Binosh wrote:
If we are going to continue signing players on 12 month deals we might aswell give up now.
I think the fear is emulating the collection of 19 player's that Cunningham brought to the club for the '18 season, most of them couldn't be bothered other than turning up each week and holding out their hand for payment, it was a team that was expected to run away with the Championship - all the experts and scribes thought so - and have enough quality player's to make the transition the following year to SL hence contracts being longer than 12 months.
This is the problem any Championship team has, a squad of player's brought into a club capable of being successful in winning promotion may not nessacarilly be good enough to compete in SL, if you want confirmation of that look at the team put together by the Brian's Noble & McDermott at Toronto to good for the Championship nowhere near good enough for SL.
So where do we find player's capable of making that transition of both divisions and more to the point how much will it cost?
This is a reason that I think that if promoted Toulouse will suffer in SL, unless they have enough players who's contracts expire this season because it could cost double for a replacement for each player, I should imagine that if a player who's contract goes into the following season and the club decides to terminate that contact the club will have to honour that contract which I should imagine would be deemed as 'wages' and would be counted as part of the Salery cap then it would also cost to replace the player released hence why I was saying it would cost double.
So kn my opinion any player brought in on a contract over 12 months will have to be capable of performing in SL, so he will most likely be a SL player now, if not offer a 12 month contract with the caveat that he can earn himself another contract through his on-field performance.
