Liam

Quoted from Nelly GTFC

Not sure how much Peterborough offered, but makes me think back to when Bristol City offered 300k for Michael Reddy, boom hip injury, 300k value lost.

Probally 400k+ lost through fate, and no better off in the short, or long term.

Fenty might think twice about holding on to players who could probally fetch a price in the future...?

And what would the fans reaction have been had he sold either player? "Lacks ambition" would have been a well worn phrase

Unless we get offered seven figure sums, fans will never be happy at losing a 20+ goal scorer

It's pretty easy to see what to do with the benefit of 20-20 hindsight.

This forum would have been volcanic if Reddy and/or Hearn had been sold at the times mentioned.

Quoted from diehardmariner

Underhand tactics?  intercourse me. He hardly brought down the Government.

He made sure he kept all possible options open to him for the future.  Would you have honestly done anything different in your job?

In my job I don't have a weird group of people who are loyal to my current employer following me around asking about my future career plans, nor have I spent the last two years doing precisely intercourse all while still getting paid. In any case, it's possible to keep your options open as a footballer without outright lying. It's clear from Hurst, Fenty and Hearn's comments after he joined Mansfield that leaving had been his intention all along (even while he still had another year on his contract at Town - which is underhand). He should have either been forthright about this, or simply suggested he didn't know if he'd still be at Town at the start of this season. If he hadn't started banging on about wanting to earn a new deal at Town and made out his early release was only to save the club a bit of money, there wouldn't be so much animosity towards him.

Quoted from scrumble

And what would the fans reaction have been had he sold either player? "Lacks ambition" would have been a well worn phrase

Unless we get offered seven figure sums, fans will never be happy at losing a 20+ goal scorer

£12500.73???

Quoted from Chrisblor

In my job I don't have a weird group of people who are loyal to my current employer following me around asking about my future career plans, nor have I spent the last two years doing precisely intercourse all while still getting paid. In any case, it's possible to keep your options open as a footballer without outright lying. It's clear from Hurst, Fenty and Hearn's comments after he joined Mansfield that leaving had been his intention all along (even while he still had another year on his contract at Town - which is underhand). He should have either been forthright about this, or simply suggested he didn't know if he'd still be at Town at the start of this season. If he hadn't started banging on about wanting to earn a new deal at Town and made out his early release was only to save the club a bit of money, there wouldn't be so much animosity towards him.

To him it's a job.  That's all it is.  The fact people worship/worshipped him is irrelevant, it's still a job to him and he wants to do the best for himself and his family.

At some point in your life everyone will say something that you think your employer will want to hear, even when you know full well it's not the truth.  But it's the best thing to do for yourself.  

Look after number one, be that someone working in Maccies or a professional footballer.

Having loved and supported Hearn as a player for us, then seeing how he lied, plus not wanting any opposition player to score against us anyways, i'll boo who the fook i want thank you very much! Is this just another typical fishy ' if all peeps dont agree with what you say cos' you must be right then they get slated' thing? zzzzz bore off and top ya flask up.

Quoted from lobsterpot

Having loved and supported Hearn as a player for us, then seeing how he lied, plus not wanting any opposition player to score against us anyways, i'll boo who the fook i want thank you very much! Is this just another typical fishy ' if all peeps dont agree with what you say cos' you must be right then they get slated' thing? zzzzz bore off and top ya flask up.

You have pretty much summed it up.

Tend to think it's as well to leave it alone. We paid him three years salary for one good one, I know he didn't intend to get injured but he still wanted to be away. Clearly a fully fit Liam Hearn would be an asset to us but you could argue that if he'd stayed fully fit he wouldn't have still been here anyway.

So why on earth were we putting all the time and money into his rehabilitation then??

I'm not going on Friday but if I was, I wouldn't boo or cheer him.

I don't begrudge him for leaving us. But he didn't need to come out with all that crap when it sounds like he wanted away at least a year ago (if not earlier) and had no intention of coming back to us.

And, similarly to Connell, someone who in effect only had one season with us, isn't worthy of the heroic, "legend" status that gets thrown around too easily these days.