“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Van, and 2 appearances in 22 say he has earned the hearing.
“I will know when it is time. I am not there yet.” Chiquinho Alagoano is 37, with 0 appearances behind him, and Van will have to plan for whichever answer comes.
A season average of 7.04 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. Van know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.
10 days since the seat came open, a list of names doing the rounds, and nobody has signed anything. Every week this drags on the shortlist gets shorter.
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Van, and 2 appearances in 18 say he has earned the hearing.
A season average of 7.04 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. Van know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Van, and 2 appearances in 14 say he has earned the hearing.
A season average of 7.04 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. Van know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Van, and 2 appearances in 10 say he has earned the hearing.
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Van, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Tobias Ritter is 18, and Gandzasar have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
A season average of 7.04 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. Van know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Van, and 2 appearances in 6 say he has earned the hearing.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Gandzasar can pretend not to have heard.
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Gandzasar can pretend not to have heard.
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Van, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Shifted about, taken off before the hour, asked to do somebody else's running — Gastón Costas has had enough of being useful and would like to be picked. Van know, and have known for weeks.
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Van have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
A defender's mistake gets tidied up by somebody else; a goalkeeper's ends up in the net. He knew before the ball crossed the line, and so did everybody in the ground.
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Van have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Van, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Van know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Van know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Van know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Van spent the window trying to move Harutyun Asatryan on and nobody came. He trains with a squad that has already told him he is not part of it, and both sides now wait for the next one.
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Van know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.