AFCCOVENTRY
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@David7Bell: Thanks for all the nice messages but just to clear up I haven't left the club I have 2 years left on my contract ✌
Bell - I'm staying (1 Viewer)
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fernandopartridge
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Make the c-unit redundant.
NorthernWisdom
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Doesn't mean he's staying, just that he hasn't left.
RoboCCFC90
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Makes my day better knowing this delightful news..
It suggests he isnt planning to go though doesn't it? sounds like I'm on more money than I can get elsewhere by a significant margin, I'm seeing out my contract thanks.
hill83
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Exactly. If even try and get a pay rise.
It's hard to tell if you're being genuine or not, hill83! Confirmation needed please, mate!
chiefdave
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I've mentioned this a couple of times, the way it's being done is very strange. These players are under contract, you can't just get rid of them so why are they being made to train alone and frozen out? If we're paying them (potentially for 2 years) why not make use of them, it's not like we've got a huge squad full of experianced players. Can't look good to an interested buyer either, imagine Bell for example is on a decent wage for L1 which someone will need to match, who's going to buy him when the message we're putting out is he's not even good enough to train with the first team squad?
Joy Division
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harsh...........
Quite possibly especially since the way this is being handled creates animosity, when you are upset and angry with your employer and consider them disloyal why do anything but what is best for yourself?
hill83
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Interesting angle, but why would he be upset with his employer?
Edit: I didn't realise he was one of the players asked to leave!
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I personally would just dig my heels in further.
yeah it seems stupid, they are going to have to buy out most the contracts to get rid of them after treating them like this, I don't see any great savings from doing that? If Bell is on 5k a week and the best he can do is find a club on 1k, then they are going to have to pay say 4.5k a week to make leaving attractive to him, they would have been better treating him right and keeping him.
NorthernWisdom
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To me, it reads like people have been tweeting him saying sorry to see him leave, and he's clarifying that as he's under contract he hasn't actually left.
twitter isn't the best medium for reading peoples' thought processes however.
NorthernWisdom
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Still, I'd say his employer giving him a 3 year deal for no apparent reason would be cause for great joy, rather than upset!
hill83
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And being on the sick for three years. I'd talk about that job for many years.
italiahorse
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Give him a chance. Injured last season and we wont get any new players.
4 Yr for the Pedants.
Perhaps, I take the I've still got 2 years on my contract to mean I have no desire or plan to leave, but your view is legitamate too.
Twitter is very frustrating, the only way to write any decent amount of information is 2 u knw use txt spk & sound lke a idiot
AFCCOVENTRY
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@David7Bell: Always treat people how u want to be treated cos it might backfire on u 1day
yes what you just wrote in the bomb squad thread is the reason for those to be upset and dig their heels in, if that is what is best for them financially.
hill83
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I agree. But if my boss sent me down the park on a 2 year contract with the strict instruction to "Play football".
I'd be pretty happy.
NorthernWisdom
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Indeed.
If he stays then fair play, no reason why he shouldn't.
Would be the mark of him as a man and footballer if he proved his manager wrong too, like McSheffrey did all those years back.
And Joachim
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stupot07
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In injured last season, and the season before and the season previous to that...He's managed to only make 1/3 of the possible appearances over the last 3 seasons
True but that isn't what they are being asked to do, thats what happens if they dont leave, they are being asked to find another club and that for someone who has been injured for so long will almost certainly mean a massive pay cut. So Bell is probably saying no thanks I'll go down the park with my 2 year contract and play football for 5k a week.
hill83
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I know. And good luck to him, I'd do the same.
dongonzalos
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I don't blame him if we are stupid enough to not realise we need to get him on that pitch to generate interest from anyone who maybe able to pay his wages then so be it.
NorthernWisdom
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To be fair, getting him on a pitch would just have him injured for another 6 months, and unable to be moved on!
dongonzalos
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He will never get on the pitch playing down the park.
Get him 5 games if you can, then get him loaned out for half his wages. No one will buy him.
No one will loan him if he gets unfit at the the park. People when loaning will want someone near match fit
letsallsingtogether
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Well done to the magician don't let them push you about like they have everyone else just go to show what shysters they really. are
NorthernWisdom
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I thought the optimism of city fans had been crushed!
