Squad contracts for 2023-24

[Kozzy_is_my_Dad]

Thanks, Bladesman, albeit pretty worrying to see..!

 

[Katzenjammer]

 

[FMBlade1]

If anyone refuses to sign a new contract by 1st August I'd sell them for what we can and reinvest in players who do want to be here long term

 

[finlaytheblade]

Thanks, Bladesman, albeit pretty worrying to see..!

Why ! If we stay up it aint a problem ! if we go down big changers within the playing squad anyway will happen.
Also probably a new owner who will want to put his owner mark on the squad via the manager .

 

[Bladesman]

Thanks, Bladesman, albeit pretty worrying to see..!

That isn't me but I will take the credit for it anyway.

 

[Kozzy_is_my_Dad]

That isn't me but I will take the credit for it anyway.

Superb work, mate!

 

[Stegosaurus]

Hi Stegosaurus here,

Looking very troubling--we could easily lose two of our best prospects (Jebbison and N'Diaye) and three of our best players (Egan, Baldock and Berge) for nothing.

Scandalous that it's got to such a state, to be honest. Wednesday will be pissing themselves if come the end of the season, we lose 40 million worth of talent for nix, nought, nothing.

Not to mention semi-decent players like McBurnie and Bogle.

 

[8lade]

I've only been back on here a week and the gloom and doom merchants are tedious.

 

[finlaytheblade]

I've only been back on here a week and the gloom and doom merchants are tedious.

Yep pathetic int it

 

[South Sea Blade]

I've only been back on here a week and the gloom and doom merchants are tedious.

You ain't seen nothing yet - wait until we lose a match.

 

[Dougie]

Why ! If we stay up it aint a problem ! if we go down big changers within the playing squad anyway will happen.
Also probably a new owner who will want to put his owner mark on the squad via the manager .

How ain’t it a problem if we stay up?

 

[Snowflake]

If anyone refuses to sign a new contract by 1st August I'd sell them for what we can and reinvest in players who do want to be here long term

Perhaps we should get some more in before even contemplating that way forward ?

 

[finlaytheblade]

How ain’t it a problem if we stay up?

Only 2 players we wouldn't be able to offer terms two are Berge& Ndiaye .
Of the rest I think the ones we would want to keep will be conducive to resigning.

 

[finlaytheblade]

Only 2 players we wouldn't be able to offer terms two are Berge& Ndiaye .
Of the rest I think the ones we would want to keep will be conducive to resigning.

It's a long season negotiations can happen anytime.

 

[Beans]

I don't get the worry over this. If we want to keep some of these players, we'll offer them contracts. If we don't, we can cut bait and reshape the squad. Right now this is the opposite situation to our last relegation where we were rewarding players for past performance (to be clear, I'm morally fine with that, they earned it, it just left us in a bit of a mess) and so were stuck paying eg Enda Stevens like he was a top-end Championship player when he was replacement-level at best.

If the out-of-contract players are playing to a level this season where we can't afford to compete with the other clubs that are interested in them, that probably means we've had a successful season.

It sometimes feels like there's an assumption from fans that we'll never sign any other players again at any point in the future.

 

[FMBlade1]

It sometimes feels like there's an assumption from fans that we'll never sign any other players again at any point in the future.

How many permanent transfers have we made that have involved a fee over the past two years?

(not a dig, but I understand people's worry and scepticism about us bringing players in)

 

[Beans]

How many permanent transfers have we made that have involved a fee over the past two years?

(not a dig, but I understand people's worry and scepticism about us bringing players in)

Hardly any but I don't really see the relevance of that. All signs point to this promotion being used to put us on a firmer financial footing (ideally for a sale) rather than the situation we've spent the last two years in.

 

[Proper Blade]

We're about to lose our best player because we let him enter the final year of his contract. This made it much more difficult to reject a sizeable bid from Marseille.

Very worrying, then, that almost the entirety of our first-team squad are also entering the final year of their contracts.

Where is the long-term planning? Why are we not tying down our assets? I can't imagine there's another club in the country where 90% of the first team squad are out of contract in 12 months.

 

[Berkshire Blade]

Best owner ever