The Scottish press is busy today trying to help Sevco sell Josh Windass, the player who arrived in this country to a torrent of newspaper vomit about how he was a top footballer who had the ability “to go as far as his dad.”
There were those who might have been under the impression, at the time, that his father was Gerd Muller; imagine for a second their surprise when they learned it was Dean Windass the Scottish media was talking about, who turned out for Aberdeen and such footballing superpowers as a pre-EPL Hull City, Bradford, Oxford United, the Sheffield clubs, Oldham and those European luminaries at North Ferriby United and Barton Town Old Boys.
Josh himself signed for Sevco from the mighty Accrington Stanley.
This was the very definition of a “cheap option” and he’s turned out to be just as pish as that which was running out of most of us, with tears of laughter, as we read the media’s initial rhapsodising on his unlimited bags of talent.
Oddly, with all this skill available, Warburton barely played him and Caixinha has taken one look and decided it’s not on.
No player in Scotland has suffered this spectacular a reversal – from hype to hilarity – since Martin O’Neill arrived at Celtic, watched Rafael in the flesh and told him “I like footballers who are not like you. I like footballers who play well.”
Windass was being linked with a move to the grandstanding football colossus of Rotherham, flush with cash from the signing of a new multi-million pound sponsorship deal with Quackers Duck Food Emporium. (I made that up for effect, as I’m sure you guessed.) Their manager moved quickly to distance himself from the stories, and knocked on the head one other whilst he was at it, which led to major sighs of relief in Catalonia.
“”Where do I get linked with players all the time?,” their manager Paul Warne asked. “It’s unbelievable. No, there’s no connection there at all. I understand he’s a really good player but so is Messi and I’m not signing him.”
Quackers will be so disappointed.
They had hoped to do a major image rights deal with Windass, in conjunction with Pets World and Kibble.
In my view, the media is just sleeping at the wheel here. They’re not performing with their usual aplomb. Perhaps they’re too busy trying to make connections between Marseille being in Glasgow and Moussa Dembele playing his football here to give their usual focus to helping out the Ibrox club, or maybe it’s Big Picture time and throwing another wee grenade at Celtic on a Champions League week takes precedence for them.
Either way the result is the same.
Windass is still on the books at Ibrox, and all efforts to move him on to a new home have somehow come to naught.
If the media wants the job done, I suggest falling back on an old, tried and tested, tactic; republish the stories which convinced Sevco fans in the first place, you know, those ones about how Arsenal had been interested in his signature ….
The English media could use another laugh at their expense.