Striker Lyle Taylor insists he has no laborious emotions in the direction of Colchester United managerial duo Danny and Nicky Cowley regardless of his hopes of staying with the membership coming to nothing.
The 35-year-old has agreed phrases with National League South Chelmsford City, a drop of two divisions for a participant who was Colchester’s prime scorer final time period, regardless of his season being led to April by a calf damage.
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Taylor instructed BBC Essex that he verbally accepted a brand new deal, together with a pay minimize, however claims the written contract which emerged didn’t match what he had agreed.
“I’ve known Dan and Nick for almost half my life. My relationship with them won’t change because of this set of circumstances and this situation. I have the utmost respect and love for the pair of them,” he mentioned.
The full causes for his departure haven’t been disclosed, however because the contract talks progressed, Taylor finally felt he was not being revered.
“I wasn’t trying to leave Colchester at any point, it was kind of forced upon me – it was almost like dominoes, one domino fell into the next and I kind of knew that I had to do the right thing for me,” he added.
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“The club offered me a contract in May, there was then a negotiation between myself and the manager and we came to an agreement around eight weeks ago.
“When the contract did materialise in bodily kind, there was a gaping gap in that contract. That’s not all the way down to the supervisor, that is not all the way down to Nicky and it is clearly not all the way down to me.
“I agreed to take a pay cut but it still wasn’t enough and ended up being almost 40%. There comes a point where you have to say ‘enough is enough’.”
‘So a lot love for Lyle’ – Danny Cowley
Taylor joined Colchester final summer time on a 12-month deal, reuniting him with the Cowleys, who he performed beneath at Concord Rangers early in a profession which took him to Bournemouth, Sheffield United, AFC Wimbledon, Nottingham Forest and a number of other different EFL groups.
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Speaking about his departure final week, Danny Cowley mentioned: “We have so much love for Lyle, he was a really important person in our group and a really important player in our team.
“I do know Lyle shall be actually pissed off with circumstances, we’re too – however it’s genuinely no person’s fault, he picked up an damage on the worst doable time as he was popping out of contract.
“Football is an honest game, if you’re honest with it, it will pay you back and on this occasion it hasn’t, because Lyle, so many times last year he went above and beyond, he took on such a load when we needed him to, he kept putting the team first.”
Taylor mentioned he might have stayed within the EFL with one other membership or opted to play overseas, however the decided method from Chelmsford had been “a bit of a whirlwind”.
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“There’s a lot of work to be done, (they have) a really good owner, they’re wanting to go in the right direction and that’s what I want to be part of,” he mentioned.
“It’s a place I can see moving towards a goal and that is a really important thing – you know what you’re striving for, you know what you’re working towards. It’s going to be a really interesting project.”
His first purpose is to regain full health so he can resume his taking part in profession.
“I just need to finish the end stage of my rehab and I’ll be back out on the pitch playing matches with the boys,” he added.
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“I’m excited and looking forward to what this could potentially be in the future.”
Colchester have drawn each their League Two video games initially of the brand new marketing campaign, whereas Chelmsford started with a 1-0 dwelling win over Horsham.