Didnt work well did it. Someone at the top made the call and it was the wrong call. My guess would be it's Bruce Bucks area, could this be his final life and get sacked?
I just don't understand why they did it - Would have been easy to take a righteous approach and cooperate with the police / Premier League / FA, when it was all years ago and not in the control of anyone that's part of the current administration, so to a certain extent it serves them right.
Another part of me wonders if the timing is coincidental - Odd that this story breaks in the week of our biggest game of the season at a time when things all seem to be going well...
Timing I guess because of all the other players coming out.
It's a bad call from the club, it seems to be around a dead coach that worked for the club in the 70's. The current club should not be covering up stuff. Which in the end is what they were trying to do
Obviously don't want to jump to conclusions without knowing the full facts, so hopefully there's a full investigation into what's happened here as there's a few things which seem strange from both sides:
Why has he gone to the club directly and not to the police?
Why has he accepted a payment?
Presumably he accepted the payment on the understanding he wouldn't pursue anything further?
Has he now committed an offence, i.e. blackmail?
Why would the club decide this is the best way to handle things?
What would they really hope to achieve by seemingly paying off his silence?
As you say, the regime when he approached them wouldn't be responsible for what happened decades ago, so they've just made things unecessarily difficult for themselves when they could have done the right thing, liaised with the police and cooperated as much as possible and in the likely event that no evidence would have emerged, they'd have come out clean (and if wrongdoing would have been discovered, nobody would have blamed the current regime for what had happened years before, they would have just praised them for reacting correctly now).
We know the Roman regime has made some baffling, naive and frankly stupid decisions on various matters over the years, but if what he's alleging is correct then surely this is the most serious of the lot and senior people will have to be held accountable. Surely Abramovich himself would have been aware of what had happened?
I think the timing's to do with the other abuse stories in the media, to be fair.
Ok, reading through and it appears he said he went to the police and the PFA and neither helped apparently. There's a lot of gaps in this story that need to be filled...
The PFA do seem to have been frozen out of this which I do find very strange. You'd have thought they would have been right of the forefront of this issue.
The club will just hide now. You won't see the likes of Buck for weeks
I've always thought that. Especially after the Michael Jackson case, what amount of money could ever compensate for someone doing those things to you? You want justice, monetary compensation is irrelevant.
Not everybody thinks that way K. Not judging anybody or victim blaming in anyway, but some people cope with the awful things that happen to them completely differently. Plus there is every chance that a victim carrys on being victimised by other people who manipulate what has happened to the victim for their own self gain.
Its an agreement between two parties though so it maybe that the victim did not want to go public and maybe still doesn't? I imagine that for everyone of those who've been strong enough to go public there will hundreds possibly thousands of others who just can't. By the sounds of it the club have brought this into the spotlight because of what has gone on elsewhere at other clubs and are hopefully trying to do the right thing.