You dismiss my option of hope there though . I'm not saying this will always be like this, it is up to us to change that. right now, of course Barkley or whoever leaving and going on to be successful is not a bad career move for them, same as it was for Rooney to leave us. If moyes had took us into the champions league and won cups, it would have been a different story, but we didn't and he did.
This argument about players leaving first chance they get, and it being held against Rooney. is it not double standards? should Coleman have stayed at sligo rovers? he jumped the first chance he got to leave them and assuming he was one of their academy players then it is the same principle as Rooney Ross Davies or anyone else leaving us. There is a blind loyalty argument used when it works against us but we are fine doing it to others? Perhaps when we become a successful club, then we won't have any of our own players wanting to leave us and seeing the grass is greener elsewhere, I can promise you Ross would retire here if we actually delivered him a manager and team mates to match any ambition he would have as a young footballer. but another season or two mid table going nowhere , why hold thst against him a chance go play at the highest level?
