Daily Mirror headline.. Hull City boss Leonid Slutsky wants free agents Joe Ledley and Sebastien Bassong to boost his side's promotion push. Wales midfielder Ledley and Cameroon international centre-back Bassong are on the look-out for new clubs after being released by Crystal Palace and Norwich at the end of last season.
We need to ask ourselves why are they free? And why are we the only ones after them? Ledley legs gone? Bassong crap?
Kamil Grosicki has revealed how close he came to leaving Hull City this summer after showing frustration with his agents for not getting him a move out of the Championship. Insisting he’s still committed to City and has respect for the club and the fans, he says that while he was close to going to West Bromwich Albion and Crystal Palace, he had in fact also agreed to join Fiorentina this summer and doesn’t understand why a move never came off. Speaking to the Polish media while on international duty, Grosicki said: “I’m disappointed that my agents didn’t do what they promised me. They keep saying that this time my situation is better than last time, when I was trying to move from France, because few clubs from Premier League will be interested in me for sure. So I’m still asking myself; ‘What happened?’ “I was close to West Bromwich Albion. I heard that Tony Pulis called five times and tried to get me. In Crystal Palace Andros Townsend was about to move to Leicester, and then I would get his place in Palace, but he stayed at the club. “Now I can tell that I was also very close to Fiorentina. We made agreement in just 10 minutes, so I have no idea why I didn’t sign for them.” Having started for Poland on Monday evening in a 3-0 victory over Kazakhstan, Grosicki was expected back at City’s Cottingham training ground today as Leonid Slustky steps up his preparations for the trip to Derby County on Friday evening. A star performer in his last City outing, the 4-0 victory over Bolton Wanderers, the onus will be on Grosicki to repeat those sort of performances now his hopes of a move from the Championship have been ended. However, making clear it is simply a desire to play at the highest level and not a factor of wanting to be away from City, Grosicki insists he’ll continue to fight for the cause. “I think that my place is in a higher level than the Championship. But I’d like to say that I’m professional so I will help my team,” he added. “I feel well in Hull. I have respect for the club and all people from Hull.”
We're not the only ones, Ledley's got lots of club's chasing him, he's already rejected offers from two Championship clubs.
Oh dear, this isn't going to sit well. Out of respect for the club, fellow team mates and city supporters, keep it zipped Kamil and let your footie do the talking, should be the advice. He should be capable of ripping up this league, get stuck in, make a name for himself on the pitch and he'll be fighting them off come January with big offers, when Ehab will surely sell.
Is it possible that club's saw how he performed against Wolves, and then how he performed against Bolton, and had a sneaking suspicion that he picks and chooses his games to suit his own agenda and decided that they would like to buy him, but without spending too much in case he did the same for them? Either way the balls literally in your court Kamil. Crack on and actually show, consistently, why you're too good for the Championship and then you'll be gone come January. Play poorly and have a poor attitude and guess what...maybe other teams won't want to buy you then either
Or they just didn't think he was very good in the PL. I think you're reading a bit much into it, plenty of players play better against poor clubs.
I thought he was ok in the Premiership, looked great for us, but balance that out against how poor we were playing when he came in. I said it after Burton, and was slated, but he does not cover his full back. Palace and West Bromwich have probably seen this and thought "no thanks", you can't leave your full backs exposed in the premiership. He needs to work on the defensive see of his came (even if it is just tracking back), to be a complete winger, if ge gets that right more clubs will want him. Oh and he can.shut up about leaving, show your teammates more respect
Shame that this has come to light. It means he's not a troll extraordinaire on twitter, just that his agent is rubbish.
So as many of us predicted he wasn't having a laugh, he genuinely is an arrogant prick airing his transfer wishes on twitter. Again, if he'd proved consistently that he would fully apply himself, and maybe even track back occasionally, then clubs wouldn't have hesitations in picking him up. He's talked a lot about how he's too good for the championship but done little to back it up. I want him to perform for the sake of the team but I'll never fully support someone with an attitude like that.
He looked crap last year, if he wanted to prove himself at the top level he failed. He got plenty of the ball and got lots of opportunities to shoot or make a difference. Apparently a Hull Daily Mail story, it wasn't mentioned above. Though it says 'Speaking to the Polish media' so it wasn't a direct interview, he must have known this would get out though.
I was also thinking about how fit they are. And even if some players are on free transfers we know that Ehab will still be concerned with agent fees and player wages.
Main concern is with Grosicki and this constant drip feeding to twitter/press of "i'm too good to be at city" is he going to destabilise the dressing room if it hasn't already done so, also feel he's going along this path quite deliberately with the attitude , "if i keep up this line of approach come january i'll be out of here one way or another".
Parle a Kamil la nuit derniere, il a dit.........Milosc Hull City I chcesz wygrac promocji z nimi Kadlub jest miasto pilki noznej UTT !
