Omar Devone Little
Mr Realistic
What a waste of space he's been. Can't fault his agent though who has pulled an absolute blinder.
Worst signing in the club's history I reckon.
Worst signing in the club's history I reckon.
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Harry Arter
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Statto
Free Kick Specialist
So we just need to stop signing players just because they scored a worldie against us
MaxiRobriguez
Bob McKinlay
Don't worry I've already said it elsewhere.
The good news is he's worth £30m still, we just need to find a buyer.
Steve Chettles Brylcream
First Team Squad
He'd give it all back in a heartbeat for his kid to still be alive. I don't begrudge him. Football
Still a terrtrible deal from us but at least we've learned from it right?
Wood/Shelvey anyone?
Still a terrtrible deal from us but at least we've learned from it right?
Wood/Shelvey anyone?
Frank Clark’s Tash
Jack Burkitt
While I have every sympathy, he's very lucky to be in a profession where you can get away with failing to put a shift in for years at a time.
Many people on this very forum have suffered devastating losses, but in the real world you've still got to turn up and earn a living. While many employers are sympathetic (to a point) in such circumstances sooner or later they'll demand you perform or you're out the door.
Steve Chettles Brylcream
First Team Squad
Couldn't agree more with this.
Like I said-Football
john player
Viv Anderson
Worst take ever? It’s gotta be close
Redemption
Agenda Benda
MaxiRobriguez
Bob McKinlay
He does turn up, he just isn't wanted by the club.
If he wasn't turning up then he'd be in breach of his contract and the club would be able to terminate it.
It's our fault for buying a player based on a goal he scored against us without doing any due diligence.
Gyros Peter
Sauce salad?
I'm not sure that's the case - like with Lyle Taylor, Sabri was a big fan and had a specific role in mind for him. He'd played plenty of games in that season before signing, so in terms of due diligence I'm not sure how broken/lazy (take your pick on that) he is can reflect too badly on the club.
Like john player above, at the time I thought he'd be a decent signing. Obviously something has gone very wrong - his loan spells were a complete disaster too, after all his talk of enjoying his football again... Seems very likely something has gone on mentally with him; we can only speculate as to why.
Like john player above, at the time I thought he'd be a decent signing. Obviously something has gone very wrong - his loan spells were a complete disaster too, after all his talk of enjoying his football again... Seems very likely something has gone on mentally with him; we can only speculate as to why.
Harvey
Chrissy Cohen
We've all got one of those!Worst take ever? It’s gotta be close
Thomas
AMERICAN IDIOT
it was a BANGING goal tho
Harvey
Chrissy Cohen
I mean Matt Derbyshire scored a worldie
He was still shit
He was still shit
eyupmeduck
Geoff Thomas
We're giving the guy pelters but nobody forced us to sign the contract and certainly include all of the clauses we did as well.
Its likely his last footballing contract, we could have paid him off as soon as it became apparent that it wasn't going to work out which was before we even looked like getting promoted but we didn't.
We could have paid him off once we got promoted, we didn't.
We can still pay off his final year but we won't do that either.
Its 100% bad business from us, but its also correct that we pay what is owed. I wouldn't walk away from £1.5m or whatever it actually is and I wouldn't expect him to either.
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Its likely his last footballing contract, we could have paid him off as soon as it became apparent that it wasn't going to work out which was before we even looked like getting promoted but we didn't.
We could have paid him off once we got promoted, we didn't.
We can still pay off his final year but we won't do that either.
Its 100% bad business from us, but its also correct that we pay what is owed. I wouldn't walk away from £1.5m or whatever it actually is and I wouldn't expect him to either.
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Harvey
Chrissy Cohen
From what I've seen most of the ire is reserved for the club for offering him such a contract based on little, if any, due diligence
Personally I don't begrudge him seeing out his contract one little bit, as has been said if he wasn't turning up / fulfilling his part then that would be grounds for termination
You can't give someone a contract then get angry when they fulfill their part of it
You are Winston Bogarde, and I claim my Ten Dutch Guilders!
Harvey
Chrissy Cohen
He was literally in my mind when I was writing that post!
