Steven Davis: â??Iâ??d like to come back and play for Rangers againâ??

[simplythebest 0]

It was an offer to buy. It's not like we would have been paying his wages after selling him. We could have maybe kept him to the end of the season, but all things considered that would only have been doing West Brom a favor

 

We might have received the fee early but Naismith would not have been able to join West Brom until the end of the season, barring special permission.

[UCF2008 0]

We might have received the fee early but Naismith would not have been able to join West Brom until the end of the season, barring special permission.

 

He could have joined them. They just wouldn't have been able to register him to play until the transfer window opened. Like we did with Black and Shiels.

[forlanssister 3,061]

So you at least accept there was no certainty they'd have been able to play for another club that season?

 

And there's no certainty they wouldn't is there? the administrators would have had no option but to release them from their contracts thus making them "free agents".

[simplythebest 0]

He could have joined them. They just wouldn't have been able to register him to play until the transfer window opened. Like we did with Black and Shiels.

 

Not true, transfer window rules are pretty strict, a player cannot transfer directly from one club to another outside of the windows.

[simplythebest 0]

And there's no certainty they wouldn't is there? the administrators would have had no option but to release them from their contracts thus making them "free agents".

 

My point is the wage cuts deal gave them some level of security as well, when you also add in the release clauses.

[forlanssister 3,061]

My point is the wage cuts deal gave them some level of security as well, when you also add in the release clauses.

 

They already had the security of big fat contracts had they so chosen they could have enforced them and been made "free agents".

[simplythebest 0]

They already had the security of big fat contracts had they so chosen they could have enforced them and been made "free agents".

 

And also risk being left doing nothing for a few months.

[UCF2008 0]

And also risk being left doing nothing for a few months.

 

3 or 4 months off and avoid being called a traitor by your fellow supporters. Sounds like a good deal to me.

[simplythebest 0]

3 or 4 months off and avoid being called a traitor by your fellow supporters. Sounds like a good deal to me.

 

Hanging fire for one or two weeks to get my move and not being called a traitor sounds like a good deal to me as well.

[UCF2008 0]

Hanging fire for one or two weeks to get my move and not being called a traitor sounds like a good deal to me as well.

 

Which is probably what would have happened if the TUPE hadn't been so badly handled by everyone involved.