Another Bitter Ex-Employee (Michael Morrison)
On his transfer:
“I read that it was put as undisclosed at the time,” he said. “It makes no difference to me, but there wasn’t a fee. I had a verbal agreement which they honoured.”
On Fraye:
“Jose did everything - not because Karel couldn’t do anything. I’m sure Jose listened to Karel and that they made plans together, but Jose was very hands-on.”
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Don't see him as being bitter about the situation...
Like what you've posted they're interesting comments about Fraeye but as Morrison says: We didn’t have much training, because we had eight games in the space of 28 days in April. There were a lot of video sessions, which the manager took
Shame Michael doesn't give his full opinion on the move to Romania and Astra Giurgiu2 -
WooshForeverAddickted said:Don't see him as being bitter about the situation...
Like what you've posted they're interesting comments about Fraeye but as Morrison says: We didn’t have much training, because we had eight games in the space of 28 days in April. There were a lot of video sessions, which the manager took
Shame Michael doesn't give his full opinion on the move to Romania and Astra Giurgiu4 -
Is this interview from the reader's wives section of Razzle?WSS said:
“Jose did everything - not because Karel couldn’t do anything. I’m sure Jose listened to Karel and that they made plans together, but Jose was very hands-on.”6 -
No fee involved, for a player of that quality. Scandalous. After 3 months without a win, with Bikey looking like a complete liability and Onyewu apparently still not considered good enough to replace him, do we think Pinocchio was cursing herself for letting a £1million asset go for nothing or heartily congratulating herself for trimming a few more quid off the wage bill?
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Probably the maddest transfer ever16
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Just reading this, and I clean forgot that Onyewu played for us. I even had to google him to make sure.MrLargo said:No fee involved, for a player of that quality. Scandalous. After 3 months without a win, with Bikey looking like a complete liability and Onyewu apparently still not considered good enough to replace him, do we think Pinocchio was cursing herself for letting a £1million asset go for nothing or heartily congratulating herself for trimming a few more quid off the wage bill?
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As a CAFC fan that's a hard read, but I think we all know what the Belgians are up to by now.
Interesting that Morro mentions the car park protest - now you can see why the Belgians don't like it !
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Hammer. Nail. Head.
Always liked Morro, would take him back in a hearbeat. More smoke and mirrors from the board, as if we ever needed more evidence.10 -
I also noticed he played for Standard Liege as well..... Never knew that either - who would have thought it.ricky_otto said:
Just reading this, and I clean forgot that Onyewu played for us. I even had to google him to make sure.MrLargo said:No fee involved, for a player of that quality. Scandalous. After 3 months without a win, with Bikey looking like a complete liability and Onyewu apparently still not considered good enough to replace him, do we think Pinocchio was cursing herself for letting a £1million asset go for nothing or heartily congratulating herself for trimming a few more quid off the wage bill?
#BelgiansOut
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it does say that we honoured an agreement. maybe this agreement was made when he signed his new contract, at which point he was a free agent anyway, that he could go for free if certain conditions existed, such as not playing. If we hadn't agreed he would have left on a free anyway so don't see an issue.MrLargo said:No fee involved, for a player of that quality. Scandalous. After 3 months without a win, with Bikey looking like a complete liability and Onyewu apparently still not considered good enough to replace him, do we think Pinocchio was cursing herself for letting a £1million asset go for nothing or heartily congratulating herself for trimming a few more quid off the wage bill?
#BelgiansOut
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"Last week I outlined that our key strategic objective is to make Charlton a competitive Championship club with Premier League ambitions. Underpinning that objective our other targets include:
- To be successful in our recruitment, retention and trading of players
- To have a stable, financial policy which also is successful in growing our commercial base3 -
definitely a mistake letting him go4
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Who cares what an ex-player thinks? It would have been great if he'd stayed. But he'd have been out of contract soon anyway. What's more important is who's here now, and who's coming next.9
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So why announce it as "undisclosed" ?LargeAddick said:
it does say that we honoured an agreement. maybe this agreement was made when he signed his new contract, at which point he was a free agent anyway, that he could go for free if certain conditions existed, such as not playing. If we hadn't agreed he would have left on a free anyway so don't see an issue.MrLargo said:No fee involved, for a player of that quality. Scandalous. After 3 months without a win, with Bikey looking like a complete liability and Onyewu apparently still not considered good enough to replace him, do we think Pinocchio was cursing herself for letting a £1million asset go for nothing or heartily congratulating herself for trimming a few more quid off the wage bill?
