Bradford Chairman: Nahki Wells A ‘Prize Jewel’
Bradford City Football Club joint-chairman Mark Lawn said that Nahki Wells and James Hanson are prized players, and they would only sell them for an extremely high amount of money.
Wells, a Bermudian who used to play for Dandy Town, who scored 26 goals this season and has been attracting interested glances from rival clubs.
Bradford joint-chairman Mark Lawn told the Telegraph & Argus that City’s new-found financial stability puts them in a strong position to resist any bids.
Mr Lawn said: “They are prize jewels and we wouldn’t want to lose them. Financially we don’t need to sell. We’ve got them on contracts that we can afford so it’s not going to kill us to keep them here.
“If we get a stupid offer, then don’t get me wrong we’d certainly have to look at it. But it would have to be one where Phil (Parkinson) is happy to turn round and say ‘I can replace him’.
“If we were to let either one of them go, we’d have to get enough money to be able to replace them. That’s up to Phil, not me, and he would have to tell me what he wants.
“But everyone knows our position. That’s why all the usual tyre kickers haven’t bothered coming along because they know we’d give them short shrift.”
He added: “Nahki was in our mind when we took the risk (with the budget) last year. If it hadn’t worked out by January, then we would look to move him on. But to be fair, it did go so well so we didn’t have to do that.
“Nahki’s tied down for two years after this and James has still got one more. We’ll be talking to him at some stage but there’s no rush. They are both level-headed about it.”
HE IS SO OVERATED