TF on Austin and new transfer policy

[Shepherds Mush]

Surely just means they won't pay "whatever it takes" to get someone in.

The losing players who won't take relegation clauses......reducing wages to suit the division we are in if we go down again - players who can accept that have to be total #rightsorts!!

[dogsrrs]

Surely just means they won't pay "whatever it takes" to get someone in.

The losing players who won't take relegation clauses......reducing wages to suit the division we are in if we go down again - players who can accept that have to be total #rightsorts!!

That's the way I saw it Mushy ;; I thought last years signings had a relegation a clause written into their contracts and he meant those that don't want to take up the new terms .
Good to see he has learnt something lets hope he sticks to it and doesn't get swayed by the next Johny come lately that tries to get in his ear

[Awin]

If taken literally it means he expects players to play for nothing.

Bearing that in mind the commonly agreed view is bang on!

[MYU]

I took it as meaning we won't be paying over the odds i.e won't be paying "anything" in terms of if somebody puts an overinflated asking price on a player, we won't pay it.

That's how I took it to mean too.

That's how I read it. He means over paying because he also mentions wages in the same sentence. Good job aswell, I can see clubs asking for stupid money for strikers if Charlie goes for 15 million. Might have to look abroad.

Don't understand the negativity. Think the two guys signed from Swindon show we are prepared to pay money for the right players but the days of shelling out loads for players just looking for a last pay day easing towards retirement are gone. Also those that will only join if we give them a get out clause.

Shame Charlie going into his last year but that's life. Had two good years out of him and will sell at a decent profit. We aren't Man Utd.

Same here and what the Fox says, we should be happy with the changes we're seeing so far. I can for the life of me see why people are so upset this summer?

[The Merry Ploughboy]

That's the way I saw it Mushy ;; I thought last years signings had a relegation a clause written into their contracts and he meant those that don't want to take up the new terms .
Good to see he has learnt something lets hope he sticks to it and doesn't get swayed by the next Johny come lately that tries to get in his ear

Wouldn't see the Darren Bent type fall into this remit would you??

[The Merry Ploughboy]

It's all been said before by uncle Tone but let's hope Les et al actually carry it through

[The Merry Ploughboy]

ole phoney goes from one extreme to the other.

ffs can this man not find some middle ground.

how about pay for proper quality instead of wasting shyte loads on has beens




so now it will be signing div1 players anf journey men on free transfers.

Apart from the last line this is bang on

[Hove Ranger]

Yeah reading it again its pretty obvious he means not paying over the odds instead of strictly free transfers. Just a strange way to word it

[Shepherds Mush]

Wouldn't see the Darren Bent type fall into this remit would you??

Good!

[Ginger Ninja]

I have a feeling we just might see Tony finally do whats right. Not oaying overinflated transfer fees or wages, regardless who the player is. If that means we don't get a couple of players we really want, so be it. Would rather our finances were sorted.

[Timmy the Doc]

We will never manage to sign any young, hungry and promising Premier League player, if they would have to keep playing for us in the Championship with reduced wages.

[dogsrrs]

Wouldn't see the Darren Bent type fall into this remit would you??

No I wouldn't but wasn't he talking about players already at the club not wanting to take terms under the clause

[Shepherds Mush]

We will never manage to sign any young, hungry and promising Premier League player, if they would have to keep playing for us in the Championship with reduced wages.

Of course you would - they would just use us as a stepping stone to bigger clubs unless they got into the PL with us.

[Del]

That's how I took it to mean too.

[maidstone_hoop]

Clubs and tf finally seem to have learnt lessons and we now look like a club that's building foundations and operating the proper way.
I think Les needs to take massive credit for what's going on. He's ca,e in and he's changing the culture. I also think what fox said in a earlier post was really spot on and shouldn't go missed. We have shown we will spend money on good investments and I believe we will continue to do so.

As for the comment regarding Charlie I think tf is saying that the 50k a week deal on offer a few months ago is off the table and being a championship club I imagine we re offered terms of around 30 k plus a rise of we got promoted.