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Does it make any difference to contract lengths offered to new players (obviously they don't have to accept them)?
Do clubs shorten them in case they have to get rid since the players are less desirable and might only be used to get us promotion??
Or is it just business as usual.
i honestly don't know the answer to this.
 
It should depend on the business model the club wish to adopt.

Sadly it would appear we don’t have one as we ripped up plan A for Rodgers in the summer of Daka, Soumare and the Saints.

Since then we’ve been scrabbling round like a pub gambler convinced the fruity is about to pay out if we just stick another quid in.
 
Tuz_Not_Tuzz said:
Does it make any difference to contract lengths offered to new players (obviously they don't have to accept them)?
Do clubs shorten them in case they have to get rid since the players are less desirable and might only be used to get us promotion??
Or is it just business as usual.
i honestly don't know the answer to this.
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Just guessing here but apart from expecting to see a return to utilising the loan market a bit more (again... for the sort of reasons you describe) I would imagine that it will depend on the profile of the players & the fees we are paying. Generally I would expect the larger the fee (I mean the sort of fee not usually seen in the Championship) then the longer the contract and it would be a risk. So, yes, I would imagine shorter contract periods generally with exceptions but not always because of us, also the player's needs. For example, if we can get younger players with promise considerably cheaper than we have been then I would imagine maybe slightly shorter initial terms than we have been seeing (e.g. 3 years as opposed to 5) with extensions offered on a regular basis if things go well (a promising youngster would not want to commit to 5 years for a Championship club I suspect). More experienced and cheap I think you will see much shorter terms.
 
buz_not_buzz said:
Just guessing here but apart from expecting to see a return to utilising the loan market a bit more (again... for the sort of reasons you describe) I would imagine that it will depend on the profile of the players & the fees we are paying. Generally I would expect the larger the fee (I mean the sort of fee not usually seen in the Championship) then the longer the contract and it would be a risk. So, yes, I would imagine shorter contract periods generally with exceptions but not always because of us, also the player's needs. For example, if we can get younger players with promise considerably cheaper than we have been then I would imagine maybe slightly shorter initial terms than we have been seeing (e.g. 3 years as opposed to 5) with extensions offered on a regular basis if things go well (a promising youngster would not want to commit to 5 years for a Championship club I suspect). More experienced and cheap I think you will see much shorter terms.
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TartanFox said:
It should depend on the business model the club wish to adopt.
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And, yes, this But fear not, I understand the business model is currently being sketched out on the back of a fag packet during last orders down The Globe as we speak.
 
Where I live car dealers don't put prices on their cars, so when they know you are Foreign/British and interested in a car the price seem to increase by 30%. The same sort of scenario will probably apply to LCFC in buying players from the lower leagues. Once they know a so called ex Premier league club is after one their players, then the asking price for that player may increase substantially.
 
AlgarFox said:
Where I live car dealers don't put prices on their cars, so when they know you are Foreign/British and interested in a car the price seem to increase by 30%. The same sort of scenario will probably apply to LCFC in buying players from the lower leagues. Once they know a so called ex Premier league club is after one their players, then the asking price for that player may increase substantially.
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Maybe but "substantially" will be relative in those cases anyway. I.e. Substantial compared to what they might be looking for from a team not recently in the Premier League. If LCFC pop along with an offer that represents 10% or more of their annual revenue (so taking a couple of examples from 2021/22 in Plymouth & Charlton whose revenues - so excluding player sales - were £11m & £9m respectively) then would they say no?

Mind you I don't think, for all of our issues, that buying wholesale from the lower leagues (below the Championship) is likely to be the model at this point anyway.

But I suspect the general point about prices being asked for players adjusting based on perceived wealth will be true regardless of who we are buying from. As it did in 2016/17 & 2021/22. Which is why they need a clear strategy going into it all and knowing that from an FFP perspective Parachute Payments will decrease substantially over the course of the 3 seasons in which (I think) they are paid (say £60m, £40m, £20m... zilch) should we fail to bounce back.
 
buz_not_buzz said:
I reckon our wage bill alone would seem to suggest that we have been.
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It's also a bit of self fulfilling prophecy.
We were looking to go toe to toe with the big boys, and paying those fees/wages might've put the hierarchy in a state of mind that we'd made it because we could afford it rather than looking for bargains (of course we still got some of those).
 
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