We never really heard the story there did we? I think he agreed to stay and was rewarded with his new contract but we'll never know if he was going to be allowed to go to if he'd wanted to. In the end we sold Sheaf very late in the day instead.
The version of that that I heard was "a couple of players" and people have drawn their own conclusions. I think it is probable that MVE was one of those. Haji was injured over the summer and it just seemed unlikely to me that he was in a strong position to be leaving. He might well have believed at the time that his chances of going to the WC and starting would have been increased by moving to the PL. He might even have been told that in the US team environment. Simmo was really the one who appeared to be unhappy at the time.
It makes sense that it was MVE and Wright, theres been rumblings about them since we lost to Sunderland. In terms of Simms, i'd imagin that Lampard would have let him go.
That's what I think too but the lesson I've learnt over the years is that we never really get to know what's going on.
Hope soMVE surely will stay with us to be a starter in the premier league, i cant imagine many will look elsewhere
Nor can Kaine!
