GUNTER -IN THE AWAY END WITH CITY FANS 41 DAYS AGONOW A KEY INTERNATIONAL AND PREMIERSHIP PLAYER
Because of the way Dave Jones and City have conducted themselves, this stinks and it hurts.
Cardiff City official website confirmation:
http://www.cardiffcityfc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10335~1196812,00.html
BBC story:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/t/tottenham_hotspur/7156325.stm
Sporting Life story:
CARDIFF AGREE GUNTER FEE WITH SPURS
Cardiff City have agreed to sell Chris Gunter to leading Premiership team, Spurs, for a fee believed to be £2M up front and worth upto £4M depending on appearences etc. City also have a sell-on clause should the player be moved in future for a greater fee.
It a week is a long time in politics, 6 weeks is incredible in football. Just 41 days ago, Chris Gunter was stood in front of me in the away end with his brother supporting City at Charlton. Dave Jones, showing his man management and pedigree, didn't want to know him so, as a City fan who used to travel with the supporters club, he wanted to be with the fans. Now he's with a quality Premiership club!
While, on the face of it, it's great business for an 18 yr old with only 20 league starts under his belt, this will hurt City fans more than other business to sell players like Chopra.
Selling off local kids is like selling the crown jewels and it heighten fears that Cardiff could also be about to lose Joe Ledley when the January transfer window opens. £4M may be a good fee but only if we see it reinvested. £5M was a great fee for Michael Chopra but when not a penny was spent on new transfers in, it may as well be nothing to Cardiff City followers.
What makes it worse is that we used to wait til summer to sell our players and Chris Gunter has been a player criminally under-rated by Dave Jones. He was the worst paid player in City's side, The Bluebirds refusing to give him a new and improved contract even when he broke through, showed international pedigree and had been a leading player in recent weeks. He was out of contract next summer. For Ridsdale and City to sell him is one thing, for them to show no intention ever to hang onto him does disgust.
Dave Jones has failed to appreciate the talent he had on his hands. He did have a poor spell earlier this season but it was ridiculous of the manager to blast Gunter in public for a gaol conceded at Norwich, when the goalkeeper Turnbull was prime culprit and supported by Jones.
It hurt Gunter that Dave Jones had ignored him for weeks whilst continuing with the inept Capaldi - who we've now got to use again. If Wales hadn't given Gunter a chance and he shone in Germany, he'd be ignored now by Jones and City. Instead it made it impossible for Jones not to play him but even when bringing him back, Jones did so with grudging public words, not support.You tell me - Spurs and Premiership attractions apart - why on earth would Gunter want to stay with City when the club and manager have barely supported him this season??? He's played and performed well despite them, not because of them.
Good Luck Chris - it's a brilliant move for you and who can blame you while this club is in complete limbo and not even I know what to think of it anymore. However, I feel cheated by Cardiff City and their behaviour and one of the best young talents we have produced being allowed to leave before we have seen much of him at all.
It a week is a long time in politics, 6 weeks is incredible in football. Just 41 days ago, Chris Gunter was stood in front of me in the away end with his brother supporting City at Charlton. Dave Jones, showing his man management and pedigree, didn't want to know him so, as a City fan who used to travel with the supporters club, he wanted to be with the fans. Now he's with a quality Premiership club!
While, on the face of it, it's great business for an 18 yr old with only 20 league starts under his belt, this will hurt City fans more than other business to sell players like Chopra.
Selling off local kids is like selling the crown jewels and it heighten fears that Cardiff could also be about to lose Joe Ledley when the January transfer window opens. £4M may be a good fee but only if we see it reinvested. £5M was a great fee for Michael Chopra but when not a penny was spent on new transfers in, it may as well be nothing to Cardiff City followers.
What makes it worse is that we used to wait til summer to sell our players and Chris Gunter has been a player criminally under-rated by Dave Jones. He was the worst paid player in City's side, The Bluebirds refusing to give him a new and improved contract even when he broke through, showed international pedigree and had been a leading player in recent weeks. He was out of contract next summer. For Ridsdale and City to sell him is one thing, for them to show no intention ever to hang onto him does disgust.
Dave Jones has failed to appreciate the talent he had on his hands. He did have a poor spell earlier this season but it was ridiculous of the manager to blast Gunter in public for a gaol conceded at Norwich, when the goalkeeper Turnbull was prime culprit and supported by Jones.
It hurt Gunter that Dave Jones had ignored him for weeks whilst continuing with the inept Capaldi - who we've now got to use again. If Wales hadn't given Gunter a chance and he shone in Germany, he'd be ignored now by Jones and City. Instead it made it impossible for Jones not to play him but even when bringing him back, Jones did so with grudging public words, not support.You tell me - Spurs and Premiership attractions apart - why on earth would Gunter want to stay with City when the club and manager have barely supported him this season??? He's played and performed well despite them, not because of them.
Good Luck Chris - it's a brilliant move for you and who can blame you while this club is in complete limbo and not even I know what to think of it anymore. However, I feel cheated by Cardiff City and their behaviour and one of the best young talents we have produced being allowed to leave before we have seen much of him at all.
Because of the way Dave Jones and City have conducted themselves, this stinks and it hurts.
Cardiff City official website confirmation:
http://www.cardiffcityfc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10335~1196812,00.html
BBC story:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/t/tottenham_hotspur/7156325.stm
Sporting Life story:
CARDIFF AGREE GUNTER FEE WITH SPURS
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