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“Ryan Fraser, Jeff Hendrick and Isaac Hayden are training separately from the first team and won't be involved in senior pre-season fixtures.”

 

 

What are we doing with these 3 you reckon? more loans or just bin them? 

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1 minute ago, Jesse Pinkman said:

Hayden could do a really good job in the Championship for 90% of teams in that league. I am surprised no one is in for him. As an Ashley era signing I can’t see his wages being that high. 

Think his injury record will put most teams off.

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5 minutes ago, SUPERTOON said:

Think his injury record will put most teams off.

 

And his wages. Same for all of our deadbeats unfortunately, Ashley signed off on these contracts because he thought with Bruceball we survive with a bit of luck and Maxi magic.

 

Let's not forget we were dishing out uncalled for new contracts to Jonjo and Ritchie as well on the same premise. Keep us up boys and we'll pay you more than you'll get at a proper club.

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16 minutes ago, Jesse Pinkman said:

Hayden could do a really good job in the Championship for 90% of teams in that league. I am surprised no one is in for him. As an Ashley era signing I can’t see his wages being that high. 

 

He has signed a new contract in the PL while he's been here though. At a conservative estimate he's probably still on 30-40k a week. Maybe more.

 

That would put him as one of the highest earners in the Championship. The problem we have is the bottom has fell out financially in the Championship. And even if a club is going to gamble financially to try and go up, at a push they're going to do it for a player who's guarenteed to make a difference at that level, not an injury prone defensive midfielder who played 12 games for Norwich last year.

 

Unfortunately we're going to really struggle to shift any of our deadwood without simply subsidising loans or paying people off. 

 

 

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When we signed Hayden as a Championship player he'd have been on probably 10k a week. A progressive club would have moved him on 3-4 years ago in his mid 20s when he had a market to low Prem/high Champ clubs with an affordable wage bracket.

 

Instead, like with so many other players from that era, they have been kept on because we've refused to invest and improve the side. But we're seeing so clearly now what a false economy this is when you end up with aging average players on big wages. The club being taken over and trying to rapidly progress has only underlined this more starkly.

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1 hour ago, dave s said:

“Ryan Fraser, Jeff Hendrick and Isaac Hayden are training separately from the first team and won't be involved in senior pre-season fixtures.”

 

 

What are we doing with these 3 you reckon? more loans or just bin them? 

 

These will be on about £150k a week between them. That's an Isak, Bruno, Tonali. 

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Of all the deadwood (an unpleasantly pejorative term in the case of one or two), I could probably handle Hayden sticking around and regaining his fitness, assuming he was content to be omitted from the PL squad and was available for the domestic cups. Can't see it hurting having another good character in the dressing room and - while we don't owe him anything - it'd be a good gesture to help him get back to full fitness. 

 

That's if it's in any way economically preferable to us; i.e. I'd probably rather that than go to any expense in making him a free agent. 

 

Hendrick, on the other hand, I'd happily contribute to the pay-off.

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Just now, Geogaddi said:

Can you not just terminate the contracts of all the dead wood we have ? Pay them off and free up more wages for FFP?

 

Not 100% but it'd still go against us? Unless they took a hit which they'd silly to, that's probably £15-20m in one shot. 

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Then you throw in Darlow who I'm guessing will be on £25-30k ish, Dummett and Ritchie who'll not be far off, there's a helluva lot of money going out on players who'll pay about 5 games combined all season. 

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15 minutes ago, Optimistic Nut said:

 

Not 100% but it'd still go against us? Unless they took a hit which they'd silly to, that's probably £15-20m in one shot. 


I'm sure it still does, that write off is just from an accounting perspective.

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1 hour ago, Optimistic Nut said:

 

These will be on about £150k a week between them. That's an Isak, Bruno, Tonali. 

 

Reckon it'll be more than that since Fraser and Hendrick were free transfers

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