Koeman must have wanted Bertrand. Not sure about the Inter winger though, if he's not good enough don't bring him in.
The winger from Norwich, Danny Ings, Forster, Van Dijk and Vlaar would give us a decent chance to stay up and cost less than £50m.
Agreed, at some point the club has to come first. Fair play to the club, player under contract so we have to do what's right for the team. Reckon Ron might have put his foot down.
As it should be. I would prefer a structure though, where the manager decides who should be allowed to leave. The sheer number of players leaving this Summer is unprecedented. I don't see what value having a Director of Football is giving us.
On the grounds that I would rather 2 ex-international footballing brothers who played for really big clubs make the recruitment decisions. Not someone who failed to play a single game as a pro and has largely failed in his coaching career.
Would rather let Ronald sort out who he wants. Would rather want away players have to confront Ronald about leaving.
We could comfortably do without Reed. He is woefully under-qualified for the job anyway.
Les Reed is no Director of Football. Just f*ck him off out of it and let Ronald and Erwin identify players and the CEO negotiate contracts.
If anyone wants to leave, they would have to front it out with Ronald, rather than the pathetic excuse for a man that Reed is.