It's pathetic.
Fans have been moaning about this player for years, the club release him, get a better player, but still complain.
It really is just moaning for the sake of moaning.
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Fans have been moaning about this player for years, the club release him, get a better player, but still complain.
It really is just moaning for the sake of moaning.
reguilon and doherty.
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I’m not that bothered that we terminated his contract. But we did it in a fashion that makes us look like we don’t know what we’re doing.
Yeah, lets bring in Rory McIlroy then...he can't kick a ball to save his life but the team golf trips will be sensational....
When's he back from loan?
What's that? The best ran club in the country had to pay him off to cancel his contract because they’ve loaned out too many utter flops and obviously didn't know the rules?
What's that? The best ran club in the country had to pay him off to cancel his contract because they’ve loaned out too many utter flops and obviously didn't know the rules?
Good this is done now instead of summer. He would have played zero games once Porro was here. At 31, who wont have played, and been quite shit when he has, with only 1 year left on his contract would have been worth no more than 3 million. We would probably have to loan him out last year to avoid paying his wages if no one would have wanted him. Until the next transfer window, we'd have paid him around 1.5 to 2 million (dont know his exact wages).
We've made a slight loss or saved a little bit of money and sorted out a problem. This is a win!
We've made a slight loss or saved a little bit of money and sorted out a problem. This is a win!
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Because we have loaned out too many to foreign clubs and cant loan out anymore
I am not one to jump on criticising the club but they have had all month to sort this out. It really looks like they did not know of the rule. They only had to get either Doherty, Spence or Gil to take an England loan and this would have been avoided. if Porto gets injured and/or is not deemed ready for Sunday or needs resting then Royal plays. He. Covered the LWB as well. We haggled over2.6m extra for Porro on Monday and then just write of Doherty 2 days later.
I don't understand the take that this has made us look inept. There are loads of moving pieces in a transfer window, players coming in and going out, some sold some loaned. He was just another option, he clearly isn't favoured by Conte so would assume we've been trying to get him out for ages.
We ruthlessly got rid of a shit 31yr old RWB (who's played no more than 5 good games in his 2.5yrs at the club) and replaced him with a 23yr old Spanish International (Sportings best player).
Agree with everything else. There is literally zero value in Doherty, he stands us in on our books at approx £5m, all I ever read nowadays is "pay the fucking money", imagine not signing Porro for the sake of £5m!!!
Our fanbase (not you) is at Woolwich levels of cringe nowadays, that's the genuinely embarrassing thing about us now. Look at the fucking comments, what the fuck is there to maon about!!! See ya Doc you useless Jose clogger.
Maybe, maybe not. He would have agreed some sort of compensation for having his contract cancelled, it's not like we could have done it without his agreement. He's also not being sent to some obscure backwater, like Rangers. He's off to play in Madrid. Maybe this was an opportunity too good to turn down knowing that he'd be taking up Spence's place as third choice behing Emerson.
and as it was on a free he would have trousered a singing on fee all for himself!!!
How, because it was on the last day of the window?
Loads of moving pieces to consider. We seem to have a good relationship with Atleti recently, maybe we had this verbally agreed months ago as an option? Who knows.
It’s more about the series of events that led up to it. First announcing he was going out on loan to Atheltico, only to then cancel his contract because we realised we had too many players out on loan.
Now I’m more than happy to admit I’m wrong if I got the series of tweets out of order, but even then it doesn’t change the perception of it. I’ve copped a lot of shit over this from mates today. It doesn’t really bother me, but it does go to show that the wider perception of this is that the club doesn’t know what it’s doing if they can’t even keep track of the amount of players they’ve got on loan.
You and other are spot on though, you can’t slag a guy off for being shit and not worthy of being in the squad, and then have a tantrum when the club terminates his contract.
Do we even know if we had to pay him off? Quite likely that he wanted the move and Atlético offered him the same wage so no need for compensation.
Hopefully we are this ruthless moving on the remaining wage thieves in the summer (whilst obtaining a fee).
I doubt we do to be honest. Not sure what happens if Atletico don’t offer him a new contract in summer though