Most liked posts in thread: Vernam (Ramblings about the future)

If only we could guarantee winning every week huh?

 

Well if he goes good luck to him. Some players might just look at the bigger picture like 15,000 crowds and playing for a superstar of world football than a few quid more and being home early for tea.

 

Exactly. That and his career progression is better under Mark Hughes than it is under managerless Lincoln.

 

What is this potential you talk about? We're a club that has spent most of its history in the bottom division. Half the time we weren't even the best team in Bradford FFS. We have a big stadium courtesy of Big Geoff and his borrowed cheque book and a large fan base on cheap tickets. So please, can you point out what potential actually is without results on the pitch?

 

Is that 1.1 million actual profit to spend or is that turnover? Asking for a friend.

 

Towards the “ bottom line” according to Sparks so profit

 

Potential....weve been a perennial lower league team for about 80% of our history. Just like Lincoln. Wake up!!!!

Crowds dont win games or get you promotion. He has a chance to play at a higher standard next tetm and if he choses that over us then fair enough.

 

Spot on. Its a short career and money is everything. Look at Wrexham and the signings they’ve made - prime examples.

 

well for a game at the end of a very poor season with absolutely nothing to play for we had an 18.000 plus gate do well that could be a regular thing next season probably more than the majority of league one gates

 

If Adams was still here I think it’d be a no brainer for Vernam and he’d be off, but Hughes being here now makes it a trickier decision.

Hughes is a bigger manager than most League One/Two players will get chance to work with in their short careers and we saw that time with Hughes with his arm around him on the pitch after the game they seem to get on well. Vernam came good for him in those latter matches.

I agree with the other posters saying, generally speaking, money is king, but if Sparks was right in his latest video and we are offering competitive deals to players, at least we can give them food for thought.

You’d be frustrated if you walked away from a promotion winning season here under Hughes, in front of 15k+ crowds, for a bang average season in and out of the team mid table in League One, but It comes down to what motivates you I guess - success or purely the money.

 

And your last two words are exactly why we are discussing it.

 

Are they not the Football Manager figures?

 

Those top two players on the Lincoln books were loanees.

 

In his interview Sparks said the offers made match what the out of contract players have been offered elsewhere.

 

I can tell you one of those city wages is incorrect. Make what you will of the rest of them.