Dyer's Problems With Toon Army Are His Own Making
By Nu Mad
Updated Monday, 6th August 2007
Where does Kieron Dyer go from here? Sam Allardyce, never a man to back away from a problem in his entire career, has told Dyer in simple words ... "get on with it!"
Allardyce has urged the unsettled midfielder to "put the past behind him" following the dramatic last-minute collapse of his proposed transfer to West Ham.
Dyer's problems with the Toon Army are of his own making. He was given his dream move away from tractor country to partner the likes of Alan Shearer, Duncan Ferguson, Rob Lee and Gary Speed when Ipswich were in the First Division.
With ridiculous wages, and the IQ of a boy racer, he quickly became King Chav of the Quayside.
Ferrari car ... that he crashed into the Swing Bridge ... and ear-rings worth more than half a year's wages for a working-class Toon fan.
It had Sir Bobby Robson muttering "I cannot believe anyone would pay that sort of money for a car - never mind ear-rings!"
All very well if he was producing the goods on the field, but just like so many before him, he had the ability but rarely produced it. And that was what upset the fans most - he COULD have been the BEST!
He threw down the captain's armband in a furious argument with Sir Bobby, and refused to play full-back when he told Sven Goran Eriksson he would glady play there for England.
Dyer's relationship with United's supporters reached a head recently when his house was pelted with eggs, and his car was attacked as he attempted to leave St James' Park following last weekend's friendly with Juventus.
But after holding a hastily-arranged discussion on Saturday, Allardyce has told the England international to return to training this week in order to honour the remaining two years of his current Magpies deal.
Allardyce: "In the end, we decided that Kieron was under-valued and we escalated the valuation to what we thought was realistic. West Ham didn't want to roll with it, so Kieron is back with us.
"The attacks on his car were completely out of order. Nobody should allow that sort of thing to happen, but he has to put that behind him and get on with his football.
"It's life isn't it. You sign a contract and the length of that contract means that your employer employs you for that period of time.
"If something happens and it doesn't work, you come back and get on with it. It's not a hard life is it? It's a pressurised one, very pressurised, but it's not hard.
"You come back, do your best and go forward. If anything happens in terms of West Ham increasing their offer, great. If they don't then they clearly don't value him as highly as we do."
