Jacob Mellis Leaves

Thank **** for that. Lazy little barsteward

 

Could be that we don't want to be stuck with having to match his wages and the compensation we'd likely get has put off all possible suitors

 

No compensation now if another club is stupid enough to sign him

 

Good another bad apple off the tree

 

But to protect the compensation element we have to offer the same or better contract than he was previously on.

The risk being nobody comes in for him and we have to pay a player we don't especially want a championship sized salary

 

By taking the offer away we've basically said we don't want him no more so we've lost the right to compo.

 

I can count the number of good games he's had for us on one hand. One of the reasons we were relegated, talent but thinks he can get by playing at half pace.....see ya and close the door on the way out

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His career will peter out because he's not prepared to put it all in. Journeyman at best.

 

Glad he's gone but that's another midfielder gone..

 

Also another wage freed up.

 

If you offer a new deal to a player under 24 it must match his previous deal....we'd have been hoping he'd be long gone by now

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I think you're bang on with this.

Thing is, however ruthless we want the club to be, they were still dealing with a person. A relatively young man. They met with Jacob and his parents on Friday. The club could have told them that they didn't care what Jacob wanted, they didn't care what his parents wanted, they were holding him to this and that was the end of it. How would that have played out for us?

I suppose a club could have come in for him and paid the compensation owed to us, but who? There may be managers willing to take a gamble with Jacob, if they can get him for free, but after the way he's performed for us, is anyone actually going to pay for him? Far more likely we'd be stuck with a player who doesn't want to be here, who wasn't doing very much even when he was supposed to be motivated, so god knows what he'd be like now. On top of that, do we really want to treat a young man that way? I think he's let us down, I believe the club think that too, but it doesn't mean we have to act in the same way. We don't have to get revenge. We can be the better party and just let the lad go. Some things are worth more than a few quid. Let's not tie people to contracts just to punish them. Let's face it, we didn't really want him.

I would imagine Ben was hoping there would be clubs willing to take Jacob on, so we offered him a contract, so we could be compensated. In the intervening months, it has become apparent that wasn't the case. I thought offering the contract was the right move. I believe what we have done today is too. Why continue to make someone unhappy just for the sake of it when you're not going to get anything out of it?

Jacob does have some talent, but, for whatever reason, he hasn't shown it for us often enough. In the best interest of all parties I think it's right we just let him go.

 

Good riddance, he'll be stacking shelves in KDA in 12 months, wasted talent

 

Undoubtedly a very talented footballer but his lack of effort was disgusting and at times embarrassing. Just shrugging his shoulders and not tracking back does not constitute a decent midfielder to me. I didn't expect him to run about like a headless chicken ala one of 'the toilers' but he at least has to put a modicum of effort in that's for sure.

If he ever manages to get his ego in check he might do something with his career but until the epiphony happens he'll be just another journeyman with more clubs than goals.

 

TBH I think it was quite funny (agree a little petty) but IF Jacob was petulant during negotiations the reference to 'his parents' in the statement is a pretty clear and slightly amusing implying the need for a 'grown up' to be present during the meeting.