Skybluefaz
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I bloody hope not but can absolutely see this happening him being a Leicester boy etc.
George Thomas to Leicester? (1 Viewer)
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I bloody hope not but can absolutely see this happening him being a Leicester boy etc.
rupert_bear
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Don't worry about it, he won't be at Cov. so live with it.
Terry Gibson's perm
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Be a good move for him financially but poor football wise, he would be better off going somewhere that he has a chance of getting a game
SkyBlueScottie
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The tribunal cash is fixed. That's what being part of the EPP means.
Skybluefaz
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Yeah I think you are spot on there.
Astute
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He would be a fool not to go if true. He has more than just potential. They would easily find him a year long loan at a club higher than us where he would learn his trade against better players than if he stayed with us. His earnings would multiply. And I would expect him to make their first team in a year or two.
no_loyalty
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As long as we get a decent fee for him and its reinvested into the team, then Leicester are welcome to him.
ccfcway
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what would you think would be a decent fee ?
Speng
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£500 -£750k
Terry Gibson's perm
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He would need to improve dramatically to get in their first team as he did little in ours for most of the season,I am really not bothered if he stays or goes
lifeskyblue
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Absolutely. Might not hear of him again as I don't think he would make a first team appearance in premier league. Might move to a championship side in couple years.
Of course we could sell him to Leicester and loan him back for the season. Win/win for Thomas and ccfc.
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Astute
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He did improve. And he improved the team. He was a diamond in a team of coal towards the end of the season. If we were still in Division three I would say the best thing for him would be to stay. But we are not. He would be playing against the dregs of the football league. He needs more to help him improve.
stupot07
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Might not be that much if its based on EPPP formula.
Despite the massive increase in wages, this would be a backwards step in football terms IMO. He will go to Leicester, get farmed out on like an for a few season then released. He'd be better off staying and absolutely owning league two help us get promotion.
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Captain Dart
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Yup, that is the level the club is at now. Thanks to SISU.
stupot07
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rupert_bear
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Just illustrates the ineptitude of our the bloke running our club toxic Tim Fisher, allowing starlets to go out of contract and reducing any fee by thousands, could even be millions. I wonder if Joy Sepalla realised how much he had cost her company ?
shmmeee
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So can we work out what we'd get? Or is it just fixed to screw little clubs?
HuckerbyDublinWhelan
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Thing is, Thomas was garbage up until the back end of last season. Fleck only getting a 1 year extension 2 years back was a disaster.
better days
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Until fairly recently bigger clubs could just take kids at the end of their contracts for nothing
At least now there is a formula to stop that
GT is a 100% effort man who scores the occasional nice goal. His Wembley effort will probably be remembered in a similar way to Keith Houchen's as the years go by
Another guy who always gave his all for the team but might not have got into the top sides of his day
CCFC_Charlie
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lol at people moaning about how we should have signed him up sooner when the general consensus within our fans until around March was that he wasn't good enough for League One
BlueElephant
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Football's a funny old game!
chiefdave
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Seems as well sourced as some of the transfer news we get on here!
I can't say. Im not an ITK. But I just know this so thought I'd share. Take it or leave it if you want. Been on this site long enough to have made up rumours at some other point in the last 13 years if that's what I was going to do
Liquid Gold
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If you leave us now, you'll take away our best emerging goal scorer. OoooOoooOoooooo Georgey please don't go.
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ceetee
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Unfortunately you can't stop players going "out of contract" unless you sell them earlier, for which you have to have a buyer.
You can offer a new contract with better terms, which posters on here seem to think has been done, but you can't make the player sign up to them.
It's not being out of contract that's the problem - all contracts end at some time - it's not being able to offer an attractive proposition
shmmeee
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Not me. I'd have every youth player anywhere close to the first team on a contract until they're 23 personally. We shouldn't be waiting until the last minute every time, it's just needless penny pinching. The cash you save in shorter contracts gets eaten up by the loss on transfer fees.
shmmeee
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You can offer them a new deal more than a month before their old one runs out though, which is what people are actually complaining about.
NorthernWisdom
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I suspect he was offered one before that tbh... or at least conversations would have been had, and suspect with so little time left it would have been as much his decision to run it down as anybody's... and from his POV that's not an unwise gamble, as it turned out.
In a general sense it's true that people were on his back early last season, saying he was a waste of space. We've shown a track record with Stevenson and Harries of actually giving contracts to those we think have a bright future, so if he'd shown better early season, am sure there'd have been movement on a contract (or we'd have flogged him January
).As it stands, we still don't *really* know if the second half of last season is his default position, or an upturn in form... so for that reason, if I were Thomas I'd be going to the best club I could go to. Forget all this nonsense of not getting in the side, anyway. If you have confidence in your ability, and pick the right club, you will if you're good enough. If he's got any sense he'll have a chat to Wilson, who's made good career choices so far.
Sky Blue Harry H
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Yes - those who don't think George is all that - £12m rated Jacob Murphy being looked at by Newcastle (yet a number of our fans gave him dogs abuse - yes, he frustrated me at times - but we are not always the best judges of young footballers' potential. Even I can see George has potential. Incidentally, I would have thought a PL club might have to pay a bit more than if he ended up at e.g. Blackburn (don't know why I think that, but would have thought any panel would be influenced by the ££££££s floating around in the PL)
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