McClaren is on the board now is he not? I think he has to take some responsibility especially as he was happy enough to endorse giving Colo a new contract. If a manager can't keep a player he thinks is important then he's not really a manager.
Yeah I'm sure he does, even if it's only symbolic. I just mean that the club wanted to shift Abeid for ages, and McClaren probably didn't have much time to form an opinion on him. Unless he'd said 'stop all sales until January', which in a normal club might have happened.
I wish I could understand why the club were so desperate to shift Abeid then. How much did we get for him, 500k or something wasn't it? Yeah I can see why they were so desperate to rake in the cash there like. It's not even as if he's that good a player, but at least you know he would get stuck in for 90 mins and he had the added bonus of not being a 5ft midget.
I firmly believe it's part of the current political climate to demonize and get rid of all those of an Arab descent: Ben Arfa, Abeid, Ryan Taylor.
SyRyan Taylor I believe