Noticed Everton just offered Lonergan a new deal as well. Thought he was long retired.
Always an Englishman too, it's also to help comply with the registration rules in the European competitions.
Fair point, the earning potential is limited to perhaps 10 years maximum but it's not like a recently retired professional footballer goes from £?k a week to national minimum wage the next week, a fair number stay in the game in some capacity with an acceptable salary to boot and those that don't should have invested wisely, me thinks.
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Yes, I remember Rob Green was at Chelsea for a few years and traveled to every game with the squad.
Like him a lot as a player, but cos of his injury record I won’t be gutted if he doesn’t come here. As long as we find another ball playing LCB
Perhaps we can find one if we dig deep enough into other Championship clubs’ scrap heaps.
Very annoying. I felt more confident and thought the defence always looked better with him in it (ignoring Luton away).
Definitely need to replace him with a natural left footer.
Definitely need to replace him with a natural left footer.
I heard a while back that the lad probably wouldn't be back but @Skybluebeliever is usually on the money and said more recently that he thought it was back on
The club were not prepared to pay a signing on fee and salary that were being asked for hence why originally it was a no go , it then appeared there were no takers so we were back in , always the risk someone comes in and offers what the player wants
Well I hope that hasn't meant we've lost out on the target(s) we'd switched to.
Nice back track
I thought he would have had more choice than us and QPR, considering teams like Leeds were mentioned at the start.
If Leeds had wanted him they would have blown the rest out of the water, it just shows not that many teams wanted him probably a lot of agent talk to get more cash.
Smart by him and his agent to use our offer to get what he wanted. And if money is the most important factor in his decision, then im glad he got it and even happier he signed elsewhere.
Nice player, but not the next Franco Baresi is he. We will find other players and hopefully ones who would happily be at the club and buy into what MR is doing. Lots of players out there looking for a chance to prove themselves and ones who will run over broken glass to be at a club like ours.
Not a massive loss in my opinion, just a loss of wasted time trying to convince him to sign for the club. Onwards and upwards, get the next one in and don't look back at the ones who had to think too hard to sign. Those are the ones you don't lose, they are the ones you are lucky to miss out on.
Nice player, but not the next Franco Baresi is he. We will find other players and hopefully ones who would happily be at the club and buy into what MR is doing. Lots of players out there looking for a chance to prove themselves and ones who will run over broken glass to be at a club like ours.
Not a massive loss in my opinion, just a loss of wasted time trying to convince him to sign for the club. Onwards and upwards, get the next one in and don't look back at the ones who had to think too hard to sign. Those are the ones you don't lose, they are the ones you are lucky to miss out on.
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But then on the other hand, Leeds were signing Rose according to some.
And possibly location.
Every transfer is different, but in this case i would guess money was the key factor. He would of gone to east bum f*** if they offered the money he wanted. By the way i don't blame him either,
