jimsing":rdhfik1u said:
Contracts usually run out at the end of JUNE.
We should be seeing more signings nearer the end of the month, as the players out of contract would not get paid unless they found a club by then.
You can't blame them for waiting until then to decide their future.
Now, where will I go? Plymouth, where there will be a lot of travelling, or somewhere closer to home, where I don't have to uproot the family?
As always they will be deciding between wages and convenience, especially the more experienced players who have been there, done it and got the shirt.
Patience, my friends, will be a virtue in these circumstances.
Given that Danny Mayor apparently lives in Devon then it would be hard to find a decent football team that might come in for him that is 'closer to home'!
Everyone seems to assume that just because he was born and brought up in the northwest and has played for clubs up that way previously that area is necessarily his preferred choice of living location now. It's entirely possible that having sampled the somewhat slower pace of life down here he finds it suits him. He seems like someone who likes to be completely out of the limelight - a very private individual - perhaps it is easier for him to be like that down here. Perhaps he loves to keep animals, grow vegetables and garden and he has a little small holding somewhere out of the way that completely suits his needs. Perhaps he has discovered surfing as a way of switching off in his time off and values good access to the beaches of north Cornwall. I have absolutely no idea, but any of the above (or similar MIGHT be true).
Any 'delay' in him re-signing might simply be because there is some negotiation about the terms of his new contract - maybe he likes it so much down here that he wants a longer contract than what was offered.
its so easy to assume that all footballers are the same. Danny Mayor strikes me very much as one who might be a bit different from most.