I'M STILL ON THE WRIGHT TRACK!

DANNY Wright has been around long enough to harbour no bitterness towards Solihull Moors, the club that cast him onto the scrapheap last week.

- Chris Dunlavy

“At the end of the day, they’ve got three strikers on contract for next season,” shrugs the 35-year-old target man.

“Adam Rooney came for decent money. Paul McCallum is under contract, Jake Beesley cost a bit. And I know from experience that these things influence decisions.

“It’s not about form or what you deserve. You’re just not going to have expensive assets at the club and play someone who cost nothing. I understand and, in fairness, the club has been very respectful of me these last few months. I wish them all the best – but that doesn’t mean I won’t be trying to score against them next year!”

The question is, for who? When contracts expire en masse at the end of May, the market will be flooded with an estimated 1,400 out-of-work footballers. Yet with lockdown causing paralysis throughout the pyramid and the finances of many clubs at breaking point, recruitment will be almost non-existent.

“There’s a lot of us in the same boat,” concedes Wright. “It’s not easy, and the sooner we get some kind of announcement the better. Then everybody – players and clubs – can start planning.

“I’ve been speaking to a few people and I hope things will get sorted soon. But yeah, it goes without saying that nobody is going to be signing football players if they don’t know when they can play football matches.

“It’s a waiting game at the moment but I’m sure there’ll be a few offers. Somebody out there must want a half-decent target man.”

Wright, as amiable and thoughtful off the pitch as he is muscular and uncompromising on it, is doing himself a great disservice.