Quote Originally Posted by Power_n_Glory View Post
Forget loyalty in football, it's a problem with people in general when I hear this sort of talk. No morals.

This isn't a case of incompetence. If a British Gas worked badly injured his hand whilst fixing a boiler, there is no way the company could terminate his contract whilst he's getting treatment for his hand. As Steve French said, it's breaking the law. No player would want to play for a club that treats its players like that.

Being bitter over Cesc, RVP and whoever else is irrelevant. As for the cutthroat business argument, cutting our losses...you can't use that argument when it suits you. If the club decide to raise ticket prices again and go to corporate with the way we're run, you'd probably be arguing for a more compassionate club connected to the fans and with a love for the sport instead of corporate sponsors.
I don't know why you guys are going on about terminating his contract. I didn't say that, and in fact nobody even mentioned it in this thread before you did
I don't even think we can terminate it unless we buy out his contract, which would be pointless because we'd end up paying for it anyway.

The only thing that was actually suggested was selling him, and I don't see much morally wrong with that. We wouldn't be selling him because he got injured playing for us, we'd be selling him because he has always been far too injury prone and inconsistent on the pitch in his 9 years at this club, and because he isn't worth £60k per week. I didn't hear any cries of outrage when Chamakh and Gervinho were sold this summer. Wenger was actually applauded by the majority of our fans for his newfound ruthlessness.

Oh, and I'm not bitter at all. I was just using that example to make my point about loyalty. It works both ways, we aren't a charity to nurse injured little kids back to health and release them to the Barcas and Bayerns to win trophies.