[G Richards]

There's two ways to look at whether or not a player got a fair crack of the whip. On the one hand you could say a player never got enough playing time, but on the other you could say he never made himself indispensible to the team.

I think Bellamy has a bit more to his game than he manged to show for us. He was good business at £6M and offered us the pace we were lacking. With the new owners we are now shopping higher up the food chain, and Torres is most definitely an improvement.

When we factor in the character issues (well documented golf club incident) it seems that the right decision has been made. He is a 'not quite' player in terms of top four standard.