Mike - True Blue Tinter
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Fryatt was doing really well in the league below. Akinbyi did really well in the league below.
Why do you think Gradel will automatically be any good when he plays in the league above again?
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Fryatt was doing really well in the league below. Akinbyi did really well in the league below.
Why do you think Gradel will automatically be any good when he plays in the league above again?
indierich06
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Unless it's specified when a player goes out on loan, he can't be recalled - end of. I doubt we'd have put a recall clause in the loan contract because Allen probably thought we wouldn't need him. So, even if we wanted to, we couldn't just bring him back willy-nilly!
We can't blame Allen for Gradel still being at Bournemouth.
The loan Allen agreed to was until the end of December. Gradel then came back to Leicester, and was here for a week or two before Holloway decided to let him go back until the end of the season.
Brown Nose
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Also worth pointing out that Gradel has had personal problems this season and has been back to France a lot. If IH thought he was better off out of the firing line and closer to home, at Bournemouth, I think he made a good decision for the player.
After a spell of playing Chambers, Sappleton, King, Wesolowski, Mattock, Sheehan a lot when he arrived, IH clearly made a decision to keep them out of the team when he was able to.
Playing kids when the pressure is on and confidence and nerves are shot, isn't good for them. I'd totally support IH's thinking there.
Lboro fox
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So you are trying to say it was Peter Taylor's fault?
Steven
Active Member
Still won didn't they?
Yes, they're the form team in League One, despite being in the relegation zone.
glyn
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And he really didn't want to play Sappleton, if you recall the Carl-Cort-playing-when-injured nonsense
cleefox
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NO MORE MAXI
Exclusive By Neil Perrett
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POPULAR: Maxi Gradel
BOSS Kevin Bond fears Cherries may have seen the last of popular Leicester City loan star Maxi Gradel.
Bond has been unable to contact the 20-year-old since he returned to his Paris home to deal with a pressing family matter 11 days ago.
Gradel, as the eldest male, has been partly responsible for caring for his younger brother and sister since the untimely death of their mother in October.
Maimouna passed away due to a brain condition at just 46 and her death left Gradel as the head of the family. His mother and father had been separated.
And as Gradel has been sharing his time between England and France, it is believed his 11-year-old sister has been caring for his eight-year-old brother.
In an attempt to address the situation, Ivory Coast-born Gradel headed back to France earlier this month to pursue the matter through the court.
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Bond told the Daily Echo last night: "I spoke to Max after the Bristol Rovers game and he told me he needed to go to France.
"I was aware of a legal situation regarding the custody of his younger brother and sister and although he said he was hoping to come back for the Walsall game, I knew it might be doubtful.
"Some things are more important than football, even at this critical stage of the season for us, and what Max has got to deal with is certainly more important. We totally understand and respect that.
"I spoke to him again at the end of last week when he reaffirmed that he wouldn't be able to get over for the Walsall game.
"With everything that's gone on in his young life over the past six to eight months, he sounded disillusioned.
"I sensed that all was not well and he's clearly got lots of family issues to take care of. I haven't been able to contact him since Friday and I wouldn't anticipate him pulling on a shirt for Bournemouth again."
The inspirational winger, who has hit 10 goals for Cherries this season, is believed to be in the running for a number of the supporters' end-of-season awards.
And unless his situation changes dramatically, Gradel is unlikely to receive the send-off he deserves when Cherries host Crewe in their final home game of the season on Saturday.
"If he rings me and says he wants to come back, I would pick him up myself," said Bond. "But he needs to prioritise in the situation he's in and we all respect that.
"Losing Max is massively disappointing for us because he's probably been our most consistently threatening player this season.
"If he has played his last game then I'm very grateful to Max and Leicester. He's been an effervescent character in the dressing room, terrific on the pitch and popular with the other players.
"The one thing I will always remember about Max is that he always had a smile on his face. He always had a lovely manner about him.
"I would like to thank him for everything he's done for us this season. I would also like to thank everybody at Leicester City, not least Milan Mandaric who has helped us tremendously on the financial side."
http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/sport/topsport/display.var.2221083.0.no_more_maxi.php
Exclusive By Neil Perrett
Comment | Read Comments (6)
POPULAR: Maxi Gradel
BOSS Kevin Bond fears Cherries may have seen the last of popular Leicester City loan star Maxi Gradel.
Bond has been unable to contact the 20-year-old since he returned to his Paris home to deal with a pressing family matter 11 days ago.
