I don't get what the lesson is though Si. If he doesn't get what he wants he's off.
So if we're not going to offer it to him we need him to shine in the 1st team so we get as much for him as possible and get as many points as possible in the meantime.
Or do people really want the Club to cut its own nose off to spite its face?
To be honest the whole thing seems wrong. There's too much information regarding contract negotiations handled out in the public domain which is clearly driven by the club. I do pretty much buy into the whole FSG PR exercise idea on this, they're putting pressure on the lad via external forces and hoping that at the end of the day they either get him for the price they want or are left looking like "well at least we tried but the lad was too greedy, nothing we could do." So on that side of things I feel things are being handled wrongly and in many ways feel manipulated by their agenda.
I do think £100k a week is more than fair, if the rumours of demands around £150k are to be believed then the lad and his representatives are clearly angling for a move as there's no way we're going to pay that.
All of this has begun to alienate me from the game, seeing a 20 year old with a massive future ahead of him getting offered that much for playing footy and turning it down is completely wrong. There is something rather perverse about the working man / woman cheering on these millionaires who are now more concerned about their image than their club and will just move around to the highest bidder that I personally feel there is a detachment beginning to happen. Clubs are becoming secondary, fans becoming just a meal ticket, the connection between the three is becoming so separate that we're losing sight of what this beautiful game is or indeed was.
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