Andy Giddings posted on twitter a day or so ago that BFC had offered deals to all out of contracts to protect their position. Or something to that effect. Off to buy some bolts for my horse door.... just in case they come back.
If the club's MO is to find young players, polish them up and then sell them on for maximum profit, I can just about get on board with that. This course of action completely goes against this supposed strategy. Maybe it's just an excuse not to spend any money.
I don't like the bloke but the chairman at Peterborough United makes players sign three year contracts. If they refuse to sign a new contract they go on the transfer list. I'm not saying if that's the correct way to run a club long term but if you were supposedly trying to maximise transfer fees that's the sort of thing you would do.
It is a good question, given our ideal policy of importing cheap and exporting expensive. Somebody surely ought to have carried out an evaluation of why we shot off up Div. 1 like Hemsy after a Bree autograph. Somebody also ought to have also worked out who were and who were not our best players and how long their contracts were. Somebody should have concluded that post season was the best time to get them to commit further. But I suppose somebody instead concluded that we'd struggle to stay up, and if we gave significantly improved contracts to a few players and got relegated, we'd be in the mire. Can't remember when we acquired the security of the Stones money. Was it early August? We perhaps needed balls then to tie our best players up. Not that I'd have done owt with Winnall btw. He's surprised me this season with a few of his goals (Cardiff header was orgasmic), but his build up play whilst better is still tosh. CH and MW should have been signed up.
According to Patrick both Hourihane and Winnall stated that they would not sign a new contract and were willing to see the current one out and see where that led. One would assume that the club would protect its interest and have taken appropriate action. We cannot make players sign and the player does have the right to determine their own destiny. In essence it doesn't really matter whether we did or didn't they weren't going to sign.
Didn't Hourihane say about a week ago that if a deal was on the table in the summer they would have signed? Sounds as if someone's telling lies Sent from my GT-I9195 using Tapatalk
