O'grady on 9k a week....

Had a walk down to oakwell today and got talking to a certain someone who has VERY strong links with the club, we chatted about the young lads coming through and potential targets...HE then mentioned about a few players who had left, my brother in law who I'd gone down with asked Mr X how much O'frady had been on and he told us he was on £9000 a week, if that's the case, then the fee plus 1 years wages is best part of a million quid, you can't really blame the club in my opinion for taking what they were rumoured to have got for him.

 

Nope he had to go really, hope his replacement can get the goals we need, was worried when he kept drifting onto the left, thought not again!

 

If that is true it just shows how shafted football is. £9k a week for an average second tier player. Madness.

 

Makes you wonder what he's on at Brighton....

 

If based on what I was told is true I would reckon he'll be on around 12/13k...I liked O'grady but I think he can be replaced with 3/4 players that total 9k between them. Good business really

 

We can't verify this because MrX is banned from the forum

 

Fair play to him I say.... We wanted him off the wage bill and he/his agent have got him a good deal at Brighton.... I'd be worried if I was Brighton fan though paying people that kind of money the situation they were in only a few years ago is suicide.

 

It really wouldn't surprise me if Brighton were in money trouble in the next 2 or 3 years!!

 

Pros play to orders.

Drifting out wide would have left space inside for our midfield to exploit, only we didn't have a midfield capable of doing that.

I never once saw a manger telling COG to get back up front as a central striker so it must have been part of the teams tactical plan.

 

A suppose only player and club will know the real figure, the guy that I spoke to is/was an employee within the club too.

 

He set up Brighton's goal yesterday. Played well apparently.

They lost 2-1.

To Peterborough.

 

My mums from Worthing and my uncle seems to think the same and thought they would be in the premier by now going for Europe but that's not quite happened so he's worried!!!!

 

I agree. He was already a bit of a journeyman when we signed him. Did alright in division four for Rochdale and then signed for us as an inexperienced championship striker who was a fringe player out of favour at a club not much better than us based on league position. If we were paying him that God help us.

 

The problem for us is that this kind of cancer in the game cascades down from the premier league so there isn't a lot that we can do to effect it, not if we want to compete. It sickens me that players at our level can earn in a month what many fans earn in a year and in some cases these are not especially well paid players.

 

Average player at Championship level.

In fairness to the lad, all he is doing is extracting as much ££££ as possible out if his football career.

BFC should have had enough negotiation strength to hold out for a better fee (if we believe £500K was wha we got)........

 

Yes, but were you really watching for it. I know at least one person who sits behind the dugout that could argue with you.

 

We got £750k and he's now on 13k a year from a very very very reliable source.

 

Spot on Mario, it's amazing how we now talk about players at our level ONLY been on 4 or 5k a week.

 

If he was on 9k a week with us why would he sign for Brighton on 250 quid a week?