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Jack Clarke


Gloucester said:
Suppose Clarke is currently in £15k per week and has two years left. So club would pay him about £1.5m over the rest of his contract. Yet if he leaves they think they are entitled to £25m for him.

Can’t understand why more players don’t run their contracts down like Mbappe.
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its approx that ... hes our highest earner ... and has been for 18months man u covered 80% of amads wage
 
Lennon said:
Wish he’d either just go or say he’s staying sick of hearing crap about it
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The fun thing is if he stays the media errrrm cough planting of stories about him being off or wanted will start in a few weeks again when it gets closer to the winter window opening. I guess it’s better than not being able to give fuckers away like in our past 😂
 
He has turned down a new contract, if the club want him then increase the offer enough for him to sign it. If not cash in. Not rocket science is it. Keep him another year and we can expect a lot less for him in a year's time.
 
Gloucester said:
Suppose Clarke is currently in £15k per week and has two years left. So club would pay him about £1.5m over the rest of his contract. Yet if he leaves they think they are entitled to £25m for him.

Can’t understand why more players don’t run their contracts down like Mbappe.
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There will come a point when all deals are 1 year deals and players movel for free
 
Mowgli said:
There will come a point when all deals are 1 year deals and players movel for free
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No chance, incredible risk for both parties.

Imagine a player breaks his leg and is out for 9 months, all risk no new contract.

There would be no incentive to invest and nurture academy players for clubs.

Also, there’d need to be a break point in unison across the football world for this to work where everyone adopts 1 year contracts, irrespective of financial outlay.

If anything, contracts will get longer see Chelsea as an example.
 
gatopreto said:
Either we get 25m for him plus add ons or we keep him and have 2 shots of promotion with one of the leagues best players.
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This. With the rumoured sell on clause and the fees being mentioned already, we'd be lucky to clear £10 million.
I'd rather keep him and have 2 goes at promotion. Let's face it, look what the £10 or so million from Stewart bought us.
 
GiantHogweed said:
National embarrassment on the handling of the last derby followed by firing our last manager after 63 days on the job then setting a record for the longest timeframe without a manager after multiple candidates said thanks but no thanks.

My guess is buying clubs are purposely low balling offers to us because they think we're run poorly and may bite ... and the player valuations also reflect that.

I could be wrong about that - just an opinion.
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Luckily the owners seem to have grown some.
Just imagine selling him to Burnley last year and they could double their outlay in 12 months…..
 
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