Quote: Cruncher "Would you rather he let players go on a free?'"
Its quite incredible isn't it that argument.
He signs players on 4/5 year deals, and gives them a get out clause at say 2/3 years on receipt of a transfer fee.
Who's to say these players (Tomkins/bateman/Farrell/Gildart etc) would have signed the contracts and stayed for the first 2/3 years without those clauses? They could have walked away sooner for nothing.
And at the end player either stays or we get a nice transfer fee.
He's now being criticised for being a bad businessman who gets transfer fees, by people who think we should either have let them go on a free or not resigned them in the first place because after 2/3 years all were going to get is a transfer fee?
There's definitely been problems behind the scenes and I'll elaborate more later when I have time on what I think the most significant change in the last 2/3 years has been, but It beggars belief what some people will use to try and criticise the chairman with. Posters who disagree on what leneghan should and are.polar opposites on subjects agreeing with each other because they share a common goal, get rid of him.
Not too disimilar to the Wane scapegoating for the last 2/3 years