Armer and Riley were one year contracts with an "option" - so I suppose they can be extended by the club's choice.

Mellish is signed on until 2022 anyway.

Would add Farman to your list of players we need to look to keep on.

Tanner, Norman, McDonald, Devine, Dickensen are signed on for next season regardless.

Mellish is signed on until 2022 anyway.

Would add Farman to your list of players we need to look to keep on.

Aye, you’re right. Forgot Mellish had already extended his contract, and I’d definitely give Farman another season.

Me too. For the first time in a while we should have a little bit of continuity going into next season - we've got some good players already under contract, but that spine of Hayden, Bennett, Guy and Zanzala is important to tie down.

I’d not be surprised to see Guy and Bennett move on of their own accord, which would be a real shame.

I wonder if he'll let Farman go and just keep Norman next year? Bring back Dewhurst for his 3rd farewell tour.
I would try to hold together the defence, Tanner, Armer, Hayden and Bennett with Macdonald as cover. I thought Anderton was signed on for next season? If not I would let hm go, as club captain I would think he is a top earner, and he's been pretty poor.
Guy and Riley, definitely with Furnan as cover. Devine hasn't been up to much, Dickinson a waste of a wage.
Up front is where the cull will come I think. Zanzala I would expect, and hope, to be here. Beech's tactics have been fairly clear, fast, strong, front press, but it hasn't really worked. Kayode (loan), Patrick, Toure and Alessandra could all leave without any fuss. Patrick is the only one who can do anything on his day.
Charters, no doubt he will keep, but we need to see more from him.
Mellish is the enigma. His contribution seems very limited to me, but you can't argue with 15 goals a season. Let's hope his general game improves rather than the goals dry up.

It depends on which division we are in.

If we do not go up I think Beech will try and keep the majority of the players especially with the small wages we are playing. I also think our budget will go down as with other clubs for next season.

With that in mind I hope in pre-season we experiment with different formation and tactics and find out what we do not know.

We need to adapt more effectively for next season. Beech has taken on a lot this year so I hope the responsibility is shared.

A lot of our inexperienced players will have learned a bit getting a full season under their belt.

Just curious to see one day Armer and Tanner playing wingbacks. Armer is growing quickly and can maybe see him as a centre back.

Could see Mellish leave if a decent offer is made. Maybe Guy and Bennett move on for better money. Opportunity for Charters next year.

Can see Allexandra, Kayode, Malley, Walker, Furman, Dixon, Anderton move on.

We have an option clause for most contracts, anyone know what details or how this works out.

I believe if the club exercises the option they basically pay them on their current deal.

So if someone is on 1k a week on a 12 month contract with a 1 year option they would get a further 12 months on 1k a week.

If the player doesn't want to stay however then it can become messy as the club may want to keep the player and he might have a better offer elsewhere!

With Harry Kane looking to leave Spurs, he'd form a great partnership up top with Zanzala. Sign up Sam Fishburn on a 5-year contract as back up and that's the forward line sorted.

I think wages will fall sharply across the division. I can't see many players who are on £75k a year getting much better offers.

Guy has an Option for next Season. I’d be amazed if we haven’t taken it up already, or at least indicated we will do so...

Guy has an Option for next Season. I’d be amazed if we haven’t taken it up already, or at least indicated we will do so...

Didn’t realise this, glad to read it!

Here’s a list of contract lengths and options:

Updated after contract options triggered...

Paul Farman - Summer 2021
Magnus Norman - Summer 2022
George Tanner - Summer 2022
Nick Anderton - Summer 2021
Jack Armer - Summer 2022
Rod McDonald - Summer 2022
Aaron Hayden - Summer 2022
Rhys Bennett - Summer 2021
Morgan Feeney - Summer 2021
Dean Furman - Summer 2021
Taylor Charters - Summer 2022
Josh Dixon - Summer 2022
Joe Riley - Summer 2022
Callum Guy - Summer 2022
Danny Devine - Summer 2022
Jon Mellish - Summer 2022 (with option)
Brennan Dickenson - Summer 2022
Gime Toure - Summer 2021 (with option)
Lewis Alessandra - Summer 2022
Omari Patrick - Summer 2021 (with option)
Offrande Zanzala - Summer 2021
Cedwyn Scott - Summer 2021
Lewis Bell - Summer 2023 (with option)
Keelan Leslie - January 2022

I haven’t included some of the first year pros because it’s hard to find out much about their contracts and they’ll likely be released anyway having not come close to the first team.

