by Svlad Cjelli »
02 Mar 2011 20:55
andrew1957 Svlad Cjelli
You're assuming that Gylfi was just an item on the balance sheet, or a computer game. He wasn't - he was a human being with his own hopes and ambitions. The choice was not made to sell him, he was attracted by what he thought was a superb change to further his career. Would it be fair to try and stop him? And how would he have felt and played if we had tried?
This has been covered many times before but you continue to believe what you want to belive.
Siggy himself said that he was told to leave - this has been confirmed by people who knew him. It was almost certainly a bad move for his future development as a season of building the team round him at RFC would have been much better for him than a season sitting mainly on the bench at Hoffenheim. We did him no favours by selling him and the club engineered it. It was a financial decision alone. If you think otherwise you really are deluded.
I could say exactly the same - "you continue to believe what you want to believe" (although I'll spell it correctly!
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And I'm certainly not going to get into a pissing match with you about quality of sources, but I completely and utterly refute what you're saying - it doesn't match anything that was said at the time by any of the key players both inside and outside the club, and in any case it doesn't chime with the way football works.
So I can't help but see it as revisionism to support a failing argument. Quite simply, it's wrong!