Transfer Rumours 2016/17 City Transfer Thread

The same principle applies. They had no years left on their deals.

 

I was thinking the same thing too, you'd expect most to apart from those who drew up the contract apparently.

 

Which resulted in us paying them more wages. Ffs.

 

They haven't been clearly, but surely they should have. It's all Bruce went on about last Summer was these clauses inserted following reduced wages post relegation.

Can't have it both ways. Obviously another **** up by the owners.

 

So you didnt mean they got an increase in wages you just meant they signed new contracts?
Don't you think if Ehab had refused to offer any players new contracts then Bruce would have walked even earlier?

 

Christ, I'll spell it out for you.

Elmo, Huddlestone and Diame all have existing contracts. By offering them new contracts, we are offering them wages on top of those we were already paying them, thus extra wages.

We have seemingly no money to spend on new signings, but have money to offer existing players further years of wages. If Huddlestone is on, say, 35k and we've given him a two year deal, that is 5 players on almost 15k a week we could have signed instead on one-year deals.

I really don't know why this is so difficult for you to comprehend.

 

Looks like Diame is off he's not on the flight to Austria with the rest of the team.

 

He was never going to be on it but I suspect you knew that.

 

That is also 15 players on £5k a week
We have to try to be competitive in the Premier League or do you think it's just a question of numbers and the wages don't matter?
Why is that so difficult for YOU to comprehend?

 

To be honest I thought he'd stay or another premier league club would come in for him.

Perhaps the latter is what's happening.

 

2016 The season of bad news, turmoil, a poorly run football club, no fans and a record number of petty arguments!!!!

We will never be mastered by you.... By you Allam b.........s.....

 

I covered this yesterday, it 100% should've been written into the clauses that they were revoked the second we got promoted. The fact that they seemingly weren't is just another example of incompetence.

 

I wasn't talking about that part, I simply pointed out that they weren't free agents.

 

What are you on about? Ok, we could have not signed Huddlestone and signed two players on 20k a week on two year contracts and almost matched his wage. You'd get two half decent players for that sort of wage. You're twisting my entire point into knots for absolutely no reason. My point is that the club clearly is willing to offer money for wages for contracts so why haven't we signed anyone?

 

They were essentially free agents, I was making the comparison because we essentially offered them brand new contracts - whether they were at the same wage as their previous contracts, I'm not sure - but they were essentially brand new deals. In fact didn't Huddlestone sign after 1 July so he actually was a FA?

 

So he was a FA when he signed. It's not even the point I don't know how these discussions keep getting side-tracked onto pointless minutiae. We gave new contracts meaning the club committed new money to existing players. End of.

 

Ehab didn't think Bruce was very good at judging players? especially strikers? Now it's because we would rather wait until we have a manager in place? I think you are seeing it in far too simplistic terms. You think that because we are willing to keep players we already have we should be getting other players in without having a manager that Ehab trusts. I'm not saying that Ehab is right about everything I'm just saying it made sense to do that with Huddlestone and Elmo and it makes sense with Diame and it makes sense to wait to get a manager before signing new players.

 

And SSN have just confirmed not only is it a new deal it's on improved terms.