Dropped.
When you start following the ££££ signs rather than doing what is best for your career, the wheels can come off pretty quickly.
Heading to Turkey or Nice in January?
He tried to force West Ham into overpaying him. That club is where his football development, career success and England recall chances were.
He is now going down with the Forest but he’ll get his money, the most important thing to him.
How about all the other Forest players on under £40k pw? This will destroy their dressing room. A totally bizarre and unsustainable salary policy if true. You just need to look at our club to see how to do it right.
If they sign Lingard on the £180k pw, they are going down, mark my words.
Free agents have much more weight in terms of negotiating a salary. We might be able to get away with paying his the same as Dunk et al if we buy him in January though.
But signing him as a free agent? No chance.
That’s just bonkers.
Lingard is a luxury attacking midfielder who needs to score regularly or assist constantly to keep his place in any side. He hasn’t been doing the business for a few years.
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Bentley comparison is a great one.
I’m remember seeing him score a winning free kick for the England U23’s at the new Wembley test event. ‘The next Beckham’ I thought as I left the stadium. But he was the opposite to Beckham in terms of attitude, willingness to train the hardest, and work...
I thought he was good for us but not spectacular. Better than most Premier League loans we had but nowhere near Bridge level.
Not that we could afford his salary but, I think he’d be adept at Potterball.