Peter Ridsdale on Alan Browne

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00:00is it strange? it rarely happens to be honest. people think we haven't spoken

00:08and you've got to be very careful what you say about private conversations but

00:12at the end of the season we'd given him an offer. it had a date

00:18for him to respond which he signed and agreed. that was long

00:23since passed. I spent an hour and a half, two hours with him at the end of the

00:29season and talked through what he wanted to do and he literally said he'd

00:33no idea what he wanted to do. he couldn't decide, wasn't sure what to do. he was at

00:38an age where maybe he thought a change would be good because he'd been

00:42with us all his career and on the other hand depending which day he woke up he

00:46wanted to stay and he'd let us know and since then the only communication is I

00:51sent him a message on... sorry that's not quite true. there was a flurry of

00:56activity the weekend before for various reasons I don't want to go into and

00:59I did speak to him. nothing to do with this footballer's contract and I then

01:04sent him best wishes for his wedding last Friday and he sent me back thanks

01:09a million. but there's nothing really for me to add or say because I'd spent a

01:16lot of time with him. we know where each other stood. I've said publicly we've been

01:21planning without him and that's what I'm planning to do.

01:25how's that going? would you be signing a player if they agreed and

01:29Alan still wasn't fully sure? yeah I've got two players I met last week

01:34both of whom are midfielders, both of whom are exciting and if we signed those two

01:40we wouldn't be bringing Alan back in whatever he said.