Pinnock to Brentford?

Stendal may be backbone , but like last answer he could walkaway be for season starts then we can say good buy to survival everything will be lost ..

 

I understand and have continually supported the way we operate.

If Pinnock won’t sign a new deal, then he would have to be sold. Whilst disappointed I can’t contradict myself and say I have huge problem with it.

But £3million? Three?

This had better not be true else I will lose all faith in the people running this football club.

The club would be much better off writing off the three million and keeping him.

He should not be leaving the club for anything less than £5million.

But I fear there is truth in this.

 

FFS. It's like Groundhog day (if true).

 

It's true local reporter all over it...bargin city for them and deal of championship

 

What a complete joke if this is true. Another defender given away for well below market value. Yes, Lindsay and Pinnock were in the last 12 months, but so what? 5 million for the pair, someone has lost the plot.

The players who extended by a year only have 2 years left, so should we sell them too? Get full value.

I can understand selling if the value is too good to turn down, but this is peanuts in championship standard.

Annoyed.

 

Just been told by a reliable source that this is true and he's gone.

The fee has to be something other than reported though. Goldthorpe give us an update.

 

If I was the manager, I would walk.

 

Drama bomb.

 

I'd just like to say that Pinnock, Lindsay (Thiam) were all signed by the previous regime so what ludicrous clauses they had in their contracts are beyond the control of the new owners.

 

May as well pack up and go home

 

Ignore this. Turns out the new owners are jellyfish.

 

If you advertise that you will sell your players in the summer in which they are in the final year of their contract when they won't renew that contract, as we have done, what bargaining power do you hold to up the price of the transfer? We're basically saying we want rid and we'll take owt because they are going.

 

Agreed. He will be worth £3m in January. It would make more sense to run his contract down

 

Barnsley have rejected several bids, including one for £3million from Brentford for centre-back Ethan Pinnock, HITC Sport understands from sources close to the club.

Brentford are looking to are aiming to strengthen their central defensive options before Thursday's transfer deadline after selling Chris Mepham to Bournemouth earlier this month in a £12m deal.

 

**** him and Lindsay. If they don’t want to stay then go. Bring someone in who actually wants to be here. I just hope the replacements are as good if not better

 

I'd be less bothered by this news if it was to a considerably bigger club. Brentford have done well in recent seasons, but they're hardly a guaranteed stepping stone to the Premier League.

Very frustrating news.

 

I've got no problems with our transfer policy. I've got some huge problems with our contract policy.

 

I'm more interested in the potential new signings coming into the club and getting behind them.

 

I'm genuinely getting to the point where I just hate football. I don't begrudge a player taking a move that will be life changing for just 12 months of kicking a bag of wind about. We'd all have those same levels of loyalty. Million quid for a year to run up and down and have a few half days of "training"... easy decision. But its just this constant inevitability that if a player is toilet after a year, we get rid, if a player is really good, the player, agent, club push to get rid and we just have this hamster wheel of activity.

I know football has changed, but all that's left for us is this conveyor belt of transfer overactivity and massive short term rebuilding. I'm not sure we'll have much scope for a legend again any time soon. if you look at our current players, only 4 have played over 50 games. And they are all in the last year of their contract (though we have a 12 month option on Mowatt).

I'd hope things will change a little in future with the longer contracts we've got signed up, but the value of a longer contract is leveraging higher fees when interest arises, so you still don't retain good players for longer necessarily, you just drive more value if they are good enough.

The worst thing though, is not the repeated loss of players. Its the inevitability that soon the new wave will be leaving to pastures new. Will Woodrow be here in February? Will Moore be here in September? Will Stendel be here at the end of the season.

Its sad, its dispiriting.... it just feels inevitable.

 

The problem is - none of the players want to be here if other clubs are offering to triple their wages. We need to increase the wages offered to a competitive level.

I had hoped that the new regime would be able to do this. Obviously not.