Its insane to think that 2 of the top 4 scorers in the Championship this season are players who are playing for sides desperately scrapping to stay out of the relegation places. Even more absurd that one of them is a midfielder and the other is a striker that we let go for peanuts in the summer because of the horrific mismanagement of the player by both the board and RM.
Whittaker is English, only 23 years old and has racked up 19 goals and 8 assists in the Championship plus another 1 goal and 1 assist in 3 cup appearances. While I have no doubt that we will have a sell on clause it will be a fraction of what we could have earned if everyone above him at a club level hadn't seemed determined to shaft him at every turn. He told Duff straight up he wanted out as soon as he met him and frankly I can't blame him one bit.
We took a punt on Yates and Kukharevych this summer and for various reasons neither one has worked out. For Yates his style of play is simply a bad mix with how Williams wants us to play and as for Kukharevych? Well his continued uninvolvement is one of this season's big mysteries and is certainly one that needs solving.
So in a nutshell due to shocking mismanagement we have let a 20+ million pound asset go for a bargain basement price of 1 million and spent about 5 times that on two new strikers who have a combined total of 10 goals between them with one of those players only seeing less than an hour of total playing time on the pitch.
Whittaker is English, only 23 years old and has racked up 19 goals and 8 assists in the Championship plus another 1 goal and 1 assist in 3 cup appearances. While I have no doubt that we will have a sell on clause it will be a fraction of what we could have earned if everyone above him at a club level hadn't seemed determined to shaft him at every turn. He told Duff straight up he wanted out as soon as he met him and frankly I can't blame him one bit.
We took a punt on Yates and Kukharevych this summer and for various reasons neither one has worked out. For Yates his style of play is simply a bad mix with how Williams wants us to play and as for Kukharevych? Well his continued uninvolvement is one of this season's big mysteries and is certainly one that needs solving.
So in a nutshell due to shocking mismanagement we have let a 20+ million pound asset go for a bargain basement price of 1 million and spent about 5 times that on two new strikers who have a combined total of 10 goals between them with one of those players only seeing less than an hour of total playing time on the pitch.
