“It was just one of those things where the club came to me and said ‘a bid had been put forward’ and obviously, when a bid is accepted you have options but you don’t have that many in reality because it means the club want you to go,” he said.
“If the people at the top have accepted an amount of money for you then it is probably best to move on because if you stay you are only going to be upsetting those people.
"Whether that’s right or wrong, that’s the way it is.”
Turner’s £750,000 plus switch, coupled with a sell-on fee from Birmingham’s sale of Scott Dann to Blackburn Rovers, enable City to balance their books enough to keep hold of other high profile players on transfer deadline day this week.
“I don’t really have an in-depth understanding of running the club but it seems at the minute that Coventry are having to sell players and make cuts rather than reinvest,” he said.
“If the money is not there it’s not there and that’s not a criticism of anyone.
"But to go forward you need people putting money into the club and hopefully that will happen there.
“Hopefully Coventry will keep what they have got now and move forward because it would be a shame if they lose too many players and jeopardise their status as a club.
"You need to keep as many players as you can in this league and build around them, but I have no doubt there is enough quality there to put a good run together.
no but i was beliving what SISU said they were doing it for the benifit of the club and fansointlaugh:
To sell a player who hasn't played for us in around a year, and bring in a decent striker (albeit at the level below) then I see it as a positive move, we haven't really weakened the defence in selling Ben, but we have boosted in an area we were seriously lacking in. Good business by SISU for a change.
It would of been good business if they invested all the money back into the team not into SISU pockets. I have no problem selling players if the team is invested in, we are still a very thread bare squad
Turner was our best centre back so of course it has weakend us!!To sell a player who hasn't played for us in around a year, and bring in a decent striker (albeit at the level below) then I see it as a positive move, we haven't really weakened the defence in selling Ben, but we have boosted in an area we were seriously lacking in. Good business by SISU for a change.
Turner was our best centre back so of course it has weakend us!!
and it isnt good business by sisu at all as he was sold way under his transfer value!
Dosent look like Cranie will be signing a new deal, we would have got £750k for him no problem so why not try and offer him instead of Turner, next summer now when Cranie walks for free we will be 2 centre backs down and we will have only recouped £750k for the pair!!
So if it was Vidic or Ferdinand, and he'd been out for a year, and we got a bid at just under market value..would it make sense to sell ASAP, or allow him to return to fitness and increase in value again? Man U fans would be saying "yeah, flog him, he aint been fit for ages"? Nah. they wouldn't.
Turners comments sound like those of a gent who didn't want to leave and is more than a little concerned about events at a club he cares deeply for. This was a very thinly veiled "dig at SISU".
No, I'd have been happy with us keeping Turner and signing 2-4 players in the summer-as we had the budget to do so according to the board! Instead, I expect us to get relegated.
My above analogy is easy to distort, but if you take aside the context of club size I think Turner was as important to us as Ferdinand or Vidic are to Man U.
Try comparing the difference in points-per-game of City with Turner in the team and not to Vidic/Ferdinand in the team or not. Both Vidic and Ferdinand miss a lot of games through injury, hence another reason for the comparison. Plus, of course, I rate Turner much higher than you do.
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