catcherintherye
Player Valuation: £80m
In the hope of defusing the nature of this, I will answer this honestly...
If that’s the case then sincerely, fair enough. If the PL investigate and nothing is found to have been untoward, I will happily come here on take both barrels.
I understand the burden of proof is upon us. But as has been said a bit on here - no one knows what happened. So any suggestions from myself or any of you to the contrary are just whispers in the wind.
What I will say is that as a fan of WFC, I likely have a better idea of how our club is run and how our board operate. Much the same as you with your club. And I can say very honestly that whilst our owner has had his fair share of scrapes in Italy, he’s been found guilty of precisely none. Indeed the payouts in his favour have been numerous. We got caught up in a very dodgy story over here regarding a fake letter - we were guilty but it was negligent on the owners part, nothing more. The guy he employed as chairman was at fault and swiftly removed and said chairman admitted the owner had no knowledge of what happened prior.
Whilst I can’t say it with certainty, but I do say it with confidence, is that our owner is very unlikely to have gone to the PL with just a few poor results as evidence as to what happened. He is a Harvard educated lawyer before all this. He will know all about burden of proof and supplying evidence.
But again, and finally, I will say that none of us know for sure. Not me. None of you. And anyone claiming otherwise with certainty makes themselves look stupid.
Let’s see what happens.
Your manager when asked if he'd had contact from Everton said no. Your fans were using that as the proof he wasn't interested in taking a "backward step" to Everton from the lofty lower half end of season place of Watford.
Whatever "side" of the story you want to give here, it would be nuts if anyone found in Watfords favour here. How could the football world work, if you cannot approach someone 6 months after they'd been sacked and are a free agent without risking being fined. How would anyone ever appoint a manager again?
I have no issue with tapping up rules and they should be enforced. However if a fella is out of work, it seems ridiculous clubs can't approach them. It's a major restriction of trade and nobody could ever make an appointment.