F.A.O. Camiller
Just picked up local free paper, called the weekender, sister paper to Rotherham Advertiser, dated Friday 14th January.
Regarding new contracts for players, printed -
Paul Warne hopes of tying players to new Rotherham United deals this week have been dashed.
The manager has been in contract talks with three of his first team squad and believed that two of them
were close to signing on the dotted line.
That is no longer the case and negotiations have been put on hold until next month. [February]
Paul Warne reportedly said, " I thought we were going to be pretty near on a couple, but the sounds
I'm getting from the players advisors now, are that they'd rather wait for the January transfer
window to be out of the way ".
Warne added " I think the agents are hopeful we will sell these players in the window, That won't happen.
If its the merry dance we have to do, I'll talk to the players again in February.
If the appetite is still there from the club to re-sign them, we'll try to. At the moment, the agents are in
no rush to do it ".
Meanwhile, Warne is anticipating no new arrivals coming through the door at AESSEAL New York Stadium
this month as long as he holds on to all of his main men.
Reported Warne said, " I've made bids for no-one and there have been no bids at all for any of our players
[except Wigan Athletic loanee Curtis Tilt] ".
Warne said, " If you go back to my interviews in December , I said then I wanted no ins and no outs, thats
still the same. I don't want to lose any of my players and I don't need any new players, if I don't lose any.
If we did lose a player for a substantial amount of money I'd be able to flip some of it, and bring
some one in.
Until this time, we're not bidding on anyone "'
Regarding Curtis Tilt, the Millers could sell the player to another club, other than Wigan Athletic.
The terms of Tilts loan deal, January 15th was the cut - off point for summoning Tilt back to the NYS.
So there we have a report, from the Rotherham Advertiser sister paper, The Weekender.
This was on the back page of my on line copy of the Advertiser from last Thursday (13th) so this is old news.
Seems to be brinkmanship by agents.
That's why I said sister paper to Rotherham Advertiser Narendee, the free Weekender out next day, how many people
buy the Rotherham Advertiser, where as nothing for the weekender, same news but free to the public.
Weekender used to be out on a Thursday, same as the Rotherham Advertiser, but since the pandemic comes out on
a Friday.
Plus the Advertiser hoping people buy a copy, instead of the freebie on a Friday.
Would have thought a poster on Millers Mad would have put this information on the site earlier, if they knew.
I had more important matters to attend to. It’s not news is it. Agents have too much power.
ps it costs £1.20 a copy
Pps never heard of the weekender but don’t live locally.
Last edited by Nardendee; 18-01-2022 at 12:36 PM.
Or maybe not!!! 😒