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Probably means Will Evans is getting sold.

Just a moment... WWW.PETERBOROUGHTODAY.CO.UK The problem with quoting the Peterborough model is the club is currently 25m in debt. Due to the high debt level they now have some loans with 18% interest attached. If they don't go up this year they may be next season's Reading.

He was with them as a youth player. The Cambridge manager said they were losing players because they were getting better offers elsewhere. I'd be very surprised if he's on less than he was at Cambridge. He may well have had better offers elsewhere.

How dumb is that! He was clearly looking to change how they play a little. They've just allowed him to sign 6 players and spend a reasonable amount of money. Then they sack him. Should have sacked him at Christmas or given him 10 games with the players and formation he wanted. Now they get a new manager with a squad to play the way Appleton wanted to play with players he wanted. Then they'll do another rebuild in the summer.

I think the issue with the big clubs loaning us players is it's quite reliant on Crosby. He has a good reputation as a coach, particularly with young players. Some of it is down to Carol and Flitcroft but most decision makers will know Crosby. Does make sacking him (I'm not in the Crosby out camp) kind of hard.

Or maybe the world gone upside down. 20 years ago clubs scouted players they wanted to sign, now the player's Club scouting the club they want the player to sign for 🤔 Let's hope he's a special as people say. The hype says he's more highly rated than the 2 we lost. If he is he'll be a pleasure to watch.

Thanks Rob .... just found it. He seemed to like accumulators and losing money.

I think the big bans are for betting on matches a player could influence, or was playing in. You could argue that is to support the gambling companies. I'm sure I read somewhere that Clark got a limited punishment because he was betting on overseas football. I think it was treated as more of a technical breach; as he probably couldn't influence Real Madrid vs Barcelona.

Mainly. His best game was the Luton match over Christmas. He played alongside Pope. Luton just couldn't handle him and he looked like a Championship player. Never hit those heights again. Showed plenty of glimpses but they were more moments rather than dominating a game.

Interesting. He seems to have matured a bit. After his first half season it seemed to be something other than ability that held him back. Decent pace, good distribution and a decent shot. I certainly wasn't averse to him coming back. I suspect he's improved his consistency. When he was good for us he was on a different level; when he was bad he looked non league.

As Ripley stands so far out of his goal its not that different to passing back to a centrehalf. Generally Ripley's distribution is better than Smith's. It allows you to keep a higher line if the ball comes straight back. Did Whitfield play as a striker alongside Proctor?

His best games were alongside Pope. Not so strong on the wing. Certainly last season he sometimes played at wingback. Not sure what position he is currently playing. He's got the ability to play league 1.

Just checked, first one was only a one month loan and he got injured anyway at the end. Second one should have been for a season, then went back at Christmas. His first loan must have been the last season you could take one month loans.

I think you're right, great first poor second half.

I think he officially went back, so 2 spells.

Had a gap.

I suspect by get rid means Fleetwood would like to recoup the transfer fee AND get all the wage off their budget. I suspect they are close to bankruptcy and the players signed last January will be a substantial wages. If they desperately need to sell they have a left sided player (Promise something) who looks really tidy and isn't high profile, so maybe meets our salary structure. After their chairman went to prison they have lower gates than us with a squad on Derby or Portsmouth wages. That will not end well.

I know it's not what you meant .... but who was the loan signing who stayed longest. The only season long loan who did a full season I can remember is Butterworth. I think Plymouth had a few players who did back 2 back season loans. The only player I can think of is Remi Street but I think there was a gap.

I suspect you are right. Jensen Weir played more as a 10 or an 8 last season. He may well play higher, with Gore (if he signs) playing deeper. Hopefully Ojo will also be back next weekend.

Uche won't get paid if he chooses to leave for more money. It's when a club wants a player to leave and nobody can match the wages. When we resigned Pope we paid the salary we agreed to pay. To get him to leave Bury paid most of the difference between what we paid him and what they paid him for the remainder of his Bury contract. Pope told Bury he either wanted to sign for Vale or stay. There was a similar deal years ago when we signed Tony Dinning. We will have told Uche Charlton were interested but it was his choice to speak to them and then accept or reject the offer. If we wanted him to leave if he rejected the offer we could have offered him some additional money. The Denver Hume deal during the last window failed because Portsmouth weren't prepared to pay him much of the difference between the salary they pay and what we offered. If Portsmouth had to pay him all season we would have signed him. I've worked on short-term contracts (for the same company) for 15 years. If they stop me coming into work or sack me they still have to pay me. My current contract ends September 24 but I signed another contract in December which runs from October 24 to September 25. If they sack me today they have to pay me 21 months salary either each month or as a lump sum; unless I agree to cut a deal. I certainly wouldn't cut a deal. Short-term contracts guarantee a fixed amount of income for a fixed period. You can be sacked for misconduct but otherwise you get paid. You just have no rights or redundancy the day the contract ends.

I believe so.

I don't think we signed him until our physio team had worked on the problem enough so he passed the medical. I don't know the full details but I'd guess there was scar tissue from an old injury. He was doing rehab work with the club in August. I believe he only failed a medical at Barnsley. Walsall were allegedly interested in signing him but that rumour was doing the rounds in late August.

I think Shorrock is 17 in the summer. He was still 15 when he played against Plymouth.

The club only said there have been enquiries not that It ever went any further. I'd imagine we have probably made enquiries about a few dozen players. Particularly with 6 months on a contract clubs will be looking to see what valuations are. It could just be down to the post match comments and people reading too much into what was said.

The medical is predominantly an insurance requirement. If a player doesn't pass a medical you can't get insurance. A doctor won't falsify a medical as to do so and for it to be discovered would end a career. It's not really about fitness. The Bristol JCH fiasco was linked to needing extra scans on damaged tissue to satisfy the insurers. The scan showed insufficient damage to prevent insurance but by then the deadline has past. It's mainly about assessing the risk of injury ending a career and therefore leading to a payout. I have no knowledge one way or the other of the club signing players without a medical. It would mean they would be uninsured. I would have thought it more likely that players failed some kind of internal fitness test but passed the medical and were signed. It's a bit like joining the military. The fitness test is separate to the medical. The medical looks at the susceptibility to injury which might require discharge for invalidity. I passed my fitness tests relatively comfortably in the 80s. I had to have an extra set of medical examinations and a. X-ray due to an old leg fracture prior to joining. Plenty of people pass the fitness element and fail the medical. I'm sure plenty of applicants who failed the fitness would have passed the medical.