This, footballers are no different to any other employee, keep them happy and they will stay. Having looked after Elphick whilst injured it made no sense whatsoever to let him go, otherwise why not just terminate his contract whilst he's being carried off the pitch on a stretcher. But I don't...
We sold Cook for £ 150 K. No-one knows what Elphick's fee was given that his injury was recovering but was probably appearance related. Regardless, they seem to be doing the kind of job that would command far higher money than what we probably recieved. You can say what you want but I got the...
Most teams with a settled squad do well, teams that constantly chop and change, as we have done since Poyet left, generally don't. We did get £ 8M for Ulloa so to say at this point in time that Murray, or someone with his scoring record, is 'unaffordable' makes no sense. We made an offer for...
Absolutely, we let Elphick, Cook and Murray all leave because of penny pinching and our board are responsible for that.
If we had offered Murray a better wage package he wouldn't have turned up at the Amex to dump us out of the play-off, would he?