This, nothing wrong with rewarding your best talent, in fact it it gives other players the incentive to improve.
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Jack Clarke
- Thread starter skunk hater
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you can offer him a slightly increased wage. But 35K a week and more like prem would be offering is mental. If we got a 25 million pound offer I’d be taking it. I don’t want him to leave but that’s massive money for us as a club
jarrowdiamond
Striker
Disagree with you on that one. If we're ever going to get out of this league at some point you'll need to break that 19k wage cap to keep players like Clarke.
Breaking it slightly I agree. Just think nearly doubling the wage cap is a lot
jarrowdiamond
Striker
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The Sun (I know) is being slightly more positive than other reports.
SAFC Wilks
Striker
Translates to “Shut up, Graeme Bailey.”
Got a slight feeling mr Harte is in his ear telling him to wait until the window shuts. I don’t see him going to Leeds and feel that they’re being used to raise interest in Clarke
mackemglastoid
Striker
We weren't prepared to go anywhere near that for Stewart mind.
I look back to when Speakman said that negotiations with Stewart were positive and that they were confident about him accepting a new contract. Unfortunately we can't compete with Premiership clubs and clubs who are still receiving parachute payments, they can offer better terms than we can.
jarrowdiamond
Striker
I know we weren't, I think we should be pushing the boat out to keep Clarke though.
Unfortunate but true. Just like with Stewart though just hold out til we get the best deal
admwil
Striker
They also said Will Still was our new manager
CheersMarra84
Striker
It’ll be Harte using all the cards at his disposal, to get the best deal for his client. Going to Leeds is a sideways step at this level. I could understand Burnley maybe, but any other club in this league is asinine. Hopefully we can nail him down for a few extra years.
Will still agreed the deal. Had the contract ready to sign and then got a call from France and went
mackemglastoid
Striker
Yeah I agree but there's a fine line between rewarding a player with improved terms and breaking our wage structure.
rosssand25
Full Back
Stewart was older and had injury problems, Even if he signs a 4 year contract he will still retain huge resale value
jarrowdiamond
Striker
If we are ever going to get promoted we need to keep/attract high quality players, having a wage structure with a cap at 19k just won't do it. I agree we need a core wage structure but when you get talents like Clarke it needs to be an exception.
mackemglastoid
Striker
I do agree mate. He is the best we currently have at the club and therefore should be our highest earner.
Like Huggins he was born and bred in York. It's 27 miles from Leeds. So unless his family were big Leeds fans it's unlikely he would have been anything other than a casual fan anyway.
They were both on Leeds books from the age of 8 mind so that will have developed an affinity if sorts.
I barely went to the match with my Dad. I went with my mates when I started senior school but it was only 4 miles away and a completely different era.
Cream Soda
Winger
When he signed here permanently, the club did a quick fire questions with him and one of those was who did you support as a boy, Leeds was his answer.
