Astonished if anyone has any animosity towards him – I’d expect him to get a similar reception to Jakey Jervis. I recall reading an interview in which he said he was offered a contract by us which he considered, then he rejected it at which point he and DA simply shook hands and wished each other the very best for the future. There were no bad feelings or arguments, no haggling, no trying to play one club off against the other (not that I’d particularly blame him for that either). If that is true, and we have no reason to think otherwise, then it sounds like everything was done very professionally – DA had worked out the budget and offered him the best deal he could and Bradley decided he could do better elsewhere.
Now if he’d messed us around by verbally promising, then haggling some more, then promising again, then making excuses for not signing whilst he was quietly buggering off to talk to other clubs then suddenly we hear out-of-the-blue he’s been signed by another club then we’d have every right to be miffed. We‘ve had that sort of behaviour before.
