A Cas fan on their own forum reckons he’s been given permission to discuss a move elsewhere but everyone else has shot the bloke down.

A far better player than Richardson for my money.

Newcastle bound, apparently.

blake left in 89 and we signed frano in 90, so we already had blake...

And to think their fans were expecting to sign Kylian Mbappe

That made i laugh . Nice one

You'd hope that, logically, whatever we've paid him is less than the total amount of his deal. If it's the same amount, we might as well have kept him on the books. It's offers little sense to pay him 100% of what he's owed and then let him leave.

Him leaving means we are not over our quota spots...

Paves the way for Corey Norman?

How? We don’t have any spare quota spots.

He had to leave to fit Tommy in by the sounds of things.

Misread your post

Might be misremembering but I seem to think they said they had final say. I took that to mean ultimately they could veto any signings, and would be the ones who discussed salary etc, rather than it meaning they sorted them all without the input of the coach.

Pieman,

You are indeed correct. Memory is not what it used to be and on checking, it would appear that Monie actually wanted to retain Phil Blake at the end of the 1989 season, but the then board of Directors insisted on replacing him with Frano Botica which proved to be a very wise decision.

Best goalkicker in all the years, I have supported the club, followed by Andy Farrell, Pat Richards and Colin Tyrer.

If only, we had one like them now!

Re: Goalkickers, I wonder how last year's ratio of goalkicking accuracy (Hardaker & Smith) compares with someone like Colin Whitfield who 'from memory' skewed some absolute whoppers that should have been nailed on.