Millers boss Evans stunned by Agardâs Bristol move. please log in to view this image STUNNED: Rotherham United boss Steve Evans. ROTHERHAM United manager Steve Evans admitted he was mystified after forward Kieran Agard completed a move to Bristol City â six days after rejecting a transfer to Leeds United. Agard joined City on a three-year contract yesterday, returning to League One in a deal which will cost his new club close to £1m. Leeds were ready to pay £850,000 for Agard last Friday but pulled out of negotiations with the 24-year-old after Agard arrived late for talks and the two sides failed to reach an agreement on wages. United have since signed Italian forward Mirco Antenucci on a two-year deal from Ternana. A bemused Evans said: âWow â you turn down Leeds United and drop a league and go to Bristol City. Thatâs no disrespect to Bristol City, theyâre a wonderful football club, but I am surprised. âI find it surprising that you would turn down a household, worldwide name in Leeds United and go to Bristol City. âYou can go to the wildest place in Africa and when someone says Leeds, people know Leeds United, donât they?â http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co....ans-stunned-by-agard-s-bristol-move-1-6799457 A kind of veiled compliment to Bristol City this, it just shows City are on the way back. [video=youtube;343F1SfOcd8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=343F1SfOcd8&list=UUq_5VYwAoOvaL4lyGkwoboQ[/video]
Wiz, i think Reject has a J in it, just saying Edit......Alan, thanks mate, a bit early in the morning for me...
I keep asking myself WHY COME TO CITY? Salary? Unlikely that with our financial losses over the past five years and the SCMP rules, that we are paying him silly money. And probably less than Leeds were offering? Relationship at Rotherham with Evans gone sour? Very likely. Does not see Rotherham doing anything this season except being embroiled in a relegation battle? Probably. Sees us as a club going places and wants to be part of it? Possibly. Has a partner who comes from Yeovil area who is unhappy being too far away from family?
Must admit, I was puzzled why he would drop a division, even if it is to us-Cant also see why he wanted to leave when he could be playing championship football, so I assume that he wasn't on very good money and a new contract didn't offer what he wanted. Had the chance to go to Leeds but it didn't work. So the choice becomes, stay (having made a desire to leave) and get less money or go to who else wants you- We can and were prepared to pay, and the transfer window door shuts in 9 days time. Choice made.
Leeds is a mess Its got one of the coldest climates in England, a harsh, unfriendly and abrasive core population, one of the worst housing environments in Europe, one of the most elitist and callous councils in England, a soaring crime rate, and its football team has been governed by a succession of gangsta's since back in the late 60s, which is how they obtained the cream of British talent that dominated English football back then, and the new guy is just a successor to that throne. The joke is, they used to play in all-white. Never judge a book by its cover.
I think it is highly likely Bristol City are paying higher. Freeman for instance would be able to demand high wages. It is no great leap to imagine City met this players terms for dropping down a division. Wages = Fighting talk.
If he saw the outright anger directed at the Leeds players last season in a cup replay (can't remember where it was -Rochdale?) then no player in their right mind would ever consider going there - Leeds not Rochdale! However it still leaves the thread question unanswered and I'm somewhat miffed by his decision and let's all hope he has done it for all the right reasons and doesn't change his mind in the near future. The mystery that is Bristol City continues..... stay tuned.
I wouldn't go to Leeds either, just look at their dodgy owner and they've got a manager from the conference
