Denial of the possibility?
No one would deny it's possible. People are just saying they don't think it's what happened. Who denies possibilities, anyway? Ironic that such a complaint comes from one of the most absolutist posters.
Sol Campbell thread for a start. Who was discriminated against so much he got how many England caps again?
Black and mixed race/dual heritage are overrepresented (as a population percentage) in terms of the current England Playing Squad. Hardly corroborative to discrimination.
If there is a debate about racial discrimination Sol Campbell is not a part of it.
Signing Shawcross would be a radical departure from the 'transfer model'.
Exactly the sort of player we need but I can't help but think it would be money better spent elsewhere, particularly if Remy goes on to new pastures.
Abdoulaye Faye cost £2.25 million.
Then again we should have plenty of money to spend in the summer.
Yeah sure, but when someone as successful as Sol Campbell trivialises the racial discrimination problems facing blacks today in order to promote his book he can fuck off.
I don't dispute that we are able to sign some good players. I think our difficulty arises in keeping them for a prolonged period. This obviously makes it hard to build much and progress. Probably why people have no patience with the MA approach.
In a nutshell I'd be surprised if Remy stayed with us. I think he will either go to a club that will pay him more money or a more successful club (who will probably pay him more money).
Ok well I think there is probably a hierachy of needs for a footballer.
Top Concern is probably money.
Next probably is competitiveness, chances of success.
Then Stadium and Fans.
Again if you're a good player, why stay at NUFC?
Ultimately deciding to go to a team that were at the basement of the PL.
The real difficulty is, if you're a good player why would you stay at NUFC? No obvious reasons.