Vernam

Quoted from Hagrid

drunk off. Was going nowhere till Limbrick & Holloway brought him back and gave him an extended run. Had 2 good months and first opportunity to go its been taken. Ah well. Player doesnt wanna be here then stuff them

To be fair to Vernam after we shipped him out on loan any loyalty to GTFC probably evaporated.

Quoted from 4055

would be nice to think it may open the way to cover Bogles wages .

If Carling did contract negotiations lol

Didn't want to believe Charlie wants to leave, but I've just listened to the interview and now think it's inevitable sadly. Only hope we have is that we could get some compo for him, but even that seems unlikely.
However, like Holloway said in the interview, we could be in the same division as this other club next season and if it is Burton then we are clearly a much bigger club with hopefully more chance to develop even further.

Sounds like a balls up to me by the club.

Quoted from Mikey_345

Might be an unpopular opinion, but in times like these I’m bloody glad someone like Fenty is and has been controlling the money....

Apparently not.

This club has made PR clanger after PR clanger over the years, John Fenty at the heart of many of them. This though, is not one of them.

At this moment in time, all of the club’s players and staff are furloughed, quite possibly all the way through to October. If they weren’t, we would already be in very serious financial jeopardy (assuming we aren’t already).

We simply do not know when normal trading conditions are going to return. There is no set date for football crowds of any kind to return, let alone full crowds. It is not even certain there will be a 20/21 League Two season.

Under those conditions, how on earth is the club supposed to make and justify long-term financial commitments. They had no other option.

It’s a shame we look to have lost Charles Vernam, just at the point of looking like the real deal. But then it’s a shame thousands of people have died, directly and indirectly, at the hands of a virus we didn’t even know about six months ago. It’s a shame thousands of people will lose their jobs. It’s a shame that some football league clubs may very well go to the wall.

These have been, and continue to be shít times for all of us - some more than others. We cannot judge the club’s actions in the transfer market as if it can operate in some vacuum, immune to the economic consequences of what we’re going through. There may be some clubs who are able to seize this situation as an opportunity to progress - Salford et al. We are not one of them.

Right now I honestly believe all at the club are doing their level-best to ensure we have a club to come back to. We cannot ask for any more than that.

Keep calm people!

The only way we could activate the extension clause was to offer him at least the same money he was on. The players have taken a voluntary pay cut so he is currently on less money than before. I suspect that this is the reason we cannot activate the extension.

We cannot give him the same money to sign him since that would be unfair on the rest of the squad and would cause a rift.

The fishy experts are at it again, I blame so and so and its so and so fault.
The most important thing at the moment is that the CLUB survives first, no player is bigger than the club.
If a player or should I say a players agents thinks he can get a better deal at another club, good luck.  The grass is not also greener on the other side
Look at Wigan on a amazing run of form until defeat at Brentford climbing away from the relegation battle, only for the club to put in administration 4 weeks after Hong Kong based consortium taking over the club, vritually relegating the club.
Players signing for new clubs, will not know what that clubs financial situation
It a challenging time at the moment, without knowing when fans are going to be allowed back to Blundell Park, it must be a nightmare, planning ahead.
They are going to be clubs, who will gamble, signing players, without knowing football is going to restart in the lower leagues.
I wonder how many of you would be saying that it is a must we keep Verman, before Mr Holloway arrival.

The most important part our plan going forward is keeping Mr Holloway at GTFC.

If Verman decides his future lies away from GTFC, good luck to him.

Quoted from mimma

Keep calm people!

The only way we could activate the extension clause was to offer him at least the same money he was on. The players have taken a voluntary pay cut so he is currently on less money than before. I suspect that this is the reason we cannot activate the extension.

We cannot give him the same money to sign him since that would be unfair on the rest of the squad and would cause a rift.

Don’t disagree with any of this which is sensible but I assume if CV had wanted to stay he could have firstly agreed a contract extension and/or renewal and then immediately agreed to a 25% pay cut in line with colleagues. To suggest the club has slipped up re this is IMO naive and fails to take account of current external factors and let’s not for Charlie came from Derby so maybe is one of our higher paid players but who knows.

Think it is Ginnywings who often states it’s not the quality of the player you lose but the quality of the player you bring in to replace him so let’s just bide our time and wait to see what our squad looks like before the next season starts before passing judgement.

Quoted from The Yard Dog

The most important thing at the moment is that the CLUB survives first, no player is bigger than the club

Just checking, you won't female dog and moan if we end up back in the National League then

In defence of the club how could they justify to the remaining players extending Chas’s deal and giving him a pay rise whilst everyone else united together and took a reduction recently?