NM-L to Middlesbrough - CONFIRMED

[Michael Morris]

Rumours this evening

[UNDERHILL1927]

Re: NM-L to Derby

Rumours this evening

Very disappointed if what he's supposedly done is nowhere near what we've been expecting. We've missed him massively this season

[2b2bdoo]

Re: NM-L to Derby

If it was just a 6 month ban then you have to wonder if it was worth taking the hit for 6 months. He would easily start for us.

[A Quiet Monkfish]

Re: NM-L to Derby

Arguably [actually not] our most effective winger in the club by a distant. Going to a club fighting for relegation [alongside us]. It beggars the question, if Derby are prepared to take him why aren't City prepared to give him a second chance.

[xsnaggle]

Re: NM-L to Derby

Arguably [actually not] our most effective winger in the club by a distant. Going to a club fighting for relegation [alongside us]. It beggars the question, if Derby are prepared to take him why aren't City prepared to give him a second chance.

Perhaps they had already given him a second chance on whatever it was, but didn't broadcast it.

[2b2bdoo]

Re: NM-L to Derby

Perhaps they had already given him a second chance on whatever it was, but didn't broadcast it.

True there comes a point.
However Derby have a great deal if true, he's clearly kept himself very fit. If true I feel we have lost an asset for a few months wages.... Which maybe could have been fined for?

[J R Hartley]

Re: NM-L to Derby

True there comes a point.
However Derby have a great deal if true, he's clearly kept himself very fit. If true I feel we have lost an asset for a few months wages.... Which maybe could have been fined for?

Match fit is a different level of fitness regardless of how well he’s looked after himself in his 6 months off.

[JumpersforGoalposts]

Re: NM-L to Derby

If it was just a 6 month ban then you have to wonder if it was worth taking the hit for 6 months. He would easily start for us.

If it has been a 6 month ban for recreational drug use then it would be a second "offence", i.e. we have previously been paying him while serving a 3 month first "offence" ban. Seems quite right to cancel his contract in those circumstances not least as it implies that there is significant likelihood of it happening again.

[tforturton]

Re: NM-L to Derby

He blew hot and cold too much for my liking. Brilliant in one game, anonymous in the next.

[RonnieBird]

Re: NM-L to Derby

I wouldn't have chucked him out permanently because he was an excellent player ,which is what counts, but I remember he was previously chucked out of another club ( one of the midlands clubs ? ) for unspecified bad behaviour so who knows how difficult he actually is.

[City123]

Re: NM-L to Derby

I wouldn't have chucked him out permanently because he was an excellent player ,which is what counts, but I remember he was previously chucked out of another club ( one of the midlands clubs ? ) for unspecified bad behaviour so who knows how difficult he actually is.

I think he had attitude problems at Peterborough

[Cleve van Leef]

Re: NM-L to Derby

I wouldn't have chucked him out permanently because he was an excellent player ,which is what counts, but I remember he was previously chucked out of another club ( one of the midlands clubs ? ) for unspecified bad behaviour so who knows how difficult he actually is.

You can’t keep someone because “he’s an excellent player” if he’s seriously done something wrong a player has to go. You can’t have one rule for one and another for someone else.

[NYCBlue]

Re: NM-L to Derby

Why all the love for NML? He's OK. But his game is limited. And he wasn't an automatic selection.

[life on mars]

Re: NM-L to Derby

He blew hot and cold too much for my liking. Brilliant in one game, anonymous in the next.

Agree and tended to run in straight lines ,didn't seem to have the balance and finesse of Holiet , who can play off either foot.

[splott parker]

Re: NM-L to Derby

You’ve got to have rules in the workplace and you’d like to think that these rules apply equally to every employee across the board. Unfortunately in football some very talented but wayward players have pushed the one rule for me and another for the rest situation way too far, the clubs have turned a blind eye because he’s one of their best players. As fans I s’pose we want our stars in the side regardless but it must test the morale and tempers of the rest of the playing staff seeing one f*cker getting away with it regularly.