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offmenut said:
I love Sunderland, but if I was 20 and playing for a city I wasn't from, 250 mile away from my family , and playing in the 3rd league, and I got the opportunity to play in league 1 in France and get paid far more, then I'd do it.
Why do fans always get offended when players want to leave to play at a higher standard for more money.
How dare they leave league 1 Sunderland!
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I would probably have this mindset when it comes to other clubs/players. But it's our club we're talking about here, so anyone pissed off at him has every right imo.
 
Pacific said:
genuinely would have wished him all the best and followed what he did with interest but if what he's done is true he can get fucked

absolute piss poor attitude. can't help but think it's all agent driven though and the lad is to thick to make his own choices. like a puppet on a string
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the grass isnt always greener, on the sandy shores of france.
 
MSC said:
Maja and his agent are obviously attempting to weaken the club's negotiating position prior to the move.
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It's fuckin ridiculous though as we don't have much of a negotiation position anyway. Now either they offer us amount we are happy with or Maja sits out for the rest of the season not playing a game in one of the most important development periods of his career. Also it has assured that Maja leaves the club on bad terms and hated by the fans. It just makes no sense to me at all but then again I'm not a professional footballer or an agent where it must be compulsory to be an absolute wanker of a human.
 
Maybe the plan was for us all to direct hate towards the agent, with the whole "He wants to stay but agent's telling him to go" so we didn't turn on Maja, whilst his agent still tried to get him a move away.
 
arthursboy said:
I don’t blame him moving on, he ain’t a young kid anymore and we are a 3rd tier division club now.
But the way he has left takes the piss, I’d have wished him good luck to be honest.
I’m amazed he scored so many goals but no matter what people think we need to replace them goals and Charlie ain’t guna get them.
£3.5m reported, I’d be amazed if we get that based on his contract here.
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You can still get decent money if more than one club are interested and the player is in heavily demand.
 
offmenut said:
I love Sunderland, but if I was 20 and playing for a city I wasn't from, 250 mile away from my family , and playing in the 3rd league, and I got the opportunity to play in league 1 in France and get paid far more, then I'd do it.
Why do fans always get offended when players want to leave to play at a higher standard for more money.
How dare they leave league 1 Sunderland!
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Would you walk out on a club before a deal is struck - especially if the club is the one who gave you the career in the first place? Packing his bags before a deal is struck is Ndong/Djillibodji territory and Maja has more to owe the club than those other two sewer rats.
 
Katylala said:
We were forced to sell him really though , otherwise he leaves in June for nothing, he was offered the deal he asked for ,but didn’t sign it ,we’ve just got to move on.
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Aye but from a footballing perspective where does it leave us is what I'm asking. Forget about £ for a second
 
hank williams said:
To be fair his attitude thinks been spot on could've easily done a rodwell but still kept banging the goals in for us
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I agree hank when he played he tried fair play cos some don't, but honestly am not confident that he'd do much at a higher level than this, he has a good first touch and can score but has no pace at all. Look at other players his age hes canny average in comparison i wish hed stayed to get us up, but next season we need better. Get as much as we can and move on, be interesting to see how his career goes
 
offmenut said:
I love Sunderland, but if I was 20 and playing for a city I wasn't from, 250 mile away from my family , and playing in the 3rd league, and I got the opportunity to play in league 1 in France and get paid far more, then I'd do it.
Why do fans always get offended when players want to leave to play at a higher standard for more money.
How dare they leave league 1 Sunderland!
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Except we know his original wage demands / contract were agreed by the club. He then reneged on the deal, his agent did not respect the club either not attending planned meetings or arriving inexcusably late.

I guess you wouldn’t have a problem with broken promises and that sort of behaviour from player and agent if you were the owners or manager. I do!!!
 
Johnsafc said:
Just on a separate point & this is a genuine question:

Can anyone remember a club selling their leading scorer in January when they were going for a title & benefiting?

Or even just in general selling the top scorer & playing better second half of season?

Limited data for us but losing Bent & Grabban killed us. Even some of the boys said about losing Bent on the RR podcast. McGeady criticised the manager for getting rid of Grabban on STID.
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He’s fucked off packed his belongings without the deal being done man, says it all about the lad. Not sure what the club could do here, stand there ground he doesn’t play and leaves end of the season without playing for nowt, or just get as much in as possible now and use the money to bring in someone?. Clubs in a no win situation, he’s forced there hand.
 
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