by Arch »
03 Sep 2008 15:26
Vision LOL @ this thread.
Player misses out on what he thinks was a possible a move to a top club... and expresses his disappointment. Big deal.
You're completely missing the point. No one would object to him expressing his disappointment. But this?
S Hunt It was a big club and it was disappointing that Reading could not have helped me out a little bit to benefit my career,
For what I have done for them, it would have been nice. I spoke to the manager, to the director of football, and the coaches in terms of leaving.
I have not been a bad apple over the last two or three years. I could have been but I was ultra-professional and I probably deserved a little bit better.
From what I was told, Reading would have got a good figure with the rest to follow over a certain period of time,” he said. “They would have got £5m (€6.1m) within the year but they did not want to budge. There were other clubs as well but you cannot say anything until they bid £5m. That’s in my contract that had to be paid straight up front to allow me to go. Most of it (the Everton offer) would have been up front with only a little bit left.
I’m back in the zone where I am angry and disappointed
It's the attitude of entitlement, that the club ought to have helped him out to their own cost, the suggestion that a being a bad apple would help engineer a move (ironic in the circumstances), the pitiful idea fact that he's not just disappointed but angry. isn't that just the modern way? We get a disappointment and we have to be angry about it, find someone to blame. And then the whole shit about the Everton "offer" which we can all be reasonably sure is the utter bollocks. Seriously, LOL @ you Vision for not seeing that fans of the club would be seriously annoyed by this.