Gary's January Transfer Window

[edwin_price]

Another thing we ought to be looking to do in January is negotiating a severance deal with James Scott.

 

[MJP_Exeter]

Another thing we ought to be looking to do in January is negotiating a severance deal with James Scott.

Either way we would have to pay up Scott's contract, so may as well keep him as a player until the end of the season, but unless, like Caldwell we see dramatic change, he should be gone.

Maybe we could persuade Torquay to take him on loan for six months.

 

[edwin_price]

Either way we would have to pay up Scott's contract, so may as well keep him as a player until the end of the season, but unless, like Caldwell we see dramatic change, he should be gone.

Maybe we could persuade Torquay to take him on loan for six months.

Yes, but you could keep him for the length of his contract and pay 100%, or you could shake hands and wave goodbye, give him a model of a spitfire, for an agreed percentage of the remainder. The benefit to us is that it's less than 100%, the benefit to him is he no longer has to come to work in Exeter and he gets the money up front. He can either sign for another club, move to Scotland, go hiking in the Pyrenees and have a good old think about things, etc... If he's told he won't play, there'll probably a percentage less than 100% he'd accept for no longer having to come in.

 

[edwin_price]

We could even try to insert a clause in his contract that if the club he signs for plays against us, he HAS to play.

 

[Grecianman135]

We could even try to insert a clause in his contract that if the club he signs for plays against us, he HAS to play.

Knowing our luck he'd turn into prime Ronaldo playing against us..

 

[tom_ecfc]

Knowing our luck he'd turn into prime Ronaldo playing against us..

 

[Grecianman135]

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I'd still take a fat Ronaldo over Scott and Muskwe

(Great pic btw)

 

[MJP_Exeter]

Yes, but you could keep him for the length of his contract and pay 100%, or you could shake hands and wave goodbye, give him a model of a spitfire, for an agreed percentage of the remainder. The benefit to us is that it's less than 100%, the benefit to him is he no longer has to come to work in Exeter and he gets the money up front. He can either sign for another club, move to Scotland, go hiking in the Pyrenees and have a good old think about things, etc... If he's told he won't play, there'll probably a percentage less than 100% he'd accept for no longer having to come in.

Scott would have to agree to that though if he where to take less than his contract. He would be mad to do that imho and I cannot see him doing that. Scott in essence has six months to save his football league / professional career.

 

[edwin_price]

Scott would have to agree to that though if he where to take less than his contract. He would be mad to do that imho and I cannot see him doing that. Scott in essence has six months to save his football league / professional career.

Why would he be mad? If he took 75% of his remaining salary and he no longer has to come in. He can either retire if he can't get another club, or he could get a deal at, e.g. a conference club on half the salary... which would still see him up, financially. In order to get 100% of his salary, he has to live in Exeter and continue coming into work.

 

[MJP_Exeter]

Why would he be mad? If he took 75% of his remaining salary and he no longer has to come in. He can either retire if he can't get another club, or he could get a deal at, e.g. a conference club on half the salary... which would still see him up, financially. In order to get 100% of his salary, he has to live in Exeter and continue coming into work.

Maybe. I mean It is certainly not without worth asking the question and don't disagree with the principle of asking the question to free up a little money for an alternative, but I don't think Scott would take it tbh, I think he would be thinking I need to stay and try to prove myself to at least give himself a shot at a better club / deal after us.