Adelakun Trial Game

[Lincoln Rover]

I believe his brother ( semi pro himself) is his agent.

[NickDRFC]

I think there’s some really OTT criticism of his decision here. If he thinks he can get and deserves a contract better than what he was offered, why shouldn’t he hold out for it? It’s a short career. And if he ends up on a lower contract, so what? You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. He might regret turning us down but then again he might not. That’s life.

[RoversInSpain]

Never quite got this ‘it’s a short career’ there’s many opportunities for a former footballer.
Just like any other worker, who has to change their job. Very few folk work for the same company for their whole lives. 20 years in one job is a long time and a pretty good achievement.
It’s almost like the poor so and so’s are shot the moment they can’t kick a ball anymore.

[danumdon]

The trouble with alot of ex footballers is that they do struggle when the retire. A great many never put the hours in at school, concentrating only on their fledgling football careers.

Zoom forward 20 years and you have a relatively young bloke with not a great deal to offer a prospective employer if he hasn't gone down the coaching role avenue.

Remember kids, never neglect your schoolwork, soon enough it will come back and bite you squarely in the ass

As for Adelakun, yes its a great shame he didn't take up our offer, good player that we could of benefitted from. As it is he didn't, we don't and we move on,

NOBODY is indispensable in this life, even the few who think they are.

[Red wizard]

Most lower league players will still get a good 6 to 10 years of a very good wage. Even the poorer players have to be paid 425 a week basic. Add appearance fee clean sheet,goal and assist bonus and they probably earn 600 at the very least. A good percentage will be on a thousand plus a week. Them in league one will be 2 to 2.5 plus bonus. If they can't save a good nest egg up earning 100k for 7 years to 15 years I'd be surprised. There alot better off than most of us.

[Butchers Red]

Haks has signed for Salford

[roversdude]

Wow speechless

[Ryaldinhio]

Wow. No way they have offered big bucks.

Look forward to seeing how he performs against us. Reckon some of the lads will give it him.

[redarmi66]

Awful from the agent involved but he is old enough to know better. We have moved on!

[colincramb]

Obviously they have been known to throw stupid money at players previously, but surely he must be thinking he’s dropped a massive bollock here.

He’s ended up signing for a much worse club. The word idiot springs to mind.

[ncRover]

Oh FFS

That’s Salford as another promotion rival now

[ncRover]

Most lower league players will still get a good 6 to 10 years of a very good wage. Even the poorer players have to be paid 425 a week basic. Add appearance fee clean sheet,goal and assist bonus and they probably earn 600 at the very least. A good percentage will be on a thousand plus a week. Them in league one will be 2 to 2.5 plus bonus. If they can't save a good nest egg up earning 100k for 7 years to 15 years I'd be surprised. There alot better off than most of us.

Apparently the average League 2 wage is £1k-£3k per week

[big fat yorkshire pudding]

Obviously they have been known to throw stupid money at players previously, but surely he must be thinking he’s dropped a massive bollock here.

He’s ended up signing for a much worse club. The word idiot springs to mind.

Sums it up for me, feels like a crazy decision from him.  We'll obviously never know what we offered him and why he didn't fancy it.  Perhaps the offer to him wasn't great, who knows?

[Chris Black come back]

He signed on a one year deal as well.

[Padge_DRFC]

So probably earning less with fact he's earnt nothing for 2 months

[redarmi66]

Obviously they have been known to throw stupid money at players previously, but surely he must be thinking he’s dropped a massive bollock here.

He’s ended up signing for a much worse club. The word idiot springs to mind.

Sums it up for me, feels like a crazy decision from him.  We'll obviously never know what we offered him and why he didn't fancy it.  Perhaps the offer to him wasn't great, who knows?

i reckon the offer from us would have been decent, but he, or his agent thought he could do better. Who knows if Salford have offered more but one year is not an endorsement or commitment to his ability.

[Jonathan]

The fact that this is how it’s ended up must surely mean he and his agent overvalued him beyond belief over the summer. Mad really.

[DonnyBazR0ver]

He got his glamour move to a big city club then.

He made his choice. End of.

[Filo]

He should be sacking his agent

[rover-n-out]

No doubt his agent will have been tote'ing the goals he scored for us around the EFL as though he was the next f*****g Thierry Henry! That hasn't worked out too well has it? S**t fer brains!!

