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He wasn't academy though, was he? We signed him and he had a good year in U23s then sold him. Similar to McBride?

Good post. Lenihan - successful career, no monetary returns. 6 years of first team action for Rovers - looking at Anel or Davies at 3-4M to replace him... so lets say he's saved us 4M. Travis - successful career, still first team. Reckon you could link him to a similar player that has been sold recently for value? Nyambe - successful career, no monetary returns. Going to cost us a how much do you reckon to replace him? Raya - successful career, 3-5m returns Wharton - very early doors, but certainly a first teamer. If Anel or Davies are 3-4M, whats Wharton? 2M? Mahoney - didn't someone pay a tribunal? Buckley - I know you are, but i'm not yet convinced. Then you've got the next lot, assuming they sign contracts... Wharton, Garrett, Phillips, Batty, Vale.

Genuine discussion point - how much will this cost us and in turn, is it worth it? I know it’s Jack’s legacy but have we turned over anyone recently that we couldn’t have signed for less than the running costs?

I hate to say I told you so…

It’s all opinion, I’d have a strict policy whereby if you’re not signing an extension with 18 months left you’re sold to the highest bidder

He isn’t from me - I place this entirely at the door of Steve Waggott, Tony Mowbray and Mark Venus.

That’s irrelevant - if you can’t replace him like for like or better he’s still a loss.

Couldn’t agree more. Letting Lenihan, Nyambe and Rothwell leave on frees is going to financially burden us for years to come. On decent contracts we’ve let probably over 10M of assets leave for nothing, but don’t have 10M to replace them. Stupidity of the highest order.

I suspect they’re doing it to improve team spirit, which is the backbone of JDTs approach. When they’re local the first team players are together at Brockhall 10-1, when they’re away is 24 hours a day.

Him leaving on a free in less than 12 months is more mental

This doesn't add up. The xG lot said he was brilliant.

We’re talking to two different horses here - now he’s left, I’ve been amongst a conversation where Darragh said “I’ve not asked for anything stupid. If they make me one of the top earners I’ll sign. When Dani (Ayala) is on more than any other defender, I expect to be on the same as him. They’ve not offered me his money.” *that’s roughly what I heard him say and the jist of the conversation

What a journey it’s been 🤝

Vincent Kompanys Burnley may as well announce it now.

Not long until this mob start releasing NFTs and fan tokens

May as well set the academy on fire and claim on the insurance if we end up letting Phillips go for under a million.

They’d have to pay me a lot of money to give up my Sunday to watch that.

I don’t know Islander - I’m just relaying the discussion. Maybe he is, maybe he isn’t. I would counter with: If one of the best young talents in the country signed professional terms 8 days ago, why hasn’t there been anything on the website? No article, no interviews, nothing on social media.

Based on the discussion on the terraces today I suspect Sharpe may have jumped the gun. I think if he had signed a pro deal it would have been on the website.

Garrett, Phillips and Dolan the only ones to come out of the first half with anything worth considering. Carter looks OK, but no better than Phillips and I was expecting better. There certainly isn’t enough in these young players, based on that, to have loads of them around the first team.

Markanday looks good. Travis playing well. Kaminski, Wharton and Ayala playing well. Brereton doing a lot with not much success. Gallagher playing 9 but not getting much. The rest… meh.

It’s the 9th. Why hasn’t it been announced?

Update - he hasn’t. He looks lost, physically not strong enough but perhaps most importantly Ayala has had to explain every single thing to him so far. It’s like he hasn’t played football before. Release him on a free, he has no future here.

The away terrace at Accrington is basically a discussion about Phillips refusing to sign and moving to Spurs

Sounds like Phillips is a gonner… on a free. Good work, Steve.