He will be counting the cash. As a keeper he could keep playing till at least 35, so I can understand him taking the payday. Good servant to the club, instrumental in our promotion last year. Wish him well TBH. I suspect Butland will go at some stage & he may get his chance next season.
He seems very positive when you think he's not played a meaningful game all season after playing them week in week out for years.
Exactly. People can't criticise players for wanting to leave for bigger and better things but criticise the board for not showing ambition at the same time. If it isn't good enough for fans why should it be for them too, especially with relegation wage clauses etc. Davies may have chased the money in some people's eyes but he was expecting Butland to leave as he has explained.
At least the new manager has made him no.2 and he's on the bench now. Previously he was 3rd choice and watching from the stands.
I don’t hold anything against Davies for leaving at all, he saw what happened to the 2016 team and it’s dismantlement for profit, so would have known what was coming in the close season. His options were stay here with a team likely to be bereft of it’s best players did to them being sold or join stoke for more money and who were expected to do quite well, Everyone expected Butland to be sold so he was betting he could have claimed the number one spot. no Brainer for the lad
He cahsed in while his stock was high which was certainly the smart thing to do. He potentially has lots of years left to go and be first choice somewhere again. Staying here and shipping goals for fun with the clowns in front of him wouldn't have been enjoy either.
I think only Pinnock has made the right move career not money wise . Still as I said it's their decisions but it must feel weird for Davies to go from being central to a team to being in the sidelines.
I spoke to him in September and as well as his complaints about the sale and non-replacement of the “experience” in his team he seemed to pour cold water on the idea that we only sell or let players go who are desperate to leave for pastures new. He gave Davies as an example of one who didn’t want to leave. He wanted to stay but was offered nothing until the very last moment when it was too late. I guess that is what Davies’s told him and it may actually more complex than that
I got to speak to one of our players at the end of the previous season & someone who was with us asked if he thought we’d keep the team together & he said word for word ‘except for Davo, yeah’. Talked about how great morale was & that it was the best atmosphere he’d ever been involved in at a club. From what he said there was no chance of us ever keeping Davies as the wages on offer were just too much.
