Rumour Mill

Quoted from Ipswin

Hope you get the full stop, comma and capital letter keys fixed soon.

It’s off a mobile phone and I couldn’t be a*sed 👍

Should be on the phone to Bury players.

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Quoted from pen penfras

It's not the best time to be signing players though. Everybody is still under contract and being paid for another 5 weeks. Players will be holding out for high wages at this point and start to lower their demands as the season draws closer and they have fewer options and no income. This means to sign the players that you really want, you have to pay more before somebody else comes in. With that in mind, I'd expect Jolley to be looking at signing better players now and the squad fillers can wait until later on in the summer.

Spoken like an accountant who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

We do this every season. Look to save a few bob on a few weeks pay and miss all the juicy fruits.

Most of the contracts end next week. Some clubs have already announced signings, even the dilatory GrimsbyLive sports page says so.

Of course we will see the usual managerial guff "We have several irons in the fire but some players are still considering offers ....." etc. etc.

But we do not see at least 2 or 3 decent signings in the next fortnight it does not take Mystic Meg to predict it will be another long hard slog of a season and the first casualty will be season ticket sales.

Imagine most players are on holiday. Can’t see much happening for a few weeks (except loads of insta pics of people with their tops off trying to look sexy and rich).

A sea of sick ink

Quoted from psgmariner

Imagine most players are on holiday. Can’t see much happening for a few weeks (except loads of insta pics of people with their tops off trying to look sexy and rich).

Sorry, forgot that bit of management excuses manual.  

Regardless, in these days of instant communication between poolside and a manager's mobile that business can be done anytime, anywhere. The point tis really the perception at this end, we have seen it so often. Waiting, waiting, waiting then somebody turns up. We are so thankful and grateful for them agreeing to sacrifice their career by coming down the 180 to GY that we build them up and up and up and then ...... same old, same old. So I'd like to see us for once sign early a couple of players likely to make an instant positive impact on our team next season.  Wishful thinking I know but ....

Quoted from TheRonRaffertyFanClub

Sorry, forgot that bit of management excuses manual.  

Regardless, in these days of instant communication between poolside and a manager's mobile that business can be done anytime, anywhere. The point tis really the perception at this end, we have seen it so often. Waiting, waiting, waiting then somebody turns up. We are so thankful and grateful for them agreeing to sacrifice their career by coming down the 180 to GY that we build them up and up and up and then ...... same old, same old. So I'd like to see us for once sign early a couple of players likely to make an instant positive impact on our team next season.  Wishful thinking I know but ....

Amen to that.

Potential players are like the rest of us - they want to join a project that is positive and has a plan. I would imagine they would like to courted early - makes them feel wanted and all that.

Perhaps players with several offers think about money, facilities,  ambition, potential, manager and his playing style and location.

Any negatives on that list for us has to be countered by an increase in money, whether Fenty likes it or not.

I read the whole rumour mill thread and didn't see one rumour. You should change the name to random excrement talking thread.  

Quoted from Kris2

I read the whole rumour mill thread and didn't see one rumour. You should change the name to random excrement talking thread.  

Your specialist subject I suspect