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Morro came and asked me if I had heard anything about the Astra move. He felt the club were orchestrating it. Sad.0 -
This still doesn't make any sense to me. Surely the point of getting a player to sign a contract is to protect the value of the club's asset, but they just gave him away to a competitor in the same division. Someone please explain the cunning masterplan behind this move because a year later I still can't see it.LargeAddick said:
it does say that we honoured an agreement. maybe this agreement was made when he signed his new contract, at which point he was a free agent anyway, that he could go for free if certain conditions existed, such as not playing. If we hadn't agreed he would have left on a free anyway so don't see an issue.MrLargo said:No fee involved, for a player of that quality. Scandalous. After 3 months without a win, with Bikey looking like a complete liability and Onyewu apparently still not considered good enough to replace him, do we think Pinocchio was cursing herself for letting a £1million asset go for nothing or heartily congratulating herself for trimming a few more quid off the wage bill?
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I'm glad Morro is sorted though, he always seemed a top bloke (although he wasn't much of a right back!)7 -
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Except he's just said that he didn't ask to leave until after the club were touting him around to obscure Romanian clubscolin1961 said:He was third choice and asked to leave .... is there really a story there
Again someone trying to make something out of nothing
Again someone not being able to see anything that doesn't tally with his preconceived version of events12 -
Not necessarily, it was a mistake not to replace him with someone better and ensure sufficient squad depth.stonemuse said:definitely a mistake letting him go
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That's fine but as Large says above he agreed to sign a two year deal as a regular in the first team. It's not surprising that he would have had a release clause if he's not playing and it was thought (I believe incorrectly) that he wasn't first choice for us. His exit, presumably, suited all parties. He got to play elsewhere, we got him off the wage bill and it enabled the manager to use his wages on someone else.Henry Irving said:"Last week I outlined that our key strategic objective is to make Charlton a competitive Championship club with Premier League ambitions. Underpinning that objective our other targets include:
- To be successful in our recruitment, retention and trading of players
- To have a stable, financial policy which also is successful in growing our commercial base
On the basis that I thought (I would say knew but that sounds arrogant) that he was our best centre half (bearing in mind that Bikey and TBH were over 30) letting him go was a mistake, but the club obviously thought otherwise. Clearly I'm ignoring Joe Gomez in this as it was clear that he wasn't going to stay with us for long.
So I think the only mistake, in terms of the stated strategic plans, was that those running the club had insufficient ability to spot and/or value talent - something that I think is the root of most of our problems!4 -
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Agreed but all the other CHs who were ahead of him or replaced him have gone.SheffieldRed said:
Not necessarily, it was a mistake not to replace him with someone better and ensure sufficient squad depth.stonemuse said:definitely a mistake letting him go
We still don't have sufficient squad depth while Morro is captaining a top six side.9 -
he wasn't the greatest but a fully committed player and part of some real good times and you felt a bit of pride in the club with the likes of him , Kermo and SCP involved
now paaaah chuff8 -
It looks better than saying free transfer. Same reason the club claimed we got an undisclosed fee for Lepoint (the FA website says different).Hex said:
So why announce it as "undisclosed" ?LargeAddick said:
it does say that we honoured an agreement. maybe this agreement was made when he signed his new contract, at which point he was a free agent anyway, that he could go for free if certain conditions existed, such as not playing. If we hadn't agreed he would have left on a free anyway so don't see an issue.MrLargo said:No fee involved, for a player of that quality. Scandalous. After 3 months without a win, with Bikey looking like a complete liability and Onyewu apparently still not considered good enough to replace him, do we think Pinocchio was cursing herself for letting a £1million asset go for nothing or heartily congratulating herself for trimming a few more quid off the wage bill?
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Since the new regime, every player (with Gomez as the exception) that has signed permanently / been sold on has either been free or undisclosed.0
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We should never got rid of Morro but I'm sure the majority on here were not bothered about it at the time that he was let go!2
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Good insightful piece. He doesn't come across as bitter at all; more just a little sad about how things unfolded.
Interesting that Rowett was prepared to take on an experienced player he knew little about and work with him / improve him to captain a team currently sitting in the play-off positions. To me that Brum team shows what can be achieved in this division with a moderate squad coached well into an effective unit by a bright young manager who knows his environment.17 -
The conclusion to this must be they got rid of Morrison,
Because of the wages and they had a cheaper option. (Onyewu)
why didn't they realize that Michael at 26, was still improving ?
Was TBH ever going to stay more than 1 season ?
Was Bikey who started at every club well, before losing form,
a better long term CB ?
Why give a player a Free, when we could've got a Million, for a guy who went straight into a championship team as the number 1 choice ?
Why unsettle a player with Talk of East European options ?
The CV of mistakes and the smoke and mirrors approach to running a football club continues to grow longer.
Despite all this i still believe in supporting the team, yet keep asking the questions of the owner in a robust a way as possible, without crossing the line of decency.12 -
I'm not surprised Morro knows about the protests.
He's still good mates with Jacko and Hamer. They both sat in the away end when we lost 1-0 at the end of last season at St Andrews.2 -
A 3rd choice centre back will over the course of the season get plenty of games anyway, with injuries, suspensions etc. so the whole saga is very strange3
