Yes, why not? I've never understood the point of having players not in the squad just hanging around for years doing nothing like Rose is doing.
Cut your losses, get rid and move on.
Cut your losses, get rid and move on.
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I'm asking who are our up and comers? those teetering on the edge of a big breakthrough? Man utd have Greenwood, Liverpool have Jones, Woolwich have Saka, City have Foden, Chelsea have Hudson-Odoi what do we have? Troy Parrott?
My main point is still that this idea we can get rid of deadwood and blood some youth is I'm afraid ridiculous for this club at this time with this manager.
I want this thread renamed "Should we do a Bobby Bonilla "This topic reminds me of Bobby Bonilla Day. For those who don't follow, Bobby Bonilla was a baseball player - a pretty good one, in fact, from 1986-2001. Before the 2000 season, the New York Mets wanted to dump Bonilla and his $5.5M wages left on his contract. So they reached an agreement to defer payment and effect his immediate release...and so, with interest included, every July 1(Bobby Bonilla Day) Bobby Bonilla receives a $1.2M payment from the New York Mets and will do so until 2035. Bobby Bonilla retired from baseball in 2001.
I wouldn't taint the Spurs forum with a thread title with the "W" word in it!100%
Bring back Skipp, and Parrot and the players we point blank refuse to use or can’t play to the level required of their wages, let go.
Get Tanganga in the team.....how is he behind Sanchez?
And why isn’t this in the Spurs forum?
What is the situation with our youngsters? Woolwich have Saka/Martinelli/Smith Rowe/Nelson/Nketiah in addition to the likes of Willock and Maitland-Niles who they've loaned out, plenty of talent to plug the gaps of other players who've left, we have nowhere near enough quality or quantity when it comes to our youth for them to step up and be ready for the first team if needed. Especially with that dinosaur of a manager who's arguably the the absolute worst when it comes to developing young players.
I've only seen it said that there have been payoffs involved.Good point.
I think (?) Woolwich only cancelled the contracts to allow them to join other clubs on a free.
So no obligation to pay their wages.
8%, and deferred all payments 10 years so didn't cut a check until 2011. The owners got swindled because they were major Madoff (remember him?) investors and thought they could easily count on raking in 10%+ with the hedge fund god.What interest rate did they agree???
Suppose Bobby’s taking the counterparty risk that the Mets will still be about but still sounds like a pretty good deal.8%, and deferred all payments 10 years so didn't cut a check until 2011. The owners got swindled because they were major Madoff (remember him?) investors and thought they could easily count on raking in 10%+ with the hedge fund god.
Mets had a penchant for this sort of thing. They're paying Darryl freakin' Strawberry $1.6M/yr until 2033 because they wanted to sack him in 1990.
Owe him 5.5M but pay him 40MThis topic reminds me of Bobby Bonilla Day. For those who don't follow, Bobby Bonilla was a baseball player - a pretty good one, in fact, from 1986-2001. Before the 2000 season, the New York Mets wanted to dump Bonilla and his $5.5M wages left on his contract. So they reached an agreement to defer payment and effect his immediate release...and so, with interest included, every July 1(Bobby Bonilla Day) Bobby Bonilla receives a $1.2M payment from the New York Mets and will do so until 2035. Bobby Bonilla retired from baseball in 2001.
Partly they have better youngsters because their first team has been shit for ages.
As a youth team player, if you had zero affiliation to any club, you choose one with a clear route to first team football.
The trouble is, the players know that the power is in their hands (and if they don't, their agents certainly do!).Woolwich are paying up the majority, if not all, of the contract value to cancel the contracts.
Literally pouring money down the drain.
We definitely shouldn't follow their lead, they are having a nightmare.
All they've achieved is to set a precedence where any player they want out knows they will pay up his contract and he can take that money and also take money from a new club to get paid twice.