Ooo, do tell. Re: development of ground?

Franks to Luton

The opposite to my dream

For a pittance i would summise

Disappointed but good luck to him, Luton can obviously offer him what we can't; full time football(?) decent money and likely League football next season.

Just hope we got a half decent but of wedge for him. Officially the fee is "undisclosed".

-- Edited by ben281032 on Friday 17th of January 2014 08:11:48 PM

Signings needed ASAP, and NOT in central midfield for God's sake.

Assuming we're getting the transfer fee straight away and not having to wait for it to get sorted, that will hopefully give us some funds to attract a few gems from the leagues below wanting to play part-time at a higher level.

Thank you Fraser for everything. All the best mate.

As the official site is down heres the press release



Welling can confirm that defender Fraser Franks has joined title favourites Luton for an undisclosed fee on Friday.The England C defender, who has been a mainstay of the Park View Road defence in the past 18 months, departs with 71 appearances and four goals to his name for the Wings.Dropping out of the Football League to join Welling in the summer of 2012, the move represents a return to full-time football for Franks.
Luton were one of two clubs during the January transfer window to activate a clause in Fraser's contract, which has been there since he joined us.

Welling manager Jamie Day said: "Fraser was an important member of our squad and leaves us as a Conference South title winner, England C international and an established player at Skrill Premier level."He has been a pleasure to work with and has developed into an England C international during his time with us." He has always shown a great attitude in games and training, and deserves to move back into full-time football."All the staff wish him the best of luck with his new path and hopefully he develops further."We hope that this again shows that Welling is a club that can develop young players and they can move on when they are ready."

Day confirmed that he is working on a replacement for Franks to his squad and hopes to have a new signing in place by Monday, subject to final paperwork being completed.

We really are not helping ourselves with such small buy out sums required to acquire our best players

I very much doubt the club or Jamie have a say in the release figure. Guessing that's down to the player and agent. Wouldn't surprise me if it was a case of having Franks for this season with the 5k release or not having him at all. 

GaryH wrote:

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I very much doubt the club or Jamie have a say in the release figure. Guessing that's down to the player and agent. Wouldn't surprise me if it was a case of having Franks for this season with the 5k release or not having him at all. 

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 Fact Gary, fact.

We were lucky to get him for this long. Who, realistically, after promotion last year, thought he'd have stayed on and not been snapped up. We were lucky. We got a great player for 60% season, with a great attitude, and 5k now into the bargain. Not bad despite tonights disappointment.

"Day confirmed that he is working on a replacement for Franks to his squad and hopes to have a new signing in place by Monday, subject to final paperwork being completed."

Sounds like hes already sorted someone and he hasnt got a bad record of signing players has he?

Wonder if the players got wind of this and if it had anything to do with the debacle against Hyde?

Good Luck and thanks Fraser.

Do you seriously think that the 5k couldnt be 15k?

Who suggests the fee in the contract?

15k is peanuts!!!

For Franks he is worth far more than 15k. 

But his agent, and Fraser himself, would have known he could go onto better things, and rightly so. Why jeopardise a move with  a large release cause? To help Welling out? The higher the release cause the narrower the range of clubs who come in.  The lower it is the more choice Fraser has on who he joins and who offers the best terms. I just think if we said a higher figure we wouldn't even be having this discussion. 

I don't like this either but I can see why the price is so low. He's gone on the cheap but at least we had him to go on the cheap. 

Agreed GaryH, it's no exaggeration to say that without him we would probably be relegated this season.

lol I like the way you put it Gary :)

This will be a real test to the second half of the season, but I think the real test will be next year. Like someone said we are dependent on loans, nothing wrong with that but you run a major risk due to lack of consistency over a 2 /3 year period.

Given the title race by proxy between Luton and Cambridge United (witness, three Luton loans and two Cambridge loans to Dartford) it makes one wonder whether we will get Fraser back on loan at the end of January!  Seriously, good luck Fraser - you deserve your chance at getting back to League football.  We can quibble about the fee (and it is pure speculation that it is £5,000) but that was the deal when we signed Fraser. I just do not understand why the move was finalised late on Friday evening (seemingly) when there was no chance of securing a replacement in time to face Woking.  I just hope that we get a permanent replacement and not another loan.