Depends how the coach wants us to play. What we were doing has failed and if those players don't fit with his new game plan then why wouldn't he sell them?
Selling our best and most important player this season is pure suicide. If Snodgrass doesn't figure in Silva's long term plans you make note and re-assess in the summer when you know what league we'll be in and whether Snodgrass wants to leave. You don't ship him off in the middle of a relegation battle. People trying to justify the transfer need to stop trying so hard and accept that this one looks as if Snodgrass has lost faith in the team's ability to stay up, as well as uncertainty surrounding his future under the Allams. This isn't some clever sale by Silva, who only two hours ago was going on about how much he wanted Snodgrass to stay.
Yes as stated I don't think we shouldn't have sold him I do think in the long run Livermore will be a bigger loss
what has failed is the club has not got the strikers they could have got just because that is wrong it doesn't mean we should change everything else
You think a defensive mid who rarely if ever impacted on the scoreboard is a bigger loss than a winger who contributed 50% of our goals so far this season, and is literally our only threat from set pieces? Jesus, I knew you didn't rate him when you said he wouldn't go for 10m in the summer, but you're really taking the piss with that comment.
And if he picked up another big injury and we were relegated, we are in the championship with a player who can't play, who's sat on the bench earning 60 grand a week.
None of our players earned 60k a week in the Championship. We have a thing called relegation clauses in all player contracts, as has been well documented.
Cash in £20m Cash spend - not much, 3 incomings are loans & Evandro - peanuts probably, let's say £3m, that leaves Ehab around £17m up is Marco going to be able to spend now?
I imagine Snodgrass and his agent would not of been happy to have this added to his new contract considering we were in the relegation zone and he wanted a long term deal.
But he said he DIDN'T want to sell either of them. He said they were both important to the team. You're adding 1 and 1 and getting rubarb
Eh? What does length of contract have to do with relegation clauses? If we had been relegated he'd have a buy-out clause like all the other players, presumably around 10-12m and he could have kicked up a stink in the summer and been off. If he was injured then he could hardly blame the club for not being able to be sold, and we'd be paying him Championship wages.
