No but that's not really down to him, he's looking after his career which is what players do. It's the manager and clubs job to look after the fans not the players, they're simply a product used to achieve a clubs goals.
We convinced him we weren't realistic about winning anything, which at his age probably tipped the balance no top footballer wants to end up with nothing to show for their career. He's been proved right, look at the shower of sh*t we put out and out transfer dealings.
If your wife says she wants to run off with your neighbour, do you let her go or do you bitch slap her and tell her to STFU because she's got a year left on her contract and she's your top goalscorer? If the answer is not the latter, you're more of a **** than her.
Or something.
You havent said whether you think he should have stayed at a club where he had won one trophy and where he was unlikely to win another. Its all very well calling him a **** but he has one career and we have been shit for 8 years now. I dont blame him. Also Im sure he hated the board as much as we do.
Fair enough, I don't blame the players anymore I blame the club and manager...they're the ones that let this happen time and time again and then feed us BS about competitiveness, transfer dealings etc
If they wanted things to change they'd try and do something about it.