Shaw

People used to say Simon Bryant was going to Manchester Utd. He went to Mangotsfield Utd.

I know you’re being flippant, but turn your mind back to 2004/05.  It was clear Scott Sinclair wasn’t going to sign a professional contract. With ten games to go, our season was over.  The fee was going to be decided by a tribunal. Atkins gave him a couple of five minute run outs at the end of the season; and we got fook all for him. 

I hope Kofi will sign a new contract, but I’m also realistic.  And I also think he’s good enough to get games in the first team this season.  

Give him a decent amount of minutes, and if he does decide to leave, we can prove that he’s a first team player and we should get a fair fee for him.

Shaw's challenge at present is to get back on the bench ahead of either Thomas or Forde, let alone worry about playing or getting a new contract.

To me it’s perfectly simple, Taylor either picks him for at least the bench, or gives him a first team run out, or sells him, either way it’s not going to affect our season of struggle, if he plays well, he’ll be gone in a heart beat, plays poorly everyone will try and wrap him up in cotton wool, and this thread will be 300 pages long by Easter

£200k was the tribunal fee, with add-ons I believe it was eventually just below £400k, or £600k in today's money.  

Any fee for Kofi will be way below what some think he’s worth on here. There’s way too much jeopardy for clubs to spend too much and it’s likely it’ll be a nominal fee with lots of incentives and add ons depending on his progress.

I have no doubt whatsoever that his appearances so far have had one eye on pushing the fees up.

Is he ready to play right now? In my opinion no, not in a million years.

Will he get games over the course of the season? Maybe….with the idea of pushing his value up we may pick and choose some games but it’s very very unlikely he’ll be picked on merit.

At the moment we had a subs bench Tuesday, that did t even include Ward, Sousa or Moore and we still have Senior and Martin to return.

Thats 12 players ahead of him before we even mention Micah Anthony who’s not even made a squad yet who I’d consider more equipped right now to affect games.

Age, maturation, level of football he’s been playing at since he was 8 and the environment and coaching he’ll have received within that, what I’ve seen of him so far….most importantly…”I’d consider more equipped” so my opinion 👍

The manager is being put under pressure to play him, the club want him gone asap to bring in a fee, we are the PR machine going to Nixon the journo. I sat next to Barry Fry and a gentleman was between me and Sir Alex at London Road, I thought then, why has this kid been thrown in the deep end here, it was a suicide mission. Shaw was totally out of his depth, we were totally over run, it was the wrong game to groom him, regardless of his talent.

We tried to sell Jed Ward last season and it’s why he got a 5 year deal. The pressure this club is putting on a 17 year old child is a disgrace, we are the PR machine pumping all this. A proper caring and well run club, the individual at heart, would be nurturing like Exeter did with Ollie Watkins, not hawking him all over the place to a quick transfer fee in.

It’s a disgrace what has happened to our club, the FA fit and proper persons test is a disgrace as well. I love the German model of fan ownership, I look at Exeter over achieving over us compared to our budget, fan owned.

Kofi Shaw should be at FGR on loan now, getting regular starts like Zamora did but instead we’ve got Friend being instructed to contact people in the game.