Minor issue according to Naylor, picked up on international duty.
I suppose there could have been a gentleman's agreement in the deal that he wouldn't play against them at their place, disguised as a minor injury. Seems a fair possibility.
You think we'd reduce our chances of winning away at a Newcastle by not playing our 2nd most expensive signing ever because of a gentleman's agreement?
Yes. I mean if we made the agreement in the first place, we wouldn't break it. Not our style at all.
Oh sure, if we made the agreement I'm sure we'd stick to it. I just don't think we'd ever agree to that as a condition of signing a player
Frankly, no it doesn't. It's about as likely as agreeing to give them a goal start with an 'accidental' own goal if they sell us this player, pretty please.
Red herring. During Howe's press conference he spoke about the need for Newcastle to sell him and how he felt coming up against him? Unless of course he was unaware of such an agreement
We’ve done this in the distant past though, but we were a different club then. For example, when we signed Johnny Byrne back from Oxford, we played them a few weeks later and had an agreement not to select him against them.
Still a decent summary!
