Marlon in the Champions League

[VillaZogmariner]

GOOD RIDDANCE.

That's a bit harsh.

[Phil from the upper holte]

£27,500 a WEEK? Good luck, Marlon F. Harewood. I genuinely wish you well.

We've paid him £5,184000 in wages plus £4m signing =£9,184000  absolutely shocking and we got 6 goals out of him thats cracking business.

Well done Martin

EDIT. I do wish the guy well, good luck and I think he'll score over there

[Concrete John]

He was a complete waste of money and the wages he was on are ridiculous.

Paying players of that kind of talent, those kind of wages will lead to ruin.

I won't try and argue that he was value for money, but £27,500 a week is only an average wage for a PL player these days.

[JUAN PABLO]

DP

[JUAN PABLO]

what a complete waste of money.. Should never have bought him, still cant believe we did..

no its not his fault , just the managers....

[Chris Smith]

what a complete waste of money.. Should never have bought him, still cant believe we did..

no its not his fault , just the managers....

If only we had one of those other managers who have a 100% success rate with every signing they make.

[JUAN PABLO]

what a complete waste of money.. Should never have bought him, still cant believe we did..

no its not his fault , just the managers....

If only we had one of those other managers who have a 100% success rate with every signing they make.

sorry Chris, but you didnt not need to be no expert to know that he was going to be a bad signing. Was you over the moon when we signed him?, I was ill for 2 mths...

[Concrete John]

I've said this before and I'll say it again - he was a decent short term signing.  The problem is that we couldn't shift once his usefulness ran out, which was a year to 18 months after we signed him.  If we had, we'd be looking at a lot less wages and probably the majority of his transfer value back.  He would then be viewed in the same category as Zat Knight, which for me is 'useful stepping stone'.

All-in-all not a success and will always be used to bash MON over the head with.

[JUAN PABLO]

I've said this before and I'll say it again - he was a decent short term signing.  The problem is that we couldn't shift once his usefulness ran out, which was a year to 18 months after we signed him.  If we had, we'd be looking at a lot less wages and probably the majority of his transfer value back.  He would then be viewed in the same category as Zat Knight, which for me is 'useful stepping stone'.

All-in-all not a success and will always be used to bash MON over the head with.

and I wonder why we couldnt shift....   he was useless and on obscene wages

[Chris Smith]

what a complete waste of money.. Should never have bought him, still cant believe we did..

no its not his fault , just the managers....

If only we had one of those other managers who have a 100% success rate with every signing they make.

sorry Chris, but you didnt not need to be no expert to know that he was going to be a bad signing. Was you over the moon when we signed him?, I was ill for 2 mths...

He was signed as back up to Carew. Did an OK job as a sub but as we got better there was no place for him. Just one of those things, all managers have them.

[Concrete John]

I've said this before and I'll say it again - he was a decent short term signing.  The problem is that we couldn't shift once his usefulness ran out, which was a year to 18 months after we signed him.  If we had, we'd be looking at a lot less wages and probably the majority of his transfer value back.  He would then be viewed in the same category as Zat Knight, which for me is 'useful stepping stone'.

All-in-all not a success and will always be used to bash MON over the head with.

and I wonder why we couldnt shift....   he was useless and on obscene wages

To be honest, at the end of his first season with us I would have thought his super-sub performances would have meant his star was quite high and make him an attractive signing for a promoted/bottom half club.  The longer he stayed the more that waned.  Maybe there were offers, but he wanted to stay and fight for his place?

And I wouldn't call his wages obscene in comparative terms.

Again, not trying to make him out to be a good signing, just voicing my view that the issue wasn't signing him - it was not shifting him out sooner!

[Chris Harte]

Wonder if he'll get the same type of welcoming ceremony/burning chicken ritual that poor Darius ''enjoyed''.

Actually, the adventures of Marlon and Vass in Turkey is really something that HBO should be picking up.

I remember when Dalian Atkinson went to Turkey. Apparently, on the way to a game they stopped the team bus on the motorway, all got off, then slaughtered a goat on the hard shoulder. They then dabbed some of the goat's blood onto Atkinson's forehead for luck.

The story goes that Atkinson promtly fainted!

[Dave Cooper please]

I won't try and argue that he was value for money, but £27,500 a week is only an average wage for a PL player these days.

Depressing isn't it?

[placeforparks]

GOOD RIDDANCE.

That's a bit harsh.

some people might be happy to throw about their money and praise to sustain the harewoods and sidwells through some blind sense of loyalty, but i'm not one of them.

[Concrete John]

GOOD RIDDANCE.

That's a bit harsh.

some people might be happy to throw about their money and praise to sustain the harewoods and sidwells through some blind sense of loyalty, but i'm not one of them.

There's a huge differnece between that and saying 'good riddance' to a player that has always tried hard when selected and not done anything to upset/piss off the fans or club.

Good bloke, but a poor footballer.  I wish him the best where as I wouldn't with someone like Barry, who was a good player and fantastic value, but turned out to be an utter git.