Not a Single Brighton Player Submitted A Transfer Request

[Mendoza]

either during or after the January Transfer Window period, according to Ken Brown today.

"The club has not received a transfer request from any single player - and at this stage in the season we do not anticipate receiving one. However, any player wishing to do so should submit such a request in writing to the manager of the club"



Interesting...

 

[Icy Gull]

Interesting? More..

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[Franks Wild Years]

So what are the 100% true verifiable facts of Forstergate ?

1 He wasn't in the squad on Saturday.
2 Brown issues a statement saying no ones put in a transfer request.
3 NSC has got its knickers in a twist and is happy to make up its mind based on conjecture , rumour and an Argus story based on the same.

 

[Easy 10]

either during or after the January Transfer Window period, according to Ken Brown today.

"The club has not received a transfer request from any single player - and at this stage in the season we do not anticipate receiving one. However, any player wishing to do so should submit such a request in writing to the manager of the club"

Isn't Forster MARRIED ?

 

[fleet]

Isn't Forster MARRIED ?

Well spotted!

 

[Franks Wild Years]

Maybe Forster was thinking of getting a tattoo, say a large seagull across his chest, but was unsure about committing to such a large piece of work. So he went to Gus asking for his advice on temporary transfers and wether Mr Poyet would lend him one of his own. Dean Cox overheard part of the conversation whilst taking a nap in one of Gus's desk drawers, put 2 and 2 together, made five but rang Naylor anyway.

 

[Brovion]

So what are the 100% true verifiable facts of Forstergate ?

....

I dunno, but I'd love to find out. Amongst all the hot air and hysterical over-reaction on here over the last few days no one explained how in hell Forster COULD go on the transfer list. The window's shut and his contract expires in the summer thus allowing him to move on anyway - Forster could no more be transferred than he could be canonised.

 

[fleet]

I dunno, but I'd love to find out. Amongst all the hot air and hysterical over-reaction on here over the last few days no one explained how in hell Forster COULD go on the transfer list. The window's shut and his contract expires in the summer thus allowing him to move on anyway - Forster could no more be transferred than he could be canonised.

Forster to be made a saint its official - I hadn't seen that one coming!

 

[Hercules Rockerfeller]

As his contract is up in the summer doesn't that mean he can openly negotiate, and sign a contract with another club for next season, even if he can't be transferred now?

 

[fleet]

As his contract is up in the summer doesn't that mean he can openly negotiate, and sign a contract with another club for next season, even if he can't be transferred now?

If we release him then he would be a free agent and I think he could sign elsewhere, but i'm not sure - SOl Cambell seemed to have to wait after he left County.

 

[Da Man Clay]

As his contract is up in the summer doesn't that mean he can openly negotiate, and sign a contract with another club for next season, even if he can't be transferred now?

I think the rules changed a couple of years back saying you have to be less than 6 weeks away from your contract expiring to talk to other clubs in the same country. I may well be completely wrong though.

 

[Icy Gull]

You have to question how bothered the out of contract players are going to be over the next couple of months if they are being given no feedback as to whether they are gonna get their contracts renewed. We had this same scenario in the Championship, when no contract talks had been started with any players one game from the end of the season, culminating in the home thrashing by Stoke which was McGhee's fault at the time apparently

Seems to me it's not the best way to get people to run through brick walls for you and that is what Poyet is gonna need over the next couple of months

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

I thought you could only talk to Overseas players 6 months before the end of your contract? also i thought if you were released after the window as shut thats it for the season?

 

[Uncle C]

Seems to me it's not the best way to get people to run through brick walls for you

Well perhaps we dont want those that wont run through brick walls, and its a good way to find them out.

 

[Icy Gull]

Well perhaps we dont want those that wont run through brick walls, and its a good way to find them out.

By not opening contract discussions? Interesting take.

 

[The Large One]

You have to question how bothered the out of contract players are going to be over the next couple of months if they are being given no feedback as to whether they are gonna get their contracts renewed. We had this same scenario in the Championship culminating in the home thrashing by Stoke which was McGhee's fault at the time apparently

Seems to me it's not the best way to get people to run through brick walls for you and that is what Poyet is gonna need over the next couple of months

So by that scenario, if they're not being told about contracts yet, then why should they spend the rest of the season bothering? Nice attitude.

Alternatively, it could be that it's the obligation of every player to persuade the manager to see fit to offer him a new contract. What purpose is served by telling them now that they're not getting a new contract?

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

So by that scenario, if they're not being told about contracts yet, then why should they spend the rest of the season bothering? Nice attitude.

Alternatively, it could be that it's the obligation of every player to persuade the manager to see fit to offer him a new contract.

But if they have been offered something somewhere else? Say orient for example are they going to try that much if they could send there new team down?

 

[Colbourne Kid]

Can anyone find any other club that is currently telling all their players who are out of contract in the summer whether or not they will get a contract?

 

[Icy Gull]

So by that scenario, if they're not being told about contracts yet, then why should they spend the rest of the season bothering? Nice attitude.

Alternatively, it could be that it's the obligation of every player to persuade the manager to see fit to offer him a new contract.

In any walk of life you should be talking to people you want to keep well in advance of their contracts expiring if you don't want them to start losing interest and looking elsewhere.

To expect players to give their all while they are left to sweat on their future seems naive in the extreme to me.

Of course they should try their hardest but I can see why they wouldn't.

 

[The Large One]

But if they have been offered something somewhere else? Say orient for example are they going to try that much if they could send there new team down?

If you're talking - hypothetically - about this happening now (this week), then it's completely futile. He can't go to Orient until July anyway.

I think that's what you're asking.