LeBizzier69

Given the recent shenanigans, he's only got himself to blame. Respect your employer, and they'll respect you. Go behind their back for cosy dinner dates with other managers, and that's just get a whole lot tougher. What's he going to do if we say he's not leaving other than sulk? Transfer request means zilch. He'll be worth a ton of cash next summer - and if he isn't we'll keep him. It's really not a difficult scenario. People in the workplace sulk all the time. If that's what he's doing.

This is partly why I preferred the lower leagues - the opportunity to win something, be champions, move up the food chain. Don't get me wrong I like the PL, but those pitch invasions are only going to happen again if we avoid relegation on the last day or get relegated and then promoted again.

Sums up how I feel about it. It's terrible and tragic, but I can't help thinking that were it my daughter I wouldn't want the whole saga played out in the public eye. Let's face it, kids/families all over the country/world are in the same predicament. I just hope the family get some privacy - if that's what they want.

Can someone please tell me why handing in a transfer request means that that changes things? Seems frankly ridiculous that you're on a long contract......but a transfer request changes everything. Why do people/tabloids think that a player doing this means they'll be allowed to leave? Or am I being an idiot who's missing something?

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Jesus wept. Thanks for the transfer request Virgil - but you're going nowhere. See contract for further information. Whether he stays or goes is 100% up to the club unless there are clauses in his contract that are met. Just telll him and the dole queuers that he's not for sale.

I'd take a few exciting 2-2 draws and 3-2 wins any day over dull defensive football, even if that means not getting as many points. I want my team to entertain and excite me, and actually I think we all enjoy being on the edge of our seats for the bulk of the games we watch.

He hasn't improved at all since he left IMO so not sure why we'd bother. Certainly not for £20m.

fair enough - the average was 21k ish that season....i'm sure I recalled rainy weekday evenings with 15k....romantic licence perhaps.

That's not a dig at those who now fill up the remaining 15-20k seats every home game, I should add.

Had we not been relegated there are an abundance of "might haves" too - so we can't say whether or not we're better off now than we would have been. It wasn't Crouch's fault we went down. It was just one of those things. I don't know about anyone else, but I think I preferred our time in the lower leagues. Fewer egos, more honest football and where anyone could beat anyone pretty much and less razzmatazz. Plus although half the attendance we get now, at least they were saints fans and not premier league fans.

If he'd only taken the ball into the corner against Everton...

Could end up with Palace's 2/3rd choice. That would be quite a coup.

You only have to listen to Giggs as a pundit to realise he'd be a terrible choice. He's won a lot and as a world class player. But f*** me he's dull and monosyllabic.

Who aren't Wham interested in. Anyone would think they have a squad of zero, seeing as they're linked to 99% of all rumours.

Redmond doesn't mince around the pitch as much as Sterling thankfully.

I suppose it's possible that Tuchel (or whoever) has insisted that he has VVD at the heart of his defence IF he's going to sign for us?

I don't see how a transfer request makes any difference. "thanks for your request Virgil. The answer is still no. How's the ankle by the way?" If we now sell him to the bin dippers, it will truly look like a farce and our board would look pretty ridiculous given the stink they've kicked up. |Maybe next summer when things have died down, if it's Liverpool he really wants to go to. For the life of me, i can't understand why you would choose them over the likes of Chelsea...if indeed they are interested. Lallana et al didn't have any other suitors, so you can understand it. But VVD?! I went to Uni up there, and that was enough for me.

SSN interpreting it as that's that - whether they have truly ended their interest in VVD remains to be seen. A fairly unprecedented statement, and one can't help but wonder what the angle is.

Chewit

We can do better than Semedo - bang average player.

Unless there are specific clauses that mean we have no choice, tell he's going nowhere. F***ing player power. Who cares if he wants to go - with the money now in the game I'm even more of a fan of binning moaning prima donnas to the reserves.

The club should now refuse to sell him this summer, and let VVD know that it's partly his doing. Sod his reply - he's got 5 years left on his contract so let him sulk.

We should also put in a ridiculous sell-on clause in any deal too, as he's clearly too good to stay there for more than a few years. 40-50% should do nicely.