Someones getting cricket batted

1 hour ago, Jacob_123 said:

I always find it amazing how people have an in depth knowledge of every player who is even mentioned

How could you have not have seen Maynard before? If you go to watch Vale you'll have seen him a few times for Crewe/Bury/Mansfield/MK Dons over the years!

And, I have a part-time role alongside my current job where I work in football and have to watch a LOT of games - so I consider myself to have a fairly decent knowledge of most lower league players.

1 hour ago, Doha said:

Someones getting cricket batted

Does that mean it is him????

Surely the wages themselves would be out of our league? 

13 minutes ago, Iron Curtain said:

Does that mean it is him????

Surely the wages themselves would be out of our league? 

Normally I would agree with that, but in the current climate, and with him nearing the end of his career, he’s probably realised that he will have to take a pay cut wherever he goes.

i think he started at Crwho, so if he’s fairly local, what he loses in wages, he’ll save in travelling costs.

Maynard is a class act, even at the age of 34. Surely he’d only come if he was given the number one strikers position, which means Rodney would be fourth and either Pope or Cullen for second. I see Cullen is injured again and would a Maynard and Pope partnership work. I’d imagine that he is one of the top wage earners in L2 and he currently has a contract at Mansfield, which will be lucrative how they’ve thrown money about in previous seasons and also this one. He was part of a team at Bury who were on huge contracts hence the demise of the club. I personally thought he’d join the exodus of Bury players last year who went to Plymouth. The question that I have to ask is if he moved now, would he not be wage capped, which could mean a huge drop in his salary and a  transfer fee.

Maynard is a class act, even at the age of 34. Surely he’d only come if he was given the number one strikers position, which means Rodney would be fourth and either Pope or Cullen for second. I see Cullen is injured again and would a Maynard and Pope partnership work. I’d imagine that he is one of the top wage earners in L2 and he currently has a contract at Mansfield, which will be lucrative how they’ve thrown money about in previous seasons and also this one. He was part of a team at Bury who were on huge contracts hence the demise of the club. I personally thought he’d join the exodus of Bury players last year who went to Plymouth. The question that I have to ask is if he moved now, would he not be wage capped, which could mean a huge drop in his salary and a  transfer fee.

Not contracted at Mansfield. Currently a free agent.

He’s out of contract now and he’s 34 in December, he would definitely do a job

There is some talk Maynard is off to Sunderland.

I wasn’t sure if he was contracted or not so thank you, for making me aware. Still the wage cap, so a L1 team would make more sense. Still I’d like us to get him

24 minutes ago, JRC said:

There is some talk Maynard is off to Sunderland.

I would imagine if we are interested we may still hold the advantage in some areas with the exception of wages.

It's much easier geographically to switch from Mansfield to Burslem than Mansfield to Sunderland. We're a far more stable club than Sunderland. He'd surely be our first choice striker (may not be the case at Sunderland) and we offer him the chance of potentially getting another promotion on his CV. 

Would be a good signing for us, lives locally in South Cheshire as well, so would cut down on his travelling, the Vale might appeal to him, joint runner up in the goal scoring chart in our division last season, when was the last time we signed someone with that pedigree ? 

No idea who the striker is but people saying about our wages surprises me,i think some would be surprised that we can actually compete with decent teams wage wise,how under the current climate i have no idea but for once we can

26 minutes ago, robf said:

I would imagine if we are interested we may still hold the advantage in some areas with the exception of wages.

It's much easier geographically to switch from Mansfield to Burslem than Mansfield to Sunderland. We're a far more stable club than Sunderland. He'd surely be our first choice striker (may not be the case at Sunderland) and we offer him the chance of potentially getting another promotion on his CV. 

He would need a long course of injections before risking a move to Sunderland.

I believe Nicky Maynard lives either in Audley or Audlem and is married with children, so unless Sunderland are going to make it a good package I can’t see him going there.

It could one of 2 ways. He either wants one last big payout at arguably his final club and he goes to somewhere like a Sunderland or hes comfortable enough to be able to stay closer to home with a club like us.