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Sweeper said:
Does he need his agents permission to sign?
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Doesn't need it but presumably he trusts him to guide his decisions otherwise why have an agent at all?

I can imagine at twenty I'd have had a hard time signing something that my advisor, who supposedly has my best interests at heart, was telling me not to.
 
Bulwell said:
Should stay IMO and sign a 2.5 year deal with a £3m release clause.

He's done well in this division but he's not outstanding and totally dominant at this level. Get a few more games under his belt and either play in the Championship next season or get his big move.

Pointless moving to a bigger club like Bournemouth and playing U23 football week in week out and stagnating as understudy to Wilson and King.
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Why would we agree to that
 
10 Gary Rowells said:
Sorry mate I disagree. We have had a disaster in recent transfer windows and are trying to do things more sensibly. If Maja is going to leave that is fair enough but he has had plenty of time to decide if the contract is good enough for him. Is there anything wrong in asking for an answer and setting a deadline - it would be ok in any other industry. His agent will have been touting him about. All we are saying is - if you are going let us know so we can get a replacement - what on earth is wrong with that? I really don't think there is anything wrong with what the club has done - it seems, for once, we are being sensible.
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We’ve set a deadline publicly though. We’ve made him declining a new contract a massive issue a day before one of the most important games of the season. Any deadline could have been done in house. To make matters worse Donald has said he will continue to try and get him to sign so nothing has changed in the respect so the deadline is worthless.
 
10 Gary Rowells said:
Sorry mate I disagree. We have had a disaster in recent transfer windows and are trying to do things more sensibly. If Maja is going to leave that is fair enough but he has had plenty of time to decide if the contract is good enough for him. Is there anything wrong in asking for an answer and setting a deadline - it would be ok in any other industry. His agent will have been touting him about. All we are saying is - if you are going let us know so we can get a replacement - what on earth is wrong with that? I really don't think there is anything wrong with what the club has done - it seems, for once, we are being sensible.
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Exactly this.
 
I think we have played this one quite well. We could really sting Maja back on this one, sign a new striker / indicate we are signing a new striker & refuse to sell him this window and play the card that we are happy to just get the tribunal compensation.

Nobody this window is going to pay 3+ million for him. Him not playing for the next 6 months or being a squad player isnt going to increase his chances of getting a much better deal in the summer, he might realise a week or two on from this the grass isnt greener and end up penning a new deal.
 
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Johnsafc said:
Asoro started the season in the team at Swansea. He's been given quite afew opportunities but his attitude & application was shit so he's been dropped out.

Sick of reading about Asoro really, no relevance to Maja, if he'd started the season playing well then he'd still be in the Swansea team now.
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And there you have it, maybe he and Maja are not as good as they think they are to make the step up, so if Maja had any sense he's take another season to make sure he thinks he's what he thinks he is ;)
 
PS said:
If we could only get £2.5M for him, then wouldn't we be better off keeping him to the end of the season? Getting promotion is worth more than £2.5M?
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Nope. We get the year 3 parachute payment next season whatever happens; clubs getting parachute get that instead of the EFL distribution, not on top of it. There might be a small uplift in commercial and gate income, but that's it. And total income will be £20m lower than this season, due to the reduction in parachute.. It only makes a difference the season after next., when our income will fall by £6m less if we're in the Championship rather than League 1.
 
sproates33 said:
I think we have played this one quite well. We could really sting Maja back on this one, sign a new striker / indicate we are signing a new striker & refuse to sell him this window and play the card that we are happy to just get the tribunal compensation.

Nobody this window is going to pay 3+ million for him. Him not playing for the next 6 months or being a squad player isnt going to increase his chances of getting a much better deal in the summer, he might realise a week or two on from this the grass isnt greener and end up penning a new deal.
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Not a bad shout.
 
samaistonsrightfoot said:
He could have just nktnsigned a contract and left end of season. This farscial deadline was made public for no reason whatsoever and it’s caused absolute hell on now.
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The deadline has flushed out the agent who had no intention of advising Maja to sign, this is proven with the news that the club matched the financial package demanded by the agent yet still no signed contract. Without this deadline we would have all been dancing round the camp fire with the false hope that Maja was going to sign, and the penny may have dropped to late to respond. This deadline has put the club back in control.
 
Sweeper said:
So we agree that Maja decides whether or not he signs. Not the agent.

“The agent told me not to” doesn’t wash.
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Maja can do what he wants. If he doesn’t want to sign a new contract that’s fine. It’s his right not to. That doesn’t mean he’s holding the club to ransom. If he doesn’t want to be here next season he doesn’t want to be here next season.

It also doesn’t mean he isn’t taking advice from anyone, or being persuaded by anyone.
 
iansun said:
To me it's all agent instagated
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Yes, and for me Maja could well be being led down a blind alley by his agents greed, at 20 he needs another season to make sure he can make that step up or be the forgotten man in a team where he can't even make the bench ;)
 
Nelson! said:
Doesn't need it but presumably he trusts him to guide his decisions otherwise why have an agent at all?

I can imagine at twenty I'd have had a hard time signing something that my advisor, who supposedly has my best interests at heart, was telling me not to.
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This. 20 year old footballers can’t be expected to navigate their way around the complicated world of professional football contracts. That’s why agents exist.

You can’t blame them for listening. Otherwise the shoe would be on the other foot and you’d have the clubs taking players for a ride. How you balance that I don’t know.
 
Would people be confident going into the championship with maja as a main striker? I don’t think I would. Remember James Vaughan scored 20 odd goals in this league a couple of seasons back.

I don’t think he’s ready for the step up yet and surely no premier league club would expect him to go straight into the 1st team. However, they could happily pay him £15k a week and stick him in the U23s. The outcome will ultimately be whether he wants to play or get rich quicker, because I think he’ll struggle to get both.
 
Burnopfield Mackem said:
The deadline has flushed out the agent who had no intention of advising Maja to sign, this is proven with the news that the club matched the financial package demanded by the agent yet still no signed contract. Without this deadline we would have all been dancing round the camp fire with the false hope that Maja was going to sign, and the penny may have dropped to late to respond. This deadline has put the club back in control.
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It hasn’t though because Donald has stated he still wants to get him to sign a contract so it’s still going to drag on. The deadline has done nothing but make half our fans hate a player because they feel rejected in the middle of a crucial season.
 
I don’t understand the thinking from majas side on this one personally. Sign a new contract with us and the agent must get something anyways then if he continues to perform as he is then a bigger club will come calling anyways.

Maybe I’m missing something like but surely it would make more sense to sign with us now. Might even end up with a bigger and better contract from us next season if he keeps performing and we go up. Shot theirselves in the foot in my opinion.
 
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