Perhaps deliberately alienating the fans is part of their strategy

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  1. Che

    Chef Tyke Well-Known Member

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    It worked at Nice.

    For everything a reason.
     
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    In some ways I hope so. Otherwise they really do think Barnsley folk are thick.
     
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    I think it's the latter Helen... They ownil it, it's their club, they do as they please
     
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    Didnt they start the silent treatment in France when they started having their motives questioned.
     
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    Not sure comparing us to NICE is accurate or constructive.
    The only real comparison I can see between the two clubs is we shared some owners.

    Yes they sold players & yes they appear to have made a lot of money from them.

    But... they also used loan players, signed older players, in fact if you look at their team last year most of their defence were older players signed by the previous coach. Signing Viera wouldn't have come cheap either. They also refused to sell their star player to Barcelona for a lot of money in the Summer of 2018.

    As for deliberately alienating fans, prior to last season when things were going well the fans thought it was all great, even last year when struggling the issues only started really when the previous owner broke ranks and publicly slated Chien etc. For balance I would add if what he said was correct, he had reason to be upset.
    Even then both Chien and Zheng issues a joint statement to try to counter some of the questions though.
     
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