Gabby - keep or let go

[JUAN PABLO]

No chance he will go! Sitting on a fat contract that pays for his numerous dalliances and their results over the years. He is not going to take half the money elsewhere.

You're right. He's got a good thing here, earning a shit load for not really doing anything.

How can anyone enjoy Christmas reading that.

[LTA]

Agbonlahor is going nowhere.He will keep quiet and patiently wait for Garde to be dispensed with then it's business as normal.Another one he has seen off bring on the next one

How far is he behind Charlie Aitkens record?

[PeterWithesShin]

About 250 league games.

[sickbeggar]

I'd pay his contract up. It would make a statement and put the fear of god up the rest of them if one of the "untouchables" was let go. I realise Lerner would shudder at the thought, but he's going to be nigh on useless for the length of his contact anyway so it's dead money. Watching him  sign for Bradford or similar for 2k a week, when he spends that on clothes, may spread a bit of cold hard reality amongst the squad

[LTA]

About 250 league games.

No chance if him breaking it then.  Would be travesty if he got it after years of offering half arsed displays

[rob_bridge]

I'd pay his contract up. It would make a statement and put the fear of god up the rest of them if one of the "untouchables" was let go. I realise Lerner would shudder at the thought, but he's going to be nigh on useless for the length of his contact anyway so it's dead money. Watching him  sign for Bradford or similar for 2k a week, when he spends that on clothes, may spread a bit of cold hard reality amongst the squad

Say we 'owe' him 7m for the rest of his contract, serious question to all would it be worth fucking him off for say 4m?

[Chris Jameson]

Rather than pay him up to let him go sign for somebody else they should give him a uniform and have him working one of the food concessions at the ground.

[sickbeggar]

I'd pay his contract up. It would make a statement and put the fear of god up the rest of them if one of the "untouchables" was let go. I realise Lerner would shudder at the thought, but he's going to be nigh on useless for the length of his contact anyway so it's dead money. Watching him  sign for Bradford or similar for 2k a week, when he spends that on clothes, may spread a bit of cold hard reality amongst the squad

Say we 'owe' him 7m for the rest of his contract, serious question to all would it be worth fucking him off for say 4m?

 He wouldn't take that i reckon. way i see it, if you get your contract paid up in full, you get hammered on the tax. Any pensions, tax saving schemes etc., designed to see out the length of your contract are fucked up. You suddenly have 4m after tax in the bank but no income and the outgoings of someone on £40k a week. Money soon goes unless he curtails the "prem" footballer lifestyle

[rob_bridge]

Rather than pay him up to let him go sign for somebody else they should give him a uniform and have him working one of the food concessions at the ground.

I wonder if we really could do that.

Legal bods any idea? Surely an employment law minefield.

[supertom]

Rather than pay him up to let him go sign for somebody else they should give him a uniform and have him working one of the food concessions at the ground.

A lot of pies would go missing I think.

[wittonwarrior]

I am  and never was a big fan of his, however can he actually do worse than Sinclair and Rude up front?

This is just a measure of how far we have fallen

[russon]

He was in our property chain when I moved house in the summer (buying our buyer's house to then rent out). Apparently he's big into the property thing and has no desire to leave the area. We're stuck with him.

[Shrek]

Keep, he will be useful in the championship

[in exile]

Keep, he will be useful in the championship

What as?

[Chris Jameson]

Rather than pay him up to let him go sign for somebody else they should give him a uniform and have him working one of the food concessions at the ground.

A lot of pies would go missing I think.

Good point, hadn't considered he'd end up costing us even more.