I was critical of Allen in the QPR thread, but agree with what someone said about him. He’s integral to Robins’ system.
he plays that box to box role, which Shipley played last season whilst Allen was injured. He’s a better player than Shipley.
At least your old owners retained some ownership of the ground. I assume they won’t let the council screw you over if they fall out with the your current owners
Weirdly that’s what we said right before we ended up at Northampton.
Didn’t realise you didn’t own your ground. Sympathies with you - I hope that ends up positively in the end
Let’s face it - if this was fisher the telegraph and some of our fans would be going mental - “Gucci clad Joy Sappalla asks for tax payer bail out for private company football club”
Not necessarily. Paul Pogba for instance is far more marketable that Mahrez at the point of buying
Adidas pay the 100 mil a year for Pogba in their kits, not a 300k signing from the french second division
I read an article after Leicester winning the league where Man Utd fans were outraged that they could pick up Mahrez for 300k and Man Utd didn’t know him, and the United guy was saying due to Man Utd’s position on football and shareholders - they shop in different markets.
Shareholders expect...
To be fair to Chaplin he worked hard for us. he got in positions but just couldn’t finish. I assume his confidence dropped.
It’s worked out well for all parties though. He scores goals for you, he’s got his confidence back and and we replaced him with someone who works for us. Happens all the...