Sheffield Wednesday have placed Richard Wood on the transfer list after refusing to meet the central defender's wage demands.
The Owls have been desperate to keep hold of the highly-rated 24-year-old but were not prepared to meet his demands and make him their highest paid player at Hillsborough.
Manager Brian Laws said: "Richard and his agent have asked for something they know we can't pay, so I'm very disappointed in a player who has previously told me he wants to be at this football club. We've made him an excellent offer and I'm staggered we are at this point."
Laws, who confirmed he would use the money to strengthen several areas of his squad, added: "I don't want any players at this football club who do not want to be here and if there is a club that want to take Richard on loan with a view to a permanent move in January then we would welcome that."
Wakefield-born Wood, who made his first-team debut at the age of 17, was handed a two-year deal by the Owls before he had completed the second year of his academy scholarship.
The club turned down a transfer request from Wood in the summer of 2008 not long after rejecting a reported £1million bid from from Coventry.
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laws is best manager weve had recently,inherited a club with no money,loads of debt, average players,etc, think were lucky to have him as relegation would have been certain, and our chairman has vision and we need to give them more time,and get behind them or we will,(the fans) be resposible for this clubs downfall, not the manager or chairman. I can remember fans moaning about manager and chairman when we were 10th in old first division,bet we all wish we were there now!!!!!!,you moaning LOT
purse is a joke,why not give woods his money and his captains armband back
i for one wont go untill laws has gone we've heard enough of his excuses this is his team now and we are still @#$%!!!
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Sorry philip fans are not going to turn up to watch rubbish maybe you have a bottomless pit of spare dosh to watch them, but in these hard times you cant ask people to turn up to watch a stuttering team with a stuttering manager. If wednesday were positioned in the top 6 crowds would not be a problem and woods would not be talking about about more wages, money is not the reason, he sees this side going nowhere with a manager on borrowed time, and a board who are not good enough.
Woods wants out just like whelan did, to hopefully move to a better club, as a player he's ok but nothing special.
if wednesday fans turned up for matches instead of moaning we might be able to pay the wages top players ask for. however Laws can't be held to ranson by a player who pledges his allegence by signing a 2 year contract and then asks for more money. typical of todays money grabbing players and agents. How can a any club build a team when the one with the most money gets the players
Methinks woods is reading to many pages of The Sun, most certainley getting ideas above his potential, no one is bigger than the club, and if you pay him top dollar who the next one who thinks he's world class.
How can we build a side if the good young players go.. who might have top flight potential ?
Laws is ok, but the Board need to really think about what they are doing !
I feel let down by the Board who promise much and deliver a big fat ZERO
thats it.....laws has lost the plot, how about getting shot of purse and giving wood his wages, great plan laws and strafford this is the way to move the club forward by letting the good young players go and keeping the donkeys..........time has run out now get rid of laws and the board and let someboby in whos only plan is not just to change the pies and improve the ground!!!!!
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