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Was promised a move in the summer but the owners would've taken a serious amount of flack for that and what with all the other negative press around right now they wouldn't want that happening.
I'm wondering if they knew what Slav was going to say?
Their current silence is deafening
I do honestly believe Bilic meant what he said in the press conference, I doubt there are any actors, let alone managers could display that much emotion while talking about something like that.
If his wife is homesick and his
Kids wish for him to be with them
all the time he should have just had a heart to heart conversation with the board/ Slav ...he didn't he now on strike and as Ian Wright just said on a live show it's disgraceful how he has acted.....
Nobby will sort him
;hmm
If this is part of the reason he "desperately" wants to leave, then so be it, but he has a lot of previous when trying to generate a move away from other clubs so it is not surprising he demanding another one now.
I'd believe Skav's account over some ex club DJ.
Dimi was so loved by us and must have so many good memories, each and everyone of these will be tarnished if he leaves in this way and I don't think that's worth the immediate gratification of getting your way. Footballers can be divided in two with regard this as we all know some ex players who can always go back and get a warm response and those who will get abuse. I will say many football fans are a little harsh and do condemn anyone who leaves, but most have a sense of reasonable behaviour and what should be expected.
Many footballers are a fickle bunch, I think Arsenal have the same issue with Sanchez who has upped his worth and now wants away (if reports are to be believed) despite being treated very well and being under contract.
For me Dimi should be allowed to leave only for a fee of 35m as for me that is the sum we could reasonably expect to spend to replace him.
'The other side I have been told is...'
By whom? When?
;doh
We were selling him in the summer anyway all this has done is bring it forward.
He's handled it poorly, Slav feels let down that's no good but we get 30-40m and we all move on
It is rumour? Your opinion? What?
Writing in his Evening Standard column, Bilic said: “This situation with Dimitri has been developing for a little while now. Two days ago, he and I had a meeting. I won’t disclose what was said, but I was left in no doubt as to his intentions.
“Yesterday, just before the normal pre-match press conference, I asked Dimitri one more time: ‘Are you standing by what you said a couple of days ago or have you thought more about it?’
“He replied that he was standing by his decision, so that was that. The right thing to do then was to tell the supporters and the players what was happening and I informed the squad later that morning, before we began training.”
From sky sports transfer centre
This is from an 'ITK', Ex. The bit about Kouyate pulling Payet to one side to tell him he's affecting the team is very interesting if true.
I think it refers to drop in value of the pound against the Euro, and Dimi asking for compensatory payments to preserve the value of his wages. (And Kouyate telling him it - ie the fall in the £, not his moaning - affected many of the squad.
Loughton.
Say no more!
(The whole thing's not very well written, really. And a lot of it comes across as tosh imo. Count the times he says 'allegedly', 'apparently', 'rumours', 'according to a number of people', 'I can't confirm this', 'I cannot say for certain it's true', 'perhaps' .... doesn't really inspire confidence that he's really in the know. Not to me, anyway - he might know a tidbit of information, and the rest is padded out with rumours, gossip and speculation.
Waits for the article to be ridiculed. ;whistle ;biggrin