Craig Hignett on Karanka bust up

You can't force them to leave when they're on good contracts
Agreed, what you can do is ease them out, you can't force them, but you can try and help them find a new club, even pay part of their wages whatever it takes to get them out. Happens all the time. To be honest we should have given Britt 750k to leave in the summer, then used the remaining 1.25m saving to gazump Cardiff over Kiefer Moore.
 
Agreed, what you can do is ease them out, you can't force them, but you can try and help them find a new club, even pay part of their wages whatever it takes to get them out. Happens all the time. To be honest we should have given Britt 750k to leave in the summer, then used the remaining 1.25m saving to gazump Cardiff over Kiefer Moore.
True but its catch 22. You try and help someone to leave, maybe even pay them, but who plays instead. You have no money to buy a striker better than Assombalonga and other alternatives at the club are not good enough, so in the end you are better continuing to pay them monthly and in installments rather than pay them off an play someone worse than them and the team suffer (more).

Same goes for the likes of Clayton, Ayala, Friend. Their contracts were more than we could now afford but we couldn't pay them off and lose that experience.
 
I genuinely don't get your position on Manchester City.

Steve Gibson loves Middlesbrough FC, no question, but is not the man so many think he is.
Football club owners are rich powerful people and they don't get to be so without treating some people badly.
There are very few players who leave the Club and speak well of the Club.
They speak well of the fans sometimes, of the area sometimes, of their teammates sometimes and of their playing experience sometimes. But of the Club - and that is Gibson - virtually never.

I am extremely balanced re Steve Gibson. He's enabled some unbridled joy in my life and for that I will always be grateful, but our Club is all about him. We actually need his financial input, as in 2012, 2014 and 2016, not just guarantees (crucial as they are).
As long as his Club owes his Company money we are completely beholden to him, there are absolutely no alternatives, and subject to the results of his decision making. For 15 years that's been...
Position on Manchester City is simply that I don’t understand how any pre-Sheikh City fans identify with them as being “their club” anymore. They are basically the Manchester branch of an international conglomerate’s football division (City Football Group). They have simply been annexed by a large corporation that has literally zero links to the club. It’s just been a reboot with the same name. They're a phoenix club, of a club who never went out of business.
 
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Two kids arguing that one did not have the others back in a childish spat with opposition bench. Years later one is still bleating about throwing punches, even though he's probably never managed to put out anything bigger than the cat. FFS , no wonder the pair of them got the boot.
 
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