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It's a tricky one... It's not as if Ross and/or his reps didn't know the "5 days notice after the end of the season" clause was in the contract... It would've been in there from the outset and he/they didn't have to agree with it when he signed.... And the only reason for such a clause would be that the club would likely only extend if they felt he was capable of playing in the Premier League week in, week out. So, all we attempted to do (until spygate scuppered it) was to exercise a clause that had been mutually agreed to in the first place. So it's not as if we've done anything that Stewart wouldn't have been expecting.... I therefore wouldn't call it "shoddy" behaviour from the club.

Yep, being 'shite' AND a 'bit of a twat' is always going to attract more flack than someone who is just shite...

If Tonda thinks he can DAJFU then I'd be happy to see how it pans out. As you say, he was a square peg in a round hole for Russball and could be much more suited to Tonda Tactics...

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ITK klaxon! 🙂

Sounds ideal, assuming L1 isn't his ceiling of course...

He proved in his brief purple patch towards the end of the season that he's not a 'proper' centre forward, like Stewart or Larin. If we revert back to square pegs in round holes approach with our choice of strikers, despite the success of having two proper centre forwards underpinning last season turnaround, then I'll be back to despairing Sport Republic's decision making. Surely they've learned their lesson by now, with regards the type of striker(s) we need ...? P.s. Bree just confirmed as staying

Yep, I think this is where I am, all things considered and taking the emotion out of it 👍🏻

We were evidently confident of not being chucked out of the play-offs, and thus able to use the "5 day window" clause in his contract to extend his contract if we were still in the EFL. So not really "dicking around", rather underestimating the wrath of the EFL...

Isn't he still contracted to us until the end of the world cup group fixtures (i.e. end of June)...? As such, any 'pre-agreement' he has with another club could be torn up if he were to get injured before the end of the month..? Still a massive risk he's taking I reckon.

I wonder if Stewart was (one of) the player(s) who wasn't happy with Tonda staying at the helm, due to 'spygate'...? If I remember correctly, it was reported that "almost all" the players gave their backing to Tonda continuing at the 'summit meeting' they had with Dragan...

Yep, this. Would've liked to have kept him but there's plenty more fish in the sea who would be far less risky, injury wise.

"Interesting"