Keith wrote:If Derek has decided the retained/released list, does that mean he will be staying?
Surprised that the players who are leaving were not even offered a contract? No player was offered a new contract? There are some decent League Two quality players going, and De Silva Mendes has been highly spoken about as one for the future. I'd have thought he'd have been worth keeping for the bench. Neither Ripley or Smith wanted to stay, or not offered the chance to?
"Retained list -wow!" indeed.
Gone_Shrimping wrote:Keith wrote:If Derek has decided the retained/released list, does that mean he will be staying?
Surprised that the players who are leaving were not even offered a contract? No player was offered a new contract? There are some decent League Two quality players going, and De Silva Mendes has been highly spoken about as one for the future. I'd have thought he'd have been worth keeping for the bench. Neither Ripley or Smith wanted to stay, or not offered the chance to?
"Retained list -wow!" indeed.
I hope it does mean Derek is staying. His has been the voice of reason coming out of the club over the last few weeks/months.
I am disappointed that neither Graham or Rod has put out a statement just to calm the nerves even if they don't know much more than us.
I hope some of the players released have been told that if we do end up with a new owner then contracts will be offered although that is clutching at straws as I would think players like Gibson , Ripley , Stockton will have received offers already from other clubs.
black morse wrote:Gone_Shrimping wrote:Keith wrote:If Derek has decided the retained/released list, does that mean he will be staying?
Surprised that the players who are leaving were not even offered a contract? No player was offered a new contract? There are some decent League Two quality players going, and De Silva Mendes has been highly spoken about as one for the future. I'd have thought he'd have been worth keeping for the bench. Neither Ripley or Smith wanted to stay, or not offered the chance to?
"Retained list -wow!" indeed.
I hope it does mean Derek is staying. His has been the voice of reason coming out of the club over the last few weeks/months.
I am disappointed that neither Graham or Rod has put out a statement just to calm the nerves even if they don't know much more than us.
I hope some of the players released have been told that if we do end up with a new owner then contracts will be offered although that is clutching at straws as I would think players like Gibson , Ripley , Stockton will have received offers already from other clubs.
What could Graham or Rod say to 'calm the nerves'? I think we can now see we are on the edge of a disastrous situation. I would have thought that if the EFL were going to give the go ahead they would have done so by now but if they're not going to give the go ahead we should now be told.
One of the reasons The Shrimps Trust was set up was for times like these but we haven't heard from them since February. Have they been in contact with the EFL? Have the Board? Surely they must have been.
redrobo wrote:Gutted BUT thanks to our owner(s) for creating this situation....I hope you are proud of the mess you have created.
Just hope that the deal with the current bidder fails and that you have to take what you can get.....you greedy sod....
And we have to keep Love and Melbourne....unbelievable....and what about DA....is he staying because if he is this will be his biggest ever challenge. Wish him all the best.
No blame attached to our current BoD but a word of the situation re the sale of OUR club would be welcome.
Keith wrote:If Derek has decided the retained/released list, does that mean he will be staying?
Freez wrote:Surprised with Gibbo, Ash and Connor, but they may well have said we want to stay League 1, as the wages are better.
Hey ho, one door closes, another opens!
KenH wrote:The Board members have probably decided they can't offer any new contracts at the moment given the perilous state of finances. If they did, and the players weren't paid their wages, then the directors could find themselves personally liable. The Board need to be as certain as possible that any contracts/obligations they enter into can be met by the club. Under the current circumstances they can't do that.
I think the Board are probably trying to force through a sale to get rid of Jason as the club itself must now be pretty much worthless, maybe they're trying to force through the sale to the "local consortium" we keep hearing about.
Little Shrimp wrote:Keith wrote:If Derek has decided the retained/released list, does that mean he will be staying?
I think it's worth saying - Derek absolutely did not have a choice over this retained list (or lack of).
RE comments about the board from a few - why the hell are people venting frustrations at them? This is Bond Group's fault. The board are playing an incredibly difficult game to try and influence the sale of the club in a positive direction. There'll be all kinds of legal stuff and many reasonable reasons that they have to remain quiet.
redrobo wrote:Wonder how many long standing fans like myself have said over the last 60 years or so....'time for a clear out'....well it's now come to pass....unfortunately, due in no small measure to an owner who wants rid and doesn't give a fig for the fans or for the club other than the money he can get for a sale.
Jason .....thank you for nothing....
BerlinWaller wrote:Little Shrimp wrote:
I think it's worth saying - Derek absolutely did not have a choice over this retained list (or lack of).
RE comments about the board from a few - why the hell are people venting frustrations at them? This is Bond Group's fault. The board are playing an incredibly difficult game to try and influence the sale of the club in a positive direction. There'll be all kinds of legal stuff and many reasonable reasons that they have to remain quiet.
Spot on. This isn't a retained list at all, it is the club being unable to offer a player a new contract. The impact of that is massive. We can not sign a player, we can not offer terms which means we are up shits creek. We have 6 players under contract who will spend the summer worrying whether or not they will get paid.
I suspect Derek's contract runs until the end of June and if nothing is sorted, he will leave when it expires.
There is only one person to blame and that is the Owner. We, as fans need to make a stand.
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