Crewe player to Chelsea

[alexthe great]

Club should now have the finance to put together attractive extended contract offers to the players out of contract and unsure about their future.if this is the outcome and enables us to keep certain players, it will be some compensation to supporters and go some way to having not seeing George in the Alex first team.Good luck to the lad in the future, hope that he has made the right choice,not easy for a sixteen year old

[AstonAlex]

Whilst you’re right, alexthegreat, I’m not sure that any size of contract we offer could stop a lad moving to a club like Chelsea. Their contract would obviously pay significantly more than we could probably pay our top players!!!

He will think his career will be fit from playing at a bigger club (which it might do) and, if he turns out to fall by the wayside, he will have earned himself a decent amount of cash for wherever he ends up playing. As for us, it’s a guaranteed £300k, with add ons if he does well. I hope this is the case, but he might have turned out not to progress, or pick up a string of injuries, in which case we would have got nowt.

My main regret is that we won’t have had the pleasure of watching him play first team football in Alex red... unless he returns on loan!