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They did he got them out of the **** hole they created by employing the Portuguese Muppet who managed to get us relegated. Stendel owes the board nothing. Theyve missed an opportunity to gain some kudos by saying as a belated thank you for his success last season we are prepared to allow him to pursue his career without compensation that would have got the fan base back onside a little instead Conway tries to play the hard man and comes across as a bit of a *****.

 

Surpised in what way?

 

That's a bit like saying Sammy the Snake owed us nothing, there was still an uproar when we got peanuts for him.
Once the decision to remove the manager was taken (and I didn't like it, or the subsequent statement either) it became down to sensible business practice, although again the 'Tommy ten men' approach grates with me.

 

Oh come on, you can’t be serious. The club have acted poorly in this whole saga but I’m baffled by the amount of people who believe we should just let him go for nothing. Especially when we don’t know exactly what happened behind the scenes. It’s bonkers imo. What we’re doing is standard practice nowadays.

 

It wouldn't be for nothing if we no longer had to pay his wages though?

 

We wont be paying his wages when he goes, plus we have the compensation too. I imagine the compo for Dec to May will more than offset whatever the club has paid while he's been on gardening leave.

Or do we not want to see money coming in when we release our assets?

 

Only... A bit.... Total...would have been the better choice of words.. lol... In my opinion

 

It’s bizarre for years people have complained about amateurish approach to running the club. As soon as we play hardball there’s uproar. No sentiment in football- we’ve had two managers up and leave, they didn’t care ultimately about the club. Why shouldn’t we get some money for Stendel? We took the gamble, he’s still under contract,

 

Agreed. Fingers crossed that the hardball attitude continues if we get bids in for players in January.

 

Ok lets play hardball and keep paying him for doing nothing and he take his pick of jobs in the summer.

 

But the pay-off to Stendel would be the value of his wages to the end of the contract, wouldn't it? So the same rate, per week, as paying his gardening leave. Except this way, we may get someone else to pick up part of the cost. The club would be daft to do anything else.

 

No its costing us now having him.on our books. We let him go and we stop paying him( other club pick up his wages)and save money. Its wanting " compensation" on top that's the problem.

 

We cant just let him go, we have to sack him to do that, unless we reach an agreement with his new club. As soon as we sack him, Stendel would be due to compensation under the terms of his contract. So (without knowing the specifics) I'd guess that sacking him costs us the same as keeping him. If that's the case, and theres a chance we might get compensation from another club, we should hold out for it.

 

I find it bizarre that as far as Stendel goes he should be allowed to do what he likes, as though there can be no circumstances under which he has behaved badly and therefore the club have every right to extract a transfer fee for him.

 

Don't forget that Stendel has a say in this too. He may well argue that he is due to the balance of his contracted pay from Barnsley. The fact that he will be walking into another job doesn't matter, he's still due to his money. If we just sack him, we have to meet that cost. If we agree to let him go to Hearts as part of an agreed "transfer", we would expect Hearts to meet that cost.

 

By the statement they have just released...

 

I love a smug "i told you so" thread bump...

 

Me an all. Especially with all the flouncing that's been going on.