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Post by stevek192 on Jun 22, 2015 11:29:22 GMT
Whilst I can understand a short period contract for a player like Trotman who has been injured and needs to prove his fitness I look upon a short period contract offered to Balanta as ridiculous because DC has seen him in training everyday and picked him in his squad for most of the time he was with us. IMO DC should either have offered him a year contract or not offered him a contract at all.
Whilst I have faith in DC that he can make the signings necessary I am less convinced that the Board will back him with the necessary funds if the Court case goes against us. At the present time we have a mid to bottom League 2 squad and without a reasonable budget it will be another relegation fight.
If DC is given sufficient funds he is more than capable of getting a promotion chasing side.
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Post by Westcountry Gas on Jun 22, 2015 11:35:52 GMT
A 6 month deal until January was the sensible option for a player who struggled with fitness and form. If the first half of the season went badly for him injury wise or he was playing badly then we would have been able to get rid in January freeing up his wages. DC was offering him the chance of a full pre-season plus half a season to show he could stay injury free and play well, and then in December/January there would have have been talks if everything was going well and he would have been probably rewarded with an 18 month deal until summer 2017. If only this type of tough contract policy was in force years ago, we may not have had such a miserable time.
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Post by crater on Jun 22, 2015 11:39:40 GMT
Short term contracts are not the norm and are offered for a reason.
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Post by brizzle on Jun 22, 2015 12:07:05 GMT
A 6 month deal until January was the sensible option for a player who struggled with fitness and form. If the first half of the season went badly for him injury wise or he was playing badly then we would have been able to get rid in January freeing up his wages. DC was offering him the chance of a full pre-season plus half a season to show he could stay injury free and play well, and then in December/January there would have have been talks if everything was going well and he would have been probably rewarded with an 18 month deal until summer 2017. If only this type of tough contract policy was in force years ago, we may not have had such a miserable time. I'm bound to agree with that logic, but it's still a shame that something couldn't have been worked out though. |
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Post by michaelb on Jun 22, 2015 12:44:38 GMT
Whilst I can understand a short period contract for a player like Trotman who has been injured and needs to prove his fitness I look upon a short period contract offered to Balanta as ridiculous because DC has seen him in training everyday and picked him in his squad for most of the time he was with us. IMO DC should either have offered him a year contract or not offered him a contract at all. Whilst I have faith in DC that he can make the signings necessary I am less convinced that the Board will back him with the necessary funds if the Court case goes against us. At the present time we have a mid to bottom League 2 squad and without a reasonable budget it will be another relegation fight.
If DC is given sufficient funds he is more than capable of getting a promotion chasing side. With the greatest of respect, most of us, me included were saying pretty much this ,this time last year.Albeit the conference. |
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Post by Alveston Gas on Jun 22, 2015 13:10:54 GMT
Angelo hardly set the world slight last season. A 6 month deal to prove his fitness and see if he could step up to L2 seems entirely sensible. If he doesn't want that then we move on....!
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Post by faggotygas on Jun 22, 2015 13:43:53 GMT
Whilst I can understand a short period contract for a player like Trotman who has been injured and needs to prove his fitness I look upon a short period contract offered to Balanta as ridiculous because DC has seen him in training everyday and picked him in his squad for most of the time he was with us. IMO DC should either have offered him a year contract or not offered him a contract at all. Whilst I have faith in DC that he can make the signings necessary I am less convinced that the Board will back him with the necessary funds if the Court case goes against us. At the present time we have a mid to bottom League 2 squad and without a reasonable budget it will be another relegation fight. If DC is given sufficient funds he is more than capable of getting a promotion chasing side. Just because you don't agree with something, it doesn't make it ridiculous. |
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Post by daniel300380 on Jun 22, 2015 15:45:04 GMT
I think dc was right on this occasion. Balanta has never looked fit. Give him a short term deal and see if he improved after putting in some hard work over pre season. Not worth the risk of a one year deal, unless he improved his fitness.
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Post by daniel300380 on Jun 22, 2015 15:46:36 GMT
It was another fitness case like Trotman so the same principle applied.
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Post by DudeLebowski on Jun 22, 2015 16:21:02 GMT
Not offering an underwhelming footballer a handsome little cushty deal, DC OUT!!
Am I back in 2010 again?
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Post by irishrover on Jun 22, 2015 16:56:36 GMT
Seems completely reasonable to me. The guy hadn't won a place in the team and there still seemed to be question marks over his fitness. He has essentially had a long audition and didn't pass. On the other hand he has been highly rated and I imagine it was quite tempting to see whether he might be capable of taking his game up a notch or 2 with a full preseason behind him. If he came out of preseason the same player as when he went in then we'd want to get rid of him ASAP I'd have though. So a short term deal seems fair. From his point he obviously thinks he can get a better deal which is entirely fair enough. Just seems like a standard negotiation to me.
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Post by harrybuckle on Jun 23, 2015 8:31:15 GMT
economic crisis ..means short term contracts ..incentive based contracts are the way for many league two (old fourth division) Clubs like ours. Economic sense at last
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Post by CountyGroundHotel on Jun 23, 2015 9:16:50 GMT
economic crisis ..means short term contracts ..incentive based contracts are the way for many league two (old fourth division) Clubs like ours. Economic sense at last Economic sense until the striker you bring in on a one year contract bangs in 25 goals and walks away for free. |
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Post by faggotygas on Jun 23, 2015 9:57:27 GMT
economic crisis ..means short term contracts ..incentive based contracts are the way for many league two (old fourth division) Clubs like ours. Economic sense at last Economic sense until the striker you bring in on a one year contract bangs in 25 goals and walks away for free.
Unless they are young, teams don't seem to be getting much money for those players anyway - £100 - 150k seems to be the going rate, especially if the player wants away, and you might get one of those transfers once every 3 or so seasons. Hand out lots of 3 year deals and you can easily lose that every season in paying off contracts.
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Post by davehuddscousin on Jun 23, 2015 11:07:14 GMT
DC was right to only offer Balanta a six month deal, if after three months he'd been fully fit and banging in goals every week then of course we could we could have extended the deal.
This may sound hard, but I'd rather we took this stance than offered 3 year deals for unfit players like we did for Gary Kenneth & co not so long ago.
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