Great post, pretty much nails the thinking behind it I reckon.
Yep. Tony is acting (as always) in what he thinks are the best interests of the club. He knows he’ll either be lauded or vilified by Christmas (or, on here, after 10 mins of the first pre-season game more likely) depending on how...
I want to see a photo of him accompanying a security guard, the HR manager and carrying a small cardboard box of personal belongings, as he hands his company car keys back to a grinning Paul Barber before I believe it.
Unlikely anything will be communicated. CH is too private and too much of a gent to say anything and Bloom tries to keep any club business private. It’s not a question of it being ‘plausible’ - it’s perfectly normal in contract-terminating discussions. Also likely that Chris’s pay off precludes...
Kind of.......can only say that it if it’s actually the case though. Here, I’d guess it’s either CH wouldn’t agree to leave, or TB fired him without giving him the chance to agree. I suspect it’s the former - then, as we’ve seen, the club looks like the bad guy and CH gets all the sympathy...
I agree re the cash element - no way Bloom would have shafted him....but it’s sometimes the reason why people won’t accept a compromise agreement. As you say, probably not in this case.
Yes but...........you don’t know how it happened. TB may, and I suspect he did, offer a ‘mutual consent’ option as a compromise. If he did, CH may have turned it down for reasons of pride, stubbornness or cash. Both outcomes entirely possible and likely in this situation. If that is the case...
Definitely. Whilst what we’ve spent is eye-watering in our terms, from a PL perspective it’s nothing startling. Personally think one of the biggest mistakes we’ve made is not adding at least a couple of proven PL players to the squad since getting promoted. In the championship we got stronger...