Shaun Pearson

Quoted from MuddyWaters

And the response is a fair one. What comes out of this is that John Tondeur should have asked the club about releasing the information yesterday and if he had, would have probably been told to wait till the club announced it today, as per Shaun's wishes. By way of a simple conversation, last night's shitstorm could have been averted in everybody's interests.

After all that, good luck Shaun, sure you will be a success at Wrexham.

John Tonduer isnt employed by GTFC, his information came from Shaun himself who was happy the info was released.

The club like control, even demand it at times, but some prefer to get the information not being fed sanitised claptrap. I'd bet that if Shaun's statement hadnt said what it did then the club statement would have been worded totally differently

This is all wrong JF
Didn't we learn anything from last season
New Players New Squad Says PH
New Players New Squad Says MB
And it would seem RS is been let to go the same way
Surely we can see that the club needs some consistency and stability with Shaun and Disley Gowling staying etc..
You should have done more and negotiated harder and longer with Shaun whatever he wanted as you will not find a player who will try harder when he is wearing the shirt
I am unsure what we are trying to achieve by letting this happen??

Interesting to point out that he says "Wrexham was his best choice". Which suggests that he didnt have offers from other league two clubs.  Don't get me know I was a big fan of Shaun's but clearly Slade didn't see him as a guaranteed starter and therefore couldn't offering him a contract immediately.

I expect us to also not offer Collins a contract and look forward to seeing who Slade has lined up in the coming weeks

Good Luck Shaun and thanks for your loyalty and work you did in the community. Wrexham have a good player for their level

Quoted from Stew0_0

Interesting to point out that he says "Wrexham was his best choice". Which suggests that he didnt have offers from other league two clubs.  Don't get me know I was a big fan of Shaun's but clearly Slade didn't see him as a guaranteed starter and therefore couldn't offering him a contract immediately.

I expect us to also not offer Collins a contract and look forward to seeing who Slade has lined up in the coming weeks

Good Luck Shaun and thanks for your loyalty and work you did in the community. Wrexham have a good player for their level

It doesn't suggest that at all. He may well have had offers from league clubs, but at a lower wage or on a shorter deal.

He's left for a more secure contract which we couldn't offer him. The fact Fenty's statement said he would have waited to see how things unravelled at the club suggests there are targets, whom Pearson would have been a back up for if they couldn't be signed. Ultimately, he wasn't deemed good enough for a promotion push, which is fair enough, and you can't blame him for securing his future. I have no doubt that he will be a big player for Wrexham next season, and I hope they get promoted.

He has a very young child and needed the security of the contract to be able to support him. Maybe he liked the location aswell with family in mind.

Be sad to see him go. Hope things work out well at Wrexham. Good old club. A fan owned club. Now I have another reason to hope they get back in the League soon.

All the best Shaun and thanks for the years of dedicated service.

We get a better CH and footballer than Shaun, but we are highly unlikely to get as good a team-player, club-man and someone who is just a nice bloke.  

Although its sad to see SP go, it seems a logical enough thing to happen.

The club has ambitions to move up to L1 and so really we should only offer 2 year contracts to players who have potential to play at that level.  Although plenty on here think Shaun has that potential, the fact that he has chosen to go to Wrexham suggests he didn't have L1 and higher clubs knocking on his door.  In my view he's a good honest National League/ League 2 pro.

RS has no doubt been challenged to build a squad to get promotion and then to compete in L1 if we can go up.  He has already inherited too many average players on long contracts.  This means he's not go huge flexibility to pay out good money for players who aren't going to be his first choice.  Its similar to the situation with Disley - we had a squad full of contracted central midfielders and there was no scope for RS to use up his budget on sentimentality.

Its sad to see long-standing players move on - we might wait a long time for another Dis or Shaun - but it shows RS has got the right intent and ambition.

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