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No wonder his agent wants a move - hes not going to be earning a mint from the shower of shit on his books!!
 

Zak's Dad said:
Fair enough.

I'd like him to stay but if he does sign now what his agent did has to be one of the most bonkers negotiation tactics ever, or he was the one initially driving it all.
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Said earlier I don’t think I’ve ever seen something like this happen before in the way that it has. Whole thing is a head fuck.
 
The owners saying "We are ahead of schedule", looking more to bring loans in this month (Unless players are sold), a failure to build a squad capable of handling the Championship if promoted and now this is showing the Eastleigh mentality......I was never convinced with them in the first place but see if we can break the 40,000 mark on boxing day! ;)
 
samaistonsrightfoot said:
Said earlier I don’t think I’ve ever seen something like this happen before in the way that it has. Whole thing is a head fuck.
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Well;
Since we were told we imposed a deadline and he hasn't signed I think it would be fair to assume the offer is off the table and Maja can get ta feck.
Then again Donald has said he hopes he'll still sign which means there was no deadline.
Somebody's telling porkies here and I think I know who it is.
 
Vinny the Mackem said:
If the Sky Sports figures quoted are accurate, he's been offered just short of £10k per week, increasing his current wage by about 7.5 times his current salary.
That would put him on, at present, about £1,300 per week, or about £65,600 per annum. Not bad for a 20 year old. The offer (again, if SSN are any way near accurate) puts him on half a million a year.
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DM saying 5k. Even so, I guess my point is that even if he ends up just playing for a PL club's u23 team he'll likely get a lot more than either figure. At least enough that you can understand him taking the opportunity. I think most people who've seen him play would bet that this is probably a once in a career move for him...

I mean 65k a year is really nowt compared to what some of the lads earn elsewhere. If I was in accounting and the big four wanted me to come and wash their dishes for a few years, but my current employer could only offer me 60% of what they could, I know what I'd do.

I don't have much sympathy with players on millions doing this type of stuff, but the numbers aren't like that with Maja and good luck to him I say. I'd do the same.
 
BumbleBee said:
Well;
Since we were told we imposed a deadline and he hasn't signed I think it would be fair to assume the offer is off the table and Maja can get ta feck.
Then again Donald has said he hopes he'll still sign which means there was no deadline.
Somebody's telling porkies here and I think I know who it is.
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I think it a now a case if there was a deadline but ow there isn’t because we didnt get the answer we wanted.
 
Do we even know what the January 4th deadline entailed? Is it possible that the deadline was actually the date after which the club would start looking for his replacement, which could cause him to lose some leverage?

Honestly, am I supposed to believe that the club would say to him, "Sorry fella, we'd love for you to sign this contract but it's January 5th and we gave you a deadline, so piss off." Preposterous. They'll keep working him until he signs or until it's clear that they'll never come to terms.
 
Right, as the OP on this thread can some fucker tell me what's happened between pages 22 (Sky/Donald giving conflicting updates) and now, as I'll be fucked if I'm reading 112 pages to find out fuck all has happened. tyvm
 
Palmetto said:
Do we even know what the January 4th deadline entailed? Is it possible that the deadline was actually the date after which the club would start looking for his replacement, which could cause him to lose some leverage?

Honestly, am I supposed to believe that the club would say to him, "Sorry fella, we'd love for you to sign this contract but it's January 5th and we gave you a deadline, so piss off." Preposterous. They'll keep working him until he signs or until it's clear that they'll never come to terms.
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This to me seems the most likely scenario. If we do find someone, then his bluff calling might just have backfired.
 
ned_werby said:
Right, as the OP on this thread can some fucker tell me what's happened between pages 22 (Sky/Donald giving conflicting updates) and now, as I'll be fucked if I'm reading 112 pages to find out fuck all has happened. tyvm
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Everybody thinks someone is behaving like an arse. No-one can agree who the principle arses are. Some people think Josh might still sign. There's a spectrum of blame. That about covers it.
 
---Nemo--- said:
He's a proven striker playing at the top his game in a higher division. :)

Apparently he's on £17k a week. You reckon we should offer Maja the same?
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I asked the poster, who claimed there were loads of forwards on less than 10k a week and he named Billy Sharp

I'd certainly be offering Maja lot more than £7k a week, even from a business sense, we could sell him for loads

The whole thing and logic makes no sense to me

wrighty said:
Hindsight’s great isn’t it?
You can look at every decision ever taken and say : ooh I wouldn’t have done that.
And then bask in the self contented glow of not having had to make any difficult decisions yet still think you’d have been right every time.
Not saying that’s your approach. Just an observation.
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I get that, and its a fair point

But we rarely have young English players performing this well, he is an asset who is going to go up in value

We need to stop comparing about how much a league one player earns, which loads are, its not relevant.

---Nemo--- said:
Can you explain what you're getting at there?
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Think longer term, few posters said if we paid him 10k a week, then he would be on more than a lot of championship strikers

Which I don't agree with, which was my response to that.
 
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Not sure why there's too much debate about this tbh - all seems fairly clear to me.

• Talks have been going on for a while and we've seemingly met what Maja has asked for.
• Deadline was obviously set early in the transfer window to give us time to sell him and buy a replacement in January if he didn't sign the contract. There's no way they'll let this go to a tribunal at the end of the season.
• We'll be trying to flog him now. Maja may well decide he wants to stay, and we'll be hoping he does.

Regardless of what people have said, however, if Maja wanted to stay he'd have signed – his agent can't force him to do something against his will. Don't buy this 'Maja is blameless' thing at all.

It's a shame, as he's a very promising player who's done excellently this season, but the club evidently can't risk losing out on 2/3/4 million now.
 
I think what everyone needs to understand is that we are a League One club, regardless of what Stewart Donald says the reality is that we have to operate within our limited budget, clubs in League One don’t offer multi million pound contracts to anyone, it’s as simple as that.
 
As a club we have been there before when a player indicated that they were going to sign and then didn’t enter negotiations with the then management and we got nothing. All agents tactics and we move on. It isn’t the end of the world and certainly not the club. I get why Maja might want to move financially and from a player ambition scenario but football is littered with players that do this sort of thing and disappear into the wilderness albeit they have the car and house.
 
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