Nonleagueherewecome
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Agreed. I'd tell him he's going nowhere and if we don't go up next season, we'll let him move on the summer after. If he wants to sulk, fuck him. He owes us a bit after all, we got his career back on track...
Yeah, there is but a move to the mighty Reading falls firmly into one of those camps. The justifications used here are all purely about money rather than ambition.
The contracts just say that you only lose out if you hand in a written contract request. I think it's pretty standard over all UK players. It's a worthless clause when they can force a club's hand in other ways. Exactly what Leon Clarke did.The shouldn't be one anyway for an engineered move.
I'd be completely pissed off and massively deflated if this is the case. £1.5m is nothing and doesn't guarantee replacing 28 goals. Has any team at any level ever gone on to have a good season after selling their top scorer?
Everton won the title the year after they flogged Lineker.
In our case:......aand im pretty sure the red shite won it the season after that....having sold rush to juve.....
I think these are the exceptions that prove FPs point
"Loyalty" is such a feeble argument in any context, let alone this one. He has been here a year. His only duty is to his own (short) career and to maximize the income he can generate for his family. Every single one of us would do exactly the same including those bleating on about loyaltyThere is no loyalty in football be it clubs to players, players to clubs even fans to players. Clubs want instant success, players want to maximise earnings in a relatively short window so it's not really surprising that these things happen. Only surprise is that some folk get all worked up about it
Well... I remain convinced if we hadn't have wasted the cash we had to spend from Keane on Bellamy, we'd have been alright. There was a steady decline across the years when King went. Armstrong did prove the point, but of course as both he and King went for zero, there was no cash to replace with.In our case:
Keane and McAllister
King
Armstrong (admittedly a loan expiring)
All led to relegation. It is difficult to replace all those goals and assists.
That said, the players we have signed and Andreu coming back might point to having a different type of player to McNulty up front.
That's why Steve Bull left Wolves isn't it?"Loyalty" is such a feeble argument in any context, let alone this one. He has been here a year. His only duty is to his own (short) career and to maximize the income he can generate for his family. Every single one of us would do exactly the same including those bleating on about loyalty
Course we sold Gibson to Man Utd end of the 86 season.......aand im pretty sure the red shite won it the season after that....having sold rush to juve.....
I think these are the exceptions that prove FPs point
Ah so we should have been greedy then. Joined up thinking at its best.I don't think comparing sale prices with the pitiful values we've received for players previously really works. We should have held out for as much as we could possibly get.
That's why Steve Bull left Wolves isn't it?
Course we sold Gibson to Man Utd end of the 86 season.
The one that followed wasn't too bad...
Admittedly part of me wonders just how good we'd have been if we'd been able to keep him, and add Pickering to the squad anyway.I'm still hurting about it though!
Erm, we lost ours last season then went on to get promoted (George Thomas)Any examples of where a team prospers immediately after losing their top scorer? We've been relegated every time it has happened to us in my memory!
"Loyalty" is such a feeble argument in any context, let alone this one. He has been here a year. His only duty is to his own (short) career and to maximize the income he can generate for his family. Every single one of us would do exactly the same including those bleating on about loyalty
ClownAh so we should have been greedy then. Joined up thinking at its best.
Course we sold Gibson to Man Utd end of the 86 season.
The one that followed wasn't too bad...
Ah well he was a foul mouthed so-and-so:
Feel a bit better about him going after watching that a few times!
If he has any hope of cutting it at that level he'll need to change his current lifestyle by the look and sound of it.
McNulty’s eyes are on Rangers if the truth be known, family of Gers fans and he has said he’d like to go back and play in Scotland.
Sesh after a promotion. How dare he.
How naive.
McNulty a Celtic fan as well.You mean his die hard celtic fan dad?
How naive.
I was never under any pressure to sell Marc, other than from the player's agent.
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