[Blue Baggie]

Thieves, I hope Ferguson never plays again and that's a really sad thing to say.

I understand the outrage on this one but I hope you’re wrong, BB, I wouldn’t want that for any player, let alone one so young as Ferguson. This is not his fault.

What is concerning is the light it seems to be shining into the club’s management and a seeming lack of competence. It would seem we had the opportunity to take a greater figure than this for Ferguson (c. £4million) which was much reduced from the original transfer fee but was a guaranteed sum. We decided to take this to a tribunal, anticipating it would agree with our evaluation and ignoring the fact it may not. It didn’t, we took that risk and completely failed.

Add this episode to the Louie Barry fiasco and we don’t appear to be much cop at commercial management unless it’s flogging merchandise in the club shop. No-one will own up to what we received for Pereira but it’s patently obvious it was well under our stated evaluation of the player, and do any of us have any confidence we’ll get a good result out of the Heghazi transfer? Me neither. Meanwhile we lose young players out of the academy in disturbing numbers, seemingly unable to manage expectations or contracts.

Still, on the bright side, the football’s exciting

Bit of a tongue in cheek post - I don't wish the lad any bad luck at all. He has probably suffered enough already.