Gradel, as the eldest male, has been partly responsible for caring for his younger brother and sister since the untimely death of their mother in October.
Maimouna passed away due to a brain condition at just 46 and her death left Gradel as the head of the family. His mother and father had been separated.
And as Gradel has been sharing his time between England and France, it is believed his 11-year-old sister has been caring for his eight-year-old brother.
In an attempt to address the situation, Ivory Coast-born Gradel headed back to France earlier this month to pursue the matter through the court.
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Bond told the Daily Echo last night: "I spoke to Max after the Bristol Rovers game and he told me he needed to go to France.
"I was aware of a legal situation regarding the custody of his younger brother and sister and although he said he was hoping to come back for the Walsall game, I knew it might be doubtful.
"Some things are more important than football, even at this critical stage of the season for us, and what Max has got to deal with is certainly more important. We totally understand and respect that.
"I spoke to him again at the end of last week when he reaffirmed that he wouldn't be able to get over for the Walsall game.
"With everything that's gone on in his young life over the past six to eight months, he sounded disillusioned.
"I sensed that all was not well and he's clearly got lots of family issues to take care of. I haven't been able to contact him since Friday and I wouldn't anticipate him pulling on a shirt for Bournemouth again."
The inspirational winger, who has hit 10 goals for Cherries this season, is believed to be in the running for a number of the supporters' end-of-season awards.
And unless his situation changes dramatically, Gradel is unlikely to receive the send-off he deserves when Cherries host Crewe in their final home game of the season on Saturday.
"If he rings me and says he wants to come back, I would pick him up myself," said Bond. "But he needs to prioritise in the situation he's in and we all respect that.
"Losing Max is massively disappointing for us because he's probably been our most consistently threatening player this season.
"If he has played his last game then I'm very grateful to Max and Leicester. He's been an effervescent character in the dressing room, terrific on the pitch and popular with the other players.
"The one thing I will always remember about Max is that he always had a smile on his face. He always had a lovely manner about him.
"I would like to thank him for everything he's done for us this season. I would also like to thank everybody at Leicester City, not least Milan Mandaric who has helped us tremendously on the financial side."
http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/sport/topsport/display.var.2221083.0.no_more_maxi.php
Matt_B
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I assume we were paying him still then? Not a bad thing just curious.
Sounds like he's made a huge impact, would hope to see what he has to offer for us next season if he hasn't quit the game
Biffa Bacon
Well-Known Member
I'd hope that the club is helping him out, I know we aren't a charity but it seems he might be a good prospect and it would be a shame to lose him because we couldn't be bothered to help during his troubles.
Matt_B
Well-Known Member
Judging by what their manager said it sounds like we are helping him where we can, obviously it's a situation that the club can't help massively in resolving.
Spanky Fox
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Well done Maxi, heard so many great things about him whilst on his loan, very consistant and up for many awards as well, he is the business, pre-season with us and the right winger role is solved, Hope things get better with his family and hope leicester are helping him out, a young man to lose his mother and look after a young brother and sister, he will need all the support he can get from the club. Goodluck with everything Maxi
Brown Nose
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Might be an idea to let the lad spend a season on loan to a French club next year. So he can be with his family and get things sorted. Then come back to us in a year.
I think expecting him to ditch his two young siblings for pre season training at Leicester is unreasonable. Doesn't sound like the poor fella has much in the way of family support out there.
I think expecting him to ditch his two young siblings for pre season training at Leicester is unreasonable. Doesn't sound like the poor fella has much in the way of family support out there.
I saw a couple of games in pre-season and only 2 players impressed me amongst the lesser known players - Gradel and Cox. (Most of the well known were terrifically unimpressive - which proved to be indicative of the season that followed).
But anyway, well done Gradel, and good luck through these troubles. It must also be a testimony to his value system that he isn't just leaving it all up to France's equivalent of social services to take care of his siblings. Makes a change for young footballers to not just be interested in birds, booze and BMW's.
Melton Fox
Dancing Queen
Never going to be a superstar, and at the minute this club is a distraction that he doesn't need.
Pay him off, give him a nice lump sum to continue looking after his family, and let the guy get on with his life.
Would suit both parties IMO.
Pay him off, give him a nice lump sum to continue looking after his family, and let the guy get on with his life.
Would suit both parties IMO.
Mike - True Blue Tinter
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Kick the poor lad while he is down why don't you!
It is quite possible our Club is the only 'family' support he has at the moment. A lump sum won't talk to him or guide him as he struggles to sort through the French legal system to get custody of his siblings.
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