CONFIRMED New deal for Leon

[mosbolad]

Nude eel for Leon?............

 

[SandyMcBlade]

Every signing/ is a gamble no matter what age they are, ;and so far Mr Wilder has come up trumps with one or two golden oldie's some on here thought were well passed it
If MR W thinks their worth the gamble I'll back his judgement over anyone's on here.

 

[Plymouthblade]

I’m over the moon, we are respecting the players who deserve it and protecting ourselves at the same time fair play united

 

[Plymouthblade]

Ibrah got the style Leon for England

 

[Woodwardfan]

As seen on Instagram

Commits until 2020

Great to have him and well deserved, now piss off Villa haha

Quality player. Great news.

 

[John Street West Terrace]

Great news & well deserved , worked his nuts off this season & getting a deserved goal return . Could just do with a pacey partner in the JTW to bolster our options

 

[Tommoblade66]

Got to be good news

 

[John Street West Terrace]

Truth be told, I thought we'd loan him out 6 months into him signing for us. Never been more positively surprised by a player.

Duffy is the big one. What he brings to us is very hard to replace.

Too true TD he’s the supply line for a lot of the ammo , kept the midfield ticking also in the other 2 amigos absence

 

[ourbob]

Load of bollocks this,he's off to Villa next week for 10 mill.

 

[Harry's Game]

That reminds me, where is that fake football agent bell end on Twitter?

In the Corpthorne tonight, spreading rumours that Simon Moore is joining Brighton.

 

[Tunstall Fred]

In the Corpthorne tonight, spreading rumours that Simon Moore is joining Brighton.

Been told it is Newcastle

 

[LJBlade]

In the Corpthorne tonight, spreading rumours that Simon Moore is joining Brighton.

Chris Hughton is currently in the Copthorn telling everyone that he’s after Simon Moore?

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Chris Hughton is currently in the Copthorn telling everyone that he’s after Simon Moore?

Simon Moore is in the Bankers draft telling everyone to fuck off.

 

[Tunstall Fred]

Simon Moore is in the Bankers draft telling everyone to fuck off.

Likes his Ruddles does SImon

 

[Dronfield Blade]

LEON!!! LEON!!! Worth every penny, thanks for smashing 2 past the pigs and thank you for giving 110% every game.

Sick of posters looking for negatives. This season is amazing and I am loving every second of it. What a year.

UTB

 

[JJ Sefton]

Feels so gooooood.

 

[ucandomagic]

Don’t understand why people are worrying about Leon’s age. He looks to be the fittest player in our squad - I’d like to see the kms run stats - and the injuries he gets seem to be impact injuries not soft tissue. He’ll still be running at 35.

Also, if this drives him on to play as well in the second half of the season and take us up then it is small change.

Leon, Flecky, Bash and JOC are our beating heart at present - they create the space for others to work.

For me -
Leon is Magic

 

[IMABLADE]

Are you serious?????

Yes

 

[Bladesman]

 

[Houston_Blade]

Great bit of management yet again as it’s a huge carrot for other players to improve performances and earn more money. Sends out a great message that we’ve done it with 5 recently so prove yourself and this is what you get.

 

[Kozzy_is_my_Dad]

He's been superbly superb.

 

[8lade]

Lets say he's now on £15k per week.

That's assuming we're upping people's wages in 5k segments, this is Sheffield United!
He came from Bury so maybe he was on 3k /week there, what would it take to tempt him? How about another 1k/week and 100k promotion bonus? So that'd be 4k /week, tie him down for another 2 years? First there's the bonus of same wages for another 2 years (let's face it at that age they are normally falling) so maybe it was just an extension but if it was an increase I'd say anything from £200-£1,000/week, he might be on 5k/week wouldn't imagine it's much more (but there will be bonuses).

 

[LJBlade]

He's signed till 2020. My projection was that in a year or two's time and if we're not heading to the Prem the club will realise they've got an unaffordable player in the ranks and will renegotiate his contract. As with the three players I mentioned, the only way they would be able to make this attractive to an ageing player would be by extending his contract on a reduced wage.

So, this will take us to around 2022 when he will be 37.

But isn’t this all based on your ‘projection’ that he’s now on £15k per week, which might be way off the mark. According to a Wilder he could earn more playing somewhere else but he wants to carry on here

 

[Sean Thornton]

Likes his Ruddles does SImon

See. Told everyone there was an ale/Peroni split in the camp.

 

[Sean Thornton]

So you mean he isn't signing for Villa?

We're only selling one player, so Dyche, Klopp and Mrs Doubtfire are arm wrestling each other in a Round Robin. (No it's not one of Lydons friends)

 

[MarshyBlade]

I can't actually believe that some on here are chuntering about giving a contract extension to the EFL's leading goalscorer. Some fuckers need to give their heads a rattle

 

[Silent Blade]

Let’s just wait and see how this plays out before giving ourselves a slap on the back.

Mixed emotions.

UTB

 

[PokerBlade]

Contract extensions like this serve a number of purposes. For one it rewards and motivates a player who's a top performer for us. For two it tells other players in the squad that if they produce then they will be similarly rewarded. And for a third it tells other teams they have to come up with silly money to even try and tempt him or us into a sale.

We signed the guy from Bury for 100k if that. He'll have been on peanuts relative to the job he's now doing and it's the sensible thing to do to give him a contract that reflects that. How do you convince the rest of the squad that they ought to see their future at United if we don't reward the league's top scorer with a better wage?

Besides, we all know in the modern game that contracts very often don't get seen out. He may move on again, we may loan him out if he's not playing for us, or maybe he'll retire in 2019. What this does is offer him a financial security that otherwise he may wish to look for elsewhere in the short term. As ever the only bit that matters is the bit we aren't privy to, the value of the contract in £'s. I'm going to guess it's a lot more modest than £15k given the way Wilder talks about it but we don't know.

 

[Jon Bon II]

now piss off Villa haha

Oooh get you, Servalan..

 

[bromtom]

Oooh get you, Servalan..

It's not everyday you see a Blake's 7 reference, have a like.