I think people are discussing whether we’d get more under a tribunal were he to stay until the summer then leave if he refuses to sign a new contract.
January transfer rumours
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GillsBluenose
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I think we are talking about the news, if correct, that Jefferies is not interested in signing a new deal with us.
I therefore assumed that his current deal expires in the summer and the amount Cambridge are likely to offer now would reflect that.
Decision time?
EDIT - Lark beat me to it.
nibbles
Vital Football Hero
I thank the honourable gentleman for acknowledging my omnipotent knowledge of all things in existence.
Anyway, yeah, erm, it was a test. Well done for passing.
I believe what I said is relevant only to transfers from non league sides to EFL sides. Using all of my procrastination skills I’ve found a fairly definitive answer from the EFL handbook as per the pictures.
The ‘substantiated interest’ clause may be our biggest ally should DJ move in the summer (which now looks very unlikely).
Play up Brompton
Vital Youth Team
At last the club has got wise to players who want to run down their contracts and are then in a favourable position to negotiate a better signing on fee. Dont worry about the contractual side as Mr Scally will be following the Peterborough template and in the process of screwing Cambrige to the floor.
NWBluesFan
Vital Squad Member
Running down a contract is negligent unless the financial reward outweighs the risk and is likely.
DJ is a promising young player who will continue to improve. He's not the finished article by any stretch, but being blunt based on his play this year, nor is he integral to this team. On paper, he's superb.
If he's leaving in the summer, we should recoup now. Same goes for anyone.
DJ is a promising young player who will continue to improve. He's not the finished article by any stretch, but being blunt based on his play this year, nor is he integral to this team. On paper, he's superb.
If he's leaving in the summer, we should recoup now. Same goes for anyone.
Therealwaldo
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It really, really isn’t as simple as that. The financial outcomes in relation to promotion or not promotion, relegation or staying up are huge. If we had a 20 goal a season striker and he was coming to the end of a contract would we seriously be talking about offloading him and giving up on promotion ? I think not.
JoeScout
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Probably League One, I don't see him as technically proficient enough for anything higher than that. Stands out for us thanks to his energy levels, don't see a footballer who can run a game in there though. If he isn't doing that at this level then his ceiling isn't going to be massively high. Similar to Mark Byrne maybe, that sort of level.
nibbles
Vital Football Hero
I’ll never forgive Scally for selling SBT and giving up on promotion in 1999/2000.
EagerExile
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Er...didn't we get promoted that season? Or am I being whooshed?
Yes funnily enough I was saying the other day I think the team now is missing a Mark Byrne type, a dynamic midfielder who can offer something going forward as well as having defensive attributes.
For all the praise Coleman gets, he hasn’t scored a goal yet and don’t think he’s had many assists either. Appreciate he’s mainly in the team to break up the opposition play and protect our defence, but he could do with someone else alongside him who gets up the pitch more.
Jefferies can do that on his day but is very inconsistent, and tends not to have much of an impact in away games.
Therealwaldo
Vital Squad Member
Probably cost us automatic and left us in the lottery of the playoffs.
Therealwaldo
Vital Squad Member
He was being ironic. But you could argue that the loss of SBT cost us an automatic spot but with football, who can tell.
GillsBluenose
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A bit of a surprise if NH only signs Jefferies from us, as I never saw him listed as one of the famous "mates" 
chris who
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You could also argue that it allowed us more time to build a side that could compete at Championship level .Had we lost him late in the following summer the problem could have been far worse for Hessy.We were able to improve on our starting X1 that summer.
bathnightattheminogu
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You just can’t help yourself, can you?A bit of a surprise if NH only signs Jefferies from us, as I never saw him listed as one of the famous "mates"
nibbles
Vital Football Hero
To be fair, I have often daydreamed about what Asaba & Taylor would have done for the Gills in the Championship (and following year in the Premier League).
Therealwaldo
Vital Squad Member
Were you asleep when Asaba played for us in the Championship ? Hence the dreams ? Taylor did as well but only on loan from Wolves.
nibbles
Vital Football Hero
But sadly never played as a partnership.
Scally rolled the dice several times (and lost). Dack being the prime example. Was it JoeScout, I think, that estimated we’d foregone £6m in transfers.
Therealwaldo
Vital Squad Member
Sadly not in the Championship, true.
