Nick
Administrator
It looks like we have just signed a young lad from Wrexham and because we didn't give them an up front payment like they wanted, we are being labelled as bandits:
He looks like a professional fella writing letters like that!
WREXHAM FC owner Geoff Moss has labelled Coventry City as ‘bandits’ for declining to make a compensatory payment after signing a schoolboy international.
Wales under-16 striker Will Roberts has just moved from Wrexham’s school of excellence to join Coventry’s youth set-up, but the Sky Blues refused to make an up-front payment, instead opting to make staged future payments.
Because Wrexham have been a Conference club for more than two seasons they fall outside the League compensation scheme.
But Moss said: “Although I asked their chairman to help us out, they have refused to make an up-front payment.
“Two other boys, Leon Newell and Rob Parry, who also played in the Victory Shield, have joined Birmingham City and Wolves respectively and both clubs have made discretionary up-front payments which will help in funding the cost of the school of excellence.”
Moss said he had written to Ranson in the following terms: “You should be ashamed of yourselves because we have had the boy trained by us for years and you pay no up-front compensation to a poor club like us. Bandits!”
He looks like a professional fella writing letters like that!
