What a daft comment. We know full well how Diego Poyet is doing. He is earning £30,000 a week but getting splinters up his arse. From sitting on West Ham's bench all season.
I think JBG has got a cheek if that is the case. A few good free kicks but he went missing in an awful lot of games, and as for his corners.....He is certainly not a Premier League player yet. As for Roger Johnson.....an absolute accident waiting to happen. Roger and Out.
Beats sitting on Charlton's bench for a fraction of that amount watching management's pin-up Buyens lumbering around at DCM. Poyet is just one of dozens of talented 20-year-olds waiting their chance at established Premiership clubs. When they are ready, they will come into the team. Most are not ready physically and mentally until they are 21. There is a reason that "under-21" is an internationally accepted boundary. Of course a few who are exceptionally advanced physically (but still with talent) or have exceptional talent (but still need adequate physique for their own protection) can break through earlier, but there are not many Rooneys and Beckhams around. Some take even longer before they can fully realise their youthful promise (Coquelin at 24 and Delph at 25). Meanwhile Poyet is receiving better coaching and all-round care, not to mention a vastly higher salary, than he would get at Charlton. Players like Poyet and Gomez are too good for Charlton. It would be wrong for them to stay here and risk getting their careers messed up. We should get a good fee for them when they leave, but that is a different issue. It is not Poyet's fault that our disfunctional management did not place him on a longer contract a year earlier. Instead of sour grapes over players like Poyet leaving, we should complain about players who are good enough (but not too good) for Charlton being allowed to leave on frees or for nominal amounts (like Button, Morrison, Wilson, Smith and Kermorgant), or having their development stalled by inadequate coaching like Harriott and Pigott, or being played when injured or in the wrong position like Cousins and Vetokele.
