George Bennett talks Walsall's out of contract players

George Bennett and Jonny Drury bring you the latest episode of the Bescot Beat.

Transcript

00:00Trevella have previously given out contracts early to expiring players last season.

00:06Is there any rumour or discussion of that this season? Any latest on that, George? I'm sure

00:12there's a number of players out of contracts in the summer. Is there any progression in that

00:15department? Well, I ask the question at every press conference and there's kind of been no

00:20update so far. Matt Sadler did talk about his intention of building for the future and they

00:26will be looking to get players on contracts which will be announced before the end of the campaign

00:32and trying to get players signed up early. I think the first contract that was handed out

00:37was to Donovan Daniels in the summer but actually during the season I think it was Oshin McKenzie

00:41which was on the 21st of November. So maybe Walsall before that January window could start

00:47to look at getting some players tied up. Nothing confirmed at the moment. All I can do really is

00:54keep asking the question but I do think that from Matt Sadler's comments when I first mentioned

00:59it to him around sort of six weeks ago is that Walsall will be looking to tie players down on

01:06new contracts. We've seen Taylor Allen actually earlier this season already. He had his one year

01:15option deal extended and then it extended by a further year. So that's a player on board now for

01:23Walsall for the future and I can imagine they'll be looking to do the same with others. I think

01:26Jamie Gellis has got an option year. So with the form he's in Walsall is going to be dying to

01:33extend that and get that one sorted. I can imagine he will be looking to get players tied down early.