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Whereas I looked at Cook's performances (admittedly not that many of them), and thought we should retain him, unless offered silly money.

Forget the Gus thing. Do you think it was a good decision to let Cook leave / not fight to retain him?

Yes, I admit I don't like the guy (Gus). But I also think it is naive to think the control freak that is Gus had no say in Cook's departure.

Got it. Fair enough.

I get it. No need to go on. I guess I just don't like the fact that we've let a good young CB go, and are currently 2 down in that position. That is all.

We had a young very promising CB. We let him go. Bad decision by Gus. He wasn't perfect you know. Far, far from it.

Proof!! Why does there always need to be proof!? Forgive me for thinking this is NSC, a football forum where opinions are exchanged. Gus made a sh1t call on Murray. Probably the worst one he made. Well at least before his gross misconduct shenanigans.

No TB, I'm not saying that at all. But I am saying that when that happens, the selling club looks a bit silly. Especially when, as is the case with us now, they are decidedly short in that position (we are 2 CB's down IMHO).

You said "You're mistakenly thinking that he would be the self same player had he stayed with us that he has become with them." I read that as meaning Bournemouth developed him well, but we couldn't. Sorry if I misunderstood.

Was it? I don't recall TBH, and can't be bothered to go searching either. Still, he's gone, and our club now look a bit silly IMHO.

LoL! Yes, I am being a bit 'Captain Hindsight' I suppose, although pretty sure I expressed my dissatisfaction that we weren't fighting to keep Cook at the time of his departure.

And maybe Gus wasn't interested in keeping him a la Murray?

Indeed, and I said "He was already starting to make our first 11". I didn't claim he was a regular.

And some can't see when their club has made a big mistake...

Hmmm. He showed he had potential when he played for OUR first team. You seem a bit over-critical of our DS setup.

Interesting. How did he get to play then? Or did I imagine that?

He was the manager at the time.

Interesting. He was already starting to make our first 11 wasn't he? Gus made a very bad, very short-termist call on Cook IMHO.

Really can't understand why we let him go.