Yet again at Pittodrie, we have been let down by the Management team.

 

Year after year the scenario we are facing happens at the club.

 

When are we going to sort this whole mess out to save losing half our team, by staggering contracts?

 

Three year deals, at least, should be getting offered, and we then should be speaking to the player at least 18 months into it, to enable the club to gauge the feeling of the player. If it is felt the player wants to move on, we can get them transfer listed and sold on, thus enabling the club to benefit from a transfer fee.

 

Again, it looks like we are going to be losing some very important players in the squad, and with the likely outcome that we will receive very little, if anything, back in return.

 

The club is being run by amateurs.

 

I'm sick of it!

 

 

What a mess.

with the meagre and very variable finances available to afc year on year, it's not possible to sign a player up for a contract that will run 5 years into the future.  A dismal cup run, and low league finish may mean that the club has to rely on increasing debt to get by, not an attractive solution.

Hibs manage to squeeze 5 year deals out of their players.

 

Then again, they have a fairly decent youth set-up at Easter Road.

 

Lets not go there either....

 

As far as I was aware they were all offered 3 year deals.

Lets not forget when we were handing out 5 year deals and having to pay off under-performing players with 2 years of their deals still to go.

 

Kiriakov (sp?) spent a good 3 years of his contract playing pool at Reilly's whilst picking up his pay cheque.

Yeah they were offered 3 year deals, but who was the last player to sign for the club who was offered any more than a 2 year deal?

 

Offering only 2 year deals cuts down the number of players who are available for signing for the club, as most clubs offer 3 year deals.

 

A 2 year deal only enables the club to get one season out of the player before they are in the last year of their contrract....thus only 6 months before being able to sign a pre-contract agreement with another club.

My frustration on the whole situation cannot be expressed coherently. (no change there then)?! This smacks of amateurism I reckon caldo is trying tio figure out if he has to rebuild his squad from scratch, and probably in a worse situation than when he first came to Aberdeen.If so he will leave.  If this was any other company about to loose its most valuable assests there would be sackings and "mutual agreements" at a senior level, but cos its a football club, these numbskulls get away with it time and time again!!!  AAAAAARRRRRGGGHHH!!!!

Agreed, there were contracts handed out to players who didn't deserve them. Kiriakov, Bernard, Tzetanov, etc....

 

But remember that they were also on very large wages for the club. Nowadays the contracts are for a lot less money.

But its the point that THESE CONTRACTS WERE NOT STAGGERED!!!! never mind the length of contract, its almost immaterial if it means that you dont lose half your squad in one go!A good point was made, why were these players not spoken to yonks ago?! :hammer:

Yes Langfield has just signed a 3 year contract, but he was, (I believe), on a 2 year deal. If he had walked now as it looks as if the rest are, it would just show the Management to be even more incompetent.

 

The club were lucky he didn't want to go to.... 

I've seen nothing since the Copenhagen game that warrants any contracts being upped.  Zander and Nicolson have 'it' but seem to go through spells of showing it, the other two could be replaced easily enough.

 

I see Miller is also beginning to noise up an improved deal.  Well fuck him too, as he seems to have reverted to wearing his slippers and falling over anytime someone is near him.

 

As the management team said a few years ago, we only want players who want to play for the club.  There's plenty of players out there who'd love to be swapping shirts at full time with Frank Ribery, Oliver Kahn, Luis Garcia, Jose Antonio Reyes and Jesper Grønkjær.

Deals will be done but not for all 4.

 

Zander will fetch an OK transfer fee but I'd rather he stay.

Miller is our top scorer this season and until something comes along to improve on things we need him.

Hart is a rock in our defense that cannot be let go.

Clark can go; it's a plain as that.