crunchblue wrote:
I think these options are usually in the players favour. When they get to X number of appearances they can automatically extend the existing contract whether the club like it or not, due to the clause in the contract.
I think we had a situation with Lee Miller a couple of years ago where Kavanagh was going to have to stop playing him otherwise Miller could auto renew for another year. It turned out that Miller agreed to wave this option so that he could continue playing for the rest of the season.
I'd imagine this was the situation with Gillespie, he reached his appearances so exercised his right to renew for a year. Likewise Jabo, but we don't really know if he's taken the option as of yet.
They can work like that, but they can also work in the club's favour, where we have the option of extending his contract by an extra year, the player has nothing to agree to as in effect he has already agreed to it when he signed the original contract. This is the article from the O/S when he first signed, from reading that, the option will be at the club's advantage, not the players.
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