He lives in Winchester. The worst that will happen to him is if someone puts full fat milk in macchiato instead of vegan fair-trade avo-milk.
Plus, everyone knows he’s winding down his contract and the only person who seems angered by it is you.
How does that “force his hand”? He’s either prepared to lose money to play football sooner or he isn’t. It’s up to him.
And if we flog McCarthy he’ll be second choice again.
As it stands we have a commitment to pay him around 6 or 7 million over the next two years. If he leaves he’ll probably get about 500k to 1m a year max from a Championship club.
If we wanted to “pay him off” we’d probably need to bung at least 5m upfront. Maybe he’d lose sponsorship too so that would have to be factored in.
The fact is, he’s paid so much more than his ability merits that he’s really in the driving seat here.
Long is useful if we aren’t relying on him as the main scorer. As part of a front two or a supporting wide player he’s a useful part of the squad. I wouldn’t be selling him for cheap.
Long is useful if we aren’t relying on him as the main scorer. As part of a front two or a supporting wide player he’s a useful part of the squad. I wouldn’t be selling him for cheap.
If we can’t sell him we’ll loan him out again if anyone’s interested. The same arguments above applied last year when we had no proper right back cover and Valery was even less experienced.
He ran towards the ball, which was at the edge of the penalty area. Then they played it right and crossed it. If he hadn’t run TOWARDS the ball, he would have been in a better position.
Either way, we agree on the important bit!