Hull Boss Jakirovic Wants to Keep Egan
Sunday, 1st Feb 2026 11:16
Hull City manager Sergej Jakirovic says he wants veteran central defender John Egan to remain with the Tigers for the rest of the season, TWTD having revealed on Friday that the Blues had showed interest in the 33-year-old during this window.
It was understood Town’s interest had cooled from earlier in the window when former Republic of Ireland international Egan was viewed as an experienced defender to come in, in part to allow Elkan Baggott to go out on loan, with boss Kieran McKenna indicating that as it stood on Friday he anticipated the Indonesia international staying with the Blues for the rest of the campaign.
However, according to reports this morning, the Blues remain interested ahead of Monday’s 7pm deadline in Egan with West Ham United also linked.
Quizzed on the situation, Hull manager Jakirovic told HullLive: “If you ask me, I would like John to stay with us. If somebody asks at the beginning of the season, John Egan, you will play a big number of games, I think he will not believe in that, but he's a very important member of this squad.
“John’s truly a leader with a lot of experience and there is no surprise for me that he has some offers, so we will see, but if a player decides to go, you must respect that. I cannot stop anybody if he chooses to go, but I will fight to make sure he stays with us.”
Cork-born Egan started his English career at Sunderland during which time he had spells on loan at Crystal Palace, Sheffield United, Bradford City and Southend.
Having failed to break into the Black Cats first team, Egan moved on to Gillingham on a permanent basis before spells at Brentford, back with the Blades on a permanent basis and Burnley before joining the Tigers last January.
Egan is contracted to Hull, who moved above the Blues into third in the Championship yesterday, until the summer of 2027 after triggering an extension based on appearances before Christmas.
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darkhorse28 added 12:43 - Feb 1
I give up with our recruitment at this point. There really is no plan, no vision and no strategy is there. Sign good EFL players and prey.
Seriously, relative to resources we’ve never been this bad, it’s like Jewell/Evans signing players that have done well at this level, with no concept of how to build a team.
Starting to thing if Ashton/Mckenna hadn’t inherited Walton, Chaplin, Morsy etc we wouldn’t have had our success - because our recruitment since has been very average.
Even Delap wasn’t a main target, and Sammie, Muric, Johnson, Ogbenne, Walle, Azon, Akpom, McAteer, Greaves, even Jens and Nunez cat play in an 8 because we don’t have one …, we can’t keep pretending 500 players are outliers. It’s not elite and with our resources, it has to be.
It’s like watching a blind man, blindfolded, trying to find a black cat, in a dark room, that doesn’t exist.
Burns is our best right sided player, and we spent £60 million on players to replace him!! FFS
We’ve ages to plan. We don’t have any meet do we.., with all that waste, it’s caught up with PSR as had a manager paid our entire TV revenue.
Consequences. A surprise for the nodding dogs, who knew wasting £150 million would damage our great club long term. Sake.
Neil’s a great signing though, not all doom, a good loan when you’ve spent £250 million gross, and he’ll be more added value then the £60 million of right sided players earning g the bench.
Ashton. 35 years in the EFL for a reason. Thanks for the progress, and I mean that, but now we need something SO much better than this, the same decisions from the same people, getting the same results.
Change required if we want vision in place of mild panic. |  |
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