2025/26 Ins & Outs Discussion

[Kmcalpin]

34 minutes ago, bobbybingo said:

Osong's gone back to Nottingham Forest.

We're certainly light in the striking department now, with Hendry out injured for several weeks too. 

[Yoshi-1991]

Thats yer striker finally announced 

[Orinoco]

With Cook, Hendry injured and AP doing AP things we still need another mobile front man.

[texanwellfan]

40 minutes ago, wellwell91 said:

If Welsh comes back fine if not we still have SODs McGinn Gordon and McGee so why do we need to sign another centre half 

Our main area to strengthen is striker.
We can makeshift cover at CB, to a lesser extent at left back but it would be good to have player whose first positions is CB and player whose first position is LB. 
Striker,  left back, centre back, and if we can afford it, a good quality midfielder who would be in contention for a starting slot and not just one to make up numbers. 

[texanwellfan]

4 minutes ago, Orinoco said:

With Cook, Hendry injured and AP doing AP things we still need another mobile front man.

geez!! I had already forgot about Cook. When will we get him back. I think he is a great player to have in our squad. 

[Richie]

Big Thor 

[texanwellfan]

Welcome to Motherwell, Eythor. I hope you are a raging success!!  

[joewarkfanclub]

Here's hoping the data is correct and he is exactly what we need. It seems to have worked so far with Jens signings. Fingers crossed we have another hit. The fact that Osong abd Sule have both gone back to their clubs means we cant be any worse off as neither contributed anything. But it would be nice if we have found another gem.

[grizzlyg]

Altogether now.........ONE EYTHOR BJORGOLFSSON........THERE'S ONLY ONE EYTHOR BJORGOLFSSON.  and commentators nightmare if he is up front with AP 🤣🤣

[Kmcalpin]

A fine Viking name! Welcome Eythor. 

[grizzlyg]

43 minutes ago, Richie said:

Big Thor 

Shame his surname wasn't Foxache! 🤪🤪🤪

[Happy Dosser]

The Borg has landed.....

[Stuwell2]

20 hours ago, thewelllfan said:

Is there a point in bringing Welsh back it's not his fault but he's now cup tied were realistically not going to win the league so surely we bring in a CB that can play in the only competition we can potentially win. 

I’m happy to leave that decision with JBA. 

[Well Well]

No loan players at all now.

[joewarkfanclub]

1 hour ago, grizzlyg said:

Altogether now.........ONE EYTHOR BJORGOLFSSON........THERE'S ONLY ONE EYTHOR BJORGOLFSSON.  and commentators nightmare if he is up front with AP 🤣🤣

And they were just getting the hang of Maswanhise and Stamatolopoulos as well! 😆😆😆

[Stuwell2]

5 minutes ago, joewarkfanclub said:

And they were just getting the hang of Maswanhise and Stamatolopoulos as well! 😆😆😆

I’m just getting the hang of then so it must be time to sell them

[Spit_It_Out]

So can we get more players on loan or we used up all our chances?Like I know you are only allowed x amount at same time so now we don't have any does that mean we can bring in a few again?

[wellsince75]

36 minutes ago, Spit_It_Out said:

So can we get more players on loan or we used up all our chances?Like I know you are only allowed x amount at same time so now we don't have any does that mean we can bring in a few again?

Yes 

I believe the rule is 6 at any given time and no more than 2 from other SPL clubs 

[Happyhonest]

I like the announcement. Our first signing of January suggests more to come.  The chat about the analytics also fills me with hope. They have seen something in this guy so hopefully he will hit the ground running.  I take it it will be a few weeks till we see him anyway as the Swedish season finished months ago.  Anyone know if he had been doing a pre-season with a team? 

[texanwellfan]

I’m reading that Celtic looking for $400k for Welsh. If he can accept lower wage at Motherwell, short term, We could get him and sell him on for more than that. 

[thewelllfan]

On 1/19/2026 at 1:26 AM, thewelllfan said:

Our priorities rest of the window should be:-

- Sign a ST (Bjorgolfsson is basically a done deal assuming we're waiting on a work permit before announcing)

- Finally once the big Norweigan is announced send Osong back up the road no point him being sat on our bench when he's having little to no impact.

Well there's 2 done from that list hopefully the big man is ready to go straight in given he was in the stand Saturday I'd assume he's probably had a few sessions with the team and done some fitness work himself in the off season to keep himself fit.

 

10 hours ago, wellwell91 said:

If Welsh comes back fine if not we still have SODs McGinn Gordon and McGee so why do we need to sign another centre half 

We've let 2 CBs go out so I'd expect us to replace 1 even if that's just Welsh coming back to make that pool back up to 4, for me SOD is a RB he can play CB but I wouldn't be advocating him starting there.

If you look across the squad we have near enough 2 players per position which is what we need to be able to compete and i suspect what Jens wants as that drives competition.

[thewelllfan]

3 minutes ago, texanwellfan said:

I’m reading that Celtic looking for $400k for Welsh. If he can accept lower wage at Motherwell, short term, We could get him and sell him on for more than that. 

We're not going to pay 400K for Welsh he'll head down South or to Hearts/Hibs in the summer if I was to guess.

[texanwellfan]

25 minutes ago, thewelllfan said:

We're not going to pay 400K for Welsh he'll head down South or to Hearts/Hibs in the summer if I was to guess.

And wouldn’t it be good if we were the ones selling him. Seems like a good deal to me. We either have a quality player on the books or we make a few quid selling him on after getting the benefit of his services for the rest of this season. 
I’m thinking it would be making a few quid 

[joewarkfanclub]

Welsh still has nearly 18 months left on his contract. 

Who is paying that out if we pay them £400k transfer fee, cause he sure as hell isnt giving that up.

If its them, fair enough, if its us, that could be another £400k and a no from me.

Maybe they just want him off the wage bill and the £400k transfer fee is just enough to allow them to do that. 

Welsh may then be happy to accept lower wages on a short term deal to get regular football, but we would still have to move him on to get our money back.

Quite a complex situation.....

[Kmcalpin]

I suspect any Welsh transfer to us is a no goer. The stumbling block of course is likely to be his wages. I accept that not all players are purely and solely money driven, but thats unlikely. Its likely he's on something like £10,000 a week and even if he was to drop that by 50% it would represent a huge drop. 

My other concern is that we hold onto Watt and especially TJ this window as their loss would impact on us both results wise and financially. Summer is a different matter. Hopefully, the club would be involved in any discussions with other clubs before deals were signed. As their contracts are with us, it would be nice to have even a nominal amount of say in the matter. Is that a lot to ask?