Quote Originally Posted by Penguin View Post
I agree with you in principal but there's no such thing as loyalty in football now. Contracts mean fuck all to players and clubs alike. If Diaby suddenly had a good season and Barca came knocking he wouldn't think twice about packing his bags and going. And Wenger wouldn't stop him either, just look at Cesc, Song and Hleb. Wenger has always been lenient with his players and sometimes they do take advantage.

I'm not sure how we can justify paying £60k/week. We've sold other deadweight in the summer so I don't see the problem with cutting our losses on Diaby.
I don’t think we agree in principal at all with those examples. That would be bloody scandalous. If you heard a company like British Gas or BP did that to one of their employees to save a bit of money, you’d be disgusted. Diaby came to this club as kid and he has a contract. The club couldn’t justify releasing him from his contract and I’d hope we’re not as cut throat as that. Fans shouldn’t support that sort of behaviour. It’s one thing to want to move an underperforming player on but this is different issue.