by Big Ern »
29 Mar 2007 12:17
Behindu Actually it kind of makes my point....
We have no idea what interest there has been in any of our players. Press reports are unreliable and as a club we've always played things close to our chest.
You have no basis on which to claim we haven't received any interest / offers any more than I have to prove we have ! However I'd be pretty confident that Nicky Hammond has had plenty of enquiries in the last few years for most of our players.
Are you still working on your long list of players who have snubbed serious contract offers from the club and left for no fee ?
So press reports are unreliable but you claim Aston Villa mad a big offer for Doyle.
The fact is, your assertion that we are not a selling club is still ludicrous. Tottenham are a bigger club than us, but they still sold Carrick to Man Utd, Asrenal still sold Overmars and Petit to Barcelona, and more recently Arsenal sold Ashley Cole to Chelsea. If thise clubs can't hold onto their best players, then I'm sure we won;t either if the right offer comes in. Your failure to accept this simple fact just makes you look a fool and you are digging yourself deeper into a hole by trying to argue otherwise.
As far as a list of players that have snubbed contract offer, there is no long list and I have mentioned the only ones of note, and these players who could arguably feature in an all time RFC eleven. It is only been over for the last few years that we have had sustained success and when we were in the TB1 & TB2 era, it is easy to argue we had no players that would interest the top teams in the country. I mean, could you see Carl Asaba getting into the Man Utd team, or Neil Smith becoming Liverpools new central Midfield enforcer.
The fact that you couldn't remember Adi Williams move to Wolves just tells me you are a silly little child, looking at things through his blue and white tinted glasses and won't accept the fact that we are no different to anyother club.
