I felt part of it with Bally was a guilt contract given his playing through injury for us and perhaps how COVID relocation had threatened his immigration status? As in perhaps it’s not that simple?
And the genuine belief he’d still be a very handy player at this point in his career?
Chief has a lot of tactical ideas, but I wonder if occasionally he misses the more practical (Sunday league) skill of looking at the players he has and seeing how he could use them. It appears like he’s just discarded two here.
A third possibility is that they’ve tried to get rid of (non-starting) players on higher contracts or pressured them to renegotiate downwards and are freezing them out of if they don’t. Nasty if true, but not beyond the realms of possibility.
And the genuine belief he’d still be a very handy player at this point in his career?
Chief has a lot of tactical ideas, but I wonder if occasionally he misses the more practical (Sunday league) skill of looking at the players he has and seeing how he could use them. It appears like he’s just discarded two here.
A third possibility is that they’ve tried to get rid of (non-starting) players on higher contracts or pressured them to renegotiate downwards and are freezing them out of if they don’t. Nasty if true, but not beyond the realms of possibility.