Morison latest plus news of loan deals

Millwall have denied reports that they are close to signing Steve Morison. Reports had linked the South London club with a £200k move for the Blue Square Premier top scorer, but boss Kenny Jackett has moved to quash these rumours. Jackett more or less repeated what GW said in an interview to the Comet a few days ago regarding Morison’s future. It seems that interest has been shown and enquiries have been made as to what price Boro would be looking to receive for their prized asset, but no firm bid has been made. At the moment our asking price is putting a lot of clubs off and in the current climate, clubs are less prepared to take a risk than maybe they were 18 months to 2 years ago.

“We have asked about the price a few weeks ago – not a matter of days. I always ask about players and this is just one of those occasions. Often it comes to nothing. We have not put in a formal bid. Stevenage are looking for a considerable offer because of the disruption to their season if he leaves would be high.” Kenny Jackett on the “bid” for Morison

I think it’s good that the club is obviously in the position to say no if the price isn’t right. Not every club, even in the football league, can afford such a luxury. Losing Morison would affect our season in a big way because he is our captain, at the moment and of course the amount of goals we would lose would be significant. I’m not even sure that we could replace Moro if he was to go now because players of the required quality will already be in contracts and unavailable for transfer. He would need to be replaced too because a strikeforce of Boylan and Willock doesn’t sound the most lethal of partnerships in the league. I still think Westley may add another striker in the next few weeks anyway, either on loan or on a short term contract to cover us for the run-in.

Away from the Morison situation and it has been confirmed on the Comet podcast that a few players have left the club this week on loan deals. Peter Vincenti has left for Halesowen Town, while James Russell has extended his deal with Hitchin Town and Elliot Buchanan has joined Concord Sports. Vincenti has moved down the pecking order in recent weeks with David Bridges returning after injury and the new signing of Darren Murphy. I hope it isn’t the last we see of him, but as I said before, he is never going to be a regular at BHW so maybe it makes sense for him to play his football elsewhere.