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Post by wertongas on Jun 5, 2020 9:51:54 GMT
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Post by wertongas on Jun 5, 2020 9:55:42 GMT
Liam Sercombe did a great job for us when he first joined but I think his form in more recent time has not been so good.My only surprise is that players are not signing new contracts at this time when there are going to be a lot of players without a club.
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Post by Antonio Fargas on Jun 5, 2020 10:02:11 GMT
Bristol Post are reporting that Liam Sercombe is set to leave the club after he and the club have been unable to agree terms for a new contract I imagine they were after a pay cut.
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Post by daniel300380 on Jun 5, 2020 10:03:34 GMT
Liam Sercombe did a great job for us when he first joined but I think his form in more recent time has not been so good.My only surprise is that players are not signing new contracts at this time when there are going to be a lot of players without a club. Agree with what you said. We paid a few for him, so I expect he's on an ok wage for this level. If he's wanting the same money, we could probably get better and IMO he will be lucky to get a better deal elsewhere. Sort of player that I wouldn't mind if we kept him, but I'm not too disappointed, if he leaves.
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Post by gasandelectricity on Jun 5, 2020 10:07:57 GMT
Bitterly disappointed.
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Post by axegas on Jun 5, 2020 10:09:40 GMT
Big loss if true, a player that has helped us establish ourselves in league one and gained us some valuable points over the years. Never managed to recreate the form of his first season with us but still remained an important player if perhaps a bit inconsistent. Portsmouth at home this season, we were under the cosh for a good 70 minutes of the game, then Sercombe came on and sparked us into life, brilliant performance off the bench.
I suspect this means we are tightening our belts budget wise for next year and will be unable to offer contracts that we might of done in the previous few years.
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Post by Charlton Hayes Gas on Jun 5, 2020 10:09:49 GMT
Great player on his day, but sadly many of days don’t Happen as much now as they use to when he first joined. Hopefully gives Matthews and Hargreaves the chance to shine now In their favoured positions.
All the best Sercs!
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Post by 2nd May 1990 on Jun 5, 2020 10:16:48 GMT
Totally understandable decision by the club. A chance to get rid of a big earner in a worrying financial time. I like Sercs and we’ll certainly miss him. I’m guessing he has something lined up, otherwise he’d have held out for longer. We’re still paying the price for Bennett’s ridiculous contract as maybe if he wasn’t still with the club Sercs would probably have got a better contract offer. I know DC gets a lot of stick for this, but in the end Wael could have put his foot down and argued against the length of contract and the money we are paying him. Very naive, but hopefully a lesson learned.
It’s telling that we’ve moved fast to commit younger players to contracts and are due to start work on the training ground. It’s a clear commitment to developing youth and I’m sure there will be more experienced players on their way out. We will still need experience in the squad, though. I’d love Craig to stay on as I think he’d be ideal to bring the younger players on. Otherwise I can imagine we’ll look to pick up some more experienced players on cut-price contracts much closer to the start of next season.
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Post by Henbury Gas on Jun 5, 2020 10:24:21 GMT
When you have to make large cuts to the playing budget, players like Sercs are the first to go
Wish him well but can't see him going to a big club
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Post by pirate on Jun 5, 2020 10:28:03 GMT
Was very good for us the first season, but his form has been patchy at best ever since. I'd let him go, but obviously appreciate what he has done for the club and wish him all the very best for the future.
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Post by stevek192 on Jun 5, 2020 10:34:32 GMT
We do need to build the midfield pretty well from scratch and so hopefully Ollie Clarke will follow and would not be disappointed if they also transfer listed Upson and Agogo. It is an area where we definitely need a big improvement next season. I expect there will be the Fleetwood, Peterborough or similar who will continue to pay ridiculous wages for this division whilst the majority of clubs will reduce their wage bills considerably.
