The January Transfer Window

When he signed the initial contract we didn't know how good he was going to be so, presumably, hedged our bets at 3 years.
I agrre with you on Patrick though.

 

We are getting bum ****ed. Someone has been asleep at the wheel. Linton walked the plank. Not rocket science to work out who?

 

You do not sign them on 5 year deals to kick off with. As I have said.

What you do not do is wait until everyone knows firstly their worth and secondly the shortness of their remaining contract.

You do the same thing that you did in getting them in the first place. You pre-empt everyone else, including the player.

 

So when would you have offered MacDonald an extension?

 

So, again, when would you have offered MacDonald an extension?

 

So you know how good yhe player is going to be before he does? How does that work then?

 

MacDonald is not an issue, although his contract should have performance targets & higher wages linked to contract extensions.
I'm an agent in the music world & these are standard.

Fact is all our best players are out of contract in the summer. If you think that is good business, then i'm Kylie Minogue.

 

Well if you're Mark Roberts for example - he might think he's better than York, but he might not think he's good enough for the Championship.

I bet he didn't tbh. When he signed he might have thought he may, or may not, cut it in league 1.

Somewhere someone at bfc, someone who assesses players (ffs how do we get them in the first place) might have worked out that this was a thoroughbred and not a donkey, and acted appropriately.

But to answer your question, it doesn't work at Barnsley.

 

Can you name me a top player we've ever managed to tie into an extended contract?

 

I do agree with MacDonald - it seems weird that he's so wanted.

It's like having your house burgled, then an hour later they come back for the whiskey and shortbread in your biscuit tin.

 

But it represents what I'm saying. His contract probably does have performance targets and higher wages, but even if he performs like a modern day Cruyff then he'll still end up on less than Norwich could pay him. And he already knows that, after six months. We simply couldn't have offered him an extension fast enough and, to a greater or lesser extent, that applies to all of the players that we're losing.

I have some friends who run a tiny record label - the kind of record label that screenprints cardboard to make their own CD cases. If one of their artists really takes off then they'll probably lose them to another label that pays more. The trick is to get as much out of them before you do. Conor, for example, has given us two years as a captain, two trophies, promotion from League one and (if rumours are to be believed) the best part of £3m. Then he's gone to a much bigger club that can pay way more than we ever could. That's not bad.

 

It makes sense in the context of the opening post.

 

ALL !!!
Reading some posters we're richer than most clubs and should throw money at players in case we get promoted ,after all what harm can it do.

 

did we not buy Winnall?
did we not buy Conor?
did we not buy Mawson?

watkins, scowen, bradhshaw?

We all do it - just at different levels. Only Bree and Stones have come up through the homegrown channel of recent times. We woudl have hardly managed on those 2 for income in the last 20 years.

yes we bought raw and trained them up but we still bough them - even tif they werent the finished article.

 

I mean in general.
If It was up to me I would scrap transfers altogether.


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