2025/26 Ins & Outs Discussion

[thewelllfan]

Was the talk at the AGM not that Jens was on a rolling 1 year deal. On Olly Whyte you'd expect he'd be offered a new deal with a view of getting him involved next season. I think also as we have a co-op agreement with Stenhousemuir should the last few games end up with little meaning he'll probably play some minutes.

[weeyin]

53 minutes ago, thewelllfan said:

Was the talk at the AGM not that Jens was on a rolling 1 year deal. On Olly Whyte you'd expect he'd be offered a new deal with a view of getting him involved next season. I think also as we have a co-op agreement with Stenhousemuir should the last few games end up with little meaning he'll probably play some minutes.

For what it's worth, in his interview in The Herald recently, Whyte said he wanted to continue develop his career with us. (Of course, he would say that).

[joewarkfanclub]

2 hours ago, thewelllfan said:

Was the talk at the AGM not that Jens was on a rolling 1 year deal. On Olly Whyte you'd expect he'd be offered a new deal with a view of getting him involved next season. I think also as we have a co-op agreement with Stenhousemuir should the last few games end up with little meaning he'll probably play some minutes.

It was described as an "Open Contract" the terms of which are not known, but some with knowledge of these things described as a normal employment contract with a notice period on either side.

Basically we wont be getting big compo for him. If a club comes in that he fancies he will be allowed to talk to them......

Im pretty fine with that. We had no way of knowing at the start whether he was gonna be a success or not and he has made us plenty money already on increased gate money and prize money. Not to mention the other sellable assets we now have in the squad.

[Big Stall]

6 hours ago, joewarkfanclub said:

It was described as an "Open Contract" the terms of which are not known, but some with knowledge of these things described as a normal employment contract with a notice period on either side.

Basically we wont be getting big compo for him. If a club comes in that he fancies he will be allowed to talk to them......

Im pretty fine with that. We had no way of knowing at the start whether he was gonna be a success or not and he has made us plenty money already on increased gate money and prize money. Not to mention the other sellable assets we now have in the squad.

Which is all true but we could give him a deserved hefty uplift in wages. Means compo increases & you never know may help increase his loyalty.

Of course, that may have already happened & we just dont know.

[joewarkfanclub]

21 minutes ago, Big Stall said:

Which is all true but we could give him a deserved hefty uplift in wages. Means compo increases & you never know may help increase his loyalty.

Of course, that may have already happened & we just dont know.

Im all for that.

I trust the board will be doing everything they can to keep him.

If ever there was a Motherwell manager that could ask for whatever they want, Jens is probably about as close as it gets.

If we sell Maswanhise we dont really need to sell anyone else in the close season. (Caveat being we would need to source a replacement to support Eythor).

If we could guarantee the rest of his team was kept together for a proper tilt at Europe, then maybe, just maybe......

[weeyin]

Sell JT ASAP in the summer, because I still think he might be a 9 or 10 goals a season striker elsewhere next season, including Fir Park

[joewarkfanclub]

1 hour ago, weeyin said:

Sell JT ASAP in the summer, because I still think he might be a 9 or 10 goals a season striker elsewhere next season, including Fir Park

Shhhhhhh!

[purestate]

2 hours ago, weeyin said:

Sell JT ASAP in the summer, because I still think he might be a 9 or 10 goals a season striker elsewhere next season, including Fir Park

Agree although he is still young and could improve overall as a player but is unlikely to be main striker at many clubs.  

Now if we could persuade someone to buy the joint 11th goal scorer in SPFL (a goal every 1.6 games) for a couple of million that would be a deal worth making  😉 

[thewelllfan]

If we can get 4-5M for Maswanhise in the summer and that lets us keep hold of the rest of the team I'd be buzzing. The problem also is though that we market ourselves to players by telling them we'll put them in the shop window so if we start turning down bids for the likes of Just, Watt etc then we'll be left with unhappy players and most likely a new manager having to pick up the peices. Hopefully Sydney or someone else make an offer for Stama and we can shift him off the wage bill as well.

[texanwellfan]

3 hours ago, thewelllfan said:

If we can get 4-5M for Maswanhise in the summer and that lets us keep hold of the rest of the team I'd be buzzing. The problem also is though that we market ourselves to players by telling them we'll put them in the shop window so if we start turning down bids for the likes of Just, Watt etc then we'll be left with unhappy players and most likely a new manager having to pick up the peices. Hopefully Sydney or someone else make an offer for Stama and we can shift him off the wage bill as well.

I can see that ending up as a “by mutual consent”