Quote Originally Posted by plague View Post
So you dont want a rival to have an advantage over us by getting Brown 6 months early but you're ok for a rival to get an advantage over us by signing a player 12 months early?


(for the record I'd rather have kept them both for the duration of their contracts).
Big difference. Chapman - we would be keeping a player we have no intention of playing for a whole season which would disrupt everyone around him & take a squad spot that we'll more than likely fill in the off-season with someone better. The club would also be hugely chastised for stunting a future Socceroos growth. Brown leaving mid-season was only going to leave an empty spot in the roster & leave us one man short if we got hit with injuries. Club did good on both counts. Unless there was something in it for the Jets, letting a player leave in January is ludicrous.