Morgan Schneiderlin reacted furiously to the news that Saints are not going to sell him by tweeting his journey at the club had been destroyed.
Ralph Krueger came out and said the very words that Saints fans wanted to hear on Tuesday afternoon, from North America he told radio interviewers that the Club was not going to sell Morgan Schneiderlin and Jay Rodriguez, not an unreasonable statement for a Club Chairman to make, indeed I would not dare to try to count the number of times you hear those words from various Chairmen and CEO's over the course of a transfer window, sometimes they actually keep their promise.
But this enraged Schneiderlin who tweeted at 6.55pm
"6 years of an amazing journey #saintsfc DESTROYED in 1 hour !!!"
Why should the last six years be destroyed ? what actually have Southampton Football lub done wrong except for state they are going to keep two players who are under contract to them !
Contracts are two way things, over those six years Schneiderlin has been well paid for his efforts and given several new contracts as the club's league position and finances improved, he has been happy to sign all of them, possibly because they have been better than anything else he could have got elsewhere, every summer Arsene Wenger has supposedly been about to sign him, every summer he hasn't done so, this summer appears no different.
Yes in many respects Schneiderlin deserves a big money move more than just about any of the other four players we have sold and from that point of view I can see why he might be upset, but he is a professional and should behave in that manner.
Im sorry but I have absolutely no sympathy for him and his prima dona tweet, the worst thing that happened to Morgan Schneiderlin yesterday was that he was told that he would have to spend another season playing in the Premier League for extravagant wages, somewhere perhaps someones amazing journey was actually destroyed when they were told their 6 year old child was terminally ill.
In some respects Ralph Krueger and indeed all of the Saints hierarchy are on a hiding to nothing, they have been damned for allowing a number of Saints stars to leave over the past month or two, yet now we see what they are up against, it is clear that all of these players have been tapped up and are being coerced away from the club and now they are being damned for doing exactly what they are justly entitled to do and that is keep a player under contract.