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In January 2014 The Chron reported: "Brentford are said to be ready to offer £300,000, with a potential extra £100,000 in add-ons for (Tarkowski)." If that was true, and the sell out of the sell on clause at £150k was also true, it would mean Latics would have got a maximum of £550,000 for Tarky. If Latics had been offered a straight cash deal of £550k in 2014, would we have considered this to be reasonable at the time for a 21 year old in his first full season?

Maybe the club tried and failed to get someone in!

Luke Ingram ‏@LukeIngram92 3m3 minutes ago Quiet deadline day for #oafc. I'm heading home.

It'll depend on the contract. It could be a percentage of any future profit that Brentford make on the player. Didn't Latics get a further cut when Dale Stephens moved from Charlton to Brighton?

Could that include wages and any add-ons?

Would not surprise me.

Necarcu Ltd. Sole director is Graeme Middleton. Their standard industrial classification is "Other business support service activities not elsewhere classified." There is a 34 page PDF document on the Companies House website if anyone wants to read it! Graeme Middleton is also involved in other companies including a call centre, and two companies with 'barcode' in their name! https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/04989487/charges

Phone: 0161 228 2255 Text 81333 and start your message with the word "Manc". Email: manchestersports@bbc.co.uk

A quick look at the 'Company Check' website states Latics has a net worth / shareholder equity of £-4.7m, with total liabilities of £8.2m. I presume the £4.7m is the current net input from Simon Blitz? https://companycheck.co.uk/company/04989487/OLDHAM-ATHLETIC-2004-ASSOCIATION-FOOTBALL-CLUB-LIMITED/summary

OK, who voted for Croft??

We have 21 points from 26 games. We need another 30 points from the last 20 games to guarantee safety. Bury had 30 points from the first 20 games this season, and were 10th. Latics need the form of a team in 10th place (currently Bradford) for the rest of the season. Play around with http://www.statto.com/football/stats/england/league-one/2015-2016/custom-table for further stats!

The first Latics team I can remember was: 1. Harry Dowd 2. Ian Wood 3. Maurice Whittle 4. Alan McNeil 5. Bill Cranston 6. Jim Bowie 7. Don Heath 8. David Shaw 9. Jim Fryatt 10. Tommy Brycleland 11. Keith Bebbington Promoted in my first season. 50 goals, in all competitions, from Shaw and Fryatt. That's why I became a Latics fan for life.

I remember him well from my first season as a Latics fan. RIP Tommy.

According to The Chron: "Sheridan hoped to have a new player in this week - but injury has prevented the move." I wonder who this was? http://www.oldham-chronicle.co.uk/news-features/10/oldham-athletic-news/96310/sheridan-pledge-over-new-signings

Dunn, Holden and Brown out. Sheridan and Shirtliff in. Will Shez bring in a number 3?

TEAM NEWS: Coleman, Dummigan, Dieng, J.Wilson, B.Wilson, Lafferty, Kelly, Jones, Winchester, Murphy, Cassidy. SUBS: Cornell, Brown, Mills, Croft, Poleon, Forte, Fuller.

Confirmed by his son: Will Dowie ‏@WillDowie @Matt_Chambers_ This is simply not true and there was no contact whatsoever between Corney and my dad #oafc Will Dowie ‏@WillDowie Iain is delighted about John getting the job, a good friend of ours, and hopefully he will get the club back to where it belongs #oafc

Interesting comment by Matt Chambers in today's Chron: "Athletic turned to Sheridan after exploring options including former Brentford interim manager Lee Carsley and another former manager, Iain Dowie. Dowie’s contractual requirements were out of the club’s financial reach." http://www.oldham-chronicle.co.uk/news-features/10/oldham-athletic-news/96121/sheridan-on-rescue-mission

Where are little and large these days?

If Shez brings Warren Feeney as his assistant manager, will he also be allowed to bring in a replacement for Keith Brown as first team coach? Any thoughts?

From the Chron in February 20014: "Athletic says the fee for Tarkowski - officially undisclosed - is far more than the £150,000 reported in some papers last week. Part of the fee is thought to be dependent on Brentford moving up to the Championship. A sell-on clause has been incorporated, Lee Johnson has confirmed." http://www.oldham-chronicle.co.uk/news-features/10/oldham-athletic-news/84436/tarky-talks-over-latics-loan-return

I started following Latics in 1970, and this season is probably the lowest I've felt about my home town club.

Out of interest I kept an article written by David Conn, in The Independent in March 2004. Part of it said TTA: "funded the club for three months in administration, which cost them £522,500. The preferential creditors, the Inland Revenue and VAT, were owed £715,000 and were paid 32p in the pound: £237,000. "Football Creditors" - other clubs, players and the League's pension deficit - are to be paid £428,000, while Blitz and Gazal paid £120,000 for Oldham's office equipment and other assets. Unsecured creditors, the usual victims including a £30,000 policing bill, local family firms and £1,856.50 unpaid to St John Ambulance, got nothing. The club's ongoing losses are estimated at £1m, and their shoring-up of the club adds up to £2.4m. They are paying £4.6m more for the ground and land." It would be in the interest of any investor to own the land as well as the club. If the current debt to Blitz is around £6m, and the land was bought back for £4.6m, then any investor would need to start with an offer around £10m. Unless one of us wins the lottery tonight I can't see that happening.

He left Doncaster to be closer to his Manchester home, hence the move to Oldham. Shrewsbury is further away from Manchester than Doncaster. I cant think why he would want to move there! £££££££££££££££££££££££