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Lavery Offer Still on Table
Lavery Offer Still on Table
Friday, 21st Oct 2011 08:51

Blues boss Paul Jewell says he will make decisions regarding young striker Caolan Lavery in the next few days. The 18-year-old Northern Ireland U21 international has turned down the professional contract which was offered to him earlier in the month.

Jewell said: “We made him an offer that his agent refused. His agent rang me this morning [Thursday] and I’ve got to get back to him.

“As far as I’m concerned the offer will be on the table for a while yet and it’s up to him to take it. If he doesn’t want to take it, we’ll see what happens from there.

“We offered him a contract until the end of the season to try and give him an opportunity because the kid’s worked hard.

“But he’s quite entitled to turn it down, that’s his prerogative. If he turns it down, I’ll decide what I want to do in the next day or two.”

Lavery’s academy scholarship, which was extended when he suffered a serious knee injury last season, is due to end on Saturday. If the Canada-born frontman moves on to another club, the Blues are entitled to compensation.


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suffolkpoker added 09:04 - Oct 21
Its an interesting one, surely if he turns it down we will give him a 18 month contract? He has been looking like the best player in the academy.

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Wallingford_Boy added 09:06 - Oct 21
Why should we offer him anything more than a deal to the end of the season? As PJ says, if he proves himself he will get rewarded. At 18, he needs to start knocking on the door of the first team squad, so take the deal get your head down and see where it takes you.
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suffolkpoker added 09:12 - Oct 21
I can see this being another brown - a league 1 side will offer him a "bigger deal" and we will loose our best striker in the academy. I say protect our assists.
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saffronblue added 09:27 - Oct 21
PJ stick to your guns, look at Cresswell worked hard gets an improved deal. Were not short of strikers and If he goes elsewhere at least we should get a few quid. As for Brown, never convinced me as League 1 is probably his level.
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Wickets added 09:28 - Oct 21
Sure i saw a report that Spurs are tapping him up!!
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SouperJim added 10:00 - Oct 21
If we start entering contract negotiations with academy players we will make a rod for our own backs. If the lad was that good we'd be offering him more than a deal to the end of the season, and if his attitude was right then he wouldn't turn down whatever is on the table at this stage of his career.

Don't budge Paul.
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DutchTownFan added 10:08 - Oct 21
Seems a good player, but would be stupid to sign for a club like spurs at this stage of his career. He'd probably end up playing for a reserves side until he turns 24 at least.
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bobble added 10:48 - Oct 21
if he was good he would already be in the 1st team.
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stickymockwell added 10:51 - Oct 21
offer the lad 18 months! Seems crazy to spend all those years training a special talent only to offer 6 months??????? His wage is hardly going to break the bank is it.
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suffolkpoker added 10:54 - Oct 21
i think you will find he will leave with no compensation like the brown deal. Because another club offered him improved terms
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Doctor_Albran added 11:37 - Oct 21
Suffolkpoker, it doesn't matter what terms the new club offers - providing we make an offer at his current level or better then the new club has to pay compensation.

And for once I actually agree with Bobble!
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DiamondGezzer added 12:08 - Oct 21
When you consider that the club already extended his contract because he was injured, I think they have been fair with him. The extension till summer presumably was to get him a few starts [ from the bench ] to keep tabs on his progress ready for a proper contract. And as I was given to understand, it wasn't the length of the contract, but the money on offer ! Keep your head down and work hard, the money will follow. ie, Cresswell !
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NITFC added 13:17 - Oct 21
I find it interesting that his agent turned down the original offer and now it is his agent that is trying to discuss it with PJ. Do you think the agent might have realised his mistake?
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irishtim added 15:41 - Oct 21
sign caolan & see what happens after 6 months. imo u owe the club that much
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h32 added 18:45 - Oct 21
Here we go again, 6 month contracts for promising young players - PATHETIC.
If this Club GENUINELY wants to build for the future, and I have doubts about that, this strategy will continue to backfire on us.

There will be other Clubs wanting this lad for sure - therefore I know what I would tell Mr Jewell to do - as indeed other 'promising' youngsters have previously done. And will continue to do.

Great times at the moment with current results for us all to enjoy - but the cracks in the Club elsewhere, are very much still there unfortunately.
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h32 added 18:52 - Oct 21
NITFC - the Agent will have other people interested in him. Many, many Clubs futures are all about young Players being signed up - ours should be the same.

What's the point in finding a good young player? - then letting him go elsewhere - and we do just that time after time, after time.
And you'll all know who they are without thinking too much.
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s6blue added 18:55 - Oct 21
quit whinging and just sign
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h32 added 19:08 - Oct 21
s6blue - highly intelligent philosophy - when perhaps your whole future in the game is at stake !!!
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h32 added 19:23 - Oct 21
Some of these posts prove that many people haven't got a clue - let all the youngsters go then (we have a 'recent' history of it) - AND SEE WHERE THAT GETS US AS A CLUB LONG TERM.

When I have previously mentioned the Club having lost much of it's 'pedigree' - this is typical of what I refer to.

This Club in the past was all about nurturing, bringing through, and keeping young assets - and look back at the success it brought us along the way.
Cannot be denied.
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RegencyBlue added 20:53 - Oct 21
Club cannot allow itself to be held to ransom.

Some of these youngsters should realise they need to do the business on the pitch first to justify a good contract and not the other way around.

Take a leaf out of Cresswells book!!!
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TractorRoyNo1 added 01:29 - Oct 22
as PJ said about one of the other kids, 'I came away from a meeting with his agent thinking that Pele played for Ipswich'.
with the new changes to the academy imposed by the premier league, the club will need to look closely at the ROI on bringing through their own kids, it is costing Evans over a £1m a year to run and a Conor Wickham only comes along every few years to cover those costs
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tractorbhoy added 15:49 - Oct 22
I have been holding out on the matter of talking in this subject as I think Caolan deserves the benefit of the doubt but the contract offered was obviously a token of how hard he worked rather than a case of how much we valued him. If this kid was with any other club he would have been signed up a long time ago. We seem to think because he is from Canada he won't know what to accept. That has come back to bite us. Yeah I understand we don't want him to get to big for his boots but do we want him to feel undervalued or worse do we want him to leave? The kid obviously has a future, goals don't lie but we would rather save a couple of thousand £ which is a lot to us but to out club is not a lot. People here need to think as well this kid is 6000 miles away fron home and obviously has another offer on the cards so why would he accept 6 months at a highly reduced rate? Keane might have signed a lot of young players but at least he looked to the future. Jewell just wants results now no view on the future. Using us to get a bigger job in my view
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