Ben Mee revisited...

[Swissclaret]

As I understand it, Ben was offered a contract by the club. He did not accept it. Clearly, whoever decides such matters decided that the Club could not or did not want to offer an improved contract. I am guessing that he is a reasonably wealthy individual. If the club mattered so much to him, he could have accepted the contract on.

A player has every right to put a value on himself. Whether or not his employer agrees is another matter.

[Supersub6]

As I understand it, Ben was offered a contract by the club. He did not accept it. Clearly, whoever decides such matters decided that the Club could not or did not want to offer an improved contract. I am guessing that he is a reasonably wealthy individual. If the club mattered so much to him, he could have accepted the contract on.

A player has every right to put a value on himself. Whether or not his employer agrees is another matter.

Agree with what you are saying Swiss, however, no matter how much you love anything, would you be willing to take a massive reduction in your salary when you know that you can move on and earn more.
Ben served us well and also helped develop two other centre backs who we then sold on for more money. He owes us nothing and with a very young family to bring up he has to look after his own interests. We have certainly had our money's worth out of him and he is free to say whatever he wishes as far as I am concerned.

[Swissclaret]

Agree with what you are saying Swiss, however, no matter how much you love anything, would you be willing to take a massive reduction in your salary when you know that you can move on and earn more.
Ben served us well and also helped develop two other centre backs who we then sold on for more money. He owes us nothing and with a very young family to bring up he has to look after his own interests. We have certainly had our money's worth out of him and he is free to say whatever he wishes as far as I am concerned.

I agree Supersub. He is entitled to his opinion and his view. He had a choice and decided to move on. Good luck to him. The club has to make decisions in its own best interests, as does Ben.

Yes we have had our money’s worth. But he has been paid for his services. Let’s not forget that.

[sinkov]

Here you go sinkov, hopefully. Doesn't say much that surprised me to be honest. He gives his opinion without saying a lot about the things happening at the club.

https://shows.acast.com/footballramb...rop-in-ben-mee

Cheers Sub, like you say nothing new in there, nothing at all contentious or derogatory about BFC, quite the opposite in fact, he obviously still has a lot of time for the club and wishes us well. I remain perplexed as to why people like BT have such animosity towards him, very strange.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Cheers Sub, like you say nothing new in there, nothing at all contentious or derogatory about BFC, quite the opposite in fact, he obviously still has a lot of time for the club and wishes us well. I remain perplexed as to why people like BT have such animosity towards him, very strange.

It's not strange to me mon ami. He was assisting Mike Jackson in the dug out in the final games of a relegation season. A mysterious knee knack was preventing him from playing.

Bleeding heart photos, team bonding blah blah! I'm happy most Clarets fans I speak to have moved on, I just wish Ben would.

Incidentally, Taylor Bellis Harwood is better now than Mee ever will be or ever was. Burnley Football Club is bigger than any player, even the late great Jimmy Mac discovered that.

I'd prefer it if Mee shut his pie hole and concentrated on doing what he is supposed to be doing at Brentford. No matter how hard I look I can't find any unnecessary or unwanted comments about his former employer from a certain Mr James Tarkowski and that's how it should be IMHO.

[sinkov]

Your obsession with Ben Mee is bordering on the bizarre mon ami, this is what's in the link you put up,

"Brentford defender Ben Mee has revealed that he had no contact from Burnley about a new contract after their initial offer at the end of April. The former Clarets skipper was one of a host of first-team players that left Turf Moor after the club was relegated back to the Championship last season. Mee had made 376 appearances for Burnley over an 11-year period but was out of contract in the summer and departed once his deal had expired before securing a move back to the top flight with Brentford. The 33-year-old was offered new terms by the North West club in a bid to keep him but, as he revealed on Football Ramble’s The Drop In podcast, the deal tabled was not good enough and there was no communication after the initial offer. He explained: “The circumstances of leaving the club wasn’t ideal. Leaving the club when they’d been relegated was tough. I’d been there for so long that I cared a lot about the club, the people that were there, and everyone around it so that was tough to leave that.” Mee continued: “It’s how you’re valued and I think it’s a lot of different scenarios – is the club going to come back up in the Premier League? Is it going to do everything it can to come back up in the Premier League?"

