Adam Matthews - gone to Cyprus, and is in ManU's Europa League group (p18)

SouthWest_Addicks said:

Guaranteed team of the season. Would be an unfair advantage for us over the 23 other teams in the league. 

We could balance it out and offer Hemed a deal - offering the other 23 teams and advantage over us. 

If there asking the Efl if it's ok you gotta guess they've already spoken to Matthews 

hudson-son-son said:

SteveKielyCambridge said:

Would love him to stay, but in truth he seems like a class above this division. Hard to imagine that one of the lower or even middle ranking Championship clubs wouldn't pick him up.

Do you reckon? He was good for us, but part of one of the worst defences in the league in a team that went down. I can see him going to a Luton but not much higher than that really.

One of those players that is perfect for us and found a place/team where he suited well, but his history doesn't suggest the offers are going to fly in for him.

I wouldn't say the defence was really the issue, it was quite clearly scoring goals and for a long time having a number of injuries which meant a weakened midfield that couldn't adequately protect the defence.

3rd lowest scorers but the 9th worst defence.

I can see him staying. IIRC didn't he say in the programme that his girlfriend lived in London?

Let's hooe the EFL allow it. 

Would Love it, Love it if we could get that done. 

anybody any idea what he might have been on last year? I suspect he wants to stay, hadn't had a good spell before us and Bowyer obviously lifted him. 

Todds_right_hook said:

I don’t understand the legality of the cap. Matthews and sarr are employed by Charlton, their contracts expire but Charlton are not allowed to offer them anywhere near their current deals. If the efl reject our request, Matthews becomes unemployed. What happens if no other club comes in for him? He had a job offer on the table but was permitted from taking the job at no fault of his own. How can that be legal.

Because football is like no other business in the world.

What is regulated is ridiculous and what isn’t is what puts clubs in almost impossible situations in the long term. 

doesn’t make it legal. As we and wigan are under an embargo, I’ll use hull as an example. If they signed a player for £2m 2 years ago in £10k a week and wanted to sign him on another deal for £5k and the player wanted to sign, does that mean they can’t. What if Barnsley then offer £4K a week for the same contract length. That player is £104k worse off Over two years and hull have lost a sellable asset. I don’t see how this is legal.

if I was offered £60k a year but my governing body said I was only allowed to earn £55 I would expect them to pay the difference. 

SantaClaus said:

The EFL would probably ok the deal if we agreed to swallow the Wednesday decision.

I have so fine by me lol

Matthews would very probably be the best right back in League 1. It would be great if we could keep him but it seems unlikely.

His injury record might cause some Championship sides to hesitate but I think he more than proved himself in the second half of the season.

Todds_right_hook said:

doesn’t make it legal. As we and wigan are under an embargo, I’ll use hull as an example. If they signed a player for £2m 2 years ago in £10k a week and wanted to sign him on another deal for £5k and the player wanted to sign, does that mean they can’t. What if Barnsley then offer £4K a week for the same contract length. That player is £104k worse off Over two years and hull have lost a sellable asset. I don’t see how this is legal.

if I was offered £60k a year but my governing body said I was only allowed to earn £55 I would expect them to pay the difference. 

Or another player restricted to £2k a week could give glen tamplin (spelling?) a call and offer to play non league for him for £3k. 

It’s stupid, unless I’m missing something?

It’s Tampon.

No downside for me if this can happen. It is mental isnt it that 2 days ago it looked like there wouldn't be a club now I honestly think we are worth a punt for a few quid on winning the league 

If we can get decent owners then going down might be a blessing. Would’ve been much harder to build again in the championship. Momentum can take you a long way and building that in a League One promotion season with the likes of Matthews beats the hell out of a relegation survival in the league above. 

If we can convince him to stay and the EFL approve it, then a starting back 5 of:
Amos