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*Official* English Football Season 2015-16
- Thread starter Furball
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Ikki
Hall of Fame Member
Haha, yeah right. He earns as much as Eden Hazard now. In fact, I think that makes him in the top 10 earners in the world. He is 20 years old and hasn't had a whole season of great performances yet. And while I rate him to become a world star; it's obvious that the ridiculous paycheck he is getting is the reason he went through this disgraceful route of getting it. It never being about the money is a joke. I'm sure trophies play a part, as it does for all players, but 200k a week puts into perspective what he was really rallying for, all along. No one was going to give him that bar City.
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flibbertyjibber
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Crazy money.
Bet Rodgers spunks it all up the wall again like he did the Suarez cash.
Bet Rodgers spunks it all up the wall again like he did the Suarez cash.
cpr
International Coach
As you say, City are willing to give him it, then why should he feel bad or guilty about taking it. Utd might've been willing to give it to, but Liverpool wouldn't talk to them. If its known they are willing to give him a ridiculous salary, why should he turn around and say 'No I don't want that, offer me lower, as people are going to have a go at me for taking what you offer'
Basically he couldn't win in your eyes, unless he signed for Liverpool. Despite the fact that any one of us here would do anything for a chance to work at a much better employer for 5x the salary if they were willing to employ us, he's in the wrong for it.
As for the 'manner he's gone about it', well I've been in a position where I've wanted to change employers - or should I say different business within the huge company (which if you're being tenuous in the links, football could be seen as one). HMRC employs 80,000 people across many businesses, and I wanted a move to one in Manchester, because I had moved back to care for a relative. Despite having damn good reason to request the move, I sat there for a year of false promises and downright lies that i naively thought were the start of the employer willing to let me move, but in fact was the employer actually sugar-coating their attitude of 'Tough **** sunshine, we have you in a contract and were enforcing it to the letter' Others were allowed to move for lesser reasons, because they were unhappy, wanted to 'develop' etc, yet I was stuck. The difference was the others stamped their feet, went above the departments head etc, whilst I sat and swallowed all the lies and false promises.
A year later and I found myself in a position where the only way to get anywhere was to be the bad guy, and stop going in. I'd learned (from a sympathetic senior no less), that every day I turned up and put my shift in, it was another day the employer added that to the 'see there's no issue as far as were concerned, as he's working fine' file. Yet I got slaughtered for what I did, as people didn't know the **** i'd swallowed with a grin for a year, and lots of people were quite willing to paint me as a petulant child throwing his toys out of the pram, because they didn't know why I wanted the move, or all the right things I'd done to that point to make the move. They said it was about the money for me, as I could get more at the same grade in one of the Manchester departments (also they knew I had huge travel costs, so saw it as me wanting to cut them). They also said its because I felt I could climb the corporate ladder better at one of the more prestigious departments in Manchester, not the backwater ones in Preston. Whilst they were added bonuses of the move, truth was I just wanted a work/life balance that worked, but no-one would accept that as the reason.
So in a way I've quite a bit of sympathy for Sterling. Yes he's not been painted in a good light, but here he is, knowing (as they came out and said it) that the club had no intention to let him move, every day he does as the club asks and turns up for training is another day the club say 'look, he's here and he's ours' as the days tick away until another transfer window shuts. The club don't have a great record for acknowledging the players wishes - When Arsenal bid enough to meet Suarez's release clause, only for the club not to honour it anyway, that will stick in players minds about how the club treats its players. So playing ball and being the model pro is not an option if Sterling really wanted to move, his only option is to not co-operate. Of course people will say stuff about him, about his motives (and he can't really help it if others do value his services more than his current employer), but sometimes you have to accept you'll be painted as a bad person just to get what you need for yourself, because no-one else gives a **** about what you need. Doesn't stop it being painful though, nor stop you wishing those bridges didn't have to be burned.
Lillian Thomson
Hall of Fame Member
Don't really see much of a problem. He'd obviously progressed to a stage where he was worth more than he was being paid. His agent would have been aware that he could get a better deal at a bigger club and that's what he's done. He doesn't need to stay at Liverpool for 5 years learning his trade, he's ready for the big time now.
marc71178
Eyes not spreadsheets
I'd have said that the 20% they pay to QPR from the sell-on clause will be the best spend of the fee.
King Pietersen
International Captain
Schweinsteiger to United a done deal then. He's told the Bayern fans he's leaving, and had his medical at United today. Fantastic signing, exactly the sort of player United need. He's going to be a great addition to the division.
Jarquis
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Schweinsteiger a good signing, no doubt, but not the force he once was. Be interesting to see how he adapts as he had a lengthy lay-off last season and for all the talk of the players struggling to adjust to the pace of the league; it might be a tough ask for an aging midfielder who's becoming increasingly injury prone.
Magrat Garlick
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also APMvG tends to struggle more in his second season at a club (as other staff figure out he's just mad and not a genius)
He is obviously good enough and it's not as if he'll be asked to play every minute of every match so worth the punt as it hardly broke the bank