Colours never run wrote:
What's galling, is we were heavily linked with him prior to him going to Leicester, if true what might have been (not saying we'd win the League but we would have become a serious player instead of Leicester. Oh well, that's life.
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That's Steve Walsh for you, who apparently got him in at the training ground, insisted he switch his phone off so that he couldn't contact his agent, and wouldn't let him leave until he signed.
We poached Terry Westley as our recruitment guy from Everton, Everton then nicked Walsh from Leicester.
I have said this before but I know who I reckon got the better deal.
Sullivan treats recruitment like a little hobby, I think in this day and age its the most important role in the club, even more so than the manager (see Leicester/Southampton).