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MikeH72
Player Valuation: £100m
I go every home game and I've seen it for many players. Saw Cleverley jeered off last season and no one gave a toss. Lukaku got dogs abuse every time a touch bounced off his shins. No one's arsed though. We can deny it all we want but that doesn't make it not true. People seem to expect special dispensation for the local players, that's just the way it is.
No sorry, again, nonsense.
I have no agenda against Koeman whatsoever, I'm a season ticket holder and I've seen the treatment Cleverley got - it wasn't a patch on Barkley. People had a pop at Cleverley, yeah, but with Barkley you see grown men calling him for all sorts, standing up and raging, going red in the face.
There's a clear difference - it's not just being frustrated at a mistake; it's unfathomable hatred.
Darth Toffeeman
Player Valuation: £40m
Loads of arguments for and against reasons as to why he wants out.
Lifestyle (needs out of the city), fan abuse, Manager clash.
Whatever the reasons I simply cannot and will not understand:
One Hundred Thousand Pounds A WEEK.
£100,000.
To actually play for the club he professes to love like you or I.
I have to sort family arrangements and get myself out from work and spend a chunk of my none bill money to watch the club.
If / When he leaves he will get no thanks or well wishes from me. He has lived the dream, had the potential to achieve even more here, and is turning his back on it.
Lifestyle (needs out of the city), fan abuse, Manager clash.
Whatever the reasons I simply cannot and will not understand:
One Hundred Thousand Pounds A WEEK.
£100,000.
To actually play for the club he professes to love like you or I.
I have to sort family arrangements and get myself out from work and spend a chunk of my none bill money to watch the club.
If / When he leaves he will get no thanks or well wishes from me. He has lived the dream, had the potential to achieve even more here, and is turning his back on it.
Nah, again, I'm not asking for Barkley to get better treatment because he's local - I'm saying he should have got the same treatment as any other player.
He didn't; he got considerably worse. And the only reason I can come up with for people calling that a 'myth' is that they don't want to believe our fan base would be so irrational.
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Oh I don't for one minute think the fans have driven him out. All I'm saying is he got it bad from the fans.
He's an idiot for leaving; I'm making no excuses for him whatsoever. A complete idiot. I've defended him in the past from accusations of being a bit braindead, but I can't now.
Darth Toffeeman
Player Valuation: £40m
Not just our fans. The majority of football fans are aggressive towards their own.
Arsenal are far worse than we are.
I blame the costs. However you dress it up the average punter resents the money involved. Millions per week spent on them whilst a lot of fans struggle to make ends meet. We live in a period of austerity too which adds fuel to the fire.
Football exists in a bubble outside of real life.
Not gonna to argue with you but my experiences last 3 or 4 seasons haven't been like this at all.
Barkley is one of the very few players who has a song and the crowd actually made banners for him. Again, something I've not seen for any other player. I don't agree at all with the driven out line of thinking. But fair enough if you do.
MikeH72
Player Valuation: £100m
I personally think he did get the same treatment, so did John Stones when he got a rollicking from the fans every time he tried to dribble out and lost possession, likewise Tim Howard who got screamed at at every home game for his last two years.
Football fans by nature are impatient, and will sometimes overreact based on circumstances, but none of our players are individually targeted more than others. The reason kids like Davies and Holgate get more leeway is because of exactly that, they're kids with a handful of Premier League games between them under their belts. When they've amassed nearly 200 games for the club they'll be subjected to exactly the same scrutiny as senior pros.
Also on Barkley, he was one of a select few in our squad that had a chant that was sung every week about him being a diamond. I don't think he's had it that tough when you think about it.
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chippy1722
Player Valuation: £35m
Barkley got more stick than anyone else where I sit, but it tended to be old fella's who were waiting for him to make a mistake to jump on him. I heard the same people also having a go at Coleman too, game after game.
Efcjake
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He's ran his contact down so he could jib us off and be in control of this move.
The Rooney comments are generalizations, not everyone wanted him back and definitely most are not pleased h's our top earner.
Whatever his reasons for leaving he's another blue jibbing us off and for what? He's not going to get more money or consistent playing time at a higher level. He's not crap but he's not better than we are collectively as a team despite whatever he thinks.
Whatever his reasons I'm as upset with him about this as I was with Rooney leaving because it's another blue getting off when we want to keep them. I haven't forgiven Rooney for doing it but he's part of the team now so I'll get behind him rather than wasting keystrokes on things I've said about him a hundred times before.
The Rooney comments are generalizations, not everyone wanted him back and definitely most are not pleased h's our top earner.
Whatever his reasons for leaving he's another blue jibbing us off and for what? He's not going to get more money or consistent playing time at a higher level. He's not crap but he's not better than we are collectively as a team despite whatever he thinks.
Whatever his reasons I'm as upset with him about this as I was with Rooney leaving because it's another blue getting off when we want to keep them. I haven't forgiven Rooney for doing it but he's part of the team now so I'll get behind him rather than wasting keystrokes on things I've said about him a hundred times before.
MikeH72
Player Valuation: £100m
It was like that with Lukaku where I sit. Same fellas who shout "KEEPEEEEERRRRRRR" every single time a ball enters the penalty area, regardless of whether the keeper can actually realistically get it. Basically people who don't know about football
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