Joe Bennet

[WJ99mobile]

Personally I thought he was badly treated as I’ve said before, but if there’s a way back I do hope it can be taken because we are desperately short of quality and I’m dreading the possibility of our crop of frees and kids being made to look completely unable to compete at this level.

“Badly treated” often means not offered a over the odds contract out of ‘loyalty’ and time served.

I’ve seen people slate the club for not offering sol a contract even though he’s expressed interest to play (I don’t see him getting game time here)

It’s my assumption that it went along the lines of;

Bennett offered heavily reduced contract
Bennett declined
Ready to sign one last contract elsewhere
Gets injured
Interested party pulls out
Now has to prove fitness to get something

[RonnieBird]

“Badly treated” often means not offered a over the odds contract out of ‘loyalty’ and time served.

I’ve seen people slate the club for not offering sol a contract even though he’s expressed interest to play (I don’t see him getting game time here)

It’s my assumption that it went along the lines of;

Bennett offered heavily reduced contract
Bennett declined
Ready to sign one last contract elsewhere
Gets injured
Interested party pulls out
Now has to prove fitness to get something

Well there are different cases I’d say.
Yes he was in the middle of negotiating for more at what turned out to be a very bad time for him because of the unexpected injury.

In many cases I’d say serve the greedy bastard right, but here’s a man who’s shunned lucrative offers from the likes of Fulham and consistently given 120% on the field, being a major contributor to our promotion. He’s also still a player very worth having for the club.

In all the circumstances then, I’d say they should have at least done something to help him put it right. It would have been the honourable thing.