At long long last.........some good news about players contracts

For those of us that have been continually banging on about the importance of fair but extended players contracts - and that current players contracts are ridiculous and as a club we can not move forward unless contracts are sorted out - but in saying it, we didn't know if we were asking for something that could actually be sorted out.
WELL - it can be sorted out.
Because Hecky yesterday (Yorkshire Post) has echoed those concerns and said that players contracts have to be sorted out.

As far as I'm concerned- the statement by Hecky yesterday was the most important and positive statement coming from the club in the last 5 weeks or so since the January transfer window opened.
Something is going to be done !!!

Three steps to success;
1) Recruitment- brilliant
2) Coaching- brilliant
3) Players contracts - undermining the potential success of the club - but is about to be sorted out.

 

He said it weeks ago. Most folk think the same, but have come to terms with the reality of the current situation. It's hardly insightful or novel to want contracts to be more to the clubs favour.

 

Here's hoping the board take note and implement plans going forward regarding contracts.

 

Nobody disputes the subject of securing contracts for our best players. But until promotion and sales of Mawson and Stones, we were not in a position to gamble on these players stepping up in quality. With the possible exception of Winnall and Conor, who flatly refused to talk about new deals.

Now we are on a firmer financial footing*, we do have the security to be able to extend and improve contracts, without waiting for them to run down.

It's hardly rocket science.

* try saying that when drunk as a skunk.

 

It's a simple fix insert a clause into each players contract that the club have right to extend the contract by a further 12 months at any time in the last 12 months of the existing contract

 

My thoughts exactly.

 

And when all the most ambitious/best players turn us down because signing a 3 year deal is really commuting to a small club for 4 years then what?

 

Two things there;
Firstly we are not in a position to sign 'best players' - we are signing players with potential from lower leagues that should be over the moon for signing for a Championship club - and subsequently should be easier to handle when dealing with a contract. Keeping in mind that it has to be fair to the player.

Secondly - I'm sure Patrick and especially Maurice know people that can put a good contract together - one where the player understands that if he does well for Barnsley he will be sold on - but sold for THE RIGHT PRICE

 

I agree there are ways to put clauses in and such like that should keep both the player and the club happy but a clause that simply allows the club to extend regardless will discourage the likes of hourihane from signing.

Maybe a contract with clauses in that say...

We can extend for a further year at any point during your final season IF:
We are above position x in the table of the championship or we can promotion to the premier league
You score x amount of goals in a season
You play in x amount of games in a season

YOU can extend the contract at any point during the final season of your contract IF:
You score x amount of goals in a season
You play x amount of games in a season.

You can leave the club for a set figure of x amount IF:
The club have less than x amount of points in the table.
The club is relegated to league 1.

You can leave the club for a set figure of Y amount IF:
We achieve more than x amount of points.
We are in the championship.


As you see, there are a lot of clauses there and they don't even begin to cover what will most likely be in a lot for contracts but it just shows an example of how both the player and the club can benefit from clauses at the same time

 

Hourihane was a nothing player before he signed for Barnsley.
He is earning £30,000 per week now solely because of Barnsley.
There needs to be a rebalancing and recalculation of players contracts - so players know that if they play well and improve then Barnsley will not stand in their way of joining another club. But when they do move then a fair price will be sort for them.

I'm wondering if a percentage of their transfer fee would be an incentive.
For example - give players 10 % of the transfer deal.
That's surely going to increase the interest of the player.
In the case of Hourihane £7 or £8 million would have been an acceptable transfer fee - not a measly £3 million.

Its VITAL that we get the right price because obviously that gives the club a larger amount of money we have to play with when it comes to choosing and picking players up from the lower leagues - eg Bogel
Then the whole process starts again.

 

Great news that you completed your degree in stating the bleeding obvious over and over again.