“This would be an unbelievable signing” – Peterborough United interest in Hull City player confirmed: The verdict

This article is part of Football League World’s ‘The Verdict‘ series, which provides personal opinions from the FLW writers regarding the latest breaking news, teams, players, managers, potential signings and more…

Peterborough United hold an interest in Hull City forward Mallik Wilks, as per their director of football.

In an interview with the Peterborough Telegraph, Barry Fry, director of football at Posh, says the Hull City forward is a player that boss Grant McCann has mentioned as a potential signing.

“Wilks is a player Grant has mentioned, but that’s as far as it’s gone as yet.” he explained to the Peterborough Telegraph.

“Obviously Grant knows the player well, but whether or not he would want to drop into League One is another matter as is whether or not we could afford his wages.”

“The chairman is in the UK this weekend and a recruitment meeting will take place.”

With that being said, we asked three of our writers here at FLW for their verdict on whether or not Wilks would be a good signing for Posh, and whether or not they thought he’d be willing to step down to League One.

This would be an unbelievable signing if the Posh could pull it off.

Hull have an option to extend the 23-year-old’s contract by a further year and if I am Acun Ilicali, I would be prioritising that.

Wilks is far too good for League One and demonstrated exactly that by dragging the Tigers to the league title last season with 19 goals and eight assists in the league.

This season has been far more challenging, but due to Wilks’ fitness issues more than anything else and the Tigers should not be looking to offload him in the summer.

It would be a backwards step in his career for Wilks to drop back down to League One, having shown ample quality