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« Reply #20 on: December 28, 2020, 12:09:27 pm » |
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Despite the rumours on here that we did not offer Vadaine Oliver enough to keep him Steve Evans says we offered more money than Gillingham but Oliver wanted to move to a club established in division 1. So it appears there was little we could have done to persuade him to stay.
When he lives in Sheffield ? I find that a bit hard to believe, a "journeyman" lower league player turns down more money at a club within travelling distance of his home to sign for a similar sized club, an extra 120 miles away, on less money  |
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« Reply #21 on: December 28, 2020, 12:46:45 pm » |
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Carton - believe what you want to believe but if you want to see the article it is in the Kent Messanger and repeated on the division 1 transfer rumours site. Personally I cannot see why Evans would fabricate the story.
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« Reply #22 on: December 28, 2020, 13:30:19 pm » |
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I'm not doubting your quotes at all, I'm just doubting if they are true. We all know Evans likes to "big up" everything he's involved with, it wouldn't surprise me that he's trying to make the Gills look "an established League 1 club" in some peoples eyes.
As I've said lots of times, players look at football a lot differently to the likes of us, they see it as a job, which it is to them. Lower league players don't earn enough to live on for the rest of their lives, so I find it very hard to believe that a player would commit to a contract that would cost him extra hotel or rent down in Kent and to be away from his family when he could have stayed at NTFC, travelled home each night and earned more money. If that is the case, you would question the players intelligence, OK the Gills have been in League 1 for a couple of years but they are not a Pompey, Sunderland or Ipswich are they ? the only way the Gills will get out of League 1 is downward.
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« Reply #23 on: December 28, 2020, 14:28:16 pm » |
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Maybe we offered him more if you include those performance related bonuses favoured by KC/KT but his guaranteed wage at Gillingham is higher.
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« Reply #24 on: December 28, 2020, 16:39:22 pm » |
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Even when he was spanking all the money in the world with Crawley, he always downplayed how much he had spent on wages and that players were just moving to a non-league team with less than 2000 fans because they were uncontrolably ambitious like him. I don't believe a word of it. Don't think Gillingham have resources to do a Crawley of course, but there's no wany in existance they were offering less than us and he jumped.
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« Reply #25 on: December 29, 2020, 10:32:45 am » |
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Carton - believe what you want to believe but if you want to see the article it is in the Kent Messanger and repeated on the division 1 transfer rumours site. Personally I cannot see why Evans would fabricate the story.
Absolutely priceless, Steven Evans lied, never.  I bet you believe everything you watch on the BBC as well 😂😂😂😂 |
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« Reply #26 on: December 29, 2020, 11:27:37 am » |
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I certainly don't believe some of the cr@p a minority of posters write on the forum
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« Reply #27 on: December 29, 2020, 11:44:39 am » |
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Or maybe Oliver’s agent was playing both clubs off against each other? Assume neither manager knows exactly what each club offered the player for fact.
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« Reply #28 on: December 29, 2020, 11:54:00 am » |
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Think Oliver was attracted by the environment. Kent is the 'Garden of England', Royal Tunbridge Wells, Canterbury...One can see on immediately exiting Gillingham station, the wealth and opportunities which simply oozes! Don't blame the money grabbing b*****d at all!  |
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« Reply #29 on: December 29, 2020, 12:00:23 pm » |
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Pointless debate that we will probably never know the truth of.
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« Reply #30 on: December 29, 2020, 12:42:25 pm » |
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Only five of the twelve matches in our Division still on...  |
“They shall grow not old as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.” Laurence Binyon
The Hotelend Grand National Sweepstake Champion 2009
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« Reply #31 on: December 29, 2020, 13:56:24 pm » |
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Pointless debate that we will probably never know the truth of.
Very true but all the logic points to the Gills paying significantly more, to make up for the extra 4 hours and 250 miles on each round trip from his home.  |
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« Reply #32 on: December 29, 2020, 14:24:51 pm » |
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Only five of the twelve matches in our Division still on... Quite surprised ours is one of the survivors given Medways case rates. |
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« Reply #33 on: December 29, 2020, 14:31:48 pm » |
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Only five of the twelve matches in our Division still on... As I said a week ago, I’m amazed the league hasn’t been suspended, surely just a matter of time. |
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« Reply #34 on: December 29, 2020, 15:34:43 pm » |
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As I said a week ago, I’m amazed the league hasn’t been suspended, surely just a matter of time.
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« Reply #35 on: December 29, 2020, 16:44:09 pm » |
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When he lives in Sheffield ? I find that a bit hard to believe, a "journeyman" lower league player turns down more money at a club within travelling distance of his home to sign for a similar sized club, an extra 120 miles away, on less money Maybe he moved house? |
The Hotelend Grand National Sweepstake Champion 2023
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« Reply #37 on: December 29, 2020, 17:21:20 pm » |
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Maybe he moved house?
There is a slight difference in house prices between South Yorkshire and Kent but it is possible, but again, highly unlikely. |
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« Reply #38 on: December 29, 2020, 17:22:47 pm » |
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Maybe he moved house?
That doesn't happen does it? People moving away from the area that they were born in?  |
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Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.” Laurence Binyon
The Hotelend Grand National Sweepstake Champion 2009
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