GSM

[OldBlueLady]

I'm not so sure he'll be gone in January, and for us, that can only be a good thing.

 

[overseas shrimper]

Buy out clause or not money talks.

Yep, but the money will need to do more talking without a buyout.

 

[South Bank Hank]

Goals literally saving Kevs job this campaign

So, to be clear, negatives are Kev’s fault but positives are down to individuals?

 

[South Bank Hank]

I'm not so sure he'll be gone in January, and for us, that can only be a good thing.

Curious what makes you say that Kay? I’m thinking it’s a near certainty. Can’t think of a player who has put themselves in the shop window more, especially with goalscoring the most rare of players’ talents.

 

[Napster]

Definitely the best player we've had with a double-barrelled surname.

 

[Jim Levenstein]

Definitely the best player we've had with a double-barrelled surname.

The first one I could think of is pretty clear - JCR

 

[Ricey]

He’s 27 and has never played in the EFL, I imagine if an EFL club came knocking he would snap their hands off. I wouldn’t blame him in the slightest! I would be surprised we were would get offers over £150k though. Whether that is enough for us to accept the offer is another question.

 

[Tommy2holes]

He’s 27 and has never played in the EFL, I imagine if an EFL club came knocking he would snap their hands off. I wouldn’t blame him in the slightest! I would be surprised we were would get offers over £150k though. Whether that is enough for us to accept the offer is another question.

It's more about the sell on tbh. 150k and a 20% sell on and he is gone.

Has a good season on the EFL and sells for 500k and its another 100k in the bank.

We would likely do what we did with cardwell. Not replace his quality

 

[NZamba Legend]

Buy out clause or not money talks.

Money talks, bull**** walks

 

[Holy Joe]

It's more about the sell on tbh. 150k and a 20% sell on and he is gone.

Has a good season on the EFL and sells for 500k and its another 100k in the bank.

We would likely do what we did with cardwell. Not replace his quality

Sell on? Nah take the cash now. At his age and having recently watched a L1 game (albeit top of L1) he is nowhere near that standard.

 

[JB Shrimper]

He won't be scoring much for other teams above us, or in the EFL, as he won't have to because they will unlikely play the god awful and clueless football we are meaning GSM has to go for it or we suffer further!

 

[Rooster79]

Can’t see him moving just cos his bagging goals, teaand tend to sign full/wing backs for defending qualities, something I think he can lack. Good for us though as I think it’s important we don’t lose any more key players during this season.

 

[Danshrimper]

It's more about the sell on tbh. 150k and a 20% sell on and he is gone.

Has a good season on the EFL and sells for 500k and its another 100k in the bank.

We would likely do what we did with cardwell. Not replace his quality

Not sure a sell on would be of much value to us. A defender who will be 28 when next season starts is unlikely to be sold for that much by his next club 2-3 years down the line.

 

[rlb999]

Not sure he'll be gone come January - relatively few teams in leagues 1 and 2 want to pay a fee, and not sure he's defensively as good as people think. If he does go, we're probably more at risk of a FGR type scenario. Also he isn't going to score at this rate for ever - he's having the purple patch of his career - so it would be a daft team that bought him expecting 8 goals in 11 games from RWB (or whatever he's got).

 

[PIERS]

Gus spent all of last season wandering around in acres of space never seeing the ball. In the first half he could have popped into the Blues lounge and the team wouldn’t have noticed.
Now Wes has gone and we spend less than 95 per cent of the game on the left wing he has come into his own. He always looked wasted out there , reading a book

 

[WestyReturns]

Imagine if he didn't sign a contract in the summer and all we could do was exercise the one year clause we had. He'd have six months on that come January and would go for absolute peanuts.

If you're on of the people that say we should follow the Peterborough model, not including the flops that don't go on to make them a profit, 50% of that model is selling players. Whatever we make, hopefully will go on to find the next gem.

The Peterborough model is void when your at this level as your target buyers aren't big clubs. Prem and Championship clubs arent unlikely to go for top National league players. We need to get back into league to have any leverage to even start with.

 

[Holy Joe]

The Peterborough model is void when your at this level as your target buyers aren't big clubs. Prem and Championship clubs arent unlikely to go for top National league players. We need to get back into league to have any leverage to even start with.

I get your point, but isn't it also about a sell on clause for youngsters - hence it's not necessarily the move from us upto say L2, but the also the potential next move which can get a share of?

Interesting to see any stats on player sales from NL, L2 etc

 

[BoyWonder2]

I think Justin hinted there was no buy out clause?

There is no buy out clause in GSM’s contract, I believe it was only in Cardwell’s.

I don’t see him here come 1st February unfortunately. Few clubs are already circling.

He is a EFL player. I’d say comfortably League Two, at a push League One.

 

[Crowstone Crevette]

Sorry to interrupt, but does anyone know why the floodlights are on at The Hall?

 

[BoyWonder2]

Sorry to interrupt, but does anyone know why the floodlights are on at The Hall?

FA youth cup.