agree with yeovil. after signing him, moulding him into a good player and hyping him up unbelievably king wouldnt do all this for no reason.
What you have to remember is that King is not a logical / rational thinker.
I only have to refer you to his post match ramblings to support that point.
This is the man that during Malcolm Crosby's time at the club used to take great perverse pleasure in humiliating him in front of the players by disagreeing with everything Crosby said. If Crosby said they needed to work on one thing in training King would deliberately work on something else. King would shout him down to such an extent that Crosby lost interest.
Now it's widely accepted within the game that Crosby is an excellent coach so why would King go out of his way to ignore / exclude /demean him ? It simply was NOT in the best interests of the club to do so. King couldn't help himself. He did it anyway.
The players knew Crosby was good. But that counted for nothing. King ignored the concensus and Crosby was gone.
If one of the players went up to King and asked why he was blanking Nicho I'm pretty confident that King's reply would run something like "What the fucks it got to do with you ? If you don't fucking like it you can fucking join him."
I make no apologies for the language because that's how Mr King speaks when he's away from a microphone.