Despite the fact he was going to join Celtic I am genuinely sorry that this has happened to young David Turnbull. It must have been hell for him and his family to suffer such a disappointment and to have it reported and dragged in the media the way it was. I hope the operation is successful and that he makes a full recovery even though we will eventually have to lose him. He's only 19 so will recover quickly and with time on his side he will get his big move.
I'm also glad that Motherwell stood up to Celtic in this case and let them see they were not going to be bullied or coerced by them or their sycophantic media.
I'm certain David Turnbull will have the full unequivocal support of the club and us the fans and I for one wish him the speediest recovery even though as I say, we will eventually have to lose him.
If you take your C&A tinted specs off for a second you'll see that they're well within their rights to try and take the price down a bit. He's out for six months potentially, no way would/should they pay full price after that. I would expect Motherwell to do the exact same thing in their shoes.
There's been a lot of rage at Celtic from our fans over the past couple of weeks, the 'magnificent offer' and John Kennedy pish completely justified. Trying to reduce the price a bit isn't.
And if we had all found out about the accepted bid from the papers first, and not the club, everybody would have been pissing their pants about lack of communication.
I was one of the guys critical of board for accepting the bid at that price. I now want to commend the board for rejecting the adjusted offer and showing some "steel". If we are still in cup by xmas we could have multi million £ player ready to enhance our team and progress. Also don't forget Mcginn went for about 3 mil and he had 1 year left.
You need to request a copy of the annual accounts - they can email a copy.
Apart from that, of course, there are regular meetings that you can go along to (if you live near enough), or email topics to be discussed. I guess there is a balance between too much and too little info to be put in the emails, but any time I've had a specific question I've never had a problem getting a fairly prompt response via email.
I read that Barcelona are waiting until 1st July until Antoine's Griezmann's release clause drops a few hundred million euro. I'm sure it's simply a case of us doing the same....
This is very much my take on things, 6 months seems very excessive for something that's not there. As i mentioned already, if he never had a medical anywhere this summer would we even have known about it.
I don't give a flying fuck about the money anyway I just want to boy to get fit again and see him in a Motherwell shirt once more.
So nothing to see here it's over with we move on and get the Magnificent David Turnbull back fit and well soon hopefully.