Swansea star Bodde ruled out for season

The Championship, and more importantly, Swansea City will be deprived one of the most creative midfielders in the division as Ferrie Bodde was stretchered off in the 3-2 defeat by Birmingham City and looks likely to be ruled out of the whole season.
Scans revealed that Bodde had suffered anterior cruciate knee ligament damage and torn cartilage in his left knee.
He was incidentally the second player from the club to be ruled out for the entire campaign with the similar injury as defender Marcos Painter suffered the same faint last month.
Swansea’s top goal scorer will sorely be missed as he is pinnacle in everything the Welsh club do.
Manager Roberto Martinez told the BBC: “Ferrie is a big player for us as he is important in the way we do certain things. The way we play, we rely on Ferrie’s distribution.”
Martinez may have no option but to dip into the loan market to try to find someone who is worthy of taking Bodde’s place. No doubt Swansea will have to adjust the way they play and he will be solely missed by his team mates and by the Swans faithful.
The Dutchman was touted for a move to a Premier League club last summer, some even believing his value was worth in the region of £4 million.
Recently, Bodde committed himself to the Liberty Stadium after seeing Derby County having three bids turned down, subsequently Bodde handed in a transfer request before retracting it to show his worth to the club who brought him for a mere £85,000 from ADO Den Haag.
He has had an impressive start so far this season and unfortunately he will not be able to finish what he had started.
Everyone would hope Bodde a speedy recovery as his skill and craft of finding that killer pass will be sorely missed.

Bodde to reject chance for Premier League

It is always good to see some morality in the championship. Swansea’s manager Roberto Martinez is convinced that his star midfielder Ferrie Bodde would reject a move to a Premier League club.

This is a bold statement, the lure of top flight has not been rejected by many.

Bodde’s agent has simply been putting the feeders out to clubs, claiming that his client and the agent have a gentlemen’s agreement regarding a possibly move if a Premier League club came in for him.

This just shows the Dutch midfielder have had a productive time this season as he is currently Swansea’s joint-top goal scorer with six goals, all being in the Championship.

His value has considerably increased. Swansea paid a mere £85,000 for Bodde back in 2007 and in the current climate his value has rocketed to somewhere in the region of £4 million.

Swansea have an agreement that half of the sell-on fee will go to his previous club ADO Den Haag. Therefore, they want to get as much as possible if he would to leave.

His general all round play has been effective as two of his goals has come from 30 plus yards out. He has been ever-present in producing defence-splitting passes, causing havoc against any time he has played. Producing a flurry of interest as clubs touted for his signature.

It seemed he was heading for the exit door in the summer as he handed in a transfer request after initial interest from Derby County.

A change of heart was evident as he rescinded it and agreed a new deal. It was then his agent Sjaron Vink claims the gentlemen’s agreement was reached with chairman Huw Jenkins.

Swansea currently sits in a healthy ninth position after being promoted last season and only a point of the play off places.