well with hindsight yes

but the advantage of it is we never were in a poistion of having to pay him MORE than a year's wages.

Say we'd signed him to a 3 year contract and then after a year decided we wanted rid? Then we'd have had to pay twice as much.

And you wouldn't want to sign him to a one year NON-rolling contract because then you permanent uncertainty (look at the fuss whenever a player gets within a year of teh end of a contract).

remember, when we signed him to the contract he was being successful. If you sign a successful manager to a short contract and a bigger club shows an interest you can find yourself losing a prime asset for nothing when teh cintract is up (or nearly up)

I personally think a 1 year rolling contract was a reasonable compromise under the circumstances.

Posted By: mr carra on December 1st 2006 at 16:10:47

Message Thread

Worhtys 600k (NCFC) - Army Boy, Dec 1, 15:43:33
- well with hindsight yes (NCFC) - mr carra, Dec 1, 16:10:47
  - however............. (NCFC) - megson, Dec 1, 16:13:47
- RE being owed for players (NCFC) - megson, Dec 1, 16:00:49
- But he did buy some good players (NCFC) - Old Git, Dec 1, 15:48:05
- The impasse was that he was never going to resign & the board didn't want to sack him, I (NCFC) - lovely old job, Dec 1, 15:47:44
  - for sure, I would have done exactly the same if 600k was at stake ! Bad error by board (n/m) (NCFC) - Army Boy, Dec 1, 15:52:02

Reply to Message

In order to add a post to the WotB Message Board you must be a registered WotB user.

If you are not yet registered then please visit the registration page. You should ensure that their browser is setup to accept cookies.