Semi Ajeyi

[Baloo]

Excellent again tonight against Man City.

Never got a start for us. Let him go on a Free Transfer.

Hard to fathom.

[Eric the Half a Bee]

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Excellent again tonight against Man City.

Never got a start for us. Let him go on a Free Transfer.

Hard to fathom.

Tough for him to break through at the time. One of those things, but annoying none the less.

[cyril evans awaydays]

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Brought in by Slade for nothing, let go on a free by Warnock.

[Madassa]

Re: Semi Ajeyi

Peltier also got on tonight.

[Eric the Half a Bee]

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Peltier also got on tonight.

I presume Mrs Peltier was happy with this.

[Trigger]

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It's not that hard to fathom really, was well down the pecking order and not ready at the time.

His first team experience at Rotherham played a massive part in his development.

All hindsight.

[Rjk]

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It's not that hard to fathom really, was well down the pecking order and not ready at the time.

His first team experience at Rotherham played a massive part in his development.

All hindsight.

he went on loan at Rotherham first, and probably could have been loaned again. but we had no interest in developing any youngsters.

[Pedro de la Rosa]

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he went on loan at Rotherham first, and probably could have been loaned again. but we had no interest in developing any youngsters.

Or he didn't want to sign a new deal. He was 23 for crying out loud. 100 games later he made it back to the level we were at. He needed to put down some proper roots. Ajayi is probably a good Championship defender but let's keep some perspective. We didn't release Maldini. Good for Ajayi but let's not forget what happened in 17/18, the season after he left. Would we have loaned him out again in 18/19?

[J R Hartley]

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Or he didn't want to sign a new deal. He was 23 for crying out loud. 100 games later he made it back to the level we were at. He needed to put down some proper roots. Ajayi is probably a good Championship defender but let's keep some perspective. We didn't release Maldini. Good for Ajayi but let's not forget what happened in 17/18, the season after he left. Would we have loaned him out again in 18/19?

Colin had no interest in developing him. Why can’t you accept that? Stop making excuses for the mans shortism policies.

[Eric the Half a Bee]

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Colin had no interest in developing him. Why can’t you accept that? Stop making excuses for the mans shortism policies.

Absolutely. He wasn't part of his plans.

[Baloo]

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It's not that hard to fathom really, was well down the pecking order and not ready at the time.

His first team experience at Rotherham played a massive part in his development.

All hindsight.

As he didn’t get a game for us I gathered that he was well down the pecking order at the time. And your correct it’s hindsight given we sold him 4 years ago.

Watching him play now it’s just a bit of a shame that he had to leave for Rotherham for his development.

[the other bob wilson]

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It's not that hard to fathom really, was well down the pecking order and not ready at the time.

His first team experience at Rotherham played a massive part in his development.

All hindsight.

Ajayi was 24 when he left us and three years later he's playing in the Premier League. I honestly don't think that there are many other clubs besides Cardiff City who would deem a player "not ready" in their mid twenties - maybe if we'd have been bold enough to give him a chance just before he left, he could have established himself and put himself in the running to be our Young Player of the season in 2018?

[LeningradCowboy]

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West Brom have conceded the most goals in the Premier League this season.

[LeningradCowboy]

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Colin had no interest in developing him. Why can’t you accept that? Stop making excuses for the mans shortism policies.

We had four centre-backs (Morrison, Bamba, Ecuele Manga, and Connolly) under contract for the 2017/18 season. Why would Ajayi have signed a new deal with us in that situation?

[the other bob wilson]

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We had four centre-backs (Morrison, Bamba, Ecuele Manga, and Connolly) under contract for the 2017/18 season. Why would Ajayi have signed a new deal with us in that situation?

Because one of those four hardly played for us again, another one left a year later and another one was getting towards his mid thirties - with a different approach and a little foresight from City, he would, surely, have been happy to stay rather than go to Rotherham.