Chris Wood (Nottingham Forest | England)

Not that serious. just a hamstring twinge I think. Out for a week or so.

Chris Wood out injured and in the meantime Leeds defeat Brentford 1–0. They're now 5th with 38 points.

Great season so far!

Wood on the bench today, came on in 81st min, Leeds had 4 - 1 win

Seem to be doing OK without him now..

http://footballvideohighlights.com/preston-north-end-vs-leeds-united-highlights-championship-december-26-2016_6bc3f43f3.html

Nice pass from him though for the 4th

Didn't he come off injured last game? Just managing it probably.

Scored 2 this morning in a 3-1 win

scored good header in 1-0 win over Derby County

NZ herald article

I wonder if there will be any struggling Prem teams sniffing around like Hull?

I think the only way for him to reach the Premier League would be to be promoted with his current team

Tend to agree, but teams will be desperate and will start looking for a solution, or atleast be seen to be looking for one.

Nor are PL clubs going to take a punt on someone who has only ever scored in the lower leagues.

Apart from his great goal against Chelsea when Leicester first got promoted to the EPL.

1 goal. Sure to have the clubs frothing over him then.

Partnership with a good manager is important. There's no doubt Monk has got the best out of him, got him focusing on his strengths and even occaisonally scoring with his head! Look at where he is scoring from and it's all around that 6 yard box, despite his undoubted ability to have a blast from distance. 

I personally hope he can go up with his current manager and stay up.

Highlights of that latest goal verus Derby

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwhWsy-M93g

I think the 25 million quid will put a few off.

If he gets up to EPL he wants to be starting, not on the bench and then out on loan. Seems like Monk has got the best out of him, and to be fair Pearson gave him a few chances, but he was a bit too wasteful or made a couple of errors and that was that. 

Yeah, almost better for him to get sold if Leeds gets promotion to another championship side. Better to be the top striker in the Championship (which is still one of the overall best and highest paid leagues in the world) than a benchwarmer in the Premier League.

In any negotiation, Chris would have these chats with the manager, asking where will I be on the pecking order... If Hammers say a starter, then why wouldn't he go.

Big club, safe from relegation etc.

I guess I was meaning the opposite- better to go up with Leeds and get starts EPL starts on that basis and hopefully establish yourself that way. Though if the Hammers make a genuine offer, you'd have to think about it. That's a good chance of being in the PL for a good length of time and a decent mid-table club at least. Yuo'd hope of them.

Safe from relegation?   You might be right and I tend to agree, but with so many games to go anything can happen.

Certainly haven't looked as stable this term as they did with Allardyce...but they move into a new ground seems to have caused a few shakes. You'd expect them based on the past few years to be a safe mid-to-upper half club, and after the start a couple of years ago be pushing for Europe. Wouldn't have expected Chris to be a target for a club like that- but you never know...

I don't think Wood is a prem striker. To be a successful striker in the premiership you have to be able to do more than poke goals home - you need to be a good all-round player, with a bit of pace, usually.

If you watch a leeds game you would be able to tell he doesn't get the ball enough so has to make his own chances.

Is that what Leeds have valued him at? Seriously?

That was in the Herald the other day.

If you look at what Leeds fans are worried about loosing with him it's not just the goals but his ability to draw in defenders, play on other attackers, and his defensive work.

He is an all-round player and a very important component in Leeds success.

If Chris Wood really isn't good enough to be an established, long-term Premier League striker, then he should grab absolutely any opportunity to play at that level for any length of time, no matter how short... his record suggests he'd find a gig back in the Championship easily enough, so it's not as though an unsuccessful move to a Prem club would end his career... and who knows, just maybe, he does enough to earn a longer stint, or finds a club that he suits and that suits him and it all works...

But even if it doesn't, at the end of his career, do you think he'd rather say he played in the Premier League for 3 different clubs, as well as a solid career in the second tier, or that he stayed as a big fish in the smaller pond and didn't chance his arm when the opportunity came?

Even at this young age, he's played in the Prem, scored in the Prem, played in European competition, scored in European competition, become an established player in his national team, played at a World Cup, built up a decent if not spectacular pro career, and I'm sure is not on the bones of his bum financially speaking... so with all of that already, and his best years arguably ahead of him, why not take a shot at the big time again if the chance came?  I doubt he lacks self-confidence - and really, what has he got to lose??

Maybe, if he stayed at Leeds, they'd get promoted and he might get a Prem chance then... or would the club, giddy with the riches of promotion, go and land a "big name" striker and Chris ends up warming the pine or out on loan?  there's no guarantees at that level, and it's not as though he's exploited Leeds so far or let them down (he's a big part of why they are where they are with a shot at promotion), so again, I'd say that if a chance for upward movement came during the window, you couldn't criticise him for taking it if he chose to...

Valuation is £15 Million I believe - which the Herald reckons equates to $25 million NZ Dollars