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Post by upthegass on Jun 5, 2020 10:38:34 GMT
think it’s about time for sercs to go has never reached the heights of his first season and isn’t getting any younger, i think we should bring in ethan chislett from aldershot as a replacement a young midfielder with 9 goals and 9 assists in the conference
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Post by Deleted on Jun 5, 2020 10:47:10 GMT
Bugger, i love Sercs. You would have thought that LS would be on of the ones that would benefit from BGs "philosophy" (or is it fantasy?).
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Post by peterparker on Jun 5, 2020 10:51:30 GMT
We do need to build the midfield pretty well from scratch and so hopefully Ollie Clarke will follow and would not be disappointed if they also transfer listed Upson and Agogo. It is an area where we definitely need a big improvement next season. I expect there will be the Fleetwood, Peterborough or similar who will continue to pay ridiculous wages for this division whilst the majority of clubs will reduce their wage bills considerably. we are clearly going younger Hargrevaes has re-signed, not sure what has happened with Russe. There is Lucas Tomlinson? Zain Walker? What about Matthews. is he out of contract? struck me as a Garner type of player I think we still have options in-house. Perhaps will be hard to know what the immediate future standard of L1 is going to be
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Post by Marshy on Jun 5, 2020 10:51:59 GMT
Bugger, i love Sercs. You would have thought that LS would be on of the ones that would benefit from BGs "philosophy" (or is it fantasy?). I bet they only offered him a one year deal too? At his age he probably needed/wanted a longer contract, which is understandable. Good luck to him though, he’s been a decent player for us.
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Post by teanbiscuits on Jun 5, 2020 10:56:10 GMT
Bugger, i love Sercs. You would have thought that LS would be on of the ones that would benefit from BGs "philosophy" (or is it fantasy?). I bet they only offered him a one year deal too? At his age he probably needed/wanted a longer contract, which is understandable. Good luck to him though, he’s been a decent player for us. I'm sure anyone in football would snap up a one year deal at the moment given the current climate.
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Post by blueridge on Jun 5, 2020 10:56:38 GMT
Thanks Sercombe but your time is up - underperformed in recent times so good bye and good luck. Feel the same can be said for Upson and Ollie Clarke - players that are probably playing in a division too high for their capabilities IMO.
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Post by Marshy on Jun 5, 2020 10:59:10 GMT
I bet they only offered him a one year deal too? At his age he probably needed/wanted a longer contract, which is understandable. Good luck to him though, he’s been a decent player for us. I'm sure anyone in football would snap up a one year deal at the moment given the current climate. Yes you’re probably right, which makes you think he already has something else lined up? Walsall anyone? 😁
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Post by Deleted on Jun 5, 2020 11:10:59 GMT
We do need to build the midfield pretty well from scratch and so hopefully Ollie Clarke will follow and would not be disappointed if they also transfer listed Upson and Agogo. It is an area where we definitely need a big improvement next season. I expect there will be the Fleetwood, Peterborough or similar who will continue to pay ridiculous wages for this division whilst the majority of clubs will reduce their wage bills considerably. we are clearly going younger Hargrevaes has re-signed, not sure what has happened with Russe. There is Lucas Tomlinson? Zain Walker? What about Matthews. is he out of contract? struck me as a Garner type of player I think we still have options in-house. Perhaps will be hard to know what the immediate future standard of L1 is going to be in pre season Lucas Tomlinson looked like the best player on the pitch against Kidderminster I’m still surprised he hasn’t got any sort of a look in this season. Bit lightweight but that’s to be expected of someone his age he will very much come into his own in the next few seasons
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Post by gasandelectricity on Jun 5, 2020 11:12:13 GMT
Those who think we will get someone better in. Do you honestly believe that we will get a better player than Sercombe in? Even vs how he has been performing over the last 12-18 months?
We’ll end up with some kids from some academy somewhere that our manager has ‘managed before’ that show some promise.
The ‘kids’ worked for Alex Ferguson. But will the cast offs work for our manager who still hasn’t proven anything?
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