www.totalrl.com/gossip-radford-keen-gaskell/

www.totalrl.com/gossip-radford-keen-gaskell/

How do you manufacture a deal for 2 out of contract players?

Maybe a sweetener for a player to go to a certain club? I dunno. Don't shoot the messenger.

Comment wasn't aimed at you, just at the article. It doesn't add up, ooc players are free to do what they wish.

Have to agree. If both were under contract for next year, then a swap could be on the cards. However as both are OOC then either can move without the need for the other to go in the opposite direction.

Personally, I've been resigned to the fact that we're likely to lose players such as Gaskell if we spend longer than 2 years outside of SL. The only real hope I can see of us keeping him and the other players considering moves is dependant on the new coach and what he brings to the club.

That's the key argument against Disko until the end of the year. Show the environment they'll be in. Won't work for all those we want to keep but it might tip the balance for those who are teetering.

If the clubs are looking to broker a deal, it might mean that this will happen mid-season.

The article suggests we will eventually sign Pryce, but the article insinuates that the deal may conclude before the players are OOC.

If a club was interested in obtaining Gaskell, they may stand a better chance by thrashing out a deal mid-season, meaning your not 1 club out of "x" amount vying for the same signature.

I agree. It’s important we get the right coach in if we’re not to go downhill rapidly.

It may just be a case of Pryce wanting to finish his career at Odsal, Gaskell wanting to move to an SL club, Hull need a HB as Pryce is leaving to join us. May not be an actual swap but just us signing Pryce as a free agent and Gaskell signing for Hull as a free agent.

Leon will be 35/36 in 2017. Him taking Gaskell’s place is a significant downgrade. If he was coming back he’d better be cheap.

^ This exactly.

I would imagine Leon coming to us next season whether anyone is coming the other way or not. If this happens at the end of the season then, as Gaskell is OOC fair play to him, whereas we would be really getting a bum deal if it were to happen in the next couple of months.

Offloading/swapping/selling the only dedicated half on our books for a much older, and injury prone ex-star seems a really stupid thing to do.

Shhhhh Ferres may be reading...... Don't give him ideas that will top his 'We don't need a 7' lightbulb moment...

Losing Gaskell and downgrading to Pryce screams 'we are settling for Championship level' whichever way I look at this...

Can I ask how you rate Gaskell? SL standard HB?

Without a doubt. Given he's spent the majority of last year and this year as a sole half back he has gone a little off the boil recently as he seems a little burnt out being our only creative player. A move where he's not required to win games on his own will probably spark him back to being able to win games on his own.
But the Bradford management idea of "we don't need a 7" has really dented Gaskell's effectiveness.