Wants out of Newcastle as he is unhappy at his £20,000 a week wage. The poor love, fancy only getting a million a year? Who could live on that?
They should make these footballers have these conversations face to face with the fans who are struggling to pay their bills and put food on the table while at the same time saving up to afford luxuries like season tickets to see the club they support. Every day I hate football and footballers a little bit more.
Football is a billion pound industry, who should get the money that the sponsors and Sky are dishing out? Footballers may earn abnormal wages compared to Joe Public but they generate the money on the pitch so they get the big bucks.
And of course the Newcastle fans make the right choices every time. The very same Newcastle fans moaned about the selling of Carroll, the very same fans that have protested about Mr Ashley whos made them in to a very good business. Let Mr Ashley and the board up there would be my choice and decisions and the fans just get behind the team like they do normally home and away.
You could be talking about me there, all except the being able to afford football bit!! And here's trying help buy a scoreboard I'll hardly get to see. Any mental health experts out there?
The reason it is a billion pound industry is because Sky pay so much in TV rights and this is inflated due to wages - how much of a premier leagues club budget goes on players wages. Slash the cost of wages and other costs associated with the game such as TV, season tickets, etc will fall.
So you're telling me, if you thought you could get more money elsewhere for the same job you wouldn't do the same in his position. Aye, alright then.
Missed my point completely. It's not about whether or not an average defender can earn a bit more in Spain, or about whether I could get more money for doing the same job. To be fair he's probably not the worst example Danny Simpson, but it's not wanting to be paid what someone else will pay him that bothers me, more the demanding a move and refusing to play etc etc that goes on, again I'm not implying he's done that himself. If you have a normal full time job, you have an open term contract and probably have to give four weeks or three months or two weeks or whatever notice to leave and move on. Footballers have fixed term contracts, meaning they shouldn't be able to be moved on without the clubs say so, same as the club can't move them without theirs. It's daft to compare them. What mr Simpson, and no doubt his agent, are doing is, despite the fact he is contracted for a good while, is to get out of his existing deal, and get a new higher paid one, probably without even having to move. Contracts are pretty much a waste of space in football, you can get out of them purely by spitting the dummy like a spoilt brat.
Ok so the comparison between footballers' contracts and your average everyday job isn't a good one. But I still stand by my point, if I knew I could earn more money elsewhere, or at the same club, and so long as the means with which I'd acquire the better deal were legal, I'd do so and I think a lot of others would too.
You simply cannot apply that argument to footballers anymore and furthermore he isn’t moving anywhere yet, he is trying to hold his club over a barrel and demand more money because he doesn’t think £20k per week is a fair wage for playing football. I can’t believe that some people, working class folk, are so blasé about wages in football.
Think this thread illustrates perfectly that there's definitely two camps in this argument. Both sides valid too, probably. Who's the highest earner at Barnsley? What kind of weekly sum do they get?