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George Thomas to Leicester? (1 Viewer)

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  • Start date Jun 26, 2017
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Skybluefaz

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  • Jun 26, 2017
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I bloody hope not but can absolutely see this happening him being a Leicester boy etc.
 
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rupert_bear

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  • Jun 26, 2017
  • #2
Don't worry about it, he won't be at Cov. so live with it.
 

Terry Gibson's perm

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  • Jun 26, 2017
  • #3
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
 
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shmmeee

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  • Jun 26, 2017
  • #4
I imagine he's a Leicester fan so if they're in I'd expect him to go.

Just hope the tribunal cash doesn't take the piss
 
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SkyBlueScottie

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  • Jun 26, 2017
  • #5
The tribunal cash is fixed. That's what being part of the EPP means.
 

Skybluefaz

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  • Jun 26, 2017
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Terry Gibson's perm said:
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
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Yeah I think you are spot on there.
 

Astute

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  • Jun 26, 2017
  • #7
Terry Gibson's perm said:
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
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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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  • Jun 26, 2017
  • #8
As long as we get a decent fee for him and its reinvested into the team, then Leicester are welcome to him.
 
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ccfcway

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  • Jun 26, 2017
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no_loyalty said:
As long as we get a decent fee for him and its reinvested into the team, then Leicester are welcome to him.
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what would you think would be a decent fee ?
 

Speng

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  • Jun 26, 2017
  • #10
ccfcway said:
what would you think would be a decent fee ?
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£500 -£750k
 

Speng

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  • Jun 26, 2017
  • #11
We will prob get around £250k
 

Terry Gibson's perm

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  • Jun 26, 2017
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Astute said:
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.
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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
 
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lifeskyblue

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  • Jun 26, 2017
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Terry Gibson's perm said:
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
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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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Garryb80

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  • Jun 26, 2017
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How can we sell him when he is out of contract? All we get is a tribunal fee for a player who has played 1 season in league 1.
 

Astute

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  • Jun 26, 2017
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Terry Gibson's perm said:
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
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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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  • Jun 26, 2017
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Speng said:
We will prob get around £250k
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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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  • Jun 26, 2017
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Astute said:
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.
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Yup, that is the level the club is at now. Thanks to SISU.
 

stupot07

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  • Jun 26, 2017
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Captain Dart said:
Yup, that is the level the club is at now. Thanks to SISU, Mowbray and Slade.
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Corrected it for you

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rupert_bear

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  • Jun 26, 2017
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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 ?
 
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ajsccfc

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  • Jun 26, 2017
  • #20
Hot take for a Monday.
 

shmmeee

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  • Jun 26, 2017
  • #21
SkyBlueScottie said:
The tribunal cash is fixed. That's what being part of the EPP means.
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So can we work out what we'd get? Or is it just fixed to screw little clubs?
 

Sbarcher

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  • Jun 26, 2017
  • #22
Is the tribunal fee a fixed amount or is there any consideration to sell-ons?
 
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HuckerbyDublinWhelan

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  • Jun 26, 2017
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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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  • Jun 26, 2017
  • #24
shmmeee said:
So can we work out what we'd get? Or is it just fixed to screw little clubs?
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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
 

WONDERLAMPS

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  • Jun 26, 2017
  • #25
I'll be stunned if a player who didn't score a league one goal till February joins a premier league side.
 
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CCFC_Charlie

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  • Jun 26, 2017
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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
 
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BlueElephant

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  • Jun 26, 2017
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CCFC_Charlie said:
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
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Football's a funny old game!
 

chiefdave

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  • Jun 26, 2017
  • #28
Seems as well sourced as some of the transfer news we get on here!
We've offered this guy terms. Probably one for the youth team. Currently at Coventry City.
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Source?
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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
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Liquid Gold

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  • Jun 26, 2017
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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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vow

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  • Jun 26, 2017
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Liquid Gold said:
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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  • Jun 26, 2017
  • #31
rupert_bear said:
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 ?
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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
 
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shmmeee

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  • Jun 26, 2017
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CCFC_Charlie said:
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
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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.
 
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shmmeee

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  • Jun 26, 2017
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ceetee said:
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
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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.
 
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  • Jun 26, 2017
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shmmeee said:
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.
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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.
 
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Sky Blue Harry H

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  • Jun 26, 2017
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Astute said:
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.
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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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