The time to improve his contract was before he scored 10 goals in 13 Championship games for us. The only way we were keeping him was by getting promoted and receiving PL tv money.
They made about £150m in player sales and got parachute payments, it was loose change for them. Obviously it hasn't worked out so far, but I wouldn't be surprised if it does next season.
giving him a bg new contract before he had done anything a championship level would have been foolishthough a wage invcrease beyond the one he got of course would have been justified.
This it's a different injury, when someone is out that long there's always the chance something else goes when they comeback. The lad was out for so long it was inevitable, they'd have been pressure on him and the club to get him on the grass too all that money invested in him to push them back into promotion picture.
so there was no £10mn recieved for stewart then..?Thanks for explaining that mr obvious
What do you mean a guy of that age with a handful of games? At the time of his injury he was 26 not 33, a player coming into his prime. He had scored 40 goals in 81 games for us, including 13 in 10 at championship level. But he shouldn't be judged on his goals alone. His all round game was terrific, great workrate, running the channels, dragging defenders about creating space for others and was our best defender at set pieces. He was the best centre forward this club has had since Quinn and Phillips days. Whether he got injured at Fulham or not, he would have been sold, because our owners would never have paid him what he was worth, ( Same as Clarke now).
He has played for Southampton. And he has a different injury
I call coincidence. Our medical team is incompetent. Still waiting for Roberts’ 2 week injury to clear up nearly 3 months later. Not a chance did our medical team actually foresee something happening when they can’t even manage simple muscle strains. We got lucky, if that’s the right word for it.
handful of games at championship level..not handful of games for the club or in his career of course..
whne did the medical team say roberts injury was two weeks?
What you on about?
Let rewind as you're off on yet another Kildare tangent.we know what happened to his transfer money..it was spent on signing strikers...
so was £8mn or £10mn mentioned in the press? You have cited both numbers as "mentioned in the press"What you on about?
You asked where the £10m figure had come from as you'd only seen people using it on here. I replied saying it was widely reported in the media at the time (ie where people had got it from) although we don’t know how much of it was up front. I’d personally seen £8m mentioned in the press.
Yawn
A injury as serious as he had can then lead to the body suffering other issues as it tries to compensate for what it sees as a damaged area......i.e other muscles , tendons try to take the load away from the achilles.
Maybe you need to slow down and actually read what people are saying. You’re going at 110mph again…
