So you think it's acceptable to suggest that he doesn't think this current squad of players is good enough to help him achieve his desire to play in the Premier League?
His tweet is damaging in many ways, to his fellow team mates, to the club and in my opinion the fans.
One thing is for certain, Dale Stephens is being badly advised.
For me that tweet means he loses the fans but more importantly his team mates.
Last night I was ecstatic we had managed to keep him, this morning I feel gutted we didn't take the money on offer and get rid.
We quite obviously...
From everything that CH has said Stephens has been the model professional throughout. One would hope he remains that way and sees out his contract with the same professionalism.
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I wonder if he profits from a new contract for one of his players?
If so, I would imagine he's pushing Dale in that direction to ensure some sort of payday from this debacle.
I'm secretly hoping Burnley offer 10mil and we sell him to Hull for 8m.
Twisted I know, but would be a brilliant hand by TB.
Nobody wants to live in Burnley, but Hull is even worse.
I hope you are right Bozza, the ramifications of him staying would surely outweigh the benefits now.
We can only hope the club have a suitable replacement lined up and that is a tough ask at this late stage.
For a player to hand a transfer request in at this late stage is shambolic. Cuts...
Couple of points:
I cannot believe the club haven't considered Dale being sold today and with that I'm pretty confident the club would have a recruitment policy in place to deal with that situation (even at this late stage)
Secondly, now the transfer request has been submitted, we have to...
Why don't the club follow the lead of many others and simply come out and say, we wouldn't listen to offers of anything less than 10 million for Dale Stephens?
Surely that would have put this whole episode to bed sometime ago then, Dale is without doubt out of the side because his heads been...