Welldaft Mk1 Posted May 23, 2012 Report Share Posted May 23, 2012 Crags' and Clancy's wages (or most of them) are hopefully available. You would like to think so, but according to this article McCall has had to shave £200,000k off the budget! Craigan and Clancy and Forbes would probably come to that mount or just over.....food for thought... http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/322083/McCall-could-lose-both-Clancy-and-Jennings Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haggischomper Posted May 23, 2012 Report Share Posted May 23, 2012 Cummins will be pushing for start time at the back and Saunders will be back too. Would like to see Devlin push on too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steelboy Posted May 23, 2012 Report Share Posted May 23, 2012 if that is the books balanced now we will probably have to lose jenno or sell to get anyone in. a team for europe at the moment? randolph hateley saunders hutchy hammell humphrey carsewell lasley law murphy higdon i was thinking hateley might play in midfield in europe with saunders at right back the same as the last time we were involved but it looks like saunders will be at CB. getting either jenno or a new centre mid is the priority. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finlay Posted May 24, 2012 Report Share Posted May 24, 2012 £200,000 is a massive amount of money to lose off the budget. As it stands, and if we keep the rest of the out of contract stars, then that will be our squad for next season. Possibly with a cheap loan deal or two. Everyone is for sale but I would think Randolph and Murphy, possibly Hutch could get sold. Then we can think about bringing people in. Be very difficult for McCall to replicate this season in the next campaign. One positive is that virtually every other Club is slashing their budgets. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haggischomper Posted May 24, 2012 Report Share Posted May 24, 2012 Out of leftfield perhaps but it wouldn't surprise me if Law was sold Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henry Posted May 24, 2012 Report Share Posted May 24, 2012 Think the squad will be decimated in the weeks to come ,Jennings will be away, and I think we should brace ourselves for a number of players being sold ,Hutchy, Law ,Murphy and Randolph could all be away. We have enjoyed success as a club for a few seasons now but I'm afraid the lean years have arrived and it will be bottom six and perhaps a few relegation battles in the foreseeable future. Sorry to be so gloomy but that's just my thoughts on the matter . 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stu Posted May 24, 2012 Report Share Posted May 24, 2012 Clancy > Reynolds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
postiejim Posted May 24, 2012 Report Share Posted May 24, 2012 Think the squad will be decimated in the weeks to come ,Jennings will be away, and I think we should brace ourselves for a number of players being sold ,Hutchy, Law ,Murphy and Randolph could all be away. We have enjoyed success as a club for a few seasons now but I'm afraid the lean years have arrived and it will be bottom six and perhaps a few relegation battles in the foreseeable future. Sorry to be so gloomy but that's just my thoughts on the matter . Well that's certainly a glass half empty comment there henry , it could happen in the worst case scenario im sure but i dont think we will lose all the players youve mentioned .Clancy did very well for us and i wish him all the best ,but he wont be missed . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snap19 Posted May 24, 2012 Report Share Posted May 24, 2012 Reynolds has just bought a new house in Motherwell.... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Posted May 24, 2012 Report Share Posted May 24, 2012 Think the squad will be decimated in the weeks to come ,Jennings will be away, and I think we should brace ourselves for a number of players being sold ,Hutchy, Law ,Murphy and Randolph could all be away. We have enjoyed success as a club for a few seasons now but I'm afraid the lean years have arrived and it will be bottom six and perhaps a few relegation battles in the foreseeable future. Sorry to be so gloomy but that's just my thoughts on the matter . Where does that come from? If it's lean years for us, it'll be similar for the rest of the SPL. I do wonder in what way we're budgetting, if we're considering the possibility of no rangers? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grant Posted May 24, 2012 Report Share Posted May 24, 2012 2 words - Brian Kerr. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finlay Posted May 24, 2012 Report Share Posted May 24, 2012 Better monthly wages > CL football > Europa League football. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mad Dog Posted May 24, 2012 Report Share Posted May 24, 2012 How can shite like the sheep and hibs who have had shite seasons still offer better wages than us? Either we're being overly cautious or they are both heading towards administration, surely. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haggischomper Posted May 24, 2012 Report Share Posted May 24, 2012 We get crowds of 4500. They don't. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lobey_Dosser Posted May 24, 2012 Report Share Posted May 24, 2012 STV suggesting taht hibs are also keen on Jennings. Don't think we will keep him but losing him to another SPL side would be a sore one. £4k a week off the wage bill? Hopefully we can sell a Randolph or a Humphrey and boost the wage budget. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmmfc Posted May 24, 2012 Report Share Posted May 24, 2012 Hopefully Jennings signs a new deal. Jenno should look at Paul Lambert for what could happen if he plays well against a big European team. 2 outstanding games against Dortmund and his career soared from there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy_P Posted May 24, 2012 Report Share Posted May 24, 2012 Quite sorry to see Clancy go actually. I had grown to like him and rated him considerably more than when he first arrived at the club. I also quite liked that there was a hardness about him occasionally verging into dirty bastard territory, which isn't generally prevalent in our team. He walked a fine line more than a few times granted but I think we may miss his physicality on occasion. McCall was spot on in the comments attributed to him in the Express though. For a short-term deal it went as well anyone could have hoped for, both for player and club. Having said that of the first teamers offered deals for me he would be the most expendable. Hammell, Lasley and Jennings are the key players to be re-signed. We've got Hammell sorted so if Clancy's decision to go allowed the club to make a more convincing case to the other two then I could happily live with that, in the knowledge that we have Saunders coming back. Depth to the squad appears to be a concern at the moment but given we're not out of May yet at least we are getting some clarity early on as to what area's need to be sorted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fatcalf Posted May 24, 2012 Report Share Posted May 24, 2012 If we can keep those mentioned and not forced to sell then I'd be happy enough at this stage. Depth of squad can be addressed as get nearer the Champions League but to me top prioirty had to keeping as many as possible of the squad who did so well to get us where we are now. Once that's done we have to be wary of late bids for sellable players obviously but can move on to finding players to fill the gaps we have. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joeboy Posted May 24, 2012 Report Share Posted May 24, 2012 McCall said the budget cut would mean there would be a 4k a week reduction in the wage bill. We already know Craigan, Clancy and Forbes wages are freed, which I'd imagine at least average at a four figure weekly sum between the three of them. Add to that Smith, Pollock, Halsman, Lawless, McKinnon and Bradley's wages are also freed- all of whom would have been on at least a couple of hundred a week. I reckon we are well on the road to having made the cut. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superwell87 Posted May 24, 2012 Report Share Posted May 24, 2012 Not to dis-heartend to see Clancy leave. I would be more worried if we lost Jenno and Las, which i am confident will not happen and they will both sign new deals. Best of luck to Clancy though (just not against us). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodge Posted May 24, 2012 Report Share Posted May 24, 2012 Add to that Smith, Pollock, Halsman, Lawless, McKinnon and Bradley's wages are also freed- all of whom would have been on at least a couple of hundred a week. I reckon we are well on the road to having made the cut. I see the wages off those guys being spent on the next crop of youngsters who will be making the step up from U16 and above to the periphery of the team rather than it being wages saved. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MFC-craig Posted May 24, 2012 Report Share Posted May 24, 2012 Apparently we are interested in Iain Vigurs, not a bad player but I don't know where he would fit in unless Murphy or Law are leaving. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superwell87 Posted May 24, 2012 Report Share Posted May 24, 2012 From P+B Apparently it was on Radio Scotland that we are after Tansey from Inverness. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe90 Posted May 24, 2012 Report Share Posted May 24, 2012 john barnes on twitter saying we are interested in greg tansey,decent player Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MelvinBragg Posted May 24, 2012 Report Share Posted May 24, 2012 Is Tansey not a centre midfielder? Jennings away? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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