Originally Posted by
dml1954
I thought we got him on a free transfer. How do you know we have had to pay his contract up and if we did, what it cost us. You are guessing at best and deliberately exaggerating at worst. Almostly certainly Lambert will now get a hefty signing on fee from whichever club he joins, so it us not unreasonable to suppose that as a result he would have agreed to a much lower amount from us to cancel his contract and enable all this to happen. If he hadnt picked up an injury early on with us (not his fault) it is likely that he would have played many more games. How you can heavily criticise one of the best strikers to have played in this country in the last 15 years is beyond me.