LeeWallaceRFC 3,920 Posted April 30, 2016 Share Posted April 30, 2016 Quote Dean Windass defends Rangers' contentious cut-price move to sign his son Josh Dean Windass has told The Scottish Sun that if Accrington wanted a higher fee for his son Josh Windass, they should've offered him a better contract. Josh Windass, 22, had been on the books with Huddersfield Town, but having been released by the Terriers, he moved on to Harrogate Railway - and his impressive displays earned him a move to Accrington. With six goals last season, Windass emerged as one of the top young players in the Football League, but really exploded onto the scene this season. Windass has racked up 16 goals for promotion-chasing Accrington, but he is in the final few weeks of his career with Stanley - much to the annoyance of many. In January, the playmaker signed a pre-contract agreement with Rangers, meaning he will leave Accrington for Ibrox at the end of his contract this summer, having snubbed the offer of a new deal with Stanley. Because Rangers are outside of England, Accrington are entitled to much less compensation than they would be if he had signed for an English club, and the deal has received criticism both from Accrington and from other executives in England, including Peterborough's Darragh MacAnthony. Now, Windass' father Dean - who played for Hull City in the Premier League - has defended the move, telling The Scottish Sun that if Accrington wanted a higher fee, they should have offered him a better contract, and he advised his son to leave for bigger and better things. "The way Josh was playing at the time and getting attention from a lot of clubs, I think Accrington made the mistake by not giving him a big, long-term contract," said Windass. "They offered a contract, but it wasn’t that good. If they were to give him a decent contract on a three-year deal they could have asked what they liked for him." "They probably could have got £500,000-600,000. They offered him a contract which wasn’t appealing to his agent, to me and to Josh. That’s why I said ‘don’t sign that contract’, because it’s not worth it. I blame Accrington. It’s a bit of naivety from their point of view," he added. http://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2016/04/30/dean-windass-defends-rangers-contentious-cut-price-move-to-sign/page/1/ Well then Mr Accrington Chairman... Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JFK-1 516 Posted April 30, 2016 Share Posted April 30, 2016 To be fair to Accrington after having had a look at their fan forums recently they operate on short term contracts for everybody because apparently that's the only way they can do it with limited finances. They can't afford to give a player a 3 or 4 year contract when he might turn out to be a dud. But the obvious other side of the coin is if he turns out to be a good un and you only have him on a 12 month contract your options are extremely limited. It has backfired on them in this instance and that's the breaks. They're unhappy he is going to Scotland because that cuts out a development fee but that's also the breaks. The transfer system is heavily loaded in favour of English teams in most circumstances and on the rare occasion it works in our favour I think it's hypocritical in the extreme to complain. They wouldn't bat an eyelid if they were taking one of ours on a Bosman but paint us as the bad guys in this instance? I think not. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goianegra 4,647 Posted April 30, 2016 Share Posted April 30, 2016 Just saying what everyone with half a brain cell already knew. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarcheVinny 1,003 Posted April 30, 2016 Share Posted April 30, 2016 Fuck Accrington. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zappa6995 3,620 Posted April 30, 2016 Share Posted April 30, 2016 Darragh MacAnthony Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
spion kop 233 Posted April 30, 2016 Share Posted April 30, 2016 Who are they? Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
1690tamRFC 5,001 Posted April 30, 2016 Share Posted April 30, 2016 9 minutes ago, spion kop said: Who are they? Exactly Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bornabear 6,186 Posted April 30, 2016 Share Posted April 30, 2016 Accrington Stanley, famous for finding David Livingston. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allgers 735 Posted April 30, 2016 Share Posted April 30, 2016 The pair of them look a good proposition, good bit of business. AS can get stuffed, they might be claiming poverty but they are claiming it to the wrong Country. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reformation Bear 6,453 Posted April 30, 2016 Share Posted April 30, 2016 They are one victory away from promotion. Assuming they get it (and there is no reason why they would not win their last home game) then they will have won it thanks to the very significant contribution from the player. The promotion will earn them more money. The player has done his job - here's hoping he can be a real goal machine for Rangers. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperPapac05 3,383 Posted April 30, 2016 Share Posted April 30, 2016 Windass played for a team with the nickname the Terriers? A vowel to the left and questions would need to have been asked. And fuck Accrington. What the fuck are they, anyway? Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueSuedeSambas 53,548 Posted April 30, 2016 Share Posted April 30, 2016 Quote Because Rangers are outside of England, Accrington are entitled to much less compensation than they would be if he had signed for an English club, and the deal has received criticism both from Accrington and from other executives in England, including Peterborough's Darragh MacAnthony. What a load of bollocks. Why should we be criticised for operating completely within the rules Hopefully we raid Peterborough and take their best players just to fuck their owner off too Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
THE_Ibrox_Preacher 2,812 Posted April 30, 2016 Share Posted April 30, 2016 . Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Konovolov 135 Posted April 30, 2016 Share Posted April 30, 2016 As much as this complaining is bullshit, I hope we can give them a friendly at a packed ibrox with a split of the gate. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
reallyruff 622 Posted April 30, 2016 Share Posted April 30, 2016 Hated fat Deano as a player but in this instance well played sir! Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Figo 91 Posted April 30, 2016 Share Posted April 30, 2016 So how is that any difference for English clubs raiding Scottish clubs and paying pittance for their players in comparison Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JockyWilsonspants 80 Posted April 30, 2016 Share Posted April 30, 2016 Im not going to bad mouth Accrington. Im glad we have these players, but if we were in their position we'd be pissed off. It's they way of the world im afraid. We try to do the best for our club. Accrington try to the best for theirs. Just because im glad we have these guys I see no reason to rub Accrington's nose in the dirt. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carsons Dog 9,878 Posted April 30, 2016 Share Posted April 30, 2016 Google Darragh MacAnthony Bheast Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlCapone 7,678 Posted April 30, 2016 Share Posted April 30, 2016 The sheepy cunts got too much to say, no doubt looking to get bias nose in the blue trough Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barasa 802 Posted April 30, 2016 Share Posted April 30, 2016 It's weird! You google Accrington & all the top hits are about the football team. It's the same for loads of towns in England, try it. Doesn't work for Scottish towns, so the conclusion must be, the English diddies are much more important than ours. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrizzlyBear72 261 Posted April 30, 2016 Share Posted April 30, 2016 Acrimonious Stanley only have themselves to blame....fucking sick of this non story continuously resurfacing....Rangers have not acted improperly or illegally!! Makes you wonder who's behind this apparent agenda driven drivel, and why!! "Received criticism from Peterborough executive Darraggghhhhh MacAnthony!!! ??? Could the answer lie in there somewhere? ??? Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bombaybadboy08 15,660 Posted April 30, 2016 Share Posted April 30, 2016 I'm just sorry they don't have any other good players we can pinch for fuckall. See you same time next year, Stanley, keep em coming. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeoGeo7 10,260 Posted April 30, 2016 Share Posted April 30, 2016 Total non event, free transfers are part of the game, if they didn't like it then they should have offered contracts before the 6 month point when clubs could talk to them. It paints us in a bad light again hence the mhedia recycling it with a barely different angle each week. edit: it took them until 29th march to give Billy Kee an extension but it's until 2018 at least they have learnt their lesson. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bears 791 Posted April 30, 2016 Share Posted April 30, 2016 Yeah, there were no English teams happy to sign up large numbers from our playing squad for free around 4 years ago! Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SasaPapacLoyal 348 Posted April 30, 2016 Share Posted April 30, 2016 Wasn't that when English clubs were having a free for all on the players that didn't tupe their contracts over. Fuck them Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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