Maybe negotiations aren't the clubs strong point.
Whereas when it comes to drawing a line in sand and not budging the club are the best.
It seems like the Albion are the only parents saying 'no' in Disneyland.
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So Stephen Ward was ours for the asking all summer...........
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Whereas when it comes to drawing a line in sand and not budging the club are the best.
It seems like the Albion are the only parents saying 'no' in Disneyland.
The Birdman
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What a shame we didn't get van Dick
he scoring goals for Celtic
Marshy
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Spot on, the same can be said for a couple of others as well.
We're going down, but it's ok, because we have good PRINCIPLES.
Offensively he's been good, but his primary job is a LB and he is woeful at defending. At least 4 goals he is culpable for and that is without any degree of analysis.
Stato
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Don't forget Clayton. David Burke, like Hyppia is taking a lot of flak, but do we know whether it is him who sets wage levels? In Grabban, Ward & Clayton players have been identified who would have made us stronger, but personal terms were not attractive enough. Is this down to Burke, or to a wage structure which has proved uncompetitive? This could be about FFP, but it seems to me that the club have had the view that they could get better value elsewhere. This gamble seems to have failed this year.
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This to me were the first warning signs about how we were going to do this season.
The (relatively derisory) fee we wouldnt pay yet we had already agreed the wages he was in effect ours.
But we dilly dallied over £200k for a full international proven at this level.
Lets be honest the warning signs were there for all to see.
The (relatively derisory) fee we wouldnt pay yet we had already agreed the wages he was in effect ours.
But we dilly dallied over £200k for a full international proven at this level.
Lets be honest the warning signs were there for all to see.
As said Bennett is a long way from being what's wrong with the Albion.
But had Ward been in this team he certainly would have bought so much else we currently need, experience presence etc.
Not to mention some attacking quality.
Even under Sami's style I still don't see SW getting caught out like Bennett.
But had Ward been in this team he certainly would have bought so much else we currently need, experience presence etc.
Not to mention some attacking quality.
Even under Sami's style I still don't see SW getting caught out like Bennett.
Eddiespearritt
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The club's indecision is final - and no doubt fatal. Let's start a campaign - Free the clueless ones !! - Barber, Burke, Hyypia, Jones.
Spot on.
Ward is streets ahead of Bennett, the club should be embarrassed......... Still 'judge us at the end of the transfer window'........ Oh.
supaseagull
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Burke and his boss are far more to blame for this season's debacle than Hyypia.
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I don't think TB and PB do embarrassed.
People seem to be making a massive assumption that if we had committed/paid more earlier then no other club, such as Burnley, would have nipped in to snap him up. How do they know that?
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Weren't you personally quite surprised that we missed out on Ward?
I think the point is Bozza, we seem to have narrowly missed out on/lost a LOT of players now, for the sake of often (allegedly) small amounts of money.
Sometimes you just have to break the bank to get quality in, don't you?
aolstudios
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Nobody knows that. But we sure as hell didn't do our best to make him wanted & made it easy for them
Something like that, yeah.
It won't be long before we are being told how unfair football is.
In other news the world is round and the sun comes up in the morning.
Yes, I was.
Like Pompey did?
If it was easy for them why didn't they sign him during the prolonged period that we were supposedly procrastinating?
We don't. But we effectively had him at our mercy all season in terms of negotiation, as we all know often deals are done before the end of the season with signings taking place on 1st June/July.