johnny jigsaw
"My life's in pieces"
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Albion chairman Dick Knight has today responded to media revelations concerning contract negotiations with Bas Savage, after the striker rejected the offer of a new and improved 18-month contract with Albion and now looks set to leave the club. Knight, in response to a story in today's press told seagulls.co.uk, "If Andy Naylor wants to inflate the ego of a football agent and stir up trouble at our club so be it. His daily need to get an Albion story knows no bounds.
My final statement on Bas Savage is this: from the beginning, the offer to Bas was excellent in relation to our wage scale. It gave him the security of a further year-and-a-half to develop with the Albion
“The agent's pie-in-the-sky counter proposals simply dragged the matter on. If agent and player expected the club to suddenly lose touch with reality they were wrong.
"Finally, with some realistic improvements to the offer - which the agent has scorned - and growing awareness of the December 31 current contract expiry, we arrive at the point where player and agent feel they have been put under pressure.
"Nobody has forced Bas out of this club. He still has three days to sign a very good Albion contract. Or he already has another club to go to.
"The facts will speak for themselves. Right now all other talk about Bas's relationship with Albion fans is hollow."
Albion chairman Dick Knight has today responded to media revelations concerning contract negotiations with Bas Savage, after the striker rejected the offer of a new and improved 18-month contract with Albion and now looks set to leave the club. Knight, in response to a story in today's press told seagulls.co.uk, "If Andy Naylor wants to inflate the ego of a football agent and stir up trouble at our club so be it. His daily need to get an Albion story knows no bounds.
My final statement on Bas Savage is this: from the beginning, the offer to Bas was excellent in relation to our wage scale. It gave him the security of a further year-and-a-half to develop with the Albion
“The agent's pie-in-the-sky counter proposals simply dragged the matter on. If agent and player expected the club to suddenly lose touch with reality they were wrong.
"Finally, with some realistic improvements to the offer - which the agent has scorned - and growing awareness of the December 31 current contract expiry, we arrive at the point where player and agent feel they have been put under pressure.
"Nobody has forced Bas out of this club. He still has three days to sign a very good Albion contract. Or he already has another club to go to.
"The facts will speak for themselves. Right now all other talk about Bas's relationship with Albion fans is hollow."