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What he's worth, and what we'd get are unfortunately two completely different things. A look at some of the other deals done around the lower leagues would suggest £200k would be a reasonable figure for a player with his attributes. Having said that, an offer of half of that would likely see us snap the hand off of the offering club. History tells us this. As a small club for whom money is tight, our players are ripe for picking.

NickGull wrote:Just me who thinks Zebs is one of our more saleable assets? I'd be angry with no less than £150k for him, personally. Fantastic player at this level, seems to have calmed down since he's been here, and channelled any anger into positive performances.

No Nick, not just you. Im hoping his liking for the South West area works in our favour should clubs come sniffing. I also happen to think he is the only player we have (at present) that would be pretty much a regular starter at most L1 clubs.

Southampton Gull wrote:Haha, yes mate, I'm fine thanks. Late one at work but chilling with a magners and a nice cigar

Thanks mate for the reply

Am now off to bed :sleep:

Haha, yes mate, I'm fine thanks. Late one at work but chilling with a magners and a nice cigar

Look who's stalking : the censor in red (SG)

How are you SG ?

Everything okey dokey ?

Zebs is going nowhere.

He'll be in the yellow strip for quite some time.

And in the orange jumpsuit simultaneously due to community service.

forevertufc wrote: It would not suprise me if Zebroski ,and a few of our other player's/manager were not on the radar of a whole host of clubs,

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Anyway; I doubt Zebroski would move so far north. After disciplinary problems at other clubs before appearing settling down with us, it'd take a lot to convince him and us to go.

I'd be dissapointed with a 150K in all honestly. Zebroski's one of our best players we always look dangerous when he plays and when he doesnt you can tell we definatley miss him.

Just me who thinks Zebs is one of our more saleable assets? I'd be angry with no less than £150k for him, personally. Fantastic player at this level, seems to have calmed down since he's been here, and channelled any anger into positive performances.

Zeb seems to play his best football under Buckle. If Bucks left for a league 1 club (if we fail to get this status) then I can see him taking Zeb with him. Lets hope both Zeb and Bucks will be involved with league 1 football next year - both under contract at Torquay whilst doing so!

Think there will be a lot of clubs out there taking a long hard look at TUFC as a whole,our club does not have two pennies to wee on,and is one of the smallest in the league,yet we are riding so high in the league.

It would not suprise me if Zebroski ,and a few of our other player's/manager were not on the radar of a whole host of clubs,would Zebroski move to Bury,i do not think so for one minute,no disrespect meant,he would only be going there if our club failed to win promotion,and for the pull of league 1 football.

Zebroski has never made any secret of have much he love's this area,and how settled he is at Tufc,think it would take a bigger southern based club to prize him away,to be honest.

ferrarilover wrote:Our finances are an odd thing. I shan't say too much, because I don't know the ins and outs as well as some on here, but we are in the curious position of having an incredibly wealthy board, but a tiny budget.
I like the idea that you think you have a small budget because you cut yours by £400,000. If we cut our similarly, we'd probably have a playing budget of -£100,000 :~D
Matt. Yes, ok, it's an exaggeration, so shoot me.

To be fair, there is only one member of the board that is "incredibly wealthy" as you put it (hardly in the Abramo/Mansour league though!) and lets face it, any financial advisor that suggested them continually pumping money into the club should also be taken out and shot. The rest are just normal businessmen, like most lower league board members.

No disrespect to the OP but seems a bit of a doubtful one to me. Not least because surely your team are in a state of flux at the moment having lost the whole of your management team to Scunthorpe. So who exactly at Bury FC has suggested we are in for Zebroski, because your caretaker Manager (Richie Barker) may just turn out to be just that surely - particularly if you don't go up!

If however it was Knill and co that were interested in Zebs, which is possible, then perhaps a more likely rumour might be that he will be off to League 1 with Scunthorpe in the summer?

As for his valuation, a difficult one - we are believed to have paid Wycombe between £25k - £30k for him and it's true to say that he is a "favourite" of our Manager - pretty much the first name on his team sheet I would imagine. I'm certain that Paul Buckle would be very reluctant to sell him but as they say every player has his price and Zebs is over 24 and only has 12 months left on his contract.

To be honest, I reckon Zebs next move would more likely to be to follow his current Manager to whatever club he ends up at when he eventually moves on ....

Our finances are an odd thing. I shan't say too much, because I don't know the ins and outs as well as some on here, but we are in the curious position of having an incredibly wealthy board, but a tiny budget.

I like the idea that you think you have a small budget because you cut yours by £400,000. If we cut our similarly, we'd probably have a playing budget of -£100,000 :~D

Matt.

Yes, ok, it's an exaggeration, so shoot me.

Regarding Knill is a difficult one. He took over us with the worst team in years at Gigg with conference football looking dead on. He then spurred us on to a top half finish, with i think at the tome the best form in the league. Second season got us to 4th missed out by one goal scored!! Then disappointment last year and a good season now. We also play good football like yourselves, with a young squad! On a tighter budget than I would say yourselves as we don't buy players and cut the budget this year by 400k.

He has done fantastic for us and splits the fans. He is very straight with what he says and he defends his team sometimes too much. He wasn't happy when we booed when we lost our first game in 11. Rightly so but we have some muppet fans on there. And funnily enough they did not rate him! As some didn't rate him he tried to jump ship and now has gone. He's left is with a team good enough for automatic. Will we get there is hard to say? Seems to have brought everyone together!

He's not at scunny, however it's rumoured he has plenty of money to spend!! Some suggest £1 million! So for him i see why he left but the timing has made him not so popular!!

So regarding Zebroski, he may not cost as much as we thought but maybe isn't up to the level we thought either! How are you financially these days?