How do you take a pay cut on a loan deal? Genuine question as I've never heard of that before. Surely we're contractually obligated to pay any shortfall unless he's renegotiated his deal with us?
Waddingham looked excellent for pompey and scored. We were linked in the summer. Feels like we've missed one there.
It's up to a player, if he wants to agree to a pay cut to make a move happen, even if it's on loan they can,( it doesn't happen very often for a loan ) it shows how desperate he was to leave and TBF you've got to respect him a little for it, he could have just sat here on his full wage.
You don't respect him for it what he gave the club and his team mates in how he played just because he did not want to be here is enough not to, he should just have told them he did not want to be here and i am pretty sure the manager would not have played him knowing he would not put maximum effort in for that reason alone.
No I don't respect him for that and I never said I did. But it doesn't changed the fact he's taken a pretty decent pay cut to leave when he could have just said bollox to that I'm taken my full wage until someone else agrees to the same, so fair play to him for that He made it clear he wanted to leave ( he didn't really want to sign perm but financially it made sense for him and he was under the impression he'd be away before the season started ) but plenty of players still play and get picked even though full well the manager and club knows the score.
The best thing about Giles leaving will be that it'll stop people taking about him every week. A promising transfer that turned to **** (plenty of those) but because of the wages and fee... And attitude...it was always going to be a topic of conversation. If we ship out omur this window, despite his situation and attitude being much different to giles, that may be the end of that type of comment every week. Then just Sinik to go!
There isn’t any evidence that Giles was consciously not trying his best; he’s just ****e and very occasionally puts in a semi decent cross.
If you think him leaving will stop people talking about him on here, then you don't know the people on here very well.
"Stopping crosses, winning headers, tackles; a lot of players don't do it now. They all do things (differently now) because they sign players on stats. Stats haven't won the game (against United), that passion, that belief that they're going to win that tackle, if somebody gets past him, his mate comes around the back and gets him out of the cart. I loved it, the way they played as a team." This quote from Warnock may sum up our January window last season. We were looking at numbers, not their overall provision to the team. With that in mind, it feels like it was no surprise that we didn't have the ingredients to remain in the top six. Maybe this has been the change in direction that Jared Dublin had alluded to.
I highly doubt that Greaves is on 25k & Giles & Omur are on more, if that’s even close to what Greaves is on, then he needs a new agent!
I very much doubt we would have pursued him on the showings he gave us if he showed the same at Boro or Luton then Boro would certainly not have come back for him if he showed this level of performance with them that he showed with us so they obviously know this was not his best and he can do a lot better as he showed with them.
Not having that. Ash and Giles in the same sentence? And why wouldn't we still be talking about Ash? Our greatest ever captain, maybe even the greatest captain in English footballing history. There should be a statue of him outside the ground and we and those that follow on from us should talk about him as long as there is a Hull City.
That's not true. He was clearly quite a popular character within the squad. Seemed like good buddies with Simons. You only have to see the Tigers+ videos to know that much. Just because the players were happy for Jacobs, doesn't mean they disliked Giles. I am not sorry to see him go, ended up being a waste of space, time and money for us. And the squad is likely better off without him around going forward, but it's not true to pretend he was unpopular and disliked within the squad.
