So they should force our better players to stay rather than move to the prem? Brilliant team bonding, how come you're not a manager?
No they should try to keep hold of them for this season at all costs and if they can't do that take whoever buys them to the cleaners at over inflated prices, we need to send out warning shot and keep the wolves from the door. In regards to that being put in to practice take a look what's happened with Wes, for a sulky player he hasn't been too bad in pre season. I turned the job down because I'm not some patsy who is going to be micro managed by a cheap 'Penny Pinching' board.
I don`t think anyone that posts on here is aware of who is asking to leave or who is being made to leave, West Brom are the team to emulate with their ability to come straight up after relegation and they didn`t achieve this by selling their main assets. The money generated by gaining promotion to the Premier league is worth going for it for a season ,this to me is a calculated risk that won`t damage our club. How Dave put a spin on my comments as not being "sensible" because he doesn`t share them? is a theme repeated on these boards constantly.
I think that was frustration over the situation he was in the time, going from being one the first names on the team sheet under the previous regime then eventually being phased out.
He wasn`t **** he just isn`t as good as most Premier league players, in the Championship he will prove himself to be far from **** as will Surman but if we gain promotion we will need to spend big money buying players of the standard of Fer Tettey Redmond etc again. The Wolfswinkel situation i can understand as he is costing us lots and completely blew his chances last season mainly due to the inept tactics from our manager but i rate Lafferty and Garvan as more likely to succeed this term. If we are going to get raided for our best players at least force teams like Saints and QPR to pay over the top prices or wait until January.
But was that down to him as a player or the system he was being played in? Are you looking at this from a rational view point? As it appears that Wes has upset you with his disparaging comment about Norwich.
What you don't seem to understand is that his position was crucial to providing our strike force with ammunition, and he clearly wasn't up to task!
I understand, but you could say that about a lot of our midfield, the worst culprit for over playing and hogging the ball has left the team though.
You reckon he wasn't up to the task? I'd have liked to have seen wes play with rvw, the best football we played all season last year was that two game period wes played with hooper and they built a little understanding. Hughton didn't persist, shipped wes wide and brought elmander in to link play. He couldn't provide the ammunition not wes. I hand on heart believe we would have stayed up if we'd given wes the same amount of minutes as elmander. It's all about balance, you have to risk losing to win. Hughton wouldn't hence why we got in rots and couldn't win and build momentum. He may not be as good as david silva or whoever else everyone seems to expect but he sure as hell provides us something different and magic that was crucial in staying up first season, crucial in the 10 game run under hughton that saved his bacon second. And thoroughly missed 3rd and ultimately cost us relegation. He's become a scapegoat and forced out by a manager who couldn't believe in him and didn't rate him. I don't blame him for wanting to leave.
The idea that the club is "penny pinching" is obvious in a literal sense, but, as a stick to beat the board, risible. We've been relegated.
Agreed Dave 100%!! I was at the home game against ManUre last season when Wes received the ball in the box and rather than pass to an unmarked GH, he went for goal himself and was crowded out by 2 defenders and that was in the first half with the score at 0-0. I rest my case.
