Quote Originally Posted by the other bob wilson View Post
You see a story like that and can't help wondering where his career would be today if he had stayed with us - seems to me that nothing has happened at Cardiff in his absence to make him think he made the wrong decision in leaving us though.

Sad to see Jamie Veale leave the club. I mentioned in my e-mail reply yesterday to the person who informed me of his move to Merthyr that the news didn't come as a surprise, but I thought he would be able to find a club that played at a bit of a higher level than them - maybe he did not want to move away from the area?

My understanding is that Alfie Patten, the lad involved in the original Bellamy story, went to Forest Green after leaving us, was released by them and is now studying in America and I think he may be playing for his college. There have also been some mentions of complaints regarding another player - it sounds like he's still on City's books in some of the stories the Mail has published, but in others it reads like he has now left us, so I'm not sure what's going on there.
It's a fair point about Matondo although he does strike me as one youngster that Warnock would've been interested in (as long as he was prepared to track back, of course) so there's a case for saying that he could've already been playing regular Premier League football if he'd stayed with us and has actually held back his career by leaving here. Not much of a case though.

Yes, I said the same about Veale. When people criticise the club for not sending youngsters out on loan this is the point they're missing, I think. If there was a long list of league clubs itching to take Veale on loan then why has he gone to Merthyr on being released? I see Connor Young is there too.

The Mail definitely started their allegations on Bellamy with the story of an English youngster who was with the club now but was training elsewhere. The Madden story quickly followed then, as the latest allegation seems to involve a Welsh lad, the original xenophobic angle has now been dropped. Like you, I'm not judging till I know all the facts but I'm a little bit suspicious of the Mail. Here's one of the earlier articles which mentions the current player.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/sp...legations.html

I assume you've seen the stories linking Macauley Southam with a number of Championship clubs, including Villa. I didn't see that one coming.