Quote Originally Posted by the_anticlough View Post
Not sure, big decisions like that are usually more nuanced than just raw numbers (and would they be all that different?)

There's locations, personal relationships, bosses, histories with places - things that might factor in.

I was struck by the words Miller used in an interview - he had be brought in by IB and Ross then swiftly dropped (justifiably so, his performances were awful, see NCFCOGs ratings piece). Later he was brought back by IB and he didn't look back, but he said he was 'hurt' by losing his place, and he looked it too, not motivated to do better, but 'hurt'. I guess you never know what goes through a player's head. Even comments on a site like this could prompt a player to say **** 'em.
I think at our level it comes more down to money. Which I have no problem with btw, it’s a short career and the numbers players are earning in the National League are hardly massive, 1/200 quid a week adds up. Obviously stuff like location can factor in as well, but not when choosing between Notts and Chesterfield.

Something like your scenario is possible, but were something like that true then we shouldn’t really be bothered anyway.

My reading of what has happened for us transfer market wise for us so far is that we’ve secured a new contract for someone we know had league offers, and signed someone who had an offer from a promotion rival and likely league offers as well. We’ve also lost two players we’d have liked to have kept, one to a small club but in the division above and one two a direct rival. Suggests to me we have a competitive budget, but are being very deliberate in offering players deals we feel they’re worth, rather than just because it fits within what we can afford.