First of all thanks for having me all! Read here for a while ofcourse to get some information here but I assume tomorrow will be D-day for us all. After all I saw some unanswered questions towards Genk fans in the last 10 pages for example this one:
1) For a >25 year old player who didn't succeed (not to say "failed") at Real Betis, Swansea City nor Rayo Vallecano + was bought for a couple of 100K, a 8 million buyout clause was indeed pretty reasonable and everything more would be ridiculous in that case. Not a single person would expect him to be that good suddenly.
2) The offer from Al Ahly was very tempting for him because of the enormous wages they offered him and he is already 28 years old. He is a family guy though and decided to stay probably because of his children and chose not to go to the desert.
Now Toronto shows up with also a very decent offer in a country you can build something with your family and in a much more attractive competition. This changes everything.
This Pozuelo thing has become a very complex and worrying story in Belgium as you all might notice. With only 3 championship titles in our pocket in our history, the whole club (board, players, fans) have only one goal this season which is ofcourse claiming back that trophy. Not only is this the dream for everyone this season, but it will also be very important for the clubs future with qualifying automatically for the Champions League. Not only is this financially very rewarding (easily 20 mil. EUR if not more) but you can also attract better players to replace our current top players. Briefly said we are on the boarderline of winning back a title and becoming back a top club in Belgium.
Pozuelo is in this season our key-man since our captain is involved in almost each (start of) attack. Currently we have absolutely no replacement for the number 10 position and no possibility to find a decent replacement for this season anymore. We are currently 8 points ahead but I read that everyone here knows our competition playoffs -system well which makes it only 4 points left soon with 10 matches to go. We just lost against our biggest competitor and the moral boost for them can not increase more in case of a departure from Pozuelo. This is definitely the reason why our board is also playing it hard. Not only because they know perfectly well that the departure of Pozuelo can lose us the title but also because if you accept this as a club you will have numerous of players that will start with these tricks.
Currently the fans are disgusted by Alejandro's will to leave just after our transferperiod with some legal tricks. Especially when you take into account my answer on question 1: Pozuelo was bought by Genk as an absolute nobody failing at numerous clubs, had the full trust of the board and technical staff in the last seasons and decides now to leave at the most crucial point in the clubs history after giving us absolutely nothing. Leaving in december/january would have still left a lot of fans in anger but the club would still be able to react. But this is personally for me putting a knife in the back of your colleagues, fans and the club that has put you back on the International map.
I hope tomorrow the boarder of both clubs can find a decent solution for the 3 sides but I'm afraid that the players wish will always win no matter what has been put on paper in january and that this situation has escalated already to much.
Cheers ForzaGenk