Morrison was a player where we were almost guaranteed not to get anything useful for more than very short bursts. Of all people, he wasn't going to see Slade as an inspirational mentor.
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I disagree with you on this, Eikrem and Berget may well be established in the Swedish premier league now. We were in the English premier league when we bought them and they were not an improvement on Medel, Mutch, Whitts, Gunnarsson, Campbell, Bellamy or Odemwingie. Take a look at who Palace and Hull were signing at the same time; Huddlestone, long, jelavic, ledley, Gayle, dann etc that kept them up.
I don't think we've got any regrettable attrition from players over that whole OGS time period?
I suppose there must come a point as a player that if you aren't getting the chances you cease to care. I think he just thought " put me on against a reserve fulham team in front of a 5k crowd will you?....you can keep it......i want out before the window shuts". It'd be a daft thing to do on more than one level but maybe that's what was going on.