06-09-2017, 21:58
(This post was last modified: 06-09-2017, 22:05 by St Charles Owl.)
(06-09-2017, 12:44)Statesideowl Wrote: Wolves and other clubs have bought players that start immediately, or even hit the ground running.
We drop 5m on Abdii you never see him. Now Van Aken for 4m whom isn't ready?
Seriously, what the **** is going on?
I don't read anything in that article that says he isn't ready to play. I think CC is saying that he is a young player with lots to learn and that our expectations should be tempered while he gets used to the Championship. It doesn't say he won't be playing. Carlos is essentially asking the fans to show some patience even if he makes a few mistakes rather than immediately jumping on their backs if they don't play well like fans are prone to doing.
Abdi did start when he first came to us but then got injured, not much can be done about that especially if there was no history of injuries like there was with Hutch for instance.
(06-09-2017, 09:47)Owlkev71 Wrote: Some young players are thrown in at the deep end like Owen, Fowler, Rooney and obviously prospered. Abraham went out on loan and prospered, even Beckham went out on loan. I think most fans are more worried about losing him to one of the Premier league teams for free than if he is in the first team squad or sent out on loan to some L1 or L2 team.
First there is no way we will lose him for nothing, a tribunal will decide the fee if he was to leave at the end of his current contract. Charlie Taylor left L**ds in the summer and Burnley took the chance to buy him for 5m before it got to tribunal, but the thought was the tribunal would still set a price tag in the 2-3m range.
Unfortunately unless he signs the new contract on offer from us then he will leave at the end of the season unless we sell him in January. At this stage its all up to him now. We could play him in the first team and he might start banging in the goals but without him being tied to us with a contract he would still likely get a better offer from a Prem team and leave. I'm really not sure what else the club can do for now without him putting pen to paper and his dad is probably advising him not to sign with us and move to a Prem team.