[Plumbster]

As we struggle to find a formula to get our midfield up the pitch and bring Joe into the game that looks a great signing by Salford. Hopefully today will show that we are making progress in replacing Adelakuns impact.

[RoversInSpain]

Lucky Salford. What a a signing for them.

[dknward2]

Depends on which haks they get the one that played for Lincoln and didn’t do much or the one that played for us

[Draytonian III]

Most lower league players will still get a good 6 to 10 years of a very good wage. Even the poorer players have to be paid 425 a week basic. Add appearance fee clean sheet,goal and assist bonus and they probably earn 600 at the very least. A good percentage will be on a thousand plus a week. Them in league one will be 2 to 2.5 plus bonus. If they can't save a good nest egg up earning 100k for 7 years to 15 years I'd be surprised. There alot better off than most of us.

Apparently the average League 2 wage is £1k-£3k per week

Even on the lowest figure the players should be able to save £20,000 a year

[Pancho Regan]

Depends on which haks they get the one that played for Lincoln and didn’t do much or the one that played for us

Well if they get the Haks who played for us, this is a hell of a signing for Salford.

And with all due respect to Salford, this is surely a disappointing move for Haks. It smacks of desperation and was clearly not the outcome he or his agent had in mind when they turned down our offer.
Not only has he not moved upwards, he has more than likely moved downwards and even then has only secured a one-year deal.

He played the best and most productive football of his career so far when he was with us, and had the chance to continue to progress.

Silly, silly man.

[NickDRFC]

Most lower league players will still get a good 6 to 10 years of a very good wage. Even the poorer players have to be paid 425 a week basic. Add appearance fee clean sheet,goal and assist bonus and they probably earn 600 at the very least. A good percentage will be on a thousand plus a week. Them in league one will be 2 to 2.5 plus bonus. If they can't save a good nest egg up earning 100k for 7 years to 15 years I'd be surprised. There alot better off than most of us.

Apparently the average League 2 wage is £1k-£3k per week

Even on the lowest figure the players should be able to save £20,000 a year

Someone earning £52k a year will only save £20k if they live with their parents.

[ravenrover]

Depends on which haks they get the one that played for Lincoln and didn’t do much or the one that played for us

Well if they get the Haks who played for us, this is a hell of a signing for Salford.

And with all due respect to Salford, this is surely a disappointing move for Haks. It smacks of desperation and was clearly not the outcome he or his agent had in mind when they turned down our offer.
Not only has he not moved upwards, he has more than likely moved downwards and even then has only secured a one-year deal.

He played the best and most productive football of his career so far when he was with us, and had the chance to continue to progress.

Silly, silly man.

Have a monute and just remember where we were when he signed for us
And played some of his best football for part of the time he was here, can't say he did for the last few games

[Prez]

Depends on which haks they get the one that played for Lincoln and didn’t do much or the one that played for us

Well if they get the Haks who played for us, this is a hell of a signing for Salford.

And with all due respect to Salford, this is surely a disappointing move for Haks. It smacks of desperation and was clearly not the outcome he or his agent had in mind when they turned down our offer.
Not only has he not moved upwards, he has more than likely moved downwards and even then has only secured a one-year deal.

He played the best and most productive football of his career so far when he was with us, and had the chance to continue to progress.

Silly, silly man.

Have a monute and just remember where we were when he signed for us
And played some of his best football for part of the time he was here, can't say he did for the last few games

Different circumstances though. He only signed for us on loan and he had worked with McCann before. He’s not even guaranteed to be a success at Salford, remember he played 21 games for Gills and didn’t score a goal.

Him and or his agent have dropped a massive one here.

[mushRTID]

I know we’ve started well but I think we are missing him.
A real shame what’s happened and it’s obvious he’s been badly advised.

Salford have signed a good player, whether he can be the brilliant player McCann got going is a different story.

[GazLaz]

Most lower league players will still get a good 6 to 10 years of a very good wage. Even the poorer players have to be paid 425 a week basic. Add appearance fee clean sheet,goal and assist bonus and they probably earn 600 at the very least. A good percentage will be on a thousand plus a week. Them in league one will be 2 to 2.5 plus bonus. If they can't save a good nest egg up earning 100k for 7 years to 15 years I'd be surprised. There alot better off than most of us.

Apparently the average League 2 wage is £1k-£3k per week

Even on the lowest figure the players should be able to save £20,000 a year

Save 20k a year on a grand a week???