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Walka003

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The club know there’s interest in Smith from other clubs. Whether they know who it is another thing, but I’d imagine so as they only have to look at the list of scouts that attend match days to see a pattern forming. Interesting that Askey just plays the usual card of blaming the agent, but managers know what’s going on with the interest but have to play dumb for the media.

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15 minutes ago, TJHValiant said:

If Smith is sold easily for little money then it sends the message we are happy being a league 2 club forever more. 
 

I can’t see it happening. Especially after our cup windfall. 
 

 

He is out of contract this season end, so could go for nothing. We will offer him an improved contract due to his progress,  but bigger  clubs may offer more and he goes anyway..  It may well be that he leaves this month and it is to our financial advantage. We will go back to L1 irrespective of what happens now, it takes 2 or 3 years to build a team capable of staying there.

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37 minutes ago, Fosse69 said:

He is out of contract this season end, so could go for nothing. We will offer him an improved contract due to his progress,  but bigger  clubs may offer more and he goes anyway..  It may well be that he leaves this month and it is to our financial advantage. We will go back to L1 irrespective of what happens now, it takes 2 or 3 years to build a team capable of staying there.

Not if we can't keep some of our better players we won't. Smithy is one of only a couple that could play L1 level. Look at all our signings last season. Only TWO can get a game for us. Amoo and Burgess. Neither are L1 level. On a bad day it is debateable if Burgess is L2 level. Not for the last two games for sure. The rest are nowhere to be seen. Because they are conference level players. At best.

And if you keep recruiting conference level players, you are not going to get to L1.

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4 minutes ago, toyahw said:

Not if we can't keep some of our better players we won't. Smithy is one of only a couple that could play L1 level. Look at all our signings last season. Only TWO can get a game for us. Amoo and Burgess. Neither are L1 level. On a bad day it is debateable if Burgess is L2 level. Not for the last two games for sure. The rest are nowhere to be seen. Because they are conference level players. At best.

And if you keep recruiting conference level players, you are not going to get to L1.

I think this close season will be better than last. The club's reputation seems to be being restored after being dragged through the mud by the previous owner. We have the money from City/Robbie (I'm not advocating we blow it all on players by the way). We will, hopefully, have a top 10 finish to convince prospective players that we could challenge next year. 

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