He went to a national newspaper and had his photo taken with the journalist and basically said he wanted to move! That is disrespectful to the club i love and that's why i couldn't give a hoot about his future!
If you read, I'm on about the club I love (to coin a phrase) and want that team to get promoted. IF he was available on loan I think he would be good for us and may help us get promoted. Have you ever done or said anything that may not have come out particularly good? The moronic slagging him off that appears on here is unneccessary. No-one mentions this month's 4-4-2 where he states that even though we were a league one club, we were still a big club .... "all but Premier League in name". He didn't sound too disrespectful then.
Yes i have but i'm not a professional footballer with a load of professionals looking out for my welfare! Whoever made the decision to go a national newspaper was showing no thought or feeling towards the club that nurtured him for 10 years! I can't for the life of me see how a saints fan wouldn't be miffed by that! About the article in 4-4-2 - really don't care what he says,no point saying we're a big club and trying to flatter us because at the end of the day he left that 'big club' so it really doesn't wash with me! I don't like the kid or his advisors and you do,that's your perogative!
I'd take him back. Not his fault that his dad is a skate twat. Parents and agents are there to get the best for young footballers, many of whom are pretty naive. It's no surprise that some of the parents/agents are overzealous or want to line their own pockets. I remember Alex himself being quite complimentary about Saints. I don't hold it against him for going. He always put a shift in and didn't kick and scream like Puncheon.
What a ridiculous selfish decision oxo made ey probably sat on 30-40k a week at arsenal rather than sitting on a fraction of that in a team that had just gained promotion from league 1... Selfish bugger with delusions of grandeur or what, because all you guys complaining are that loyal that none of you would jump ships from your days jobs for a 600-700% payrise....get a grip!
his dad has a real complex, he was in the same England team as John Barnes but he says he never got the respect that he should have got and never played for a big club, and he did not want the same for his son.Any 16 year old will listen to his dad, although I think we will all agree that this decision has put his career back by 2 years. Hopefully our youth players will use oxo as an example of what not to do
He'd be brilliant for us and just what we need, but I don't want him back because he's an idiot (his dad is anyway) and he doesn't deserve it. I doubt NC would welcome him back either!
I don't know when people will get it in their heads that most people who don't care what happens in his future dislike him for how he and his dad went about it! That's my reason for disliking him anyway! Couldn't give a damn that he moved but it's the way he moved that i didn't like. You can't compare people in normal jobs to that of a footballer! totally different scenarios!
His Dad persuaded him to go for money. End of! Let him rot. I've always said I wouldn't take back an ex player and I stick with that
Everyone should remember that the media make heros and villains out of footballers to sell papers etc. We just see things through the slant they put on them, I for one do not know all the facts behind his departure and it is understandable that a young and vulnerable person could easily get stuck in a whirlwind such as this. I for one am glad that at that age I never got stuck in such a position.
If he was a money grabber he would've been much more vocal about leaving for the right price. I don't remember him publicly stating he wanted to go, I do remember him sayong he would love to play in the Premiership, but what player worth his salt would'nt?
Player: I want to play in the Premier League with Southampton Newspaper: I want to play in the Premier League Same words, but they can very easily be taken out of context. None of us knew the full story, so let's not jump on the "slag Chamberlain off" bandwagon.
One of the biggest clubs in the world, in one of the biggest leagues in the world, competiting in one of the biggest continental competitions in the world, offered him the chance to join them - and for mega-bucks. Yeah, what a loser he is for going to them. How awful of him. 99.9% of footballers in his position would have done the same. In fact, 99.9% of people in his position would have done the same. Yes he's giving up regular first-team football (down at Championship level I may add), but they'd have been no guarentee that Arsenal would have come back for him in two or three years time. The offer was there, he rightly took it. Get over it guys.
It's an opinion that people are entitled to have! we don't need to get over it! maybe you should get over the people moaning about him? indeed get over it!
