Jores Okore

[Phil from the upper holte]

Needs to do what he's paid to do. Not having a pop I like him but he's timing stinks

[Toronto Villa]

I don't see any benefit to a player coming out in public and discussing their contract situation. Those things should remain private.

[Dave]

I don't see any benefit to a player coming out in public and discussing their contract situation. Those things should remain private.

Either he wants to stay and we want to keep him, in which case he'll stay.

Or we want to keep him and he wants to leave in which case he'll be gone within 12 months.

Or he wants to stay and we want him to leave, in which case he'll be gone within 12 months.

How does whatever he says change those three possibilities?

[Toronto Villa]

Dave, that applies every player in the game with 12-18 months left on their contracts. Are they all discussing their situation in public? What good does it do? At the end of the day it becomes a distraction because on the eve of a very important game he's essentially accusing the club of not giving a shit about his contract which might not be the case at all. It's something he has an agent for. And when it appears as if he is being ungrateful he back-pedals, confirming his dedication to the club and again sticking it to the club for not yet opening discussions. It just isn't needed.

[four fornicholl]

I don't see any benefit to a player coming out in public and discussing their contract situation. Those things should remain private.

Either he wants to stay and we want to keep him, in which case he'll stay.

Or we want to keep him and he wants to leave in which case he'll be gone within 12 months.

Or he wants to stay and we want him to leave, in which case he'll be gone within 12 months.

How does whatever he says change those three possibilities?

twitter for fks sake! its got a shitload to answer for! what exactly is he trying to achieve?
im going for self affirmation

[Phil from the upper holte]

He reckons you should never question his commitment to AVFC on twitter

[villan from luton]

What's really wrong is a player - any player, at any club - talking publicly like this.

I
I could not agree more. He has let himself down massively and has then tried backtracking, but too late. I like the lad and he can be a good player, but he is not at a great standard yet. Maybe he should remember the club paid him when he has been injured by the way. Loyalty works both ways. To make things public is so wrong, especially at this time

[peter w]

I'm now fully expecting an announcement to be made via the large screens tomorrow.

[Dave]

Dave, that applies every player in the game with 12-18 months left on their contracts. Are they all discussing their situation in public? What good does it do? At the end of the day it becomes a distraction because on the eve of a very important game he's essentially accusing the club of not giving a shit about his contract which might not be the case at all. It's something he has an agent for. And when it appears as if he is being ungrateful he back-pedals, confirming his dedication to the club and again sticking it to the club for not yet opening discussions. It just isn't needed.

He's a 23 year old footballer who doesn't have a contract the season after next, and would probably like to know whether his current club are interested in retaining his services.

The club have perfectly valid reasons for not wanting to have those discussions until the end of the season, but if he is asked "what is your plan for the future?" and he answers "the club haven't started talking about it and given I've not really played even when I've been fit, neither party needs to rush", he's not really doing anything wrong.

[Dave]

Maybe he should remember the club paid him when he has been injured by the way. Loyalty works both ways.

Yes, he signed a four-year contract, during which we had to pay him and he had to play when we asked him to play. Both sides have fully met their obligations.

If we want to offer him a new contract and he signs it then the same thing will happen. If we don't offer him one, or we do and he doesn't want to sign it then everybody has done what they needed to do.

[kippaxvilla2]

Well he looked happy enough amongst the away fans at Walsall pre season.  Lost in translation, but bad timing nevertheless.  In around a month or so time we will be probably much clearer as to where we will be playing next season - at which time he can decide whether he wants to stick with us beyond 12 months on lower wages.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

This should be filed under 'Jores finds out headless chicken is on £55k a week'.

[Villa in Denmark]

What's really wrong is a player - any player, at any club - talking publicly like this.

I
I could not agree more. He has let himself down massively and has then tried backtracking, but too late. I like the lad and he can be a good player, but he is not at a great standard yet. Maybe he should remember the club paid him when he has been injured by the way. Loyalty works both ways. To make things public is so wrong, especially at this time

What's not in the mail report is that the interview was originally answering if there was truth in the rumour that had cropped up, presumably from his agent, that the club had apparently turned down several enquiries for him in January (true) and how did he feel about being tied to a basket case for the rest of the season (wasn't going to bail mid season, thinks we can still get out of.)

I can sort of understand the "stood by him when he was injured" in the case of Downing whert we took a punt on him whilst injured, albeit an injury even Kozak would have recovered from without too many complications.

Okore was injured twice whilst playing for us, the second time exacerbating the injury by playing when he shouldn't have at the end of last season. In that situation I would bloody well hope my employer would continue to pay my wages and help facilitate my recovery.

[Villa in Denmark]

There's this on his Twitter thing.

8h8 hours ago
Jores Okore ‏@JoresOkore
@Mlundby er ikke sur over ekstra bladet men mere den oversættelse af den i de engelske presse og kun at tage bider af et længere intereview

Translation.
@Mlundby I'm not pissed with ekstra bladet but more the translation of it in the English press and only taking small excerpts of a longer interview.

There's also a dig along the lines of
Journalists are like footballers. There's different standards and abilities.

[kippaxvilla2]

What's really wrong is a player - any player, at any club - talking publicly like this.

Why? He'll either sign a contract with us or sign for somebody else. Him talking publicly isn't going to stop one of those from happening.

I am sure Ronaldo is the subject of a lot of speculation, he possibly is flattered by rumours linking him with a return to Manure, a transfer to PSG etc.  However, he doesn't talk about it publically whilst playing for Real.  It is all about having a bit of respect especially for an employer that has arguably helped him during the most difficult part of his career and got him back to playing near enough his best.