Vadis Odjidja-Ofoe

[Tomasz Blazak]

 Retweeted by Stephen Sadler

Bethnal Y and G ‏@BethnalYG  1m
Few bits and pieces coming out of Belgium that Odjidja has agreed terms with Norwich. Good signing, could be a great signing.

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[Tomasz Blazak]

Paul @BelgoSport · 2h

Club Brugge midfielder Vadis Odjidja will be joining Norwich City, contract has been signed today #ncfc @CanariesFC

 

[Dandy Mountfarto]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amw7qSdfqmQ

In an ideal world we'd play this everytime he scores

 

[Yellow Fever]

Confirmed on Twitter: (google translated)

Vadis Odjidja to leave Club Brugge. He just signed his contract with Norwich City. Thanks for everything! # clubbrugge # transfers # vadis

 

[Yellow Fever]

Excellent player to replace Fer. What a night!

 

[Bethnal Yellow and Green]

Confirmed on Twitter: (google translated)

Vadis Odjidja to leave Club Brugge. He just signed his contract with Norwich City. Thanks for everything! # clubbrugge # transfers # vadis

If that's the Dieter Desender tweet (which I'm pretty sure it is) then that isn't anything official - he's just a Brugge fan. This deal could still be gazumped if a Prem club gets involved.

 

[Agent Dale Cooper]

I have Emailled that article to a Cloggy pal who i've asked to pick the bones out. He finishes work at 8pm so may be a few hours.

It's not Louis van Gaal, is it? I think he knocked off at about 8pm tonight.

 

[wcorkcanary]

''It's not Louis van Gaal, is it? I think he knocked off at about 8pm tonight.''..  .nah, but he's City fan, drove from Cornwall to Stanstead to pick me up for the 1st leg of the Yoot Cup final. Also a lifelong Ajax fan, we've watched both Ajax friendlies together at CR. only thing was we wished it was Champs League not Pre Season.

 

[Agent Dale Cooper]

''It's not Louis van Gaal, is it? I think he knocked off at about 8pm tonight.''..  .nah, but he's City fan, drove from Cornwall to Stanstead to pick me up for the 1st leg of the Yoot Cup final. Also a lifelong Ajax fan, we've watched both Ajax friendlies together at CR. only thing was we wished it was Champs League not Pre Season.

He sounds like quite excellent company!

 

[BarclayBoy88]

Was having a cheeky look around the directors box tonight to see if I could see Ofoe and as we were two rows in front of it, I'm pretty sure he wasn't there. Neither was McNally or Delia though as far as I could see, which I found quite interesting. Can't remember the last time Delia wasn't there. 

 

[wcorkcanary]

He sounds like quite excellent company!

He is a good un alright, has own out of tune version of 'on the ball city'.....dreadful but funnier after a few.

 

[BarclayBoy88]

The same journalist who broke the story has tweeted today that he'll be in Norwich for a medical this morning.

 

[Andy]

The same journalist who broke the story has tweeted today that he'll be in Norwich for a medical this morning.

Anglia news on this, €5 million apparently

http://www.itv.com/news/anglia/update/2014-08-27/reports-odjidja-ofoe-heads-to-england-for-norwich-city-medical/

 

[shaun_wilkinson]

Anglia news on this, €5 million apparently

http://www.itv.com/news/anglia/update/2014-08-27/reports-odjidja-ofoe-heads-to-england-for-norwich-city-medical/

I read that early. €5million (that sounds low to me) yet is says the release clause is €7million?

 

[Andy]

I read that early. €5million (that sounds low to me) yet is says the release clause is €7million?

The release clause just means that if that figure is met, the club have to sell the player, assuming he wants to go. If all parties agree, the fee can be lower. Football contracts are notoriously complex and may include sell-on clauses, image rights, promotion clauses etc and so the complete package on offer might be as or more attractive than the release fee.

 

[BarclayBoy88]

Great point Andy, I guarantee he will have a promotion clause in that fee we agreed. This is actually a really exciting signing and shows we still have some pull even though we are outside the Premier League, we can't underestimate just how much this guy has been touted, Everton very close to the signing, he's a Belgian international and Vincent Kompany think's he's an outstanding player. If we confirm this, it will be a great bit of business.

 

[shaun_wilkinson]

The release clause just means that if that figure is met, the club have to sell the player, assuming he wants to go. If all parties agree, the fee can be lower. Football contracts are notoriously complex and may include sell-on clauses, image rights, promotion clauses etc and so the complete package on offer might be as or more attractive than the release fee.

Yeah I get all that but €5m still seems low to me. Having said that, that currently works out at £3.97m and we paid £4m for Fer didn't we?

 

[skijumptoes]

I think 4 mil is quite a bit for a championship club to be spending, you've only got to hear McCarthy before the ipswich match he put things in to perspective for me discussing how much we'd paid for Grabban etc. and yes, of course we're favourites to go up - it's a no brainer.

If we had been sat here in this league for years and saw a team spending millions around their squad like we have i think we'd be thinking the same thing, this is not the prem, 4 million is a ton of money!

Also, if the player wanted the move and the club wanted it (Which appears to be the case),this deal no doubt favours the player in terms of his (and his agent?) personal demands.

 

[Matt Hopkins]

So we pay 4 for Fer (that's difficult to say) get 8 back

Speculate the "profit" on another young international with our original 4 back in the bank.

I like playing "poker" that way!

 

[Canaryboy]

£4m is a hugely ambitious sum of money for a Championship team to spend, delighted (if this goes through) that the club appreciates the need to adequately replace Fer. 

This will probably the 2nd highest fee paid by a Championship club for a player this season, second to McCormack, can anybody think of any others?

Get £8m for an injury prone player who doesn't want to be here... £4m on the replacement, £4m in the bank to help cover any holes in the budget, sounds good to me!