Transfer rumour thread 19/20

[Arabknight]

Ha ha. If he's a good right back I wouldn't have any issue playing him there and Smith at left back.

No just no 😲

[bobafett]

Read that (apparently) Forrest on a pre-contract is a done deal. I'll reserve judgement on both the validity of this rumour and whether he'd actually be a good signing or not....

[offshore_arab83]

The laddie fae ayr or the chunt wi nae neck?

[Logie_Arab]

The Ayr lad.

[FTFun]

Powers and Freeman signed, Chalmers away to arbroath on loan

[Oddsox]

https://youtu.be/_BRv9wGf5pk

[troonarab]

The laddie fae ayr or the chunt wi nae neck?

Don’t you mean the lad from Ayr or the flasher 🤣🤣🤣😁

[LSArab]

Depends entirely on the policy. It’s common sense to cover against severe injuries such as ACLs.

Say Shankland picked up that injury and we were forced to pay him his rumoured £3k (£10k if you’re a Dee) a week. That’d cripple the club.

I don’t know anything about football finance but would seems too expensive to insure every player. The insurance company has to make a profit on the premiums.

Would make more sense in theory to be just protecting the loss you can’t afford. Eg long term loss of a shanks or appere high value player

Btw harsh to put Booth and Aird with the likes of Lyng. Some of the worse csaba signings were nowhere near the standard required. So bad!

[LSArab]

I hear you Terry. So we have three undroppable centre halves & an absent left back. The solution is so simple. Play three CENTRE halves & call it your BACK THREE. Next, tell your right back he is now called a RIGHT WINGBACK. Then bring in your reserve left back & tell him he is actually a LEFT WINGBACK. 3-5-2. Or 3-4-2-1? Tactics are so simple, fetch the tactics board. Thanks be to SKY SPORTS.

Actually makes perfect sense - probably means it won’t happen 😂

[Daly9]

I don’t know anything about football finance but would seems too expensive to insure every player. The insurance company has to make a profit on the premiums.

Would make more sense in theory to be just protecting the loss you can’t afford. Eg long term loss of a shanks or appere high value player

Btw harsh to put Booth and Aird with the likes of Lyng. Some of the worse csaba signings were nowhere near the standard required. So bad!

It’s compulsory to insure each player. They cannot step foot on a pitch without it.

As I said cover will vary. For a young player with no previous injury history the premium would be relatively low vs the potential loss. Wardrop has now been out for 12 months. So say he’s on a 2 year contract on £50k a year, it would be madness not to insure against ACLs, leg breaks etc. If he’s got any sense he’ll also have personal insurance to cover loss of earnings from appearances etc.

Of course insurance company has to make money from premiums but not from each client. It’s a numbers game. Think of your own insurance; car, home, holiday, mobile phone etc. The monthly premium you pay is nowhere near the amount they pay out on a claim.

Re Aird and Booth it might be harsh from a playing perspective but both were paid off with a year left on their contracts (in Aird’s case we also paid him to play at QOS for 5 months). Both would’ve been higher earners than Wardrop.