New Owners - Redwood Watch

[Snowflake Royal]

On the other hand, how much longer would Dai have limped on if we'd been able to make a few more million in player sales.

Break the rules and cheat, and you're going to get punished and face consequences that mke life hard. And the FL have very few levers to pull when all this happens. It's points deductions and spending restrictions... that's it.

[WestYorksRoyal]

The example I remember at the time was not being able to offer a new contract to Richards and losing him for free; that's £5m transfer revenue lost at least.

But it was around the time Dai was blocking sensible sales for Moore, Loader and Swift. Perhaps the result would have just been we'd have been locked into a higher wage contract with him?

[Snowflake Royal]

The example I remember at the time was not being able to offer a new contract to Richards and losing him for free; that's £5m transfer revenue lost at least.

But it was around the time Dai was blocking sensible sales for Moore, Loader and Swift. Perhaps the result would have just been we'd have been locked into a higher wage contract with him?

The issue with Richards wasn't so much that we couldn’t offer him a contract, but that he went from being no better than Blackett or Obita (?) so there was no reason to offer him a multi-year deal, to looking like he could be a PL player within 6 months, by which time he had no reason to sign a contract, because he could just sign a pre-deal with a European side.

[West F]

A player who is entering the last year to eighteen months of his contract is owned by his agent not any club. The agent will start pimping him out to the highest bidder as they make large amounts of money from not only a percentage of their wage, but also in a more lucrative signing on bonus. It often turns out that many of the ‘free transfer’ moves that particularly younger players make, often turn out to be detrimental to their careers in the long term. More and more players will be encouraged to run down their contracts by their agents in the future, simply because it is in the agents interest to move their players around as much as possible unless they have achieved their pay ceiling with one particular club.
Omar Richards is a player who warmed the bench at Bayern, then moved into the Marinakis multiverse and disappeared. Poof!