And there’s another reason why it would be financially irresponsible to keep Matty as a number 2 keeper.
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And there’s another reason why it would be financially irresponsible to keep Matty as a number 2 keeper.
ifightbears
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Taylor Richards with another great goal and assist today. Really hope we get an announcement with his contract soon but going to be tough to persuade him given the depth in our midfield at the moment. Won't be a shortage of suiters.
nwgull
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How long left on his contract? We paid a couple of million for him (didn’t we?) so I can’t imagine we didn’t tie him down for 4 years.
albionalex
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It expires this summer, unless we have an option for a further year.
nwgull
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What’s the source of that? I can’t believe we’d pay (a reported) 2.5m for an 18 year old and only give him a 2 year deal.
albionalex
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I can't find the article on the club site but here for e.g http://www.wearebrighton.com/newsop...rds-from-manchester-city-for-a-rumoured-2-5m/
AZ Gull
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The club never did report the length of the contract he signed. It was the Sun that reported it was a two-year deal.
ifightbears
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https://www.brightonandhovealbion.c...R18vZJ67xX2PRsdC79ZKfuca6w0EjNc0JVHAGIa1ppUJg
2 years, but as people have said, would hope they had an option for extension in there!
hoof hearted
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AJ should have been loaned out, especially with Tau coming in.
Looking at the Donny forum (they think the boy's a bit special) they seem to think he'll be out of contract in the summer too, and presumably free to sign wherever he likes as a free agent. Surely we can't be happy with this if we did indeed pay anything like the amount we were rumoured to pay for him? If we haven't extended his contract, we would seem to have made a mighty costly balls up.
Hoping that #AZGull will be along in a minute to re-assure us!
I think perhaps we tried ....................
Albion Dan
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There is zero chance we’d be loaning out a promising player who’s contract runs out end of season.
Well, we have loaned him out.
And by all accounts he is very promising.
Any additional facts would be very welcome.
ifightbears
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AZ Gull
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hoof hearted
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Do you know or is that a guess?
Lovely goal.
nwgull
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There must be an option. We usually give players a 4-5 year contract when paying a fee. What would be the point of paying 2.5m on an 18 year old with potential if he was going to be out of contract by the time that potential had been realised?
Rumours!