Henry Cartwright sold to Bradford City - Official

[Sly]

This transfer happens last year, no one blinks an eye.

 

I’m amazed we have managed to get some money for him, as they normally leave on a free if they’ve never played in the first team. 

[Jimmy]

16 hours ago, HankMarvin said:

I hate to say it but because a player is not deemed good enough when you’re a prem team or even championship doesn’t mean he is surplus to requirements when you’re playing the likes of Bromley. 
 

yes but maybe they rate the other young midfelders we still have hire than Cartwright?

 

Players like Cartwright should be getting sold, its how Man City and Chelsea make millions a year by making those types of sales, which are pure profit for players they would otherwise have released on a free

[HankMarvin]

38 minutes ago, Jimmy said:

yes but maybe they rate the other young midfelders we still have hire than Cartwright?

 

Players like Cartwright should be getting sold, its how Man City and Chelsea make millions a year by making those types of sales, which are pure profit for players they would otherwise have released on a free

Bradford have spent 25k on transfers since 18/19.

 

 

[Jimmy]

2 minutes ago, HankMarvin said:

Bradford have spent 25k on transfers since 18/19.

 

 

So what? It's still better than releasing him for free, it's very likely the extension to his contract was triggered exactly because they were going to sell.

 

Some of you have moaned about the club being run badly but when they do something that's good business you moan about that too.

 

You can't have it both ways

Edited Wednesday at 14:41 by Jimmy

[HankMarvin]

Just now, Jimmy said:

So what? It's still better than releasing him for free, it's very likely the extension to his contract was triggered exactly because they were going to sell

So with no new faces in how do you know he could not have been used this season?

the fee received for a young player is so paltry it probably covered Aribos loan period for a few weeks.

[Jimmy]

for what its worth a Bradford fan on another forum thinks the Fee was in the £300k-£500k range

[Jimmy]

4 minutes ago, HankMarvin said:

So with no new faces in how do you know he could not have been used this season?

the fee received for a young player is so paltry it probably covered Aribos loan period for a few weeks.

I've no idea and neither do you, you, like me have likely just seen clips of his loan at Falkirk, we also have Braybrooke and Page ahead of him in the queue, and then there is the other U21 options

[Tommy Fresh]

39 minutes ago, Jimmy said:

So what? It's still better than releasing him for free, it's very likely the extension to his contract was triggered exactly because they were going to sell.

 

Some of you have moaned about the club being run badly but when they do something that's good business you moan about that too.

 

You can't have it both ways

Selling him to a club who finished in the playoffs last season is probably the biggest issue

[Muzzy_no7]

Sell on % ?

[HankMarvin]

1 hour ago, Jimmy said:

Some of you have moaned about the club being run badly but when they do something that's good business you moan about that too.

 

You can't have it both ways

What’s to say it’s good business? 
A random poster on a Bradford forum suggesting the fee?

Bradford have a business model since administration and in the last 25 odd years have spent £250k once.

Their money is historically spent on agent fees and hovering up free transfers this includes time in the championship and after selling players. So it’s seems unlikely that they would all of a sudden spend 10 to 20 times more than they have spent in the last 9 seasons on one player.

[coolhandfox]

10 minutes ago, HankMarvin said:

What’s to say it’s good business? 
A random poster on a Bradford forum suggesting the fee?

Bradford have a business model since administration and in the last 25 odd years have spent £250k once.

Their money is historically spent on agent fees and hovering up free transfers this includes time in the championship and after selling players. So it’s seems unlikely that they would all of a sudden spend 10 to 20 times more than they have spent in the last 9 seasons on one player.

What's to say its bad business? 

 

Only time will tell. 

[ALC Fox]

This time last year, yes, we're all in agreement that Cartwright will need to leave to further his career.

 

The thing is, the transfer has come about 12 months down the line, he's had a good loan and done well, and we're now in the third tier.

 

Yes we need money, but at the level we're at and the level he's at, it's not unreasonable to suggest he could've been given a chance to step into the squad, especially as we appear to be finding it difficult to make transfers again.

 

The finances are well publicised, we do need to bring our costs down and it could easily be justified that Cartwright hasn't yet shown that he can be a key player in a team aiming for automatic promotion from League One. That's absolutely easy to argue.

 

But by the same token, it's not beyond the realm of possibility that he could have been a part of the picture here. And we all love an academy product coming through.

 

He was just on that cusp, really, and we've decided to cash in, however big or small the fee is. I hope we negotiated a buyback clause as his level could easily rise as much as ours hopefully does in the next 12 months.

Edited Wednesday at 16:14 by ALC Fox

[HankMarvin]

3 hours ago, coolhandfox said:

What's to say its bad business? 

 

Only time will tell. 

I think I alluded to that by showing Bradfords spending over the last 20 years and the fees involved,

it would only be deemed as good business if it was a (realistic) decent fee.

Or If he would’ve have been surplus to requirements here because we end up having either adequate replacements within the squad or newly brought it in.

 

Or he ends up being shit and it’s all irrelevant 

 

 

 

 

[coolhandfox]

24 minutes ago, HankMarvin said:

I think I alluded to that by showing Bradfords spending over the last 20 years and the fees involved,

it would only be deemed as good business if it was a (realistic) decent fee.

Or If he would’ve have been surplus to requirements here because we end up having either adequate replacements within the squad or newly brought it in.

 

Or he ends up being shit and it’s all irrelevant 

I think it was alway the plan, activate his extension and try to generate some income.

 

At current he was likely seen as 6th choice behind Winks, Skipp, Hamza, Braybrooke and Page for a CM berth.

 

Even if we sold Winks and Skipp he would 4th choice.

 

I honestly see us bring in some CM once one of Winks or Skipp goes.

 

 

Edited Wednesday at 19:40 by coolhandfox