Does look like anybody is in BN inital plans after his appointment....who will he come back for?

Fielden, Hock and Phil Veivers for me.

Hopefully Fielden, Goulding, Pryce and a loan spell for O'Carroll and Farrell

I dont think he fall for half Pryce again

in an ideal world MM and SW will scare the sh it out of him in preseason and turn him into the monster of a player he's always had the potential to be.

Phil Vievers and Mike Forshaw.

Stuart Fielden is the obvious one.

Most likely could be George Carmont who would be an immense signing for Celtic Crusaders.

Fielden, Carmont & Forshaw.

A couple of younger players on loan.

I don't want him to take any players unless its the young ones on loan.

I want to see what the new guys in charge can do to Fielden and Pryce. They could both be great players.

I can't see any place there for Vievers with Sharp and Harris as coaches.
Hock is 21 months away from playing, Fielden is more likely but can Celtic afford his currrent salary?

If Nobby comes for Wigan players it maybe Carmont on a perm deal and poss McIlorum or Riddell, Farrell and couple more on loan deals.

He will pick up players from around who are OOC.
Sharp may pick up some from Humberside as HFC & HKR have released players. Harris may know of a couple of handy players from the Championship.
They are late in the market for players and will have to do the best they can.

Maybe Wigan could continue to pay half his salary (£125k) and MM can bring someone in for £125k.
However I think he will have a good season next year.

.........unless he gets him at half price?

Nobbys always liked the proven and more mature player, so i dont think he will drip into the youngsters such as Farrell/Tuson etc. but O,Carroll, McIlorum could be an outside bet.

Fielden is not on 250k.

£249.99

What is he rumored to be be on Odemwingie?

He must be on a massive chunk though, highest paid player probably in the league, and yet in the 1st year didnt he take a small wage because we didn't have space, for example.

1st year: 50k
2nd year: 235k
3rd year: 235k

£520k over 3 years, about 180/190 avg?

I can see Nobby going for Carmont, Bailey (both out of contract?) from the first team proper and maybe some fringe players like Goulding to help bolster what is pretty much a non existant Celtic squad.

He's got a tough job on next year I think bearing in mind he wont have a great many players of quality to pick from.

I think we'll keep Bailey, although i think there are a couple of factors, how bad his injury is and if theres anyone else available.

Matt King is on just under 200k apparently. He his the highest payed player in the league.

Fieldens wage is probably split over afew years though, he might be on 250k this year who knows but the amount he is earning every year will not be 250k.

I guess he must be on the breadline with those figures

I do reckon he'll come in for Fielden and Carmont at sometime; I don't want to lose either though. We all know how good George is, and I honestly believe Fielden can be...Ressurected, so to speak, under Maguire.

Not convinced that Fielden and Noble's working relationship is still
good enough for him to follow him again.

Noble will be all too aware that Fielden is done as a top
flight prop too.

I certainly would expect Carmont to depart with him.

It has said on wigantoday he is ready to swoop for Carmont and offer him the 2 year deal he wants

According to the Express Harrison Hansen was disappointed to see Noble go.

Useful player but if it freed up enough cap space to bring in a bit of quality might be worth considering

I've read the Salary cap rules a few times now and from every thing i can see they don't need to be able to pay his current salary at all.

From my reading of the rules the only stumbling block in getting rid of a player is whatever termination fee is agreed.

The termination fee counts on the salary cap of the selling club, usually on a pro-rata basis over the remaining term of the contract.

so lets say a player has 2 years left on his contract, and agrees a £50,000 termination fee, then £25,000 for the next 2 years still counts on the salary cap of the club terminating the contract.

I'll try and look further to see if there are any specific exclusions for 'transfers' but i'm sure a player could always have his contract just terminated if there are clauses in his contract to agree termination, and a suitable termination fee can be agreed between club and player.

surely the termination fee would be remaining wages tho as thats the contract that was originally signed? player could sue if didnt get that?

fwiw, my source says bailey is highest paid player at club.