Reid deal – it’s not personal just business!
I’ve read on the one hand that if he doesn’t accept he should be made to rot in the reserves or on the other that he should be offered £70k a week which the tweeter assumes will see him immediately reach for the old Bic!
Extreme reactions are always the wrong reactions and it seems that Reid’s only issue in all of this is to get the possible deal for him and he’s determined to wait until the last minute if necessary.
It’s all too easy to start talking about loyalty and what we as lifelong Irons believe he should or should not do but I’ve never believed the ‘L’ word has a serious place in the world of football.
Players who have served the club well are quickly offloaded when their best years are behind them or if a board receives an offer which see them interested in trousering the cash. Loyalty? No I don’t think that’s a word we need to dwell on..
More pertinent perhaps is how the club has allowed the situation to reach a point where the central defender could be lost for nothing in the summer.
Well, I don’t think – indeed I know – that wasn’t the plan. The two chairmen are canny guys who would have done a deal in a heartbeat given the chance.
No, what’s happening here is that Winston is determined to give himself a chance of the best possible deal – whether with us or someone else – and all the loose chat going on in the media right now is part of the plot .
Those close to him perhaps will plant a story here and a story there to keep the interest going and thus worry the supporters to death – par for the course…been going on since there was a King on the throne!
So the situation is simple: It’s down to Reid. If he stays…GOOD. If a club comes in – and I find it highly significant that none has yet, nor has there been an inquiry, we’ll live with it simply because we have to.
Given that he’s been offered £60k a week there’s obviously cash around for a great replacement and if that’s what it comes down to in the end I hope that man will be Micah Richards should it prove necessary.
Whatever the result of this rather tiresome soap opera, life goes on. We are becoming a real good team and that could influence Winston in the end but – to finish with a well worn cliche – no player is bigger than this club!