They offered him £25,000 a week a month or so ago, but by then the £50,000 a week from Chelsea was probably already on the table. No contest is there? I've said for a while now that when players like him are put in that situation you learn a lot about their character. If they want first team football they stay at their club, if money is what drives them they go to Chelsea. Sidwell is obviously quite happy to take his big pay packet to play a few cup games. If he stays there it will ruin him as a footballer but he'll be minted at the end of it, so what does he care?cmonurz Have to agree with RoyalBlue. Once we got to August and Sidwell had not put pen to paper, his exit was all but secured. Reading's mistake was refusing to extend it's offer through £25k per week that probably would have secured Sidwell's signature.
Imho, we will not get a player of Sidwell's calibre in replacement for a lower wage than that anyway.