Wilshere injured....again

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Originally Posted by Power_n_Glory

I know it? Really? Do you know what was going on?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/foo...t-expires.html

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...-for-life.html

Not sure if the papers are accurate but from what I remember we weren't offering the £100k. With Song, I recall him saying the above. What's true and what's false I don't know but the resolve to keep them wasn't there.

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Sagna was offered a new contract but he decided he wanted a big pay off to sit on the bench at city.

Song's poor attitude and indiscipline meant he was actively shown the door.

Simple stuff.

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Originally Posted by Letters

Players' wages and transfer fees are all so utterly ridiculous these days that it's next to impossible to say what anyone is 'worth'. No-one is worth £100k a week whatever they do, least of all someone whose job it is to kick a football.
I do agree we're paying our players far too much far too young, and I don't know if any specific bids for our players that might have prompted new deals but we know how easy it is for players' heads to be turned these days.

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It really is ridiculous but we’re only inflating our own wage bill for no reason. The demand for the player has to be there at least and there has to be a real threat of the player walking :lol:. I just don’t see that as a possibility with a good chunk of the players we offer new contracts. Ox, Gibbs, Ramsey….They’re happy and just want to play and improve.

Let’s say a club like City wanted to take Wilshere off our hands, they’ll just gazump his current deal and if we wanted to keep him, we’d have to be prepared to match the offer he’s received. But if they are offering him £200k to gazump our £110k, I can’t see us keeping him either way. We’re just making it difficult for ourselves in the long run. If we had a good young player on £50k and these vultures come in and try to double his wages, we’d at least be able to match that if he asks for us to match the offer. We can’t if we’re already at stretching point with these guys wages.

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Originally Posted by Douglas Reynholm

Sagna was offered a new contract but he decided he wanted a big pay off to sit on the bench at city.

Song's poor attitude and indiscipline meant he was actively shown the door.

Simple stuff.

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:doh: What did I say about Sagna? We weren't willing to match the price. His loss, our loss. But when you compare that situation of a long serving player for a injury prone player...it's a bit silly.

Song....bollocks. He suddenly developed such a poor attitude that we had to sell him? You think we'd have sold if Barca offered us £5m? Rubbish!

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Originally Posted by Letters

we know how easy it is for players' heads to be turned these days.

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If reports of Wilshere's new contract is true, then his head turns just as easily as his ankles.. :coffee:

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Originally Posted by Power_n_Glory

You think we'd have sold if Barca offered us £5m? Rubbish!

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No, because we'd have sold him somewhere else for his market value.

Song was moved on because we didn't want him any more. The sooner you accept that the sooner we can all move on.

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Originally Posted by Douglas Reynholm

No, because we'd have sold him somewhere else for his market value.

Song was moved on because we didn't want him any more. The sooner you accept that the sooner we can all move on.

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So just as Barca make a very high bid and he has an impressive season for us, we don't want him because of 'discipline' problems?

Yeah. Sure. If you say so.

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It's pretty well known. You can make something else up though if it suits your own agenda.

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Originally Posted by Douglas Reynholm

:lol:

It's pretty well known. You can make something else up though if it suits your own agenda.

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Since when was this pretty well known? If he always had a bad attitude why was he in the team for so long? More discipline problems than Wilshere with his smoking, partying and fights? Please.

Song had discipline problems? Thats news to me.