I would think the £1.6m plus add ons is incorrect and the figure is including add ons
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According to Sky Sports just now, Ward has signed for £1.6m. Deal to be announced in morning. Good signing - nippy forward with a good finish who can play down middle or out wide. Did well in a poor team last season. Should compliment Zohore nicely.
I would think the £1.6m plus add ons is incorrect and the figure is including add ons
Good buy IMO. Welcome to the City Danny.
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Can only be an asset that we sorely missed last season. Welcome to Cardiff city Danny
You must be joking. What exactly do you think you can get for less than £1.6m ?. Wolves paid us £3.5m for Joe Mason two years ago and he can't get in their team now. Ward has got to be worth at least that but he was approaching the final year of his contract and Rotherham needed the money after relegation. Ward scored 12 goals (as many as Zohore) in a struggling team and had a number of assists. Warnock has obviously been a major influence in him coming here and I am very optimistic that he will do well. Perhaps you wanted us to sign Ronaldo ?.
Must say that for years I had him down as one of those players who looks very good at League One level, but comes up short in the Championship. Also, while twelve goals in a team as poor as Rotherham were last season is impressive, his overall scoring record isn't too grand
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_...er,_born_1990)
but, rather like another of our signings in Nathaniel Mendez-Laing, there are some signs that Ward is a player who has kicked on in his mid twenties, so I'm going to do my usual of watching him playing three or our games for us before rushing to judgments.
Anyway, here's the obligatory "I'll drive him there myself" message from a Rotherham fan
https://twitter.com/Millerman78?ref_...Ctwgr%5Eauthor
50% of the fee goes to Huddersfield as a sell-on fee!
A goal every 5 games for a team as poor as Rotherham isn't a bad return. Much better than any of our players have managed at this level (excepting Zohore) for some years. There are signs in the stats that he is maturing and improving as he gets older and all the clips that I saw of him last season were impressive. I also think he can adapt to playing with Zohore and their styles should compliment each other. The Rotherham fans comments indicate to me that a). Ward wasn't happy at Rotherham after January because they were so poor and he wanted to leave b). The fan is bitter because they were so bad and went down.
Warnock knows this player inside out. It's probably the least surprising of the summer.
Until it's announced officially, it hasn't happened yet.