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2017/18 Ross Barkley

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And if our staff had just basically ignored him, we wouldn’t have “officially” done anything wrong either.

I just feel the club have made themselves look a bit silly. Not that I care, because we are silly, but still. Allardyce himself said the board were resigned to losing him months ago, yet they kept talking about him. Why?

We didn't keep talking about him though???

Allardyce was asked questions in his pressers, that's about it. Other than that there's been nothing on Ross for months except when Unsworth said he wanted to talk to him.

Remember it all going quiet after that???

Yeh, well clearly, Barkley didn't want those talks to progress to him staying at the club at all. He was having none of it. Lad has been gone since May.
 
I’m glad my bosses didn’t treat me like a lepper when I had the gaul to tell them I wanted to leave 6 months in advance.

Honestly, some proper militants on this forum. Like a bunch of scorned blokes raging cause their bird has walked off with a more successful bloke

The forum for whatever you do for a living was raging though.

Don’t see the point in posts like this. Akin to wummery.
 
His agent has played the game and won.

He knows a much lower fee in January will mean more money for a signing on fee. Probably his agent and Chelsea have cooked up this plan.

Why would Chelsea want to pay 35 million for a player who is injured till December. Wait till January and get him for 15 million, extra 5 million for Ross and his agent for playing along.

Get us to pay Ross while he recovers.

He is injured until December, its not going to affect his world cup chances at all. He will more than likely get his move in January when he regains full fitness.

If i was Chelsea or Spurs, i would not have bought him now. Pay a higher fee for an injured player or wait till January and get him on a lower fee.

It's not hard to work out.
 
Yeah, by “not welcome” I don’t mean a team of lads from Santa Chupitos ready to chin him before he got into the car park, but it’s not immature to act a bit frosty towards him after what he did.
There's a significant difference between frostiness and downright failing an employee by suggesting he shouldn't be allowed near Finch Farm.

As a club, regardless of how we perceive we've been treated , we need to try to remain as an example of fairness and responsibility.

Petulant behaviour wouldn't show us in a great light and certainly wouldn't adhere us to other players. I know it's galling, but that's life.
 

Everton has broken me this season, Ross leaving is just the cherry on top of the excrement sundae

There's a worrying trend when you consider Stones, Lukaku and now Ross are all off. That's the spine of a great team, and they've all jumped ship with none of them as yet being adequately replaced

Sadly we seem doomed to many more years of wilderness

The saddest thing about Barkley wanting to leave is that a part of me doesn't blame him. The clubs a mess, why would you want to commit to that?

With Newcastle getting their big take over and a newly minted Wolves looking dead certs for promotion, I worry that any window we had to kick on has now been firmly shut
 

Everton has broken me this season, Ross leaving is just the cherry on top of the excrement sundae

There's a worrying trend when you consider Stones, Lukaku and now Ross are all off. That's the spine of a great team, and they've all jumped ship with none of them as yet being adequately replaced

Sadly we seem doomed to many more years of wilderness

The saddest thing about Barkley wanting to leave is that a part of me doesn't blame him. The clubs a mess, why would you want to commit to that?

With Newcastle getting their big take over and a newly minted Wolves looking dead certs for promotion, I worry that any window we had to kick on has now been firmly shut
I would want to play for Everton no matter what, as a "fan" he should too
 
Everton has broken me this season, Ross leaving is just the cherry on top of the excrement sundae

There's a worrying trend when you consider Stones, Lukaku and now Ross are all off. That's the spine of a great team, and they've all jumped ship with none of them as yet being adequately replaced

Sadly we seem doomed to many more years of wilderness

The saddest thing about Barkley wanting to leave is that a part of me doesn't blame him. The clubs a mess, why would you want to commit to that?

With Newcastle getting their big take over and a newly minted Wolves looking dead certs for promotion, I worry that any window we had to kick on has now been firmly shut

Unlike you to worry about things like this mate.
 
There's a significant difference between frostiness and downright failing an employee by suggesting he shouldn't be allowed near Finch Farm.

As a club, regardless of how we perceive we've been treated , we need to try to remain as an example of fairness and responsibility.

Petulant behaviour wouldn't show us in a great light and certainly wouldn't adhere us to other players. I know it's galling, but that's life.

He’s hardly on a zero hour minimum wage contract. Fella’s been getting paid £60,000+ per week since the summer to come up with a plan on how to have us off. Telling him he can use Finch Farm and all that, but won’t be welcomed with open arms is about fair, I reckon.

I do understand your last point, though.
 

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