No brainer.
DJs Contract.
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At what price though?!
DJ would be a big miss.Really hope something can be sorted out to keep him here.
maybe HE was unsure what ours were but now is more sure under RL / CH ?
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Like a lot of fans, he's heard the talk and promises before. Think he'll wait and see what this transfer window brings before making a decision.
he has, but like ALL the fans he hasnt heard them from Lowe with Craig H in charge....
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This is a very good point.
Both have been in their positions for a relatively short time. In that short period both have made positive changes to how our club and the team is run.
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I think that we should upgrade DJ to a young, upcoming talent such as Josh Harrop.....
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Craig has been chairman for 3 years.
I think the key part is that it's been a short space of time since Trevor passed away.
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and effective executive decision making powers passed to Craig. Before that he was chairman because somebody had to be! Now he has the final say and he's, so far, taken a different approach to his father in many respects.
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Well they didn't have to be because we didn't have a chairman before he took on the role. It was clearly part of the transition plan as Trevor got older.
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We're ALL waiting to see the results of this "frenzied activity..."
IF, a decent offer comes for in him then sell, we need to look for a good young replacement who will get better season after season. I can't see DJ getting any better than he is know, he didn't want to be here a couple of years ago, with alleged interest from Steve Gerrard. The contract extension would mean a higher wage, how high would North End go because then it would be the turn of A Browne, good offers for both I would definitely accept
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Best player we've got at the moment.... Bloody madness to sell him if he isn't already replaced( which he isn't). It's not like the proceeds of a sale would be re invested either. Been a great servant to PNE has DJ and deserves another 2 or 3 years of security imho
He cost us nowt (well nearly nowt) so on that score he has been a good servant but a three year extension is too much a gamble as he could finish up bench warming and taking a good wage if we make the Premiership in he next couple of seasons. Give him two and bring in a young hungry replacement to shadow him.
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I don't think we have to worry about his wages here if "bench warming", I can think of 150 million reasons why! 😛
150 million would be 1 million plus lighter and CH and family would want to claw back as much of the money they have invested. Money talks and there's no sentiment in football.
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Arguing about us getting into the Prem is one hell of a stretch .... DJ is arguably the best player we have and he's well proven in the Championship.. I agree that we should cover our arses with a replacement but that applies to everyone.. He's well worth keeping on imho and letting him go at this point in time would be idiocy..
I'm not advocating "letting him go at this point" or even in a couple of years but three years extension is too long regardless of which league we are in (or dream about)