Didn't really know where to put this, but someone's posted on the charlton Facebook page a conversation he had with Dorian Dervite. Apparently he was offered a contract but it was ridiculously low, and he was shocked by the lack of ambition and change in manager.
Really hope we get a replacement in soon. Was a very good player when he was played regularly.
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Then we really are doomed.
Its an absolute disgrace how 'we' are treating our players.. more to leave soon including Morrison..
I think his comments might be borne out it coming from a footballers perspective whereas the offer comes from a business perspective and an eye on financial fair play.
He was a good player but not irreplaceable
Treating players badly spreads quick, everyone of our former players is speaking out as to how theyre unhappy, from the outside looking in its not pretty. I'm not sure PL teams will send us their players, tbh.
Poor little loves.
This is how much we can pay - if you can get more elsewhere, then good luck to you. I mean Derivte is hardly being 'ambitious' by moving to Bolton.
Bolton have clearly offered a better package, don't need Dervite to tell us that. Why else would a footballer move from London to Bolton.
AA - from what Airman says, RD is not exactly pumping loads of cash into the new development facilities which are mainly funded through external funding. As for treating players badly, I am not sure we have done this, if you are always the ones offering the most you will end up like Leeds. On a limited budget you have to pick your battles I guess. Let's wait and see what happens to Poyet, MM and Gomez.
Can you point me to where Hamer or Dervite have said they are disgusted with our contract offer?
The words 'apparently' and 'Facebook' should tell you all you need to know.
A two year deal???? DISGUSTING!
Theres nothing on there to say he is very unhappy or the offer was disgusting. He was offered a better contract by a Prem club. Thats a massive difference.
Hamer is replaceable imo and perhaps RD didn't see the need to gamble on keeping a high earner if we were playing L1 football.
My point still stands….i haven't seen Hamer or Dervite say our offers were disgusting. It appears they just got better offers elsewhere.
Leicester are in the prem they can offer longer more lucrative contracts, so not an absolute disgrace then.
I'm glad that a dose of reality is being introduced to football.
Yet they wish us to feel sorry for him and Hamer?
Im still unsure about many aspects of the RD ownership but this is a new low for some posters, that they actually expect us to sympathise with these players, who get paid more in a week then plenty of people earn in a month and for playing a sport thousands dream of playing.
Reality needs to hit home in Football before the game implodes.
I cannot blame Hamer or Dervite for leaving when they had better offers on the table - but equally I do not blame the club for releasing players who are demanding more than we are prepared to offer.
As SHG says - it's about bloody time some commercial reality was introduced to football.
LCFC - Hi Ben - here's our offer. It's a 4 year deal at £18k a week. To be frank we are fucking minted now so we can offer you a silly salary. Oh, you'll be on the bench for most of the time so you won't even have to do too much for your money. So how about it?
Figures are not gospel but that's likely to be the ratio we are looking at. We can't compete with Premiership money
Edit: My original message was aimed at posters who have claimed in this thread that it is a disgrace how we have treated our players.
BWFC - Hi Dorian- here's our offer. It's a 4 year deal at £9k a week. To be frank it's a drop in the ocean compared to our current levels of debt so no sweat there. We are shite so you will be pretty busy - hope that's ok.
When it comes to football, i like to see or hear the truth first before using words such as 'disgusting' or 'disgrace'.
As of yet, i haven't seen any facts to support Hamer or Dervite being offered 'disgusting' contracts and until we do hear those words from them directly or see the figures, yes i will refuse to believe whats written by someone on Facebook.
I also find it interesting that the Financial Fair Play rules, which have been cited in several posts on this thread, seem to be affecting us far more severely than any other club in the country, not that I'm implying that our owner is using the new regulations as an excuse to spend the bare minimum on Charlton.
Anyway, far too much negativity on here. Let's not forget that he's had the pitch relayed, which he didn't have to do as we could have quite happily continued playing on a peat bog indefinitely (well at least on the rare occasions when it passed a pitch inspection), and Bob Peeters is the new Arsene Wenger.
Can't wait to read the excuses when Poyet goes.