• Squad
    16 May 2024, 9:47 a.m.

    3% didn’t renew which seems like they make up a good 50% of the #nffc timeline on twatter.

  • 16 May 2024, 9:49 a.m.

    Surely they just won't bother selling those 600.

  • 16 May 2024, 9:59 a.m.

    Checked those three - Arsenal's player is Nwaneri, who played 13 minutes at West Ham, a game they won 6-0, Brentford's is Michael Olakigbe, who came off the bench 8 times, totalling 51 minutes and Fulham's is Luke Harris who came on as a sub once (for 74 minutes).

    It's just not enough data to draw conclusions from.

    Incidentally, the two Burnley players were Trafford and Ramsey, who they paid about £15m each for, so hardly a ringing endorsement of Burnley's academy.

  • 16 May 2024, 10:05 a.m.

    How do either of those players count at all? Makes a mockery of the data

  • 16 May 2024, 10:07 a.m.
  • 16 May 2024, 10:12 a.m.

    I like Grant but he has an agenda and he's clearly cherry-picked to make the case he wants to.

  • 16 May 2024, 10:33 a.m.
  • 16 May 2024, 11:29 a.m.

    I'm hoping for some sort of priority system whereby members with X games attended this season get first dibs. I should be pretty high up on the list if they do it like that.

  • 16 May 2024, 11:31 a.m.

    That would make the most sense. So it will probably be a free for all.

  • 16 May 2024, 11:31 a.m.

    I'd still rather it was Osong (DoB 21/9/04) being given Premier League minutes ahead of another young forward (DoB 28/4/05) who was supposedly signed as "one for the future", but coincidentally happens to be a client of the manager's best friend/agent and goes straight into the first-team squad.
    If we don't rate Osong, why have we given him a new contract?

  • 16 May 2024, 11:41 a.m.
  • 16 May 2024, 11:44 a.m.

    I hope they realise they need to be transparent in what that means. (ha ha).

  • 16 May 2024, 1:59 p.m.

    Uhhh… for the same reason we gave Joe Worrall a new contract? Because otherwise he walks away for nothing, whereas this way we get a fee for him. Rocket science it is not.

  • 16 May 2024, 4:07 p.m.

    That's what I thought, but then I was querying, given how much we'd actually get for him, whether it was worth it. Presume the kicker is ensuring a sell-on fee in case he goes somewhere else on the cheap and suddenly becomes the English Haaland.