I can barely believe this (it turned up on CL last night) but it seems TWWW is out on loan to Cardiff. No word as yet if this is with a view to an undisclosed free loan later, or simply to turn round his current run of form. By all accounts, he has fitness issues and an inability to grasp the concept of a team, but he's still young. If this is a simple loan, I'd leave it there, but my distrust of KM/RD is currently 100%, and this is one I could see developing into another Morrison fiasco. Tony Watt has shown he can do it. He needs to see there is more to learn, but for me he is a raw talent we could develop. If we sell him and he goes on to score goals elsewhere (remember someone called Kermogant Ms. Meire?), I'll be very angry......again!
3 managers criticised his attitude before he came to us. There were also rumours of a falling out with JBG, which seemed to carry on to the pitch. No player is bigger than the club, and I think the right decision may have been made. Even if he plays well for Cardiff, which he probably will, that won't change.
I'm not happy with it because he is a good player, but if it means we can perhaps get a couple of championship ready players (not doyley) then I could understand it.
If the decision was taken for financial reasons I don't agree with it, especially with the busy Christmas period coming up. But if it was taken for dressing-room reasons I agree with it. In recent games he became lazy and selfish.Either way I wonder who it was who took the decision?
Forest, I agree as far as that goes, and he did come with a reputation for being 'dificult'. If he was causing dressing room friction (and there is nothing apart from rumour to suggest he was) then moving him on seems a logical answer. But as he seemed a decent enough player when he arrived, it would be nice to see us trying to sort him out, which would benefit ourselves and him.
To put Watt's ability into perspective, he is our joint top scorer with 3 goals this season. Harry Kane he ain't. I don't necessarily have a problem with him going as I never rated him to begin with - so long as another striker is coming in. We don't really want to be going into the Xmas campaign with KAG and Lookman starting up front.
On his day he is a top championship player. He's been let down by the merry go rounds behind the scenes, poor managers, and those individuals for helping the new boys behind the scenes. We miss people like Bobby Snow.
Maybe you know something I don't, SuperC, and if this had happened under a manager like Curbs we'd accept it without question. I suppose we need players who can cope with the club's revolving-door policy on managers. Since our CEO has stated that every managerial change has been a success, we can assume that the revolving door is actually club policy.
Nothing substantial. Just know there was some unhappiness with the liaison side, including where he was housed. He's only 21 years old, and would need a lot of support coming in to London to take up a new life. I think immaturity will have played a part on his side, but who wasn't at that age? No matter what, we've lost a good player today.
south london press go with the headline "completely clueless". more good press. target 20000 should be a piece of p1ss with the publicity we're getting lately
Maybe he started to get a bit depressed, maybe he's not too tough mentally, I don't know, but the bottom line is that he was poor this season, and will go down as another failure in the scouting system. Curbs disclosed once that when a scout recommended a player to him, he would watch him 5 or 6 times before buying him. Our managers aren't here long enough to do that!
Nothing to do with his playing ability and not the fault of our management any more than that of the other clubs who have booted him out. I think the reason is glaringly obvious just by looking at him May have been the same situation with Ajdarević .
Crazy to loan or sell to rivals FFS On Loan subject to International Clearance the BBC say, sorry have i missed something ? He plays in the UK, comes from the UK and is going to another team within the UK
I have every confidence that "Football CEO of the Year" Meire has a suitable replacement for Watt lined up. Not to have would smack of amateurish buffoonery, something you would never associate with this fine and upstanding young lady.
