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According to todays Herald we are battling for compensation with Dover for Ajala.An FA tribunal is prepared to hear case but we are believed to be seeking a five-figure fee.Seems we met with them last night to try and settle "out of court".Fee of around £20,000 mentioned in the article.

It's not like they can't afford it, flying to all their away ganes...

Behind-the-Gulls wrote:According to todays Herald we are battling for compensation with Dover for Ajala.An FA tribunal is prepared to hear case but we are believed to be seeking a five-figure fee.Seems we met with them last night to try and settle "out of court".Fee of around £20,000 mentioned in the article.

Don't hold your breath I believe Ajala Contract period was July 2014 until May 2015 with a Salary around 450 per week, I cannot see why Dover would have to pay 20k ?

Yells wrote: Don't hold your breath I believe Ajala Contract period was July 2014 until May 2015 with a Salary around 450 per week, I cannot see why Dover would have to pay 20k ?

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We appear to be on Planet Mars or something similar being diverted into a misguided hope of getting some sort of pay off for Ajala instead of concentrating on bringing in quality players. It not going happen. The Board must invest their own cash now and not January it will be to late. If they don't it want be hilarious but a Bloody disaster

Dover are using an absolutely abhorrent and morally repugnant loophole to avoid paying us a fee.

I don't know for sure, but I suspect that the fee they paid their legal team to come up with the scheme was actually more than they would have paid us. It's bugger all to do with the pounds and pence and everything to do with ego, one-upmanship and little-club syndrome.

Make absolutely no mistake about it, Dover are every bit as horrible and nasty and have an equally large beshouldered chip as the last pub side to come into money, Crawley **** Town.

Of course, it's only our guy who ends up dead. Only our Scout leader, only our bloke who buys woodland to save it from developers and takes school children on a once-in-a-lifetime trip. It's never these scumbags, intent on doing nothing but harm to the National Game by turning even the virtually amateur game into a financial arms race. I know Crawley's bloke met the same fate, but by then it was all far too late. You and I were, of course, not the biggest losers in the death of dearly departed Paul, but if anything ever summed up the luck we get down here...

Matt.

Pretty sure ajala didnt applaud the fans last night. Unlike duane achampeong who did show respect. Fair play duane

Ajala did applaud the fans just prior to the start, whenhis name was chanted. As you say, Duane came over to the Popular Side after the match.

DaveysBarTab wrote:Pretty sure ajala didnt applaud the fans last night. Unlike duane achampeong who did show respect. Fair play duane

I'm not sure if we were too welcoming when the chant "oh, **** off Ajala" was ringing out

dannyrvtufc4life wrote:

I'm not sure if we were too welcoming when the chant "oh, f*** off Ajala" was ringing out

that was once the match started.

Whatever the arguments 'for' and 'against' in this disagreement between us and Dover, I cannot see how we can realistically claim for £20,000 compensation. A fairer figure would be £5000, or maybe even £10,000, but how the club can justify asking Dover for £20,000 is beyond my understanding.

Hi Dover fan in peace. Ajala is not under contract and you wouldn't be entitled to a penny. We had the same thing with Connor Essam this summer and only got 5k from Leyton Orient so even is he was under contract 20k is pie in the sky. Seems either your club or paper is getting dud info from Somewhere. On a side note. You were the best side we have played this season going forward but at the back and in goal the worst Mcdonald aside. Hope you stay up as love Torquay. Also you're skint so why are you giving 200 quid away for hitting the bar at half time and why so many ground staff ?

All the best

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£20000 for Ajala? A joke surely? If true then in the January transfer window Hurst is worth at least £50000 because every team is looking for a natural goalscorer.
Play Hurst as an out and out striker I say.

If we get anything near five figures for Ajala I would be amazed, let alone £20k.

On another note, my opinion of Ajala really soured last night with his remonstrations to the ref regarding Butler's challenge to try and get him sent off. Would be disappointed in any player doing this, let alone against their former club.

johnsonfairlight69 wrote:Hi Dover fan in peace. Ajala is not under contract and you wouldn't be entitled to a penny. We had the same thing with Connor Essam this summer and only got 5k from Leyton Orient so even is he was under contract 20k is pie in the sky. Seems either your club or paper is getting dud info from Somewhere. On a side note. You were the best side we have played this season going forward but at the back and in goal the worst Mcdonald aside. Hope you stay up as love Torquay. Also you're skint so why are you giving 200 quid away for hitting the bar at half time and why so many ground staff ?

All the best

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Re; groundstaff, our club only has one full time groundsman, the rest you saw on the pitch at half time are all volunteers, on the subject on half time beer, that's a good point, unfortunately our club is still bound by football league regulations, until the end of this season I believe, all our games have to be segregated , so there is no access to the bar from the away end, wonder if there is an a area our club could make available in the away end to serve beer to away fans.

We've been appalling on the pitch most of the season, Tuesday, personally thought was our best all round performance of the season, if our team can maintain that level, think we'll get out of trouble.