Just a few things to add.
As others have said, we can offer new/extended contracts with better terms as much as we want. If an in form player has his agent in his ear claiming bigger clubs with a good signing on fee and better wages are interested then it don’t matter what we offer, we’re bollocksed.
Listening to the stimpson interview the other week (thanks again MarkinKent for pointing it out) he said Charlton offered a huge sum for Simon king. It was his call whether we sold him or not, PS gave him the choice. Stimpson said let’s build the team around him, they gave him a new contract, tripled his wages then he played that bloody Bromley game and never recovered. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t......
Dack wasn’t sold when we were flying high. As with Graham this year.
As a few have said earlier, I do think if Scally can see improvement and a professionalism emanating from the players and management team then he will butt out and back them. That has clearly happened under Evans. Most managers all state what a good chairman he is to work under. Again, even after getting sacked Stimpson only had good words about him. As did Taylor the first time, Hess, Martin Allen too I think. I feel the “interim” managers, the ones just keeping things afloat until we get the funds for a crack at promotion maybe don’t get afforded the same control. The likes of Adie, jepson and Lovell.
