Adver News: Austin hands in transfer request

[Peter Venkman]

We didn't cash in on Evans.

I was thinking that too, he turned down our offer of a new contract and left on a free.

[herthab]

He owes us fuck all.

52 starts, 36 goals.

For 50 grand, I'd say we more than got our money's worth.

[Costanza]

Beating Leeds United at Elland Road was enough for me! He did his bit and no one can argue with that - If they do, they're a bit of a dick.

Good luck Charlie (when the inevitable happens)

[redtrucker]

Maybe im just having a bad day......Spent most of the day pitying fans of 'bigger' clubs ie Sunderland cos their star striker wants away and came home to find out ours wants to do the same! How can you give 100% when you want to leave? Look at Moyes vs Pienaar, he wouldnt allow him in the squad cos his heart werent in it but when im getting soaked and windswept at the Gasheads piece of crap stadium saturday ive got to believe that our striker is gonna be full of passion? I know the club is bigger than the player and I will always support them im just depressed!!

[Peter Venkman]

He owes us fuck all.

52 starts, 36 goals.

For 50 grand, I'd say we more than got our money's worth.

I totally agree.

The stats don't even tell the full tale do they?

Of all the games he started last season he hardly ever played the full 90 minutes of games because of his fitness.

I would think that goals to minutes ratio would be much higher than that probably almost 1 goal every 90 minutes that he played, so just about a goal a game.

He doesnt owe us anything at all, if we hadent taken the "risk" with him there were a few other clubs, Bournemouth included, that would have taken the same risk.

[suttonred]

He owes us fuck all.

52 starts, 36 goals.

For 50 grand, I'd say we more than got our money's worth.

This. It's just the waiting for the death knoll I can't stand.

[Abrahammer]

He owes us fuck all.

52 starts, 36 goals.

For 50 grand, I'd say we more than got our money's worth.

If anyone else says something like "We gave him his chance, he owes us" again i might throw the laptop against the wall.

He is the best £50k we have ever spent and he has repayed us 10 times over and if anyone owes anything is us who owe him a big thank you.

[redtrucker]

Yes thank-you for unsettling the club now we are in the shit! Contracts dont mean a thing, it must be so frustrating for the chairmen and managers when this happens! Of course he is a massive talent and ive enjoyed watching him bit he is still a young lad orchestrating a move out of the club we love! Can the players not wait? Leave in May as a hero!

[Abrahammer]

Contracts dont mean a thing

The reality is contracts haven't mean't much in modern football for a few years.  Charlie has done what 100 players have done before and 100 more will do to us in the future.  The only difference is that he has gone to press which i imagine he has now realised was a mistake.

[pauld]

I still say there's an agent/advisor stirring all this, rather than it being directly instigated by Charlie himself. The timing of today's revelation in particular is bloody awful, seems calculated to cause maximum damage.

[Costanza]

Alas, I don't think there's any doubt that an advisor has instigated this.

[pauld]

Alas, I don't think there's any doubt that an advisor has instigated this.

And a particularly shit one at that, who specialises in very bad advice. Oh shit! Diamandis must be Charlie's agent!

[leefer]

Some very good posts on this...with every emotion being shown.
To be honest he really didn't need to hand in a request...for that he will lose lots of Brownie points with Town fans....but that wont worry him.
The Town taught him how to conduct himself on how to be a profesional football player...he is doing what the modern football player does these days.
The Town and Poole will benefit with cash.....just sad we cant hold on to a hero these days.

[iffy]

welshred

And to play along with your analogy, I've already told my boyfriend that he can go and start his new job in the Summer, or even in a couple of weeks as long as I get enough money to find a good enough replacement, and I'll wish him well, tell all my friends how good he is in bed and that he's hung like a hippo.

Good work

The only problem is (to stretch this analogy to breaking point), your ex already knows he's hung like a hippo, and that he's kept you happy 32 of the 56 times you've been together. He doesn't need to keep his psycho-ex happy so she'll tell everyone. He needs to start banging supermodels.

[joteddyred]

Well no real surprise apart from the way that things appear to have been instigated from the Austin camp.  I'm really disappointed that he clearly has very little regard for the club and a silly move on his part really, as now he's going to leave under a black cloud.

He won’t be remembered as a legend, he’s not done enough here to warrant that tag.   Who will honestly remember his contribution in 10 years time.  Yes, he’s scored goals, but he wasn’t part of a promotion winning team or saved us from relegation like plenty of others I could name.  We survived when we lost them and we’ll survive without Austin .  The fame and attention seems to have gone to his head a bit lately and he needs to be a bit careful when he moves on.  I think he’ll find it far tougher elsewhere and his behaviour off the pitch might not be tolerated so lightly as it has been here.

Major concern is that we may now sell him for less than Fitton & Co were holding out for.  He’s obviously not going to pull a Swindon shirt on again, so are we just going to offload him to the next interested party to avoid further disruption?  I hope not, let him sweat until the last day of the transfer window if it means more money for the club.  In the meantime, let’s see some bloody action this week and get the players in that are needed to try and come out of this mess of a season with some credibility.