Why? It's an excellent, honest tweet.
What is he supposed to have said, 'I didn't mean to hand in the transfer request, I'm really, really sorry etc..."? What would be the point in that, he would be lying and would be criticised for it.
I admire his honesty. He just did what 99% of players...
We're not going to be top 2.
This is in no way a criticism of the club as I don't believe we should be splashing out huge sums of money we haven't got on players, but there is no way we're going to be able to compete with Newcastle, Villa and Norwich over the course of the season.
Because that would be far too sensible in a world of u23 teams, billion pound transfer fees, £250,000 per week players, crooked agents, dodgy owners, Jim White and Sky feckin sports deadline day.
The game's gone.
For me it's all about us signing a quality striker. If we do then we have a realistic chance of going up and I would say keep Dale and risk losing him on a free next summer.
If we don't sign a top striker now then sell him for £7/8 million as we won't be going up anyway and will need to put the...