Popular opinion had it that Chris Sandow was our marquee player for 2016.

Now he's gone, who is our marquee player for 2017?

Do we have one ?

If we have , is he performing?

I'd consider it is Clarke.

Is this situation at the root of our current ill's?

I know this is a tired old rumour at this point, but I heard from a pie that we have paid a record fee for Williams and he will be on £300k a year. Not looking to debate this, I know a lot of users on here are a bit sensitive about rumours. Just passing on what I heard.

In terms of an existing player, I am not sure any would be considered for 'marquee player' unless they were getting a good offer elsewhere and we wanted to keep them. I'd make an exception for Hill, as he has propped (if you'll pardon the pun) the team up for a long time.

Isn't Williams is a free agent at the end of this season? Although I heard Williams is to be a Wire...I also believe your pie contact is talking Wire form.

I remember when Kevin Sinfield was a done deal.

I don't.

I think you'll find that we don;t have a 'marquee player' this year. Don't forget Sandow was supposed to be coming back until just before the season started, and everyone's contract for 2017 would have been signed beforehand, also.

Didn't Clark sign a new deal after Sandow left though....?

yes its possible Clarke is our new marquee signing !!!

Perhaps you missed the press release of the deal with Clark following Sandow's AWOL?

It didn't confirm he would now be our marquee player though did it?

Your not seeing the woods because of the trees.
It's not difficult to work out.

The first post I put up when I hear Sandow had gone AWOL was something like 'that doesn't surprise me, now let's tie Clark down with a big contract'.
I guess £30k per year on his contract would see every one off. We may have paid more, don't know myself. Just a surmise.

Quite the difference between the biggest earner at club and the "marquee" player.
Clark, should, be the highest earner at the club, is he the designated Marquee player? It must be quite a juggling act as the club could sign someone who has a wage £1 higher for next year and suddenly Daryl's wage is a huge obstacle balancing the books.
I would guess he is our MP, but there will be another next year and Clark's wage will mean Blythe will move on.

double post

Or you're putting 2 and 2 together and making 5?

Unless we have official confirmation from the club we can't know whether he is a marquee or not.

If Sandow was listed as £175k on the cap, we could have signed Brown for £125k (say) and still have enough left in our cap to increase Clarks salary from £100k / year to £150k / year for example and still not have him on marquee allowance.

A club doesn't need to release info on who is marquee to us. So we can speculate all we like. All good fun. Either way... Clark and perhaps Westerman have been the only two players to warrent even consideration for the marquee pot this season.
The rest but Lineham haven't earned tuppence IMO.