Quote Originally Posted by Godsend.F.C. View Post
18 months left on Rathbone - others being negotiated with as well.
Doesn't mean they can't leave if a reasonable offer comes in for them.
As Dan Barlaser came into his last 6 months and the January window moving on the club may have been slightly backed into a corner and ultimately it's the chairman's decision.
In an ideal world we would be bringing youngster's through and selling on at profit.
We don't live in an ideal world.
Barlaser deal may have been the best that could be negotiated plus you have to consider the welfare of the player if we had kept him and prevented him from going to a club that has a chance of being in the Premier next season.
The guy who came here to develop our youngsters, Mark Burton from Barnsley, who developed John Stones, was never mentioned again, I think he left but that wasn't mentioned either, very odd.