torchomatic
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You can see the story already. Goes to Burnley, sits in the Development squad for a couple of years. Loaned out. Moves to a lower league team.
He is nowhere near ready can't see anyone taking a punt on him.just yet.
pal of mine who is a Burnley fan said they are in for him and will be offering him a contract. He asked me who he was, as he heard it on their local radio station
But lets say they pay him 4k a week, which is nothing for a PL club to gamble with. He'll have finished his 2 years with 416k in the bank Vs the 52k he'd get at 500 quid with a week with us. Absolute no brainer for him and he'll still be just 22. Football is so fucked up financially these days. Compensation for lower league academy players needs to be drastically restructured to stop this hoovering up of talent.You can see the story already. Goes to Burnley, sits in the Development squad for a couple of years. Loaned out. Moves to a lower league team.
He is nowhere near ready can't see anyone taking a punt on him.just yet.
You can see the story already. Goes to Burnley, sits in the Development squad for a couple of years. Loaned out. Moves to a lower league team.
He is nowhere near ready can't see anyone taking a punt on him.just yet.
With his past history it didn't look goodDid anybody ever say how bad it was?
He looked bad, but then walked off. Then he seemed to be going round the schools the next few days.
Don't take much notice of contract lengths etc, but does this mean he's looking for a new and hopefully good keeper...or is Charles-Cook going to be our number 1?
He's been fabulous last 15 games I'd risk him toopal of mine who is a Burnley fan said they are in for him and will be offering him a contract. He asked me who he was, as he heard it on their local radio station
I guess they would have seen him while watching Agyei play for us earlier in the seasonNo brainer for the club and the player. its peanuts to a prem league club to take a punt on a couple of these, and worst case for the player (like Bigi) is they have a bigger bank account
Yay bigi set to stay! That was the big one for me. Surprised lameries staying but grendels 2 shittest players remain so it makes me love mark robins even more ha as he clearly thinks different.
Its gonna be a busy summer!
The issue to me is if Robins had decided to keep Cooke even as just as a back up,and discard Burge,then surely it would have made better sense to play Cooke in the last few games.It just smacks of not doing joined up thinking.Don't take much notice of contract lengths etc, but does this mean he's looking for a new and hopefully good keeper...or is Charles-Cook going to be our number 1?
One more relegation and they will both be at the level they are suited to.
If they sign it's evidence they aren't up to anything better or they will be off
The issue to me is if Robins had decided to keep Cooke even as just as a back up,and discard Burge,then surely it would have made better sense to play Cooke in the last few games.It just smacks of not doing joined up thinking.
Well if they saw him early season, it's pretty clear this rumoured interest would just be paper talk, then.I guess they would have seen him while watching Agyei play for us earlier in the season
Not sure if they played together very often but their scouts would have been aware of Thomas even before his flowering in the second half of the season
2016 League 1 average before bonuses around 70k
Yeah, I saw that as Burge was out of contract he wanted to have a good look at him. Obviously he didn't think he was up to being first choice next season and his hands were tied a little more with RCC having another year on his contract so he's released Burge and RCC will be number two next year.Maybe he wanted to give Burge a shop window. Or maybe he wanted Burge to prove that he could be number 1. If both were out of contract I would imagine Burge would have been kept on and RCC sent packing. But he clearly wants to sign a more experienced keeper so this make sense.
I think this is exactly it. It's a fine balance to be had. I was not unhappy when we released Aaron Phillips last year. In hindsight is he worse than Sterry/Foley who played a lot of the season at RB? Probably not. We would probably have been better off keeping him.Wouldn't be bothered if most of the squad went. That said don't make the same mistake as last year and release players and then not get in replacements.
The issue to me is if Robins had decided to keep Cooke even as just as a back up,and discard Burge,then surely it would have made better sense to play Cooke in the last few games.It just smacks of not doing joined up thinking.
One more relegation and they will both be at the level they are suited to.
If they sign it's evidence they aren't up to anything better or they will be off
I think your are over exaggerating the salary of L1 and L2 players. I know a player who would be classed as first team for a team better than us (much better) in League one. He isnt on anywhere near 75k basic. 50k is a much better assumption for League 1 and 2.It's easy binning off the worse players. It's a different matter entirely to attract better players than the ones we are letting go, especially if it's true that we are offering players like DKE a basic salary of only 500 quid per week (26K per year). Surely we can offer a salary somewhere between 50K-75K per year given we are supposed to have a budget of around 1.5 million?
One thing I don't get is why we tell players they are released/not being offered a renewal this early? Surely there's 2 or 3 weeks of talking to potential replacements that can happen first and if contracts run to the end of June it's not saving us any money.
Still seems early to me, end of May is still a month's notice if contracts expire end of June and that's 4 more weeks of trying to find better players.Because you have a duty of care to them. You have to give them the chance to find a new deal.
Which conference clubs are likely to have a similar squad wage bill to us?He also from what im hearing is competing wages wise with conference clubs
Which conference clubs are likely to have a similar squad wage bill to us?
I could imagine Forest Green might, possibly (although much of their owner's funding is to overcome the fact they're in Nailsworth!) but am struggling to think of who else might.
One player ain't a squad, and doesn't mean conference clubs can offer more.Closer to home is one that have offered more than one of our players that MR wants to keep. Im sure some on here know who it is as they will know the family very well.
Closer to home is one that have offered more than one of our players that MR wants to keep. Im sure some on here know who it is as they will know the family very well.
I can see some of those who are told they can leave will still be knocking around pre season getting in shape as they may live close. This has happened before and for whatever reason they get another chance due to deals for others falling through or them showing the manager they deserve to stick around. If i was Robins i would tell them they are free to look and find alternative employment but are also free to train if no other club is found, having told players to leave it maybe not down to not good enough maybe financial, personal or an opinion that can all be changed.
I get a feeling that MR may find it hard to convince players to come and commit to what is a very unstable club i mean he cant attract those above to drop a level with money we dont have it. He also from what im hearing is competing wages wise with conference clubs which means relocation and overall money may not be enough for players to uproot to come. Very tough job in my opinion and he may want to keep some if not all those players mentioned near.
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