If Chris Wilder reads this forum he might rightly be utterly astonished at how little faith some of our fans have in his desire to make his boyhood club become a competitive force in the Premier League and beyond.
I would argue we have seen plenty of evidence to suggest he is a winner, and I doubt he and the backroom staff ever mentioned consolidation in the Championship last season.Play offs as a minimum target.Had they done so we would not have gained promotion. We have not get there by accident.
I'm sure we all remember his public rant about not being good enough after faltering,but I am sure that was simply a statement designed to challenge his team.
"I still believe we can,but do you ?" He was laying down the gauntlet,as he often does,and they rose to the challenge and in the process proved his understanding of human psyche
He strikes me,having met him, as being an incredibly driven character with enormous loyalty to and belief in, footballers who are prepared to run through brick walls for the cause. Perhaps this is one of the reasons he has become a much revered and well respected contributor to our beloved game. Given that,why on earth would he consider another club until every option has been explored to establish us as a Prem Club ?
Moreover why would some "fans" choose to believe he might.? Money is not everyone's motivation.
Some media sources are well practised in the art of creating a story where none exist. And we could argue the particular source in question has an editor who we might argue lacks integrity.
In other words,let your instinct be your guide and of course we are all free to choose what we read but it has bewildered me for years why anyone would exchange hard earned cash for a pile of shite claiming to be content worth taking seriously.
I wonder if he spent time attending games at the Lane bewildered by the often irrational verbal rhetoric some "Supporters" level at our Club, and part of his driver has been to prove to us all that we can be the successful club our potential deserves with some shrewd behind the scenes and on the pitch decisions.
The man is a phookin genius given the comparative minimal resources at his disposal.
I think he is instinctively intelligent and learns quickly what does not work not letting his ego overcome pragmatism.Making mistakes is how we learn and improve.
I know I am not being original here,much of this has been explored at length,but I do think he deserves better than some of the short term knee jerk negative thinking he cops for on a football forum.
He may well not be here forever, so let's appreciate what we have and ignore those desperate journo's trying to make a living using dubious methods.
West Brom my arse.

. UTB