Contract Situation

[Deadlydave]

Does anyone have any updates on the contract situation for players like Hendrick etc that we actually might want to keep?

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Only rumour I'm afraid.
Best I can come up with:
Hart out (Leeds?)
Brady in (One year option taken up).
Hendrick out. (Looking elsewhere.)
Gibson out. (Back to 'Boro.)

[Deadlydave]

Thank you BT.

[barrie_burn]

Gibson out? Strange how some transfers don't work out.I think we will have to write off quite a lot of money there.

Hendrick out is not particularly surprising but what fee we could get at the moment I don't know,

Just hope we can hang on to McNeil for a while.

[alfinyalcabo]

Hart will be retired by the time we get back to playing football.

[1959_60]

I thought he had retired after last season Alf?

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Gibson out? Strange how some transfers don't work out.I think we will have to write off quite a lot of money there.

Hendrick out is not particularly surprising but what fee we could get at the moment I don't know,

Just hope we can hang on to McNeil for a while.

By all accounts we are trying to persuade Boro to take back Gibson and we will have Dael Fry in return. It's just a matter of how much Chairman Gibson needs from us to top up the Fry fee?

No fee for Hendrick, I'm afraid, he walks in July.

[Deadlydave]

By all accounts we are trying to persuade Boro to take back Gibson and we will have Dael Fry in return. It's just a matter of how much Chairman Gibson needs from us to top up the Fry fee?

No fee for Hendrick, I'm afraid, he walks in July.

That's if he can find another club willing to pay the wages. I think a lot of these overpaid footballers are going to be in for a big shock re future wages given the Virus damage to football. If folk cancel sky sports as its a luxury they can live without then things could get very interesting for the 100k a week merchants!! David Moyes recently spoke out on this very issue. Our Hendrick might be running to sign his BFC contract before this is all over?! What do you think guys re football finances post Virus.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

I think we are all fu-cked!

[barrie_burn]

I think it is going to be a while before the after effects of this virus on football finances are known.How many Clubs will have to fold both in and out of the top four divisions? When do we re-start? What are the TV contract situations? How many supporters have been "lost" etc etc.

Whatever your politics the cost of this virus on the public purse is unprecedented plus the fact that public perception will have changed as to what is important..

I don't know for example whether VAT is paid on transfers but one idea could be to introduce,say,a 30% tax charge on transfers which would to some extent limit the amount of money being splashed about,particularly with the likes of Newcastle and others being taken over by wealthy foreign earners.Another idea maybe to make very high salaries across the board being more readily available to the public together with the level of salaries of the important people who are lowly paid.Review the tax priorities and double the taxes on cars costing over £50k for example plus introducing CGT on privately owned properties sold for £1m plus.

Sorry I'm rambling now I'd better stop.Just stay safe everyne.