odds at our level don't go tits up a couple of seasons down the line.

[ncRover]

Money talks  as per usual but we’ve done it to other clubs to our benefit , onwards and upwards for us we’ve lost better players in summers gone by and the grass isn’t always greener. Looking forward to Luke tearing him a new one next season

This is how I see it. Harry Clifton had been at Grimsby for the best part of a decade when a club with better chances of promotion came along and offered him a big pay rise and I don’t remember seeing any complaints then. How is this any different?

Clifton hadn’t just won the league

Would you turn down a pay rise worth tens thousands of pounds a year because of loyalty you felt towards your work colleagues?
A pay rise that gave you a higher chance of earning a further pay rise sooner too.

[Metalmicky]

Joe kissed are badge b*llocks..... get over yourselves..