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All of this is intriguing speculation. Personally I believe the following
1. The club is run by a savvy Chairman. I can’t speak for other contributors to fishy, but I think he is more commercially savvy than me. 2. Given the above, I doubt he has allowed commercially sensitive to be released to the likes of us lot. 3. Let’s just rejoice in 5 goals scored last Saturday and hope our defence improves. 4. I’m going to watch the game at Harrogate. I hope we win, but given the fact that Harrogate can go into playoff position if they win, I’m going with a prediction score of 3-2,…..just not sure which team….
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I've heard that he really despises cider, so that could go in our favour.
Nah we'd get him on the Natch soon sort him out
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Quite right. If we paid 200k with the view to developing him as a player (and the expectation that he would be moving on before the end of his contract), I can't see any way that a release clause would be less than double what we paid.
I tend to doubt he'll move anywhere this season as, though he's done well in lots of games, we're in the bottom half of the division and not many of his performances have proved game-changing. As others have commented, it's a bit different for attackers who can start scoring or creating goals to get themselves noticed, but sitting in midfield breaking up and linking play is a less glamorous role.
It’s absolutely obvious he’s a fantastic footballer though, and he’s only just turned 21 which still amazes me given how assured he is on the pitch. Any scout worth their salt would pick him out of the crowd and any side paying 250k (based on the rumour) should be looking at that as an absolute steal.
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I was told by a mate with close links to the owners before they fully took over that they were keen on the Brentford model of investing in quality young players that sell on for good profit and this fits that bill. He also said though, that it we couldn’t do it at their level as it’s costly to set up and they use the infrastructure of a betting company that already has it in place - I guess that’s why we’ve signed up with Loughborough university to use a more affordable version - that looks like it’s starting to pay off.
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He will play in the Premiership won't he ?
And go for a lot of money at some stage barring disaster
Whether we lose him now or in the summer it's vital we get the right deal for us with regards his next move after this which will probably be the big 1 .
Not sure he'd fancy Scotland tbh
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I’m 100% sure that Conteh & maybe a couple of others would have a clause in their contract to exit if an attractive offer for the player or the club came in.
So far it’s 8 pages based upon a tweet and someone who claims to be ITK but hasn’t backed up his posts.
Also unlike some who claim they can confirm this I’m pretty sure we didn’t pay £200k for him, in fact if we did I’d be pretty p1ssed off with the club for spending such a big part of the budget on a “prospect” who’d never played in the EFL.
At this stage I suspect this needs to sit in the Healy & Morrison folder on top of the Glennon & Clifton file.
The silly season is upon us.
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Not sure he'd fancy Scotland tbh
I heard he was off to Saracens.
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I’m 100% sure that Conteh & maybe a couple of others would have a clause in their contract to exit if an attractive offer for the player or the club came in.
So far it’s 8 pages based upon a tweet and someone who claims to be ITK but hasn’t backed up his posts.
Also unlike some who claim they can confirm this I’m pretty sure we didn’t pay £200k for him, in fact if we did I’d be pretty p1ssed off with the club for spending such a big part of the budget on a “prospect” who’d never played in the EFL.
At this stage I suspect this needs to sit in the Healy & Morrison folder on top of the Glennon & Clifton file.
The silly season is upon us.
Aww bless you. My posts have been firstly about Callum Ainley signing which was backed up. And now about Conteh’s release clause which I’ve let a few people know who have private messaged me, again I’ll state that even when he is eventually sold his fee almost certainly won’t be made public anyway. Also we didn’t pay anywhere near the 200k that people are saying we will still make a healthy profit on him especially if he moves twice. It just won’t be a £500k bid that he goes for 😂
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Aww bless you.
My posts have been firstly about Callum Ainley signing which was backed up. And now about Conteh’s release clause which I’ve let a few people know who have private messaged me, again I’ll state that even when he is eventually sold his fee almost certainly won’t be made public anyway.
Also we didn’t pay anywhere near the 200k that people are saying we will still make a healthy profit on him especially if he moves twice. It just won’t be a £500k bid that he goes for 😂
So, are you saying that we do have a sell on clause then?
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I’ve no inside info but we might have bought him for 200k or we might have a 250k release clause, but I absolutely guarantee both won’t be true.
If we paid 100k for him there is no way we'd have a clause for 250k
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