Stop with the pathetic attacks on Ndiaye. He's done nothing wrong. The club are entirely to blame for this for not offering him a new deal last summer. The whole Marseille fiasco only came about because of his contract scenario, a situation not helped by the club entering a transfer embargo. There was no talk of a new contract being offered to Ndiaye until the Marseille rumours came about, so no apparent attempts to protect our best asset until it became a reaction. As soon as the embargo ended the new deal should have been offered. They should have been talking to his agent throughout last season.
All this sour grapes is pathetic. Ndiaye was going to leave next summer regardless as there was no way he'd stay after getting relegated, which is the most likely outcome whether he stayed or not. Ndiaye could stay with us and grind out the occasional result for a struggling Premier League team, or go to an established top flight French team who won't be struggling, where he'll have better players around him than what we have. A team that will be winning far more matches than losing. Players who pass forwards, not backward (Ozzy take note). A team who finished third last season. A team he supports. It's not a bad move and Marseille are not some nothing team. Only in Blades fans logic could a move to a top French team be an inferior move to staying and playing with us.
I'm not angry at Ndiaye, good luck to the lad, he's clearly too good for us and was always destined to leave. If he had signed a new deal, stayed, played brilliantly all season and we stayed up, he'd have been sold next summer anyway. I'm angry that he's entered the last year of his contract due to short sightedness and naivety from this pathetic football club. The contract should have been sorted last summer. Berge was never going to sign a new deal, and yet people aren't having a go at him. Ndiaye never expressed any interest in leaving until his boyhood club came knocking and have taken advantage of the contract situation. Whatever fee we get for Ndiaye, even though it's not going to match his potential or true value, is still profit on a player we signed for peanuts. Losing Berge for free or at a huge loss on a club record fee is far worse, and this is a player who won't even enter talks for a new contract, who will definitely be gone next summer regardless.
Let's stop bashing Ndiaye and Marseille. It's pathetic. "He probably won't get in their team anyway, he's not that good." This will be the next likely line. "He's over rated anyway and unproven."
Was Chris Wilder a rat for walking out on Northampton to come to us? For turning down Charlton at the last second. What about Billy Sharp? He left clubs twice to come play for his boyhood club. Our fans are such hypocrites and always look to blame the person who isn't to blame.
The club is 100% entirely to blame. Much like they will be when we lose nearly the entire first team next summer as the majority are out of contract then.
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Jesus christ we are such a bunch of sad sacks
