James Garner says all is quiet on the contract and transfer front

How can he say there's nothing going on... doesn't he talk to his peeps, for fuck's sake!!!

All a little bit strange, though, as Paul recalls @1: we carried this story last month (or was it just AI clickbait???):

New deals for Pickford and Garner set to follow Tarkowski's renewal

So someone is telling porkies.

Something not right here, get this done Everton.

Both Garner and Keane contracts are coming to an end, for me, Keane is definitely worth another 12-month extension.

He should have been another one last season. Or sold if they don't think he's good enough (he clearly is).

Garner is still young and hasn't peaked so my guess is that it'll be the player who is hanging on, probably because of all the upheaval that was inside the club.

This is an issue that should have been dealt with a lot earlier. It's obvious that James Garner will not be short of suitors, given that he will be a free agent very soon...

He's only 24 and will continue to improve in the future.

I'd still like it sorted soonest though.

So we'd better get a move on.

Although having said that there's been many times that I wished I was someone else!

I think once the dust has settled most who said they were leaving will drift back on.

Regarding posters returning, I don't know, many split before the bettor front page focus. I don't think that would reassure any of them about where the site is headed.

That we don't have an extension option on his contract?

I revealed last season that the club have an option to extend Garner's contract by a further year, so the situation isn't as urgent as it sounds. A new deal was discussed under the previous regime, but the changes behind the scenes saw that grind to a halt.

That last bit is surprising... it's been nearly a year!

Both will get offered new deals, and if they turn them down, will be sold in the summer. Any cash will be booked as PSR profit, as they will be fully amortised next summer.

The club has sorted Gana, Tarkowski and Pickford. These boys are left. The noise on Ndiaye points to me as if new terms are being looked at as well.

And aren't Man City paying a huge slice of his ridiculous salary anyway?
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Both will get offered new deals, and if they turn them down, will be sold in the summer. Any cash will be booked as PSR profit, as they will be fully amortised next summer.

Sorry to go all forensic on you but do you really believe that to be true?

Do you not think that, come next summer, if they have turned down new deals (or rejected the 1-year extensions), they will simply walk away, without any fee being paid by anybody, leaving a big fat £0 to book as PSR profit?

I believe both Garner and Ndiaye are doing more than Grealish.

If he carries on the way he has been performing, then I don't think he is a priority signing next summer even I though I might be in the minority at the moment.

It would be the Club's option to extend or not, not the players.

I just assumed it would be a mutual thing that would be resolved one way or the other with each side working to achieve what they want.

But you are in effect saying the club is in control and it's up to them whether these players leave next Summer for nothing, or stay for another year? Forgive me for my scepticism but that does not sound very Bosman-like to me...

We have players who will be allowed to walk away for nothing. The recruitment team have made a complete dog's breakfast of the summer transfer window. Moyes quite rightly wanted the final say on players, but it seems TFG have replaced Thelwell with a recruitment team who seem to have bought players who are nowhere near ready for the Premier League.

I get the feeling they made a corporate decision to reduce the age of the playing squad, which is fine provided you buy the correct youngsters. We have spent money on Dibling, Barry and Anzou and none are ready to play in the Premier League.

I think it's quite obvious that Grealish and Dewsbury-Hall were Moyes signings and they have vastly improved the team. With the youngsters, despite spending in excess of £70M, we don't know if any of them will make it.