I think they would have stayed in direct contact and Ben Roberts would be telling him how good everything is at Chelsea behind the curtains, no doubt.
I think the engineering arm of Trossard PLC also significantly influenced him to down tools and start playing up to get what he wanted...
How, you are still being relied upon for the club if needed if you are in the squad, starting or not
Even forgetting the importance of our run in for Europe had Steele got injured or suspended it’s not on.
I am going to add I didn’t think he was a bad keeper ability wise and gutted we’ve lost...
I read it as
£20m fee
+up to £5m in add ons
The sell of will be a % of any fee they get above the original £20m they paid us, ie if they sold for £30m and it was 20% we’d see an extra £2m from the sell on
Making yourself unavailable from selection be it starting or bench is the same thing in my eyes.
I don’t believe he was training separately until he removed himself.
Refusing to be in the squad, unprofessional and unforgivable, in my eyes anyway
He’s a bad leaver in my book, the same as Trossard in refusing to play for the club.
Both are unforgivable and leave less favourably than Cucurella in my book, the shit they get should be comparable to his at least
f*** em
Unless we are told otherwise, didn’t he down tools and effectively refuse to be on the bench? (had we needed him)
Refusing to play / not giving the required effort is the biggest sin in football in my book.
Happy to revisit if there’s more to than that, but don’t recall reading to the contrary...
I think in hindsight Bob wishes he hadn’t thrown a strop as it hasn’t really worked out for him
My outside hunch is Raya ends up at West Ham and big Bob goes to Brentford