Blues terminate Umair contract

Umair never fails to surprises us. We never thought a defender one day would become the best attacking midfielder in the country. We never thought he would follow Danganday to a trail of PDRM and come home for good and keep the outcome of his extraordinary trip shrouded in mystery. We never thought he would leave his captaincy few days into it and change his team.He is following a familiar pattern of man gravely unsettled, a classic case of a victim of his own popularity.

It's not his fault, 2012 with Suzain and 2013 with Popov he played very good, now again with both of them in club and in NT he will play good 100 % , so the reason is inside NRSC

I understand the vitriol directed towards Umair because he has been really poor for the last couple of seasons, but I hope he manages to recapture his form of 2011-2013 when he was ripping up defenses alongside Ashfaq. I just think that he let his newfound fame go to his head. You can see him snatching the ball away from his teammates whenever New Radiant wins a free-kick or penalty; he just wants that moment of glory a little too much. Perhaps going back to Suzain would help him, but I hope Suzain does not sacrifice the development of promising young talents at Maziya for the sake of integrating Umair to the team.

Not a good player at all, always living in the shadow of some person. Befor it was Dhagey and now he is following IMRAN.. A flop at international level

We Maldivians have a tendency to jump onto any bandwagon that comes along. So everybody follows one another and has been bashing Umair for the last couple of years even though he's just had a bad season and clearly a very talented player and amongst the nation's top talents. The goal he scored against Phillipines was one of the best off-the ball runs by an attacking player in the match and the way he accurately and confidently finished it was a thrill and s peach of a goal to watch. Of course he's got things to change and learn to be a respectful decent player and he can fo but clearly needs the public's support and close well-meaning guidance and support.

Umair reminds us of Ali Umar in his hay days as a Valencia player: arrogant, petulant and always on the edge. Like Umar, Umair thinks his teammates should be subservient to him, pass him the ball at every opportunity, and if things don’t go his way then he vents his spleen at them with an intention to humiliate them. It is this terrible rage that is consuming him that is taking him down, his form and his image as a formidable player. No wonder he has stopped growing. He thinks too highly of him. May be because he played in the company of Ashfaq for too long he thinks he is on the level as Ashfaq, that he deserve the same kind of respect, the same celebrity status, the same remuneration. But when in isolation if you see him for what he is, he is a very good player besieged by loss of form, still unable to come to term with reality. He will do well to talk a leaf out of our iconic ex-captain Assad and learn to live by modesty if he is to resurrect his fledgling career. He has long way to go before he can earn the perks of stardom.