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A number of weeks before the virus halted all football, Derek said that he hoped to be able to provide Carlos will a new contract on much improved terms. To date nothing has been heard of whether such a contract was agreed.

I hope that the club can do what it can to provide Carlos with a new contract and I'd also be delighted if a new contract was also awarded to Lamine Jagne who I feel could be another excellent youngster and could more than hold his own in the first team on match days..as and when football is resumed.

I read that there are 18 players out of contract which means that Derek has one hell of a job on his hands to put together a squad more than capable looking towards at the very least a top 10 position if not higher.

Of course it all depends on when football is resumed which can't come sooner enough for me....

I may be mistaken but I think I heard DA in an interview mention that CMG has a year extension option. Any club offering largely improved terms may be a little hopeful at the moment, although I hope it's something we can manage when things start to get back to normal as he deserves it!

redrobo wrote:
Of course it all depends on when football is resumed which can't come sooner enough for me....

Don't hold ya breath on that one!!

Carlos is a quality player, in my opinion capable of playing at championship level. He has pace, trickery and unpredictability. I keep telling my Preston friends he has more potential then Tom Barkhuizen. I am confident when the time comes we will get big money for him. We need him to sign a new contract to continue his development with us.

Wasn’t Jagne one of the members of the bomb squad when derek took over?

There's a good article and interview with Carlos in yesterdays Football League Paper.

Maybe an anorak could put a link on here to it.

BORN in the Sene­galese cap­i­tal and raised in Lan­zarote, there were prob­a­bly more ob­vi­ous routes into pro­fes­sional foot­ball for Carlos Men­des Gomes than the English fourth tier with More­cambe.

The ex­cit­ing at­tacker was only 19 when he signed his first Shrimps deal in 2018, but ar­rived with an in­trigu­ing track record and an in­cred­i­ble va­ri­ety of foot­ball ex­pe­ri­ences.

From lin­ing up op­po­site cur­rent In­ter Mi­lan star Achraf Hakimi while at the Atletico Madrid academy, to be­ing granted an eye-open­ing in­tro­duc­tion to the English men’s game with Non-League West Dids­bury & Chorl­ton, Men­des Gomes be­lieves each ex­pe­ri­ence shaped him.

Now an es­tab­lished mem­ber of Derek Adams’ squad, the 21-year-old still re­mem­bers his hum­ble be­gin­nings and has al­ways lived in the be­lief that hard work would even­tu­ally bear fruit.

Op­por­tu­ni­ties

“I moved to Spain from Sene­gal with my par­ents when I was two years old,” he ex­plained. “My dad got a job over there and they de­cided there would be bet­ter op­por­tu­ni­ties in life. “My fam­ily had al­ways loved foot­ball and I was the same. I sup­ported Real Madrid and would spend all my time watch­ing Cris­tiano Ron­aldo and dream­ing one day of be­ing like him.

“I played for Getafe for one sea­son and then got given the chance to join Atletico when I was 15. The stan­dard was in­cred­i­ble and I think one year there re­ally shaped me as a player, phys­i­cally and men­tally.

“Then, my dad got of­fered a job in Manch­ester. I didn’t want to go but I was too young to stay on my own. He told me I could be­come a foot­baller any­where in the world as long as I put in the work, so I trusted him and gave it my best.”

Men­des Gomes ini­tially strug­gled to adapt on and off the field in the UK and ad­mits a ca­reer in foot­ball looked un­likely.

But hav­ing per­se­vered in the North West Coun­ties League with West Dids­bury & Chorl­ton and im­pressed at the Ni­cholls Com­mu­nity Foot­ball Cen­tre of Ex­cel­lence – part of The Manch­ester Col­lege, where he was study­ing – it wasn’t long be­fore More­cambe came knock­ing.

He said: “I didn’t play foot­ball at all dur­ing my first year in Eng­land – I couldn’t find a club. I rang around but I’d ar­rived at the wrong time of year when all the schol­ar­ships were full.

“It was never my plan to get into pro­fes­sional foot­ball through col­lege, but one of the coaches – Bill Pren­der­gast – be­lieved in me and had a link with More­cambe.

“Part of the de­ci­sion to sign me de­pended on whether they got rel­e­gated on the last day of the (2017-18) sea­son. Thank­fully, they stayed up and of­fered me a deal – it was such a spe­cial day.”

Spe­cial

Af­ter spend­ing most of the last decade in the lower ech­e­lons of League Two, More­cambe have started the new cam­paign brightly – win­ning two of their open­ing three league games in Adams’ first full sea­son in charge.

And while he hadn’t heard of the Lan­cashire coastal town when he first moved to the UK five years ago, Men­des Gomes is aim­ing high in the place he now con­sid­ers home.

“We haven’t had too much luck re­cently, but I be­lieve with this group of play­ers we’re ca­pa­ble of push­ing for the play­offs,” added Men­des Gomes, who net­ted a stop­page-time win­ner against Chel­tenham on the open­ing day. “Per­son­ally, I just want to keep im­prov­ing, nail down a start­ing spot and start scor­ing more goals.

“I hadn’t heard of More­cambe be­fore I came to Eng­land but now it’ll al­ways have a place in my heart. The fans have al­ways been very sup­port­ive and they are my fam­ily too now.”

We should definitely sell him in winter transfer market because its looking like he's gonna ride out his contract and go to a bigger club on a free for more wages.

vanillaturtle wrote:We should definitely sell him in winter transfer market because its looking like he's gonna ride out his contract and go to a bigger club on a free for more wages.

He can't go for free as he's under 24 years old.

All we have to do is offer him improved terms when his contract is up, then we either get compensated or it goes to a tribunal, so no point chucking money at him we cannot afford at the moment.