He couldn't be more wrong.Originally Posted by Synti Claus
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He couldn't be more wrong.
QUOTE=Grimandi's Perm;239025]You can't force anyone to sign for another club either. How are you going to sell him to Stoke if he doesn't wanna go there? Silly.[/QUOTE]
No you can't that is true, but you can tell them that that if they don't sign you will freeze them out and basically state it publicly that they are not a part of the clubs longterm plans.
Two years of bench warming for someone like Theo wouldn't of helped him at all, especially as the "no football brain" talk was considered fact back then.
The club stuck with him and yes maybe he has wanted to play upfront for some time but hes now getting the chance.
I think a lot of people have taken Theo for some soft kid and now he's not having it anymore and now he's in a position to take his time with whatever decision he wants to make.
Had, 18 months ago, we said sign or we're selling you, yes maybe we'd have lost him earlier but at least we'd be in a position of power.
Wenger is a truly soft touch and Theo has taken advantage of that.
Tbh he could because he's right.
No you can't that is true, but you can tell them that that if they don't sign you will freeze them out and basically state it publicly that they are not a part of the clubs longterm plans.QUOTE=Grimandi's Perm;239025]
Two years of bench warming for someone like Theo wouldn't of helped him at all, especially as the "no football brain" talk was considered fact back then.
The club stuck with him and yes maybe he has wanted to play upfront for some time but hes now getting the chance.
I think a lot of people have taken Theo for some soft kid and now he's not having it anymore and now he's in a position to take his time with whatever decision he wants to make.
Had, 18 months ago, we said sign or we're selling you, yes maybe we'd have lost him earlier but at least we'd be in a position of power.
Wenger is a truly soft touch and Theo has taken advantage of that.[/QUOTE]
Name one example of a high-profile player being frozen out for a long period of time.
The question you should be asking is - how many high profile players walk out on a free? We're a special case so there won't by any empirical evidence to look at. The closest situations I can remember is Gareth Bale but somehow Tottenham got him to sign anyway.
Every other club seems to either sell in time or pay their players what they want. But we dont operate like that. It has happened a few times before where we've let the contracts of key players go down to a year. When you operate like we do, alarm bells have to be ringing when there are 2 years left. You sell at any cost or you give the player what you want. Failing that, you bully them into signing. You can't play hard ball when there's 6 months left because the player holds all the power. When he has 2 years left that's the time to freeze them out. Wenger had the right idea but just did it too late.
Obviously we all prefer to sort ourselves out and start paying players more, but if we're going to operate in a retarded way, grebbo's plan is the best plan out of the other retarded plans available.
the one I asked. Which no one can answer. Because it would never work.
I explained why that question is useless. We don't work like other clubs.
Syn has had a shocker and clearly needs to stop drinking and/or doing meth.
Just because it has never got to such a stage where it's been made public that a high profile player has been threatened with being frozen out doesn't mean clubs haven't implied that would be the case if they didn't sign.
High profile players don't get frozen out for long periods because most clubs agree terms with the player or with the buying club before it gets to a stage of many months on the bench for said player....the reason for this??? It's because they are a high profile.
We are repeat offenders when it comes to letting our top asset get to the last year of their contract. Wenger won't let it happen anymore after Theo hence the Brit pack being signed together, koz and verm extending also. Arteta and mertz are stop gaps and cazorla could move on at the end of his contract but we've secured the majority of our guys.
I expect speculation every season but as supporters you just want your best players to have enough years on their contract for the club to be in a position of power and not in positions we have with theo and have had with nasri and rvc.
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