Serious Garden Leave

Ok, we are going to increase your wage by £1500 per week and extend your contract for a year - in 6 months time in January, when at that time you will still have a year left on your contract, we will look at the situation again including the potential for you to sign to another club - please sign the contract here.

I don't want to.

Fine, take all your possessions from the club, do not visit the club and do not visit or have contact with other clubs - we will inform you when your present contract with the club expires in a years time.

 

You'd find yourself in some kind of tribuneral faster than you can say 'Checkatrade Trophy'.

The fact that you reckon to employ people is extremely worrying.

 

And during that year we will continue to pay you several thousand pounds a week as agreed when you signed the initial contract .

 

Ways have to be found so the players are not the dominant force here
Rather send a cheque through the post than have someone wreck the business

 

and the only players to sign in the future will be the desperate, the end of the pier, hasbeans

get real

 

You have raised a good point that player (and agent) power is a very disruptive and damaging force in football and ideally it has to be significantly reduced but we can't do it alone; we need most if not all other clubs on board too.

 

How do you stop players having contact with other clubs?

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Few just need better contract negotiations and more confidence in our ability to pick players and retain them. Mid contract negotiations are the key.

 

You'd OCD is beginning to scare/annoy/bore me.

 

Employers can find a way of getting around this - e.g. The player was disruptive to other members of staff etc etc

We also have Maurice Watkins at the club who will know employment lawyers that can provide legal advice.

The prosperity and future success of the club is totally reliant on 3 basic things:
1 - recruitment
2 - coaching
3 - SECURING PLAYERS CONTRACTS

A player with a decent length of contract will enable the club to move them on for a fair price.
Money gained from those sales is then ploughed back in to recruiting young or lower league players

 

There is a job going at Oakwell.

Obviously you can do better than previous members of staff.


Apply cos I reckon it's nailed on.

 

I have a 10 year old niece that could do a far better job than what we have recently witnessed at the club

If someone had said to us a few weeks ago - Barnsley are going to sell Sam Winnal to Sheffield Wednesday for just £500k
How we would have laughed
Not now tho

 

The problem with offering players improved contracts in the summer was that we could easily have found ourselves back in L1 next season, but paying everyone twice as much as before. How do you then "move those players on"? I think we had to be cautious in the summer.

 

Who said owt about 'twice as much'
But a reward is appropriate as they are playing at a higher level

 

I did. A few quid a week extra won't make much difference IMHO.

 

Talented family.

 

Agree
Mid term contract negotiations is crucial and can make or break Barnsley
We have to be fair to the player - guaranteeing that if a decent bid comes in then they will be allowed to leave
We have a fantastic recruitment and coaching system - that is producing good players
On the back of that Barnsley need to realise that getting a proper price for these players could make Barnsley a relatively wealthy club
That money could be used to sign lower league players or young promising players - players such as Isgrove, Armstrong etc that can be developed - and then sold on at a later date

 

I think the only flaw here with contracts is that the likes of Winnall, Hourihane, Watkins etc etc we could see the potential, contribution and that they were good players at the level in the first 6 months of their contracts. It wouldn't have been an issue to add a year after the first 6-12 months knowing we could sell on if we were promoted and they didn't cut it. But we also have to remember as the player also backs his ability and desire to play higher they also have to agree