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Post by borobob on Aug 3, 2020 15:13:53 GMT
I see Ozil of Arsenal, having had a falling out with the Manager, is happy to sit out the remaining year of his contract, collecting £300,000 PER WEEK, which is approx. 7% of Arsenals total playing budget, and not get a game!!
Several top PL Clubs also announce they are chasing new players with 50,60, and 70 Million pound price tags as well!!
Meanwhile, today, Dover announce they are forced to put all 14 contracted players on free transfers, as they rejected a 20% pay cut, and further announced that should the Club's financial situation not improve during August, they may well go to the wall!!
Can't think they will be the last to buckle under the strain either, and it just shows the blind indifference of those at the top to those at the bottom.
Absolute madness!!!
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Post by Tom Bowen on Aug 3, 2020 16:26:01 GMT
He is not worth that money in my opinion, but that is missing your point. I'm sure I heard somewhere near the start of lockdown that the PL clubs would help out the lower league clubs with some finances (maybe even one million pounds wouldn't trouble them, and would keep the Boro going for at least 3-4 seasons!) but that seems to have been thrown out the window. It is a shame, and there are a lot of footballers from all over the country and all over the football pyramid that are very talented. At least there was some football to watch over lockdown.
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Post by farnboroughfan1 on Aug 3, 2020 18:07:43 GMT
Never going to happen..
Premiership and our league may come under the umbrella of "football" but reckon that's as far it goes when it comes to anything else.
Very much them and us..
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Post by hawleybootboy on Aug 3, 2020 18:23:22 GMT
No sympathy for the clubs. Football is a nasty business, especially for players. They are expected to show blind loyalty to a club even though they are merely a time contracted employee most often with zero emotional ties to their employer having grown-up far away. If they play and do well then the club tries to sell them on for a profit to somewhere over which they have zero say, regardless of their own wishes and if they do not co-operate then the club makes their life a misery until they are forced to move. Players do not receive a 'cut' of their worth (ok in theory they get better wages when they move but that's something different entirely). A player if they are lucky has around 15 years of earning potential in the game, so in their position would you forego a guaranteed wage offered to you as part of a 3-5 year contract that the club willingly gave you, just because some enraged bloke down the Dog & Duck sporting five bellies and his arse hanging out his tracky bottoms thinks you are not pulling your weight doing a 'job' they could never come close to doing at the level they are at? A contract that guarantees your family a standard of living for the rest of your lifetime should you not be able to work outside of the game. If any club offers stupid contracts then that is entirely on them and not the players. The whole business of football is sitting in a bubble that is artificially inflated by the value of TV rights sold into Asia backed-up by gambling interests (Wigan as an aside where their casino owning East Asian professional gambler owner put a bet on them of around £3M to be relegated and when it looked like they would escape the drop put them into administration to guarantee it) and it will burst, sooner rather than later perhaps with the Covid crisis all round the globe and the wage levels prove unsustainable. At that point other clubs who have been found out 'living the dream' will end up like Dover or unfortunately worse as no revenue incoming through fans/ merch/ food & drink means a disaster whatever level you play at. I don't wish it on any club, especially with us having nearly gone to the wall in similar fashion a few years back.
Don't blame Ozil or Winston Bogarde or Gareth Bale, or anyone else who has been given a very good contract to train and play football and ensure their financial future, blame the club for their stupidity in offering the deal in the first place!
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Post by mickey on Aug 3, 2020 18:38:22 GMT
Shame we didn’t abandon the season, press the reset button and tried to bring the game - all levels of it - into the current century.
We will look back at a chance lost...
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Post by borobob on Aug 3, 2020 22:09:26 GMT
That's the irony of it all really. Clubs offer stupid money to players, backed up by TV rights and gambling companies, and no one, at any form of job, is going to turn down a lucrative pay increase to move to another company or Club, and I don't blame them. Would you, working in a 9-5 job for a few hundred a week, turn down a new job at a few Thousand a week?? No of course not!
Ozil and the likes are very gifted players, who could get a job at any manner of Clubs in an instant. My beef is that he chooses not to, and prefers to sit on his A*** for the remaining year!! Cloughie would have him playing with the reserves, without doubt! No play. no pay!!
Yes there is a 'them and us' and it won't ever change, unless the revenue stream dries up, and the armchair followers refuse to watch it, and the TV money dwindles!!, but the vast opportunities in the rest of the rest of the world will stave it off for a little while yet, but it will undoubtedly implode sooner or later!
It's immoral when you hear of Clubs like Bury, and now possibly Dover, and I'm sure hundreds like them have to struggle when lavish millions are being splashed about at the top level, at a time when the world is in a serious crisis with thousands ill and dieing, and they continue with token resistance to all that goes on around them. Playing not because they want to but because they financially HAVE to, or face unprecedented repayments to the TV companies they are in hock to!! Money which they have mortgaged on players at £300.000 a week for instance!!
That's why I, and I know many more, have turned my back on the top flight Clubs and players, who really aren't in the real world.
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Post by Tom Bowen on Aug 4, 2020 9:07:03 GMT
I do enjoy watching the Premier League or, for that matter, any football that gets presented to me. Whilst there are many talented players, I do agree that there is a HUGE financial focus on the top leagues all around the world, and the Premier League is the driving force behind it. Even one of the players (I think one of the Villa defenders) agreed that it was financially motivated and not based on integrity or willingness to finish the season, but instead they felt they needed to finish it contractually to not face a fine of about £720 million. It is a shame but at least there was football to watch over lockdown, or else I'd have lost my mind.
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Post by borobob on Aug 4, 2020 10:10:57 GMT
Well, a sanitised version of the game Tom! That's ok for some but I just think of the immorality of it all.
Your mind is as sharp as a tack, so don't worry on that score, but swimming is back soon so you can get back to your second favourite sport.
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Post by mickey on Aug 4, 2020 22:04:39 GMT
On a brighter note, which Premiership keeper played for Farnborough?
Answer: Marek Rodak
Well done you super Whites. And commiserations to Lady 18 Yarder.
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Post by hawleybootboy on Aug 4, 2020 22:47:55 GMT
Simon Moore of Sheffield United also did!
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