I would try and keep the majority even Scott as he has ability but needs to be given a chance. Tour'e also he has a lot to offer just needs to work on improving his end product same as Patrick.
What we don't want is to have to rebuild the whole squad again like the start of this season.
There are also quite a few talented youth players coming through, Fishburn for one as mentioned along with Bell, Dixon and Charters.
Highly unlikely that Kayode will come back for another loan season and little chance of making it a permanent move.

Rod McDonald 2022!

Toure doesn't offer as much as Patrick, so to continuously bring him in when Patrick has underperformed or has been outplayed by his opposite number is a complete waste in my opinion. Having both in the squad is a luxury, and adds nothing when a step up in our attack is required.

Patrick has shown more potential so I believe he's the better option to keep.

Here's my take.

Paul Farman - Summer 2021 - Offer new contract
Magnus Norman - Summer 2022
George Tanner - Summer 2022
Nick Anderton - Summer 2021 - Release
Jack Armer - Summer 2021 (with option) - Release
Rod McDonald - Summer 2022
Aaron Hayden - Summer 2021 (with option) - Offer new contract
Rhys Bennett - Summer 2021 - Offer new contract
Morgan Feeney - Summer 2021 - Flip a coin
Dean Furman - Summer 2021 - Offer new contract
Taylor Charters - Summer 2021 (with option) - Offer new contract
Josh Dixon - Summer 2021 (with option) - Offer new contract
Joe Riley - Summer 2021 (with option)- Offer new contract
Callum Guy - Summer 2021 (with option) - Offer new contract
Danny Devine - Summer 2022
Jon Mellish - Summer 2022 (with option) - Accept any bid
Brennan Dickenson - Summer 2022
Gime Toure - Summer 2021 (with option) - Release
Lewis Alessandra - Summer 2021 (with option) - Release
Omari Patrick - Summer 2021 (with option) - Release
Offrande Zanzala - Summer 2021 - Release
Cedwyn Scott - Summer 2021 - - Offer new contract

As Piglet except keep Armer and Zanzala and release Firman

I think Dickinson is decent but seems a bit of a crock

Here's my take.

Paul Farman - Summer 2021 - Offer new contract
Magnus Norman - Summer 2022
George Tanner - Summer 2022
Nick Anderton - Summer 2021 - Release
Jack Armer - Summer 2021 (with option) - Release
Rod McDonald - Summer 2022
Aaron Hayden - Summer 2021 (with option) - Offer new contract
Rhys Bennett - Summer 2021 - Offer new contract
Morgan Feeney - Summer 2021 - Flip a coin
Dean Furman - Summer 2021 - Offer new contract
Taylor Charters - Summer 2021 (with option) - Offer new contract
Josh Dixon - Summer 2021 (with option) - Offer new contract
Joe Riley - Summer 2021 (with option)- Offer new contract
Callum Guy - Summer 2021 (with option) - Offer new contract
Danny Devine - Summer 2022
Jon Mellish - Summer 2022 (with option) - Accept any bid
Brennan Dickenson - Summer 2022
Gime Toure - Summer 2021 (with option) - Release
Lewis Alessandra - Summer 2021 (with option) - Release
Omari Patrick - Summer 2021 (with option) - Release
Offrande Zanzala - Summer 2021 - Release
Cedwyn Scott - Summer 2021 - - Offer new contract

Why does Cedwyn Scott deserve a contract and omari doesn’t. I guarantee you’ve never watched Scott play?

I'd not even consider releasing Armer or Zanzala, providing terms can be reached. As for Scott, I don't understand how anybody on this forum has seen enough of him to make an assessment one way or the other.

Funny just how different two people's perception can be...

You can find better players than Patrick and Toure surely. Both flatter to deceive a bit.

I'm happy to roll the dice on Scott due to his record, goalscorers are worth their weight in gold (as we've seen today).

I've seen enough of Patrick to know he's way below tier four standard. He can't dribble, he can't pass, his shooting is wild and random and he can't head the ball.

Five goals in over thirty appearances is simply, not good enough.

If Scott had been showing anything in training he’d have seen a bit more game time.

Same with Ethan Walker. They must be bad to not even get a sniff.

Come on now Nobbles, old son. Are you telling me Beech's decision making is flawless?

