We don't want him to stay. We've offered him a **** off deal to make him **** off. So we can get the compo. He's poor. Really poor. Drove nige mad. Not seen a full back for us hit it into touch as much since the 90's. Either Fleming is back up or nige has another young back lined up.
Gotta agree.. I saw Clark many times last season and rarely thought he deserved to be playing. If it wasnt for Tymon leaving the way he did or Kingsley getting injured he wouldnt have played at all. If we can get some money for him and it'll go in the pot, go for it.
It wouldn't surprise me if that was the case. I was just taking Twatkins comments at face value about wanting to keep him and offering him a great deal. I don't think he was bad enough and we have numbers enough to just not bother retaining him as he should be cheap (if the rumoured £8k is true that's a piss take) but if he's really not wanted it's still the logical thing to do, even if the compo is £50k it's still £50k more than nothing.
There may be exceptions, but the average wage for a first team player in the Championship was £6.2k a week in 2016/17, so a kid in his season in the first team, who's considered to be back-up, isn't normally going to be on anywhere near £8k a year.
Yet he's still better than Kingsley and the two Chelsea loanees in that position. Clark I think in recent years has also been played more as a midfielder. I hate this kicking down of our own players, local lads who have come through the academy. Particularly when you look at some of the absolute **** that we've actually paid money for.
Clark has played more than double the amount of times Kingsley has this year, so it's unfair to write him off. I get what you're saying about kicking our own players but you have to find the right balance. It isn't worth it to stick with a player for the sole reason of him being local.
He looked awful in his first few games but so did Clark. Kingsley looked better in the last few home games though.
I don't want us playing players who aren't good enough, just because they're local. Obviously it's great when we get a local lad who is good enough, but I don't believe that's the case on this occasion and though Kingsley started badly, he played the last five games and was getting better each game and by the end he certainly looked the more capable of the two.
The problem is that a year ago he had never played for us so similarly would you offer a new and better contract to all junior squad players?
Absolutely agree that if Forest or another club are offering it, he would take it. So would I. But that amount is just bonkers (to me) for a lad his age / experience etc. Same goes for the hundreds of thousands per WEEK some of the household names get. Can't be right.
Well then they should have just let Clark go. I think he would be wanted here as cover for Kingsley, otherwise it’s more pissing about getting players in. Bad isn’t it, when signing players has actually become a hassle and a worry.
I think that needs to sink in. With a lot of posters. 6.5k a week. Unfortunately players like Dawson etc would be on fifteen or so a week.
Kingsley wasn't good under Slutsky but you could say that of all the defence back then, except the goalkeeper.
Admittedly all of them signed new deals within the last 12 months. Give it 18 months and I think that average wage will double. I don't agree with him wanting that, but do you want to bet against him getting it? I reckon he will find someone willing. Football has a lot of inflationary pressures, and some of the transfers are ridiculous and if you look at things historically (Past performance is not a measure to use to judge future performance blah blah) it has taken 12-18 months for those pressures to pass down the leagues.
