Ex Houston Arab wrote:

Did our board not match the offer to ensure we got compo??

http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/15561883.Blair_Spittal_coming_of_age_at_Partick_Thistle_and_adding_consistency_to_his_game/

Do we ever get anything right these days 😩

 When every penny is a prisoner thats just sheer incompetence.

I doubt we had the budget to offer him what he was on, even if we wanted to.

Beardy23 wrote:

I doubt we had the budget to offer him what he was on, even if we wanted to.

Spittal at RB surely wouldn't be any worse than Murdoch or Toshney, had he called our bluff and signed an extension had he been offered one.

Stupidity of the highest order.

The story in the Herald was written by Graeme McGarry.

Here's stuff he's written about Spittal since the end of last season- 


31st May
"But it is believed that United boss McKinnon won’t be offering Spittal a new deal at Tannadice, leaving him free to join another club without the need for any compensation to be paid."

16th June
"The 21-year-old has signed a two-year deal at the club after turning down the chance to stay at Dundee United. 'I had the option of coming here or staying at United' "

28th September
"...with the Tannadice club failing to offer the player a contract until well after the deadline for compensation to be due."

In May, no offer was being made.

In July, Spittal had been offered another deal.

In September, an offer had been made, but too late for compensation.

All the above, according to Graeme McGarry.

I wouldn't put any trust in what Scottish journalists have to say about any aspect of Scottish football.
 

We would have had to offer him at least would he was on ( JMac era wages) to be entitled to a development fee. Can you imagine the reaction from some of those who are using this to slag off the club if he had actually resigned on that money?

PatReilly wrote:

Spittal was underrated by a lot of the support, no doubt.

And United maybe failed to offer him a contract by the required date (which I think is the last day of the season, and which must equal or better what he was previously on). I think he was possibly on an inflated wage in comparison to his ability in 2014, when he signed a three year deal. To be fair, it would be difficult to offer him a Scottish Premiership wage in 2017, when we were sitting in the Championship.

But the point I was making: the journalist has changed his information over time regarding the situation, and we don't know what the facts are in relation to United's actions (or inactions).

Is this true?
 

F4: If a Club wishes to re-engage a Professional Player and/or preserve any right that it
may wish to assert to Compensation, such Club must have sent to the Player, to his
last known home address or delivered to him personally, and copied to the
Secretary, not later than fourteen days prior to the expiry of the term of the
Player’s Contract of Service, a written offer of re-engagement in accordance with
Rule F5.

F5: An offer of re-engagement for the purposes of Rules F4 must be for a term of not
less than one year, on:-

replacement terms which are, in the opinion of the Board, not less
favourable in all monetary respects, on an annual comparison basis, with
the immediately preceding year of his employment, except that a signing on
fee and/or any additional or other lump sum payments included in the
previous terms need not be repeated

Page 43 of this 192 page document:

https://spfl.co.uk/docs/067_324__therulesofthespfl_1375800603.pdf 

"The Rules of the Scottish Professional Football League"

Last edited by PatReilly (29/9/2017 8:03 pm)

kdyteejay wrote:

I think the clubs in a no win situation with this. Not a lot of people cared when he left saying he wasn't good enough for DUFC and would probably moaned if he had resigned on same wages. But because he was let go everyone is up in arms because we got nothing from his move. In my opinion there's nothing to get excited about. We move on.

You ok we lost out on potentially 200k?

I'm not.
 

smedDUm wrote:

Och it's gone Tek, if there has been a mistake made then as long as we learn from it.
Blair Spittal is the least of our concerns.
Wish him the best & a hat-trick v The Fun.

How many mistakes are they gonna make though?
If its costing the club money do you find that acceptable?
 

smedDUm wrote:

Did you see yon shambles at NDP last nite, there's a mess for you. There's an awful lot much worse off than us.

Are you reffering to Hamilton Acidemical?

A team who play a division higher than us (despite having 1,000 supporters).

A team who we failed to score against (and defeated us) over two Play-Off legs this year.

Yeah....fuck being them.😨