by 3points »
23 Jan 2018 13:27
Snowflake Royal windermereROYAL 3points Probably lose Cat 1 academy status as well due to the cost of running it. It’s about £4m a year with a £1m coming back via contributions from the FA for English player development
So who do you think would stay and go? I think we would have the following players left
Jakkola
Richards
McShane
Blackett
Kelly
Clement
Kermogant
Evans
Watson
Meite
Gravenberch
Joey
McCleary
Bond
And the rest will leave
So let me get this straight, if they are still under contract and nobody comes in for them we just tell them to piss off?
Surely the more obvious interpretation is that the belief is players not included
would have clubs come in for them?
Correct Ian. I was working on the assumption the others have some form of re-sale value (therefore we would sell them to help balance the books eg Moore, Bacuna, Mannone) or wouldn't want to drop down a division and the player would look to leave to play at a higher levels (Beerens and Jon Dadi were two I put in this category).
Clearly the squad would include more of the current U23s who've been around the first team this season as well like Barrett, Andresson, Rinomhota, Smith & Novakovic. I'd probably add a fit Mendes and Harriott to the list of retained players too (forgot about them).
But, as Blackburn discovered, it isn't easy to move players on who earn good money without a financial incentive to do so - hence Danny Graham is still there despite being heavily touted around for £2m last summer by his agent