mattytheshrimper
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Such a shame he's gone also a shame he's putting dirty washing out in the open as well.
Such a shame he's gone also a shame he's putting dirty washing out in the open as well.
Such a shame he's gone also a shame he's putting dirty washing out in the open as well.
It's nothing new though. He didn't like playing up front on his own. We knew that back in January.
Yet he barely had to since January, which he conveniently doesnt mention together with the fact they doubled his money.
Love the bloke but he is being very selective in his reasons.
He makes it clear it was the better option for him and his family. I think we can all read between the lines. People tend not to explicitly talk about their salary - especially in public. Footballers aren't any different.
He did take the better option for his family because it was the highest paying. Cambridge is not nearer to Swindon last time I checked and he had the chance to go to Oxford or Portsmouth, bigger clubs nearer his family so the motivation must have been financial only.
I dont blame him at all for moving nor for the fact it was money orientated. They have a very short period to earn money and its understandable he took the biggest money offer which will probably be his last contract.
I understand he wouldnt use that as a reason, but anyone who thinks he moved mainly because he didnt like playing on his own up front are ignoring the obvious, he wasnt playing up on his own for half the season.
Doubt it for 2 years when they have stayed there for 5 years when with us.
Sod off, Barry Corr, never rated you & you have the touch of a baby elephant!
He did take the better option for his family because it was the highest paying. Cambridge is not nearer to Swindon last time I checked and he had the chance to go to Oxford or Portsmouth, bigger clubs nearer his family so the motivation must have been financial only.
I dont blame him at all for moving nor for the fact it was money orientated. They have a very short period to earn money and its understandable he took the biggest money offer which will probably be his last contract.
I understand he wouldnt use that as a reason, but anyone who thinks he moved mainly because he didnt like playing on his own up front are ignoring the obvious, he wasnt playing up on his own for half the season.
Sod off, Barry Corr, never rated you & you have the touch of a baby elephant!
Whether or not we played 4-5-1 or 4-4-2 at the end of last season makes no impact on the fact (and it is a fact lets be honest) that we're likely to play a huge chunk of this season with one up front and had Corr stayed here he would have been likely to have played a lot of the season with his back to goal. If he backs himself to score goals then being told that he'll be in a position to score with the side built around giving him crosses and chances then you can see why it would appeal. Portsmouth are also playing one up front, btw and I doubt Cambridge are offering much more than he could have got there.
His main underlying point is that Southend didn't sort out his contract early enough. If he was signed up to a new deal at Christmas then it doesn't matter what Cambridge offer him six months later. Unfortunately that is part and parcel of being a lower league club - we got into huge problems five years ago with having too many players or multi-year contracts which the club could no longer afford. We all know how SUFC got around that back then and none of us want to go through that again. We probably have to be selective with the players who we offer long term deals to and this means that sometimes we'll lose players we'd have rather kept. We got away with it with Timlin this summer, we didn't get away with it with Corr.