Alioski's delight

[asturianblanco]

Agree joel, biggest club closest to home for him. Logical. Dont like Galatasaray, the club, the fans, the country, but Alioski doesnt owe us anything, hes made a valuable contribution to our cause in his time here. Good luck to the cheeky fella if he moves on.

[spaldy]

Don't really care where he goes to. it's his call. wish we had made some money on it.

However, I'm a little confused why "bridges have to built".

F*&k them. 2 of our fans get stabbed and they still celebrate it with banners.

[hopelesslyoptimistic]

Not saying now or next year but eventually it is something where it is better to overcome the hatred - which doesn’t in any way shape or form mean I condone or don’t despise what happened.

[hopelesslyoptimistic]

Build bridges was the wrong phrase should have said move on.

[WTF11]

Build bridges was the wrong phrase should have said move on.

Build bridges/move on, all much of a muchness, the key here is that it HAS to be a two-way street, and as Spaldy mentions, there are regular "occurrences" where their fans take to the terraces with flags and banners that not only mention, they glorify what happened.

Not saying things shouldn't change, for the better, but maybe if we saw the club owners/management doing something to show their repugnance, issuing lifetime bans for any who indulge in such disgusting behaviour etc. there would be less animosity all round. Unfortunately, I see no evidence of them doing so.

And that's where the possible Alioski transfer does have context. Gjanni can't be totally ignorant of the context/history (Although in an interview recently, that great man of football, Ridsdale thinks he can), even if he wasn't old enough to appreciate the impact of what happened at the time (he was only 8), so going there just can't be treated as a transfer to any other club (including Scum if they wanted him).

Hope he doesn't go there, hope he signs for another year (or two!) he would be 29, (hardly an OAP even for a footballer!), does well and we sell him with a year left to a respectable club.

[pete1967b]

Build bridges/move on, all much of a muchness, the key here is that it HAS to be a two-way street, and as Spaldy mentions, there are regular "occurrences" where their fans take to the terraces with flags and banners that not only mention, they glorify what happened.

Not saying things shouldn't change, for the better, but maybe if we saw the club owners/management doing something to show their repugnance, issuing lifetime bans for any who indulge in such disgusting behaviour etc. there would be less animosity all round. Unfortunately, I see no evidence of them doing so.

And that's where the possible Alioski transfer does have context. Gjanni can't be totally ignorant of the context/history (Although in an interview recently, that great man of football, Ridsdale thinks he can), even if he wasn't old enough to appreciate the impact of what happened at the time (he was only 8), so going there just can't be treated as a transfer to any other club (including Scum if they wanted him).

Hope he doesn't go there, hope he signs for another year (or two!) he would be 29, (hardly an OAP even for a footballer!), does well and we sell him with a year left to a respectable club.

100% spot on...

[CalverleyBoy]

100% spot on...

He worked his tripe off again against City and played a very nice through ball to Dallas for the winner. Despite his misgivings occasionally you will go a long way to find someone with such passion - His other plus side is he seems to be able to shrug off any fouls against him, has he been out through injury at all?

[hopelesslyoptimistic]

He worked his tripe off again against City and played a very nice through ball to Dallas for the winner. Despite his misgivings occasionally you will go a long way to find someone with such passion - His other plus side is he seems to be able to shrug off any fouls against him, has he been out through injury at all?

Love Alioski but he is prone to scare me when he plays left back which is not his ideal position - he is great going forward and to be fair he was pretty immense defensively against City