If every other wage stated on our other forum was true we would be spending well over 2 million, you shouldn't believe everything you read on forums, even if it suits your particular agenda, how many people said wakey would defiantly lose there franchise?

Scared of what?

It came from the player he wants to sign for the club...naturally after he is unemployed after mid November....Agar wants him...but at the moment we as a club cant fit him into the salary cap.

What that salary cap means is anyones guess,it could mean the full salary cap...i doubt that very much.
I would imagine it meant that Glover has said we have X amount to spend this season on players wages and at the moment we have reached that limit so therefore we can not sign Dowes.

If I remember rightly there was an article in the WE with Agar where he said about balancing the books and trying to get what was the right balance and player structure to fit within the clubs budget and this he is clearly trying to do.

Like all managers in whatever sport when they take over a new club they want to put their own stamp on prooceedings and they will not like all players already contracted to the club and players will naturally move on.

I believe DOWES will sign but contracted player/s will have to leave for this to happen.

Problem with that approach is that by only offering one year deals you run the heavy risk that, if the player in question impresses, he buggers off to a bigger club at the end of the year rather than re-signing with you guys.

Really? I was thinking it was maybe a case of AG's cash arriving too late to be used productively in a picked-over player market so it was decided not to spend so much of it.

That happens regardless.

Not scared at all thanks, though i can pretend that i am if it would make you feel better.

Yes but at least if you've got him tied down for a few years you get something out of it. One year deals have their place, but as a general policy it means all you are is a shop window for the bigger clubs and a stepping stone for the better players.

Works both ways, equally could save you being lumbered with a player that doesn't give you much in return (McGoldrick?)
Also the rewards for selling a player under contract are hardly generous, so if a bigger club wants said player, they can still have them, but the selling club will make little profit after factoring in the higher wages that go with a longer contract.

Lets not get into a "mine is bigger than yours" comp yet guys. Our team has not played one game together yet. Cas haven't made lots of signing but they were ahead of us last year so lets be realistic, we are the ones catching up.
I do think we will do well.....but lets not start picking fights just yet. Lets get some performances on the board first.

Amen to that. The amount of dick measuring and bitching that takes places on these forums is getting very tiresome and quite frankly is more than a little sad.