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https://t.co/CudkTpK3ah

Suzanne just posted an update. Amazingly enough it isn’t as clear as that. Fondop, Gardner, Green and McGahey might be offered new terms if savings are made elsewhere in the squad (Nuttall and Willoughby mentioned). The others are definitely going.

They've tweaked it, Chapman was missing before. No change to the headings though, which could be clearer.

Despite my earlier view, now I've reflected on it I think the story is deliberately obtuse. There's no reason they couldn't have been more specific. They were in previous years, and other clubs are. So, I assume it's either poorly written, or was a deliberate choice. It's a safe bet MM doesn't want to keep all those under contract, so it's not a stretch to believe he wants to keep one or two of those out of contract.

https://www.oldhamathletic.co.uk/news/2024/april/24042024-retained-list/

It's not showing up on the front page of the website (yet?) but the official Twitter account has a link to it.

That's my reading too, but it's a bit ambiguous. I assume Llyton Chapman is gone too, his name not on any of the lists.

“Never in the field of non-league wages was so much spunked by so few on so many.”

I think they just pressed the button too early. Presumably we’ll see it tomorrow.

Ha! Is there some irony in that it’s just blank? (for now)

But what does it matter who’s “bigger”? There’s no god-given right to a league position. I’ve never really understood this appeal to history as having much value. It certainly hasn’t helped in the last 30 years. I would like my club to be “bigger” based on performances and results. Couldn’t give a damn beyond that. If you mean it as a motivational technique to inspire, fine I guess, but it’s failed the last few decades. And I still see people who think we ought to be winning because of who we were rather than because we’re actually earning it on the pitch.

Never mind, found it!

Got a clearer version or link?

It’s also not a one-sided thing. Players will have their own demands for contract length. If they’re (genuinely) good enough that we want them, they likely have other clubs interested too.

Ha! I never knew that. Style checks out.

I was a regular there too. I’m “Matt75” in those screenshots. There was JKLatics, there was the Latics Canada site, and at some point the other message board that I assume is still around today.

I’m probably putting two and two together and making XI but they normally announce signings’ squad numbers in the articles. I assume that means Garner’s number is currently occupied and shortly to be vacated.

Is Walker lined up to sign permanently in future? Seems like a lot of very excited stories on the fishal for a loan signing otherwise.

Fascinating article on Medi Abalimba… and fame for @oafcprozac and @BP1960, quoted in it. https://theathletic.com/5032306/2023/11/07/medi-abalimba-the-astonishing-story-of-a-football-fraudster/

He’s still there. Contracted to the end of this season. Looks like he hasn’t done much to impress; 27 league and cup appearances, but only 11 were starts. One goal (a match winner), one red card. He barely gets mentioned on Livi forums.

Yep, agreed! Or Nuttall’s 10 could free up.

Based on the PSFs 1-11 are taken. 12, 16 and 17 are the next ones free I think.

Great signing. Bring in a right back today or tomorrow and I’ll start planning my promotion party straight away.

Dylan Fage signs for St Albans City in the National League South.

Adam Clayton? Hasn’t he lost his Edge?