COVENTRY City midfielder Gael Bigirimana has signed a 12-month extension to his current professional contract with the club.
The 17-year-old, who made his full league debut for the Sky Blues in their opening day league fixture with Leicester City on Saturday, August 6, initially signed his first professional deal with the club in July 2011 to June 2013.
Bigirimana, a graduate of the club's academy set-up, has now penned an extension to his current contract which runs to June 2014.
Coventry City manager Andy Thorn said: "I'm delighted Gael has decided to sign this new deal.
"He has acquitted himself extremely well since his step up to the first team, he fully deserved to make his league debut at the weekend and this extension shows how highly we regard him."
More contracts handed out to current players in the past week than the rest of their time here - what are SISU up to?!?!
SISU wish, just means they can command a fee next summer if they're still here. I hope to god they have long been oustedGreat News
Surely the longer the contract the more he is worth too?
That or they're boosting the clubs assets on paper so the books look better for potential buyers/investors. Either is good news IMO.
Wasn't this covered last week, the general feeling was that home grown players went down as being worth £0. Someone had studied it at Uni, seen Man U's books and saw Scholes, Giggs etc down as £0.
Fair point, I thought that player contracts had a value though, could be wrong.
Also (@akira), would make no difference to next summer as his contract still had two years to run, but who needs facts when we're SISU bashing eh?
I was speaking to someone at the match who reckons GB absolutely loves CCFC and will stay at the club as long as they will have him. He has no desires to leave as there is no bigger/better club in his opinion. A religous lad like this i don't think even Money would tempt him.
No value to contracts for players developed by the club. So no worth shown on the accounts.
However the player pool would have a "value" to any potential buyer of the club because they could look at each player and say how much could i sell him for. It is two different things - current accounts worth and potential sale value
A religous lad like this i don't think even Money would tempt him.
But surely if somebody came in to buy him, we could ask for more based on how long on his contract he has left? That's what I was getting at.
Well, he tends to manage lower league teams anyway, thought I guess they might have a relationship from his days at the City academy.
Yep, I understand it accounts wise I just meant if big clubs were sniffing around now it would make him more appealing
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