It doesn't matter if a player is brilliant in training if they're absolute donkey cr@p when they're in the first team twice a week (like Mellish and Patrick).

I don't believe it's possible to look any worse in training than those jokers do twice a week in the side.

keep the same players where possible.

Goal scorers are indeed worth their weight in gold. Which is why I think Zanzala has done enough already to warrant a new contract offer.
He’s scored 6 goals and has only started 12 games. If he produced that rate over a full season starting every week, that’s a 20 goal a season man.

Agree Mr. Banks. It's a work in progress and there is potential in there.

I think there is a lot of good things we can work on next year. Assuming we stay in div 2 is the wage budget a still a maximum of 1.5 million.

We need to retain the right players for next year and attract good players in. There will be many good players looking for contracts so its a buyers market for value and bargains.

I think our budget will fall by 100-150,000. I think a lot of clubs will be in the same position. Interesting points raised on about a budget of around a million pounds max.

Players that would be 75000 have dropped to 50000, Players that were on 50000 will go for 35000. Do not know our budget but would be surprised if many of our players will earn more than 50 grand a year next year.

so can we do more with less. It would be nice to see one or two of our academy players come through.

Me think another tight fiscal year next year with Mellish being let go for more than 125 grand. With club savings maybe they will try and save 250 grand with transfers and wage savings. It will be interesting to see what other clubs do,

Beech doesn’t seem keen on the young lads

He likes the old tried and tested

Shame, thought Charters would come through, be interested to see if we retain Dixon. They will be also a cheaper option. See where Holdsworth head is at with the budget. Bottom line regardless of ambitions is the budget will be a priority.

I’d not bet against Taylor Charters getting more of a chance next season. He seems to have been in Beech’s plans up until the covid outbreak, earning his start against Walsall and playing well in that game. Seems he may have been one of the affected squad members, and that could explain his absence from the playing side for most of the second half of the season.

I don’t expect us to have the biggest budget in the division next year, but (assuming we don’t go up through the playoffs) I don’t expect it to be a particularly small budget either.

Beech doesn’t seem keen on the young lads

He likes the old tried and tested

Like Mellish you mean.

He’s hardly a youngster

He's hardly tried and tested.

Thought Beech had a good reputation for bringing through young players at Rochdale he hasn't followed that up here as yet.

Pressley signed Mellish from Gateshead (and played him a fair bit), he's not one of our own youth players.

10 of the players that were used today were under the age of 25...

None of the 18 came through the youth system.

Did there not used to be a rule that you had to have one in the match day squad.

It’s been cast aside for this Season apparently, due to Covid...

does anyone know what budget we have for this year

Was there not an article when the salary cap came in that had Clibbens "boasting" it was about £700K or something like that.
I know he was boasting that the salary cap would not affect us.

The directors stated a while ago they had run out of cash to put in.The EWM tap is off.

Anyone who thinks they are going to swing the bat on a high budget is deluded.The budget trajectory is downwards-it has to be but most clubs will be following suit

Nixon admitted that he and his fellow owners, who have been at the helm since 2008, have “run out of cash” to keep the club running.

He said to supporters in the Sunset Suite: “You've been extremely patient with us. We've run out of cash. We don't have any more to spend.

I wonder if the 10k we reportedly get every time Henderson plays has a limit ?
Could be worth £500k a year.

I don’t think league 2 players get as much money as people think.

There’ll be a lot on £500/600 a week.

The owners have no money to put in, so in effect we have to be self sufficient with a huge debt in the background.

Most clubs though will be reducing their budgets with the current situation. That’s probably going to make the standard even worse as those at the top can horde young talent for less.

I don’t think league 2 players get as much money as people think.

There’ll be a lot on £500/600 a week.

Thanks Nobby. and there was me thinking we had a budget of 1-1.2 million. I thought the majority of our players would be on 800 a week minimum, better players on 1000-1200 a week.

I wonder if that budget includes the coaching staff.

If my number are correct (could be wrong) I expect to drop below a million. Clubs will be reducing costs a lot due to covid.

I know the club does not communicate about this but in the MLS i believe all wages are disclosed for transparency.

Here we go, do not know how accurate this is.

https://www.888sport.com/blog/league-two-salary

I wonder which coach is on 45,000 grand

Chris Beech!!

It rather puts the breakaway 6’s greedy antics in perspective.

The problem is wages should be driven by total income of the club-this highlights the shocking disparity between those at the top of football and those at the bottom.