Again absolutely nothing new or contentious there, and it's taken from a Podcast that he was asked to do which you haven't listened to. He did not seek to be interviewed, he was asked to do it and gave his time to oblige them, just what any decent person would do.

You really should start acting like a grown up, and stop throwing your toys out of the pram for spurious reasons, every time Ben's name crops up, it's infantile.

[Supersub6]

Your obsession with Ben Mee is bordering on the bizarre mon ami, this is what's in the link you put up,

"Brentford defender Ben Mee has revealed that he had no contact from Burnley about a new contract after their initial offer at the end of April. The former Clarets skipper was one of a host of first-team players that left Turf Moor after the club was relegated back to the Championship last season. Mee had made 376 appearances for Burnley over an 11-year period but was out of contract in the summer and departed once his deal had expired before securing a move back to the top flight with Brentford. The 33-year-old was offered new terms by the North West club in a bid to keep him but, as he revealed on Football Ramble’s The Drop In podcast, the deal tabled was not good enough and there was no communication after the initial offer. He explained: “The circumstances of leaving the club wasn’t ideal. Leaving the club when they’d been relegated was tough. I’d been there for so long that I cared a lot about the club, the people that were there, and everyone around it so that was tough to leave that.” Mee continued: “It’s how you’re valued and I think it’s a lot of different scenarios – is the club going to come back up in the Premier League? Is it going to do everything it can to come back up in the Premier League?"

Again absolutely nothing new or contentious there, and it's taken from a Podcast that he was asked to do which you haven't listened to. He did not seek to be interviewed, he was asked to do it and gave his time to oblige them, just what any decent person would do.

You really should start acting like a grown up, and stop throwing your toys out of the pram for spurious reasons, every time Ben's name crops up, it's infantile.

sinkov ---Ben telling it the way it is and being truthful. Very hard for lefties to accept truth, they thrive on lies

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Your obsession with Ben Mee is bordering on the bizarre mon ami, this is what's in the link you put up,

"Brentford defender Ben Mee has revealed that he had no contact from Burnley about a new contract after their initial offer at the end of April. The former Clarets skipper was one of a host of first-team players that left Turf Moor after the club was relegated back to the Championship last season. Mee had made 376 appearances for Burnley over an 11-year period but was out of contract in the summer and departed once his deal had expired before securing a move back to the top flight with Brentford. The 33-year-old was offered new terms by the North West club in a bid to keep him but, as he revealed on Football Ramble’s The Drop In podcast, the deal tabled was not good enough and there was no communication after the initial offer. He explained: “The circumstances of leaving the club wasn’t ideal. Leaving the club when they’d been relegated was tough. I’d been there for so long that I cared a lot about the club, the people that were there, and everyone around it so that was tough to leave that.” Mee continued: “It’s how you’re valued and I think it’s a lot of different scenarios – is the club going to come back up in the Premier League? Is it going to do everything it can to come back up in the Premier League?"

Again absolutely nothing new or contentious there, and it's taken from a Podcast that he was asked to do which you haven't listened to. He did not seek to be interviewed, he was asked to do it and gave his time to oblige them, just what any decent person would do.

You really should start acting like a grown up, and stop throwing your toys out of the pram for spurious reasons, every time Ben's name crops up, it's infantile.

Yes dad.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

sinkov ---Ben telling it the way it is and being truthful. Very hard for lefties to accept truth, they thrive on lies

If he'd had a couple of painkilling injections and played for the team instead of making sure he was not injured to go off on his merry way to new and lucrative pastures, I'd take in his heartfelt comments.

[Supersub6]

If he'd had a couple of painkilling injections and played for the team instead of making sure he was not injured to go off on his merry way to new and lucrative pastures, I'd take in his heartfelt comments.

BT, it's 2022 not 1959! Players don't have steroid injections to keep them playing these days. Why? Because the long term damage that they do is very difficult to contend with.
John Angus used to tell me that, in his day, it was very common for players, including himself, to have these injections and it cost him three new knees and a new hip.
Ben started 337 matches after he had signed for us and that is in 10 seasons, he did not need to play with injuries as far as I am concerned, he earned his corn and owes us nothing.