[cite]Posted By: Addickted[/cite]£3.5k a week is 'only' another £182k p/a.
If we've saved £500k p/a on Hudson's wages, I think that's a reasonable sum for a high scoring midfielder who may well be our lynch pin next season - particularly if he's signed an extension which should make him more expensive for other interested parties.
I'd be amazed if Bailey is on anywhere near the figures being quoted and takeover or not we should be sorting out ourselves financially and if that means losing big earners we need to do it, no matter how painful. I would love Bailey to stay but if he is on over £10k then that's a good indication of why we're in the situation we are. Yes he's a decent player but at the end of the day we picked him up from Southend not Man U!
[quote][cite]Posted By: WIZZO1952[/cite]Bailey signed a new contrct over a week ago. Club upped his money from £9000 to 12500 a week . He is not going anywhere ...FACT .....Horses mouth etc etc...[/quote]
Utter garbage. If he had signed a longer contract it would have been on the O/S, plus there is absolutely no way this Board is going to negotiate a pay increase for a player following relegation if he was on decent money to start with. If you are going to make up a rumour at least make it vaguely sensible / believeable.
[cite]Posted By: WIZZO1952[/cite]Bailey signed a new contrct over a week ago. Club upped his money from £9000 to 12500 a week . He is not going anywhere ...FACT .....Horses mouth etc etc...
Utter garbage. If he had signed a longer contract it would have been on the O/S, plus there is absolutely no way this Board is going to negotiate a pay increase for a player following relegation if he was on decent money to start with. If you are going to make up a rumour at least make it vaguely sensible / believeable.
Maybe they are going to do a teaser like takeover/ no take over,here is the collar of the new shirt ... now Does he sign or doesn't he!!
If he had a relegation release clause in his contract then he could have signed a new contract removing the clause, for more money. The new contract could even terminate at the same point of the old one. This means the club gets a higher transfer fee, the player gets a slice of the higher fee (as he's not asked for the transfer) and his agent can say to Boro or whoever, "you'll have to do better than £12,500, thats what he's on at Charlton" (he wildly speculates)
[cite]Posted By: WIZZO1952[/cite]Bailey signed a new contrct over a week ago. Club upped his money from £9000 to 12500 a week . He is not going anywhere ...FACT .....Horses mouth etc etc...
We just got rid of Hudson because we couldn't afford his wages (reportedly 11K per week), so why or how could we pay Bailey even more now we are a league lower and without parachute payments?
[cite]Posted By: Ormiston Addick[/cite]We just got rid of Hudson because we couldn't afford his wages (reportedly 11K per week), so why or how could we pay Bailey even more now we are a league lower and without parachute payments?
Please be serious.
I'm not saying for one minute I believe the new contract rumour but it would be far more preferable to pay Bailey big money than Hudson
[cite]Posted By: Ormiston Addick[/cite]We just got rid of Hudson because we couldn't afford his wages (reportedly 11K per week), so why or how could we pay Bailey even more now we are a league lower and without parachute payments?
Please be serious.
I'm not saying for one minute I believe the new contract rumour but it would be far more preferable to pay Bailey big money than Hudson
It would indeed, if we could afford to pay it!!! But we cant.
It could be 'up to' that amount based on appearances perhaps but does seem pretty strange thay would increase wages by that much when people earning less got made redundant!
Exiled has it spot on. It's daft to suggest that his previous moves are agent-engineered. He's a driven man, with a family who has moved to improve the quality of football he's playing and (I'd guess) his salary. Remember, he knows all about the short career when he was dumped by Fulham and drifted out of the leagues. I don't believe the choices that he's made are anything other than rationale and aren't in line with what most of us would do, in the same boat, It is insulting to imply he's being nudged into things by some shadowy money-man.
The rumour about the bumper new contract is even more infantile, made-up nonsense and not worth discussing.
Bailey's on ice while takeover talks continue taken from the SLP
CHARLTON star Nicky Bailey is a transfer target for Middlesbrough - and his Valley future rests on whether a takeover of the club is successful.
The 25-year-old midfielder was one of the star performers for the Addicks last season - scoring an impressive 13 goals in his first campaign in the Championship following a £750,000 move to the Addicks 12 months ago.
And the South London Press has learned that Boro, linked at the weekend with a move for the former Southend man, are keen to secure his services.
Charlton would be expected to get at least £1.5million for Bailey, who was offered to Boro, Reading and Derby before he signed a three-year deal with the South Londoners in August.
But the Hammersmith-born dynamo’s situation is set to be decided by the takeover talks which are continuing behind the scenes in SE7.
I'd like to think the old and prospective boards might say to Boro, "if the takeover goes through we're going to keep him, but if you really want him now then £3m will do nicely"
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I suppose if you say something often enough, eventually it sinks in.
Evidently it did with me - and now I preach your mantra!
;o)
I'd be amazed if Bailey is on anywhere near the figures being quoted and takeover or not we should be sorting out ourselves financially and if that means losing big earners we need to do it, no matter how painful. I would love Bailey to stay but if he is on over £10k then that's a good indication of why we're in the situation we are. Yes he's a decent player but at the end of the day we picked him up from Southend not Man U!
Utter garbage. If he had signed a longer contract it would have been on the O/S, plus there is absolutely no way this Board is going to negotiate a pay increase for a player following relegation if he was on decent money to start with. If you are going to make up a rumour at least make it vaguely sensible / believeable.
Maybe they are going to do a teaser like takeover/ no take over,here is the collar of the new shirt ... now Does he sign or doesn't he!!
Oh no, wait a minute, I should be on the moon landings thread. :-)
Cuckoo
Please be serious.
I'm not saying for one minute I believe the new contract rumour but it would be far more preferable to pay Bailey big money than Hudson
It would indeed, if we could afford to pay it!!! But we cant.
Except his agent, accountant, bank manager, any company that he has applied to for a mortgage.... etc etc
The rumour about the bumper new contract is even more infantile, made-up nonsense and not worth discussing.
I meant about Boro but i guess both really
I wonder if he's got anything to do with some of the stuff we see on here?
CHARLTON star Nicky Bailey is a transfer target for Middlesbrough - and his Valley future rests on whether a takeover of the club is successful.
The 25-year-old midfielder was one of the star performers for the Addicks last season - scoring an impressive 13 goals in his first campaign in the Championship following a £750,000 move to the Addicks 12 months ago.
And the South London Press has learned that Boro, linked at the weekend with a move for the former Southend man, are keen to secure his services.
Charlton would be expected to get at least £1.5million for Bailey, who was offered to Boro, Reading and Derby before he signed a three-year deal with the South Londoners in August.
But the Hammersmith-born dynamo’s situation is set to be decided by the takeover talks which are continuing behind the scenes in SE7.
At least if he goes it says 'at least £1.5m', rather than the £750k originally mentioned.
Confirms....(if a newspaper story can confirm anything that is) what I've thought/been saying for a couple of months or so.