Again, fair play to him I say
Exactly mate! Chelsea made Winston a ridiculous contract, for four years (IIRC) at a massive, massive salary of around €50k a week (which for 2000, was frankly insane), and he decided that when he was told he was persona non-grata in West London by Claudio Ranieiri, well, he would just avail himself of the coffee shops and boutiques of that part of the world, whilst getting paid an absolute fortune for doing so.
Never missed a training session or media duty or anything else he was asked to do, and picked up his pay packet every week.
He is (I think?) now coaching Ajax Youth teams, no doubt living off the incredible contract Chelsea offered.
Statto
Free Kick Specialist
Let's give Harry some slack here.
OK so he's a shit player but he was signed on that contract and as an older player probably won't get another one as good.
He's presumably willing to play but not presumably willing to take a pay cut (who would - those of us with less paid jobs certainly would take other factors to consider moving to a less-paid one) & we can probably rightly assume that he isn't good enough for anyone who can afford what he is on (PL wages from a parachute club no doubt).
He was at Bournemouth for a long time and during that period his young child died which must have been traumatic for him and he probably wanted a clean break from the area as well.
From what it sounds, the club have had him training away from the first team squad for a couple of years now and that must be hard for him too - Harry and his partner did eventually have a daughter born in 2017 and she is presumably at school now so if they have moved into the area for school and houses etc may not necessarily want to move away too far (we saw Colback do this when he returned to Newcastle after being on loan).
If he is carrying out the duties the club have assigned him then the only way he could leave is a mutual termination but he'd lose money that way.
OK so he's a shit player but he was signed on that contract and as an older player probably won't get another one as good.
He's presumably willing to play but not presumably willing to take a pay cut (who would - those of us with less paid jobs certainly would take other factors to consider moving to a less-paid one) & we can probably rightly assume that he isn't good enough for anyone who can afford what he is on (PL wages from a parachute club no doubt).
He was at Bournemouth for a long time and during that period his young child died which must have been traumatic for him and he probably wanted a clean break from the area as well.
From what it sounds, the club have had him training away from the first team squad for a couple of years now and that must be hard for him too - Harry and his partner did eventually have a daughter born in 2017 and she is presumably at school now so if they have moved into the area for school and houses etc may not necessarily want to move away too far (we saw Colback do this when he returned to Newcastle after being on loan).
If he is carrying out the duties the club have assigned him then the only way he could leave is a mutual termination but he'd lose money that way.
Sandiacre Red
Viv Anderson
Omar Devone Little
Mr Realistic
I can't blame him for taking the money owed to him, it's like he's won the lottery as he's not worked a jot for it. That's the clubs fault for being desperate at the time and seemingly agreeing to anything his agent suggested.
I can blame him for his footballing attitude though, from what I've read he was an absolute joke at Charlton and Notts. I know a few Notts fans and they said he was too overweight and crap for them even at non-league level.
Surely if he wanted to actually play football he could go out on loan for a year in League 2/National League with us paying all of his wages or the vast majority. I doubt the club want him around the place (if he's even there on a day to day basis which I doubt) so it'd be win win.
I can blame him for his footballing attitude though, from what I've read he was an absolute joke at Charlton and Notts. I know a few Notts fans and they said he was too overweight and crap for them even at non-league level.
Surely if he wanted to actually play football he could go out on loan for a year in League 2/National League with us paying all of his wages or the vast majority. I doubt the club want him around the place (if he's even there on a day to day basis which I doubt) so it'd be win win.
Redemption
Agenda Benda
he is there every day
he trains with the U23s and has some informal development role with them
if he didn't turn up, he would be in breach of his contract and the club would have the ability to terminate it
Jacquoz
First Team Squad
I genuinely don't know what happened to this guy that he just lost all his footballing ability when he came to us. I thought he would turn out to be a good signing at the team, as I remembered him being on upper championship teams.
Quntib Hollox
Jack Armstrong
I was equally excited at the time, you just never know what kind of impact players will have. Lingard and Wood(so far!) in the same category.Worst take ever? It’s gotta be close
Carlos
Massive Member
I think it's safe to say that his mind wasn't in it anymore for very obvious reasons.
By all means carry on the few that are absolutely hounding the guy for that though...
By all means carry on the few that are absolutely hounding the guy for that though...