(That long since we've had any, couldn't find the thread)

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Edited December 11, 20169 yr by Ratwhite

Doyle's a free agent apparently. An "agreement" has been made on the remaining 18 months of his deal and he's getting a 3 yr deal in Ireland.

That's our two highest earners gone in the last two months.

3 minutes ago, Traf said:

Doyle's a free agent apparently. An "agreement" has been made on the remaining 18 months of his deal and he's getting a 3 yr deal in Ireland.

That's our two highest earners gone in the last two months.

Which isn’t a bad business plan. They’d be difficult to get a fee for that would be more than what we would be paying in wages. 
They’re underperforming but did us a job of getting us out of L2.

So we move them on for “free” but the money we’d save in agents fees, wages, clauses would be enough to then attract some players who have a limited amount of time left on their contracts with wages and bonuses

Its smart competent business.

I'm not saying it's bad practice, nor was I inferring we were struggling with the wage bill.

We had to give Sarce & Doyle the deals they got to get them to sign for us. They did a good job in getting us back up at the first attempt and it has become clear that neither were good enough at this level.

Sarcevic was particualrly disappointing. I think Doyle's age caught up with him after injury & covid in the summer and he wasn't as effective at pressing as last year and his confidence looks shot.

The only issue is that we've no fit strikers at the club right now. If Charles signs tomorrow, he won't be match fit for a while. Much was made of Cole Stockton not being in Morecambe's last squad, but I'd heard he had Covid.

His Wife has responded on twitter saying it’s the first she’s heard on this move.

Perhaps he’s not taking her 

Who? Charles or Doyle? Either way, maybe they need to work on their internal communications.

24 minutes ago, Traf said:

I'm not saying it's bad practice, nor was I inferring we were struggling with the wage bill.

We had to give Sarce & Doyle the deals they got to get them to sign for us. They did a good job in getting us back up at the first attempt and it has become clear that neither were good enough at this level.

Sarcevic was particualrly disappointing. I think Doyle's age caught up with him after injury & covid in the summer and he wasn't as effective at pressing as last year and his confidence looks shot.

The only issue is that we've no fit strikers at the club right now. If Charles signs tomorrow, he won't be match fit for a while. Much was made of Cole Stockton not being in Morecambe's last squad, but I'd heard he had Covid.

No I know I’m just saying why I think it makes sense. 
I know FV can be questioned over a few points but I think the way they run the club is very clever and thought out. It’s not to make a quick buck, or to get giddy but it’s ran well especially with the transfer policies. Putting the little foundations in for a steady ship 

5 minutes ago, MickyD said:

Who? Charles or Doyle? Either way, maybe they need to work on their internal communications.

Doyle sorry.

58 minutes ago, tomski said:

His Wife has responded on twitter saying it’s the first she’s heard on this move.

Maybe it is 

Or maybe it's been in the pipeline for some time 

Either way, I wouldn't be looking to wags for anything ITK

41 minutes ago, Zico said:

Maybe it is 

Or maybe it's been in the pipeline for some time 

Either way, I wouldn't be looking to wags for anything ITK

Fair points. You’d assume she would have an idea about moving country though.

Again only a guess but I suspect it’s a fall out of sarce gate if true

Well we should know tomorrow on Doyle because if a deal has been done he won’t be playing but if it hasn’t then he should be out there.

Well, no club confirmation and evatt saying Doyle situation is just rumours.

So he's not gone then. Yet.

35 minutes ago, tomski said:

Fair points. You’d assume she would have an idea about moving country though.

Again only a guess but I suspect it’s a fall out of sarce gate if true

Yeah i reckon she'd know all about it but not likely to tell all on twitter 

I reckon you're right re: fallout 

We've get two underperforming high end earners off the books so can't complain really 

Now hope evatt can do his thing in the transfer market like he did last jan

16 minutes ago, Zico said:

Yeah i reckon she'd know all about it but not likely to tell all on twitter 

I reckon you're right re: fallout 

We've get two underperforming high end earners off the books so can't complain really 

Now hope evatt can do his thing in the transfer market like he did last jan

There are still enough matches left for Bolton to be promoted this season, but it will cost the owners a lot more money to sign a few very good 3rd tier players than it did to sign a few very good 4th tier players.If that's the plan.

3 minutes ago, Roger_Dubuis said:

There are still enough matches left for Bolton to be promoted this season, but it will cost the owners a lot more money to sign a few very good 3rd tier players than it did to sign a few very good 4th tier players.If that's the plan.

I meant just to improve the squad and get them on an upward trajectory, not necessarily the play offs, but I'd take top half and PJ final

47 minutes ago, Whitesince63 said:

Well we should know tomorrow on Doyle because if a deal has been done he won’t be playing but if it hasn’t then he should be out there.

Or he's injured/covid riddled 

15 minutes ago, Roger_Dubuis said:

There are still enough matches left for Bolton to be promoted this season, but it will cost the owners a lot more money to sign a few very good 3rd tier players than it did to sign a few very good 4th tier players.If that's the plan.

Defo plenty of time. I trust Evatt in transfer market. Let’s see what he can do.

Be a bit of a worry if Doyle does go and it turns out Dion is a like for like swap and we don’t bring in another striker as well . Doyle’s didn’t seem to get injured much and was ever present . Bako hasn’t been fit for more than a couple of weeks at a time . Dion hasn’t played this season so knowing our luck hamstring waiting to happen 

Maybe Politic is coming back?

Just listening to iles buff podcast , he is saying the dion charles fee is 320k in installments and reckons it is done

Edited December 31, 20214 yr by burnden

Could get 4 in for the cost of Doyle & Sarce's wages.

32 minutes ago, Traf said:

Could get 4 in for the cost of Doyle & Sarce's wages.

4 good uns?

2 hours ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

Maybe Politic is coming back?

We won’t see him again

I don’t see Politic coming back he turned the contract offer down.

Evatt doesn’t want politic going of is previous comments .

only reason I can think of was turning the contract down when offered Then Doyle and sarc I think the Plymouth stuff if true marked there card . 

mangers live and die by it but worked out well for fergie when he bombed the drinking culture out of Man U  and at the time there better players