I wonder if people would give Akinde more of a chance if he was on an average team wage rather than being the highest paid player (based upon hearsay)?
If anyone seriously thinks Akinde is our highest paid player, they really must question the sanity of PS and BFSE.
At the time we signed him, he was a regularly bench warmer at Lincoln, who seemed to want rid of him, and I think we paid a nominal transfer fee.
I am not even sure that he was ever a regular starter here, even when he first played for us. Previous to that the vast majority of his goals were at League Two level or below, and he was turning 30.
So why exactly would we offer him our highest salary, particularly when it probably suited him to return to the area where he started, playing at Ebbsfleet with his brother?
Compare that to Kyle Dempsey, who we persuaded to sign a two year contract after he turned down a new contract at Fleetwood, who somebody said on another thread are one the highest payers in the division.
I suspend my disbelief, as I did when someone posted a chart suggesting that Maghoma was one of best paid players, even though Evans gave him less time than a pre season triallist to prove himself, before permanently dropping him.
If we have been paying silly money to sub standard bit part players like Akinde and Maghoma and they were signed on the request of Evans who then doesn't use them, he can not really moan about the club's budget as he is clearly wasting it himself.