Walsall manager Dean Smith has today warned the soon-to-be out-of-contract players that, if offered a new deal, they will have to make their minds up quickly, or face being released.Speaking to the Express & Star, Smith said; “There is a 28-day period but this time there won’t be because the conversation will be: ‘Right, we want you. Do you want to stay? Let’s sort a deal out now, otherwise you’ll be a free transfer’.
“I’m not going to have offers out there where people can go and bargain with other clubs and your budget is tied up.
“So the situation will be ‘We want you. If you want to stay, then let me know in the next couple of days and we will thrash out a deal’ and that will be that, otherwise it will be on the free transfer list. It’s happened before and I won’t do it this season.”