Probably because he would be offered a higher basic salary if he accepted the option be put in the contract.

Remember Maguire isn't available. Southgate has limited options at centre back.

Money.

Judging from the season ticket thread it seems that we have become the first club in history where the club is boycotting season tickets !

But agents clearly have existed.

The iron was hot because he got us promotion at the first attempt with a club record number of points and wins.

Yes, that's correct; they are detached from the club. That means that the possibility of in some ways bringing pressure to bear on the owners is remote.

Or maybe some favoured agents did ?

That didn't work when Steve Kean was at the club so it's difficult to see what could be done now. I don't live anywhere near the town but realistically how much influence these days is a local journalist going to have ? I doubt if the Rao family have ever heard of Rich Sharpe.

I think Lambert got frustrated in the extreme about the difficulties of dealing with Venkys and the tortured procedure in getting decisions made - just like Steve Gibson. Lambert's personality wasn't suited to being the manager under Venkys.

The latter means convincing the football genius that is Mrs Desai of the case - just possibly she may not look on the proposal with judgement of sufficient calibre.

I think Paul Lambert would say different. Before we had agents running amok and dumping players on the club that the manager had never heard of.

I can't see any grounds for constructive dismissal; it's the owners' money being spent so they do have the right to operate the way they do - but ultimately it's not in their own interests.

As you point out it has been happening for window after window under Venkys regardless of who is at Ewood Park. It's the way the owners operate and it makes it tough for our management.

I didn't see the game but with Vardy up top were Leicester actually putting in high crosses in to the box ?

It's interesting to see that a lot of the clubs who made 5 signings plus exited the League Cup in the first round. You can shake things up too much.

Losing seems to have become a habit at Norwich - might be difficult to shake off like it was for Huddersfield last season.

All after they had made six new signings.

I thought you were telling us that thousands were just gagging to buy season tickets ?

Wilson and King would be too good for pretty well every Championship level back four.

With players at Bournemouth desperate to get out what do you think their team will be ?

Rather than not doing anything maybe he's looked at what's happening elsewhere in the economy and come to the conclusion that it will be more cost effective for the club to do its business online.

In the modern world the only players who will really want to be t the club will be those who do not receive higher wage offers elsewhere.

Running away is not "leadership". It's the easiest thing for you to say that somebody else should give up their job without another one to go to. "Fans' esteem" doesn't pay the bills.

Which player can "guarantee" promotion ? Could get injured in his first game.