My god, is swanny still banging on about this on every possible thread?Just face it Potter is no De Zerbi , after all it is what it is
The only issue with Cuckoo was that he was asking to leave when we had a piss-take offer from City, spouting about how he wanted to play for Pep (with the truth being that he'd go to any big club), but when the offer came in the vast majority of us thought it was a fair offer and selling him was the right decision for the club. The same would likely be the case for Caicedo if the offer is big enough in the summer, but mid-season is completely different.
Every single player has his own specific dietary needs mapped out for him daily by one of our nutritionists , each player has daily supplements allotted to their needs , and every player has his own IPAD that they record everything they eat do and drink , which is why each player on match day has his own separate drinks as well as water , and yes their bowel movements are monitored as well so as to sustain a healthy gut .You are aware of how our club operate. MC is an investment and always was. Great whilst he's here but he is always going to be sold on. My comment about nurturing was aimed at another post and as I said it seemed to suggest we'd been managing his career for ages. Compare the way we nurtured Ben White's trajectory and it's very different.
As for your comments about diet, where did you get that? Was he on a terrible diet at his previous club?
Not quite sure how to take the rest of what you say. We've looked after our investment. That's it.
Yes, he could wait until the summer but you will still get the same idiots ranting then as they are now. Look at the Cucurrela episode to prove that.
DS was far from a squad player. After the Burnley affair, he started 33 games in our promotions season. Only Dunk, Bruno, Murray and Knockaert started more.I think it’s fairly obvious what I’m talking about.
Comparing this to the Stephen’s situation is frankly laughable, Dunk maybe less so, if you choose to forget about him being made one of our biggest earners off the back of it - Burnley (and Fulham lol) vs Arsenal or Chelsea …. Hmmmmmm yep, must have been genuinely hard for Dale in particular, you know - when the dust settled - I’m surprised he managed to refocus at all tbh… absolutely not relevant at all. That and DS was a squad player with massively limited ability… I’m not even sure he was that serious about leaving.
Even if, and it’s a rather big IF, this situation is akin to the DS situation the hyperbole around the club, the bidders, the hubris of the player - yeah, it’s like comparing an Apple with a lime.
Now we’ve sorted your frankly ludicrous it’s just like DS argument out, I can embellish my opening gambit with some fairly likely outcomes:
A seriously crest fallen player,
A bruised ego,
General squad disharmony,
A pissed off coach,
Breakdown of former good relationships,
Booing from his own fans,
Lack of focus, effort and desire,
Time on the bench,
Depreciation of asset value,
Suspicious thigh strains,
Not in the right frame of mind to play…
It’s a recipe for disaster, the days of playing hardball with want away players are firmly behind us, and the game in general. They hold all the cards, by pretending all will be fine and dandy on the 1st of February … seriously … w t absolute f are YOU going on about ?
This will end in acrimony or with a HUGE sale, by keeping until the summer we’ll see less and less of the player he was and our % profit will inevitably suffer as a consequence.
Lastly, his statement or his agents statement or whatever … was and is pathetic… why so many people naively allow these so called professionals so much leeway is lost on me… “it’s not his fault … oooohhh poor little players and their nasty agents…”
For me, the game’s almost dead … this latest episode and this willingness of some to accept it and/or forgive the actions of those culpable because he’s a key player … nah, I say cut him loose and focus on players who will be focussed for the remainder of the season… force him to stay and I reckon he’ll be average at best, physically and mentally unavailable at worst.
Hey ho, you know best
And how do you think TB sees them?
He could, but do you think TB will pay MC the same that he can get at Arsenal? I'd love to think so but I doubt it. You then have to look at the effect on others, we can't just pay MC that, we'd have to increase the pay for the other members of the squad and all of a sudden our current wage structure goes out of the window. Wasn't paying high wages one of the reasons that started our demise when we were last in the top flight?
Have to agree with this. Also, I think most club owners would have rolled over but not TB.
This one was good
I struggle a bit to gauge what the Amex crowd will be like towards certain teams/players/managers. I often find when speaking to people on the concourse that some people, even STHs, don't really keep up with the goings on at the club and tend to take what goes on the pitch at face value, which is absolutely fine if that's the way they choose to do it I guess.
I hope your're right and that this has somehow gone a bit "under the radar" for the majority, but this is quite a big splash so I can't see too many being relatively unaware.
Just guessing, but after the mass exodus of players and key staff over the last 5 months, not necessarily in his/PB’s plans, I think there’s an element of drawing a line in the sand. This is more than about Caicedo.
All about the new agents and Arsenal orchestrating the whole thing.
The agent problem has never been solved in football. Been an expensive problem for a long time.
