The Loyalty eleven + sub

[coaxingstar71]

1. He did request for a transfer in Summer 1969 but the club turned down his request. He and TC submitted transfer requests in January 1976 and the club turned them down. In these days the clubs kept the players registrations after the expiry of the contracts and demanded a transfer fee. The Bosman ruling changed all this. There were paper reports that West Ham tried to sign Woody in April 1970 and in Summer 1976 Norwich tried to sign him but Jimmy Sirrel persuaded Woody to sign a new contract after offering him to be the club captain and a midfield role.

2. No

Is it true that the two of them submitted transfer requests in 1976 because they had both been promised that the club were going to sign better players and be more ambitious, and obviously the opposite happened?

 

[Silent Blade]

Is it true that the two of them submitted transfer requests in 1976 because they had both been promised that the club were going to sign better players and be more ambitious, and obviously the opposite happened?

The board promised Currie in Summer 1973 that they would sign players to build a good team around him but a year later we sold his good friend Geoff Salmons to Stoke!