Ollie Westbury on Dan Udoh as Shrewsbury fans await contract decision

Shropshire Star

Jonny Drury sat down with Ollie Westbury to discuss the latest on the future of Dan Udoh. The Salop striker has been offered a new deal at the Croud Meadow. Ollie discusses any updates and when fans could hear about Udoh's future.

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00:00Oli, a few of the players who were offered contracts at Sarp have now departed, or are

00:13departing. One who has been offered a deal and we know it's been on the table for quite

00:17a while now is Daniel Udo, arguably Sarp's best player last season, scored a lot of goals

00:23for Shrewsbury and has done really well in recent years and fans are almost still waiting

00:27with bated breath whether he's going to sign this new contract. Is there any further update

00:33and in terms of moving this towards a conclusion, I'm sure this is something Paul Hurst is going

00:39to want to be done quite quickly given the fact he's started making moves in the transfer

00:43market.

00:44Yeah, Paul Hurst said when we last spoke to him that he will give him a certain amount

00:50of time before saying he needs to make a decision because Shrewsbury need to make alternative

00:56arrangements if Dan Udo doesn't sign. I don't know, I would have said the longer it goes

01:04on, perhaps the less likely it is that he is to stay. I know he's got married over the

01:12course of the summer so I think that will have played perhaps a factor into why maybe

01:19there's a delay. So yeah, there's no further update basically but the signs don't look

01:27good do they really? You would have thought that if he was going to stay that he'd be

01:31signing the contract and maybe staying or maybe he's just waiting to hold out to see

01:36what his options are and to see if he can get the best deal. But yeah, it's one of those

01:42with Dan Udo where the situation's not changed too much but I would probably expect to hear

01:48something, some murmurings over the next couple of weeks.

01:51In terms of those sort of timeframes, I'm guessing Paul Hurst hasn't explained those

01:57timeframes for you but he will want that done as soon as possible because he needs to go

02:03out there and scour the market and bring someone in who can score the goals that Dan Udo has.

02:07Yeah, absolutely. No, he hasn't. We won't be privy to that information but coaches generally

02:15want as many players in for pre-season as they can, which is the 27th of June I believe

02:19that the players are returning. So yeah, and then the pre-season friendly start just a

02:23couple of weeks after that. So it's an important time for Shrewsbury and they need to make

02:29sure that these decisions and these signings that they make, they get right.

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