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Current Player Thread Brian De Keersmaecker

Benox said:
Whether you’re in the know or not it’s been pretty obvious his intentions since February, when he first started taking the club for fools.

Bloomfield announces that he’s back in full training and should be available for the Middlesbrough game. That game passes and we’re told days later that BDK has decided to have the Op now, despite the club (and medical experts) believing it could be managed. Conveniently in time for him to be fit and ready for pre season and any potential move. BDK reveals he started talking to Bristol City 2 months ago. He’s been lining this up for 7 months, didn’t care whether Oxford stayed up or went down. In that time we’ve paid him in excess of £250k, plus the extra expense of employing him, rehab, etc. In return he’s given us nothing back.

I’m really not interested in those on a quest to defend him, it’s comical how wrong people who claim to know it all have got it. He checked out half way through last season.
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You mean the Jester from Chester got it wrong. Well I never….
 
I've got to say if BDK is fit for Bristol City this weekend then he's an absolute fraud as a professional footballer and I'm pleased we've got rid and passed this problem on to some other team. For as long as you're taking your weekly salary then you should, fitness permitting of course, be ready and available - it's as simple as that, there can be no conditions on which you play, none at all.
 
Apparently he's sent his wages back to the club since January because his middle finger has recovered from injury and he can press the button on his computer for a refund, best wishes BDK short for Cu...t
 
Royalstandard74 said:
Totally vomit Inducing, an absolute scummy little rat, wish him nothing but the worst.
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An appalling fraud of a footballer, and man.

Wonder how those who routinely and continually defended him on here feel now?

I'd like to think they'd be some self-reflection - but I suspect it'll be 'pretend it didn't happen and then onto the next sanctimonious defence of the indefensible and accompanying gaslighting'.
 
Surprised his arm didnt fall off tbh
 
Blackburn Rovers were ‘gazumped’ in the club’s attempt to bring in De Keersmaecker.

 
Jster said:
So how does this gazumping work, given it's a loan deal? A higher price for the buy option?
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Greater loan fee, presumably.

Unlike the loaning of say, an Owen Dale (where we'd be looking for someone, anyone, to make a contribution to wages) - in the case of an expensive first team starter then surely all interested parties were willing to cover 100% of wages and pay a significant fee on top (in lieu of a transfer fee, at this point).

Getting BDK's wages gone, plus a healthy loan fee (i.e. equivalent of a modest transfer fee) is the only way that this whole sorry scenario is palatable from an OUFC perspective.

If there were multiple clubs after him, and a bit of a battle, that makes it easier to secure that substantial fee...
 
Hopefully there'll be a few clubs keen to sign him on a perm in Jan. Then it's recall, careful with that shoulder closing the car door and goodbye.
 
SirAndyOfCrosby said:
Greater loan fee, presumably.

Unlike the loaning of say, an Owen Dale (where we'd be looking for someone, anyone, to make a contribution to wages) - in the case of an expensive first team starter then surely all interested parties were willing to cover 100% of wages and pay a significant fee on top (in lieu of a transfer fee, at this point).

Getting BDK's wages gone, plus a healthy loan fee (i.e. equivalent of a modest transfer fee) is the only way that this whole sorry scenario is palatable from an OUFC perspective.

If there were multiple clubs after him, and a bit of a battle, that makes it easier to secure that substantial fee...
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Might explain the ‘delay’ in things if more than 1 club involved. That said, it was clear he wanted to go to drizzle city.
 
SirAndyOfCrosby said:
An appalling fraud of a footballer, and man.

Wonder how those who routinely and continually defended him on here feel now?

I'd like to think they'd be some self-reflection - but I suspect it'll be 'pretend it didn't happen and then onto the next sanctimonious defence of the indefensible and accompanying gaslighting'.
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Personally, I find this 'I was right, you were wrong, think twice before you cross me again' attitude from a number of posters, to be one of the most unedifying elements of this whole episode, if not the entire forum in recent times...(Along with those attempting to justify the level of abuse some Oxford fans hurl at their own staff and players because they 'should expect it' and should be impervious anyway because they earn more money than most)

Across the 60 odd pages of this thread, I don't remember many, if any, posts pre-move stating either as fact or opinion that the reason he was not putting the effort in was that he already had two clubs in for him battling for his signature, who were happy for him to act like that to force a move at the expense of not being up to speed for them until 6 weeks into the season.

Most posts were questioning how what he was doing was going to help him and because there appeared to be no current interest in him, that he should get fit to show potential suitors what he can do.

Others then looked and thought maybe there was another explanation that didn't warrant the growing pile-on - is he still injured? - is there a confidence issue where he is medically fit but is struggling to train full on for fear of the shoulder going again (as I think I remember Murphy doing under Robbo)? - is there something else going on off the pitch?

So basically, no-one had the true story, so does that mean we should all go away and self reflect on what we posted? Or should that honour only be limited to those who explored alternative theories to interpret the available facts - rather than speculation masquerading as fact - instead of just jumping on the latest pile-on before the truth be known?
 
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