smileychap
Player Valuation: £8m
Agree. I think footballers are not necessarily all Media-canny and get caught out on this in the midst of often genuinely just connecting with fans and the circle of interest around the game.
- Ideally it should be private.
- But if you're playing a game where a knee twist stops your career, any degree of certainty in where you're headed is gonna be appealing
- Therefore DoFs, Clubs, Agents not giving players clear offers and running down contracts will just encourage this stuff - which I agree with you is lamentable
- I'm also not sure what last minute contracts really do for long-term planning either
Doucs has been one of our players to put in a shift during the recent dark times though, so good luck fella. Cheers for the goals against Bournemouth and Brighton
davids
Player Valuation: £70m
He's just made a factual statement,can't see much wrong with that.
Bryan+
Player Valuation: £35m
He’s doing exactly what the other lot did, two weeks before they both signed their high profile PR fueled contracts they both said they had nothing from the club.
It’s just PR.
Marius57
Player Valuation: £60m
It’s misguided PR if that’s the case. They still perform at exceptionally high levels (well Salah does at least, I’ve never rated Van Dijk but he has just captained them to the title) whereas Doucoure is a player that people groan about when they see him on the team sheet.
Them doing it for PR works because they are universally loved by their fan base.
It isn’t going to bump up his deal or force the club into action. And if it did have anything to do with why he was unavailable (I hope it didn’t but it’s fair to assume at this point) at the weekend then I can’t envision it convincing Moyes to keep him.
windymiller
Player Valuation: £60m
The "personal reasons" thing is weird, that's fair. If he's still unavailable on Saturday after rocking up on a podcast in the week then that will be very fishy.
Rita_Poon
Player Valuation: £100m
I believe because it's been mentioned here repeatedly, he was given Saturday off because he was in the process or actually was a father again that day. 'Personal reasons' is 'compassionate leave', and understanding re paternity rights and whatnot. So long as mum and baby are doing well, then that's all we can ask.
MikeH72
Player Valuation: £100m
What?
Rita_Poon
Player Valuation: £100m
By his baby mothers side during labour? or it'd happened and the baby had arrived? I don't know for sure, as I wasn't there myself.
MikeH72
Player Valuation: £100m
Are you trying to tell me his wife had another baby 2 months after having one? Or has he had another baby with a different woman?
Rita_Poon
Player Valuation: £100m
I'm relaying what I read on here over the weekend (partly in the match thread). If the new arrival was two months ago and this isn't a love child from off the books, then hopefully any personal reasons are not mum and baby related re the weekend.
Heavens, bases covered, well wishes sent, a week into May and a bit closer to the summer madness being unleashed.
MikeH72
Player Valuation: £100m
I reckon whoever threw that rumour out probably just doesn’t have a clue what the reasons for his absence were and is making something up, forgetting that his wife had a baby in February.
pfim
Player Valuation: £50m
He covers a lot of ground in real life as well.
Rita_Poon
Player Valuation: £100m
Could have been a bit of recency bias or half a story half remembered. It was definitely more than one or two mentioning it.
MikeH72
Player Valuation: £100m
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