Odemwingie, Kamara and Megson were all quality assets too, but just like Berahino they all had attitude problems and threw strops, wanted to leave and failed on their next steps. Your examples only serve to prove the opposite point you want to make - those who think themselves worth more to the club than the club feels they are, in the cases you've made, the individuals were wrong and the club right.
Yes i agree their careers went down hill afterwards, but think of the message it sent to other players and their agents. Megson was sacked because he wasn't given the players he had on his list. We got Gera and Kanu, Dindane was reportedly next, i would have loved to have seen who the others were.
Kamara did the telephone thing after every goal he scored, telling them to phone is agent about more money or a move.
Odemwingie moaned he wasn't given what was promised to him and Berahino has made similar noises.
Yes, i would agree that Megson and Kamara were probably not the answer for premeirship football, but neither were the managers that followed Megson, or really the players that followed Kamara. We spent a lot of time yo yo ing because we never improved the quality of what we had, and the same is happening now. An old squad, we have re signed Morrison and spent 18 months signing Phillips.
Not good enough if we want to progress.
Don't forget these players talk to others at internationals and they can't honestly give us a good name when it comes to paying the going rate.
If just one said it fair enough,but when you have lot's of players saying it over the years people give you a bad name.
Gary Megson said there is more to being a successful football club than showing a profit every year. Kevin Phillips said in his column at the end of this season, if Albion want to progress in this league they need to show ambition in the transfer window. Johnny Giles said similar in his column.
These people are legends to me, are they all spouting rubbish?
