Over the weekend Wednesday announced the signings of two more players. Gary Madine the 20 year old Carlisle United striker and Mark Reynolds the 23 year old centre back/ left back from Motherwell.
Gary Madine is a young striker who has attracted interest from Championship Clubs as well as League One sides. This is essentially because of his strike rate in the current campaign for Carlisle, despite his young age Madine has played in all English divisions apart from the premier league. He has a lot of experience for such a young player. Alan Irvine has signed him as a target man, as he is 6"4 and is known for his aerial ability and good touch. Madine has scored 13 goals in 26 appearances for Carlisle this season and has been on loan at local rivals Chesterfield, Rochdale and Championship side Coventry. The latter were interested in a permanent transfer but a deal did not materialise. The fee is believed to be around £500,000 for Madine, a player who looks full of potential. This could be a fantastic signing for the owls who seem to have gone for Potential over experience in the January transfer window so far.
Another young starlet that the Owls have brought into Hillsborough this week is Scottish Centre Half, Mark Reynolds, who is also comfortable at Left Back. Reynolds has been a permanent fixture in the Motherwell side this year and Stuart McCall was extremely reluctant to let Reynolds slip through his fingers. Fortunately for Wednesday McCall accepted an offer from the Owls, because he feared he would not be able to replace Reynolds in time, if he was lost later in the transfer window. The deal was also undisclosed leaving rumours that the fee for Reynolds was around £100,000, rising depending on certain clauses. Despite being young Reynolds has played 166 games for Motherwell including games in the Europa league. Reynolds had attracted interest from plenty of teams of recent years and just two years ago, Scottish Champions Rangers made a bid of £750,000 for the young defender and Swansea City made a similarly large offer in the summer. Wednesday have clearly beaten off much competition for the highly rated Scot, and seem to have purchased him for a cut price with his Motherwell contract running out at the end of the season. The signing of Reynolds brings the tally of defensive signings in January up to 3 with Reda Johnson and Michael Morrison also being snapped up by Irvine. This will be of great relief to the Hillsborough faithful as defending from current squad members such as Darren Purse, Tommy Spurr and Mark Beevers has been less than inspiring in recent weeks.
Gary Madine is a young striker who has attracted interest from Championship Clubs as well as League One sides. This is essentially because of his strike rate in the current campaign for Carlisle, despite his young age Madine has played in all English divisions apart from the premier league. He has a lot of experience for such a young player. Alan Irvine has signed him as a target man, as he is 6"4 and is known for his aerial ability and good touch. Madine has scored 13 goals in 26 appearances for Carlisle this season and has been on loan at local rivals Chesterfield, Rochdale and Championship side Coventry. The latter were interested in a permanent transfer but a deal did not materialise. The fee is believed to be around £500,000 for Madine, a player who looks full of potential. This could be a fantastic signing for the owls who seem to have gone for Potential over experience in the January transfer window so far.
Another young starlet that the Owls have brought into Hillsborough this week is Scottish Centre Half, Mark Reynolds, who is also comfortable at Left Back. Reynolds has been a permanent fixture in the Motherwell side this year and Stuart McCall was extremely reluctant to let Reynolds slip through his fingers. Fortunately for Wednesday McCall accepted an offer from the Owls, because he feared he would not be able to replace Reynolds in time, if he was lost later in the transfer window. The deal was also undisclosed leaving rumours that the fee for Reynolds was around £100,000, rising depending on certain clauses. Despite being young Reynolds has played 166 games for Motherwell including games in the Europa league. Reynolds had attracted interest from plenty of teams of recent years and just two years ago, Scottish Champions Rangers made a bid of £750,000 for the young defender and Swansea City made a similarly large offer in the summer. Wednesday have clearly beaten off much competition for the highly rated Scot, and seem to have purchased him for a cut price with his Motherwell contract running out at the end of the season. The signing of Reynolds brings the tally of defensive signings in January up to 3 with Reda Johnson and Michael Morrison also being snapped up by Irvine. This will be of great relief to the Hillsborough faithful as defending from current squad members such as Darren Purse, Tommy Spurr and Mark Beevers has been less than inspiring in recent weeks.
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