by NathStPaul »
28 Jul 2021 10:27
Snowflake Royal Crowbar6753 Zip Azeez is 20. Is there any reason why is only on a one year deal?
Simple, we haven't learned any lessons at all from Olise, Richards and the lad who went to Porto (Brain Fart, forgot his name lol)
If there was ever a time we needed a "Director of Football" now is that time!!
"Danny Loader" thats the lad
How about because we learnt lessons from handing out long contracts to East and Watson?
You can't just sign up every youth player with potential to a 3 / 4 year contract because only a handful make it, and it hard to tell which ones it will be.
He's not even played a competitive game for the club yet.
Yeah can we not get too excited yet? I think this is a season, more than ever before, to be patient and calm on all fronts. We have to protect the young players and keep the pressure off of them. It would appear Azeez is going to play a fairly large part for us so lets keep the pressure off of him a bit and let him play. A big new multi year contract puts a huge amount of pressure on him and raises expectations, no way that wouldn't affect him.
Give it a couple of months before we talk about new contracts, where we will end up come the end of the season. Think Reading supporters just need to chill out a bit on all fronts.