Steele had a release clause then

And a pay cut clause for rello

 

Where is this from?

 

Can't cut & paste to here fr some reason, but Chron online.

 

http://www.barnsley-chronicle.co.uk...-deal-a-steal-as-keeper-set-to-leave-for-free

After past issues we were told contract clauses would be a thing of the past. Obviously not.

 

Fair enough. We wanted to protect ourselves, he wanted to protect himself as well.

 

Explains why no fee.

 

Thanks for that.

Should dispel a few myths regarding him going for free.

 

If we put a pay cut in to Steele's contract should we be relegated (very sensible thing to do) have we also done the same for Cranie, O'Grady and Kennedy? All of whom also signed their contracts last summer. Not expecting you to know, just wondering.

Can completely understand why Steele wanted a release clause too if signing a contract that contained a wage cut, however, free seems a bit cheap to me. Couldn't we have insisted on a small fee like £100K or summat? Steele is worth far more than that but it would have given us a bit of brass for signing on fees and agent fees and all that gubbings when signing a replacement.

 

I'm not surprised and to be fair I don't blame him. If he took a massive pay cut last season as suggested, he was bound to have something in place to give him assurances if we were to be relegated or not in a position to offer him better terms in the future. He probably wouldn't have signed a new contract last season without these clauses.

He's probably not the only one, Cranie and O'Grady are probably on similar terms.

 

Duinna, but it just shows signing a player is more than 'this is what we will pay you, sign here'

 

Which goes to show why people shouldn't be so quick to judge. Even after the event they cant go blabbing openly about his contract as it doesn't go down well with other players. Probably someone has had a quiet word with the Chronicle and got them to do it for them....

 

Let's be reyt, the club showed him absolutely no loyalty for a long part of last summer so fair play to him for insisting on that clause.

 

Surprised none of the experts on here knew about that clause and told us earlier - them who know what the players are on and that....

 

It also shows that football clubs will say owt to their customers to keep them happy while doing the opposite

 

I don't think that's much of a surprise.

It cant be an easy job knowing if you tell the truth about everything you'll get a likely downturn in business which will add on to the previous downturn on the pitch....Im not saying its right, but unless you're in that position...

 

No relegation clause in COGs contract, so said Ben (I think) in last week's Chron.

 

I do get that but it doesnt make it right and certainly causes a significant drop in respect for the people involved and the knock on effect is that the next time they tell the fans something theyll assume the club is lying.

 

Pass. But we hardly got off to the best starts in negotiating Steele's contract...