He's human, and he's been treated astonishingly shabbily by the club for a year or more. TBH if I were him I'd be tempted to say stuff it, I'm treating next year's salary as my retirement fund and I've got no intention of signing anywhere else to help these onanists out of the bind they've got themselves into. It's quite shocking man management quite apart from anything else: almost every decision Taylor/the club has made could have been done differently and better.
How could have the original decision been handled better? As in when it all broke loose for the first time last August when the club released the statement saying Farah was free to leave. Is there some other they could have announced it? Because things erupted off the back of that. I agree with the article written during the week. The one that said, our supporters have had to put up with weak administrators for so long that when the club finally get ones with some gumption, the supporters don't know what to do with themselves.
They could have quietly worked with Farah behind the scenes to find a compromise solution that served everyone's interests, instead of turning the whole thing into a conflict and a media circus in the first place. I'm not talking about doing this in Farah's interests (though showing a little more respect to a club legend would hardly have been a bad move) but purely in the best interests of the club. What possible purpose was served by advertising how desperate the club was to get rid of Farah? If you're trying to get the best price for your house you don't say "I'm struggling with the mortgage and TBH this place has been nothinf but trouble anyway", do you?
They did last year when they told Ayoub that he should move on. Ayoub said okay, say nothing I will find him a club, then 8 weeks later went running to the media with how the club was disrepecting a legend.
Based on the timing of this I am guessing there was some form of agreement reached for peace this year on the understanding that this would be Robbies last year and he would on. Perfect timing for such an announcement would have been while the club had the week off after a (in fairytale land) winning origin series. Laurie Daley mentioned that there would be more known about Farah's plans for next year around the bye week. It smells like Ayoub and Robbie have again reneged on a deal with the club, and this time the club is willing to play hard ball.
