Losing my respect for flicker

Can someone explain why flicker gave Bobby Hassell a another contract when he has no intention of playing him. Was it so he can have a testamonial or im thinking more on the lines of he didnt want to upset fans and release a crowd favorite. Either way im sure Bobby would perform better than our current defenders.

 

Bobby was offered a contract on little more then minimum wage, this was done so the management team as well as the football club could say they made a offer and he declined it to join a club that can offer him more Football at this stage of his career, but Hassell took them up on it to stay at the club which as been so loyal to him in the last 9 years

 

Do you know what minimum wage is?

 

hahahahahaha

 

He's on less then a grand a month

 

It's £6.19 per hour so just under £250 for a 40 hour week.

I have no way of verifying the following, so it should just be treated as idle gossip. I was told by a relation who was told by a friend of Bobby Hassell's family. There's plenty of Chinese whispers steps there, so it really should be treated as total crap, but I'll repeat it anyway. I heard very similar to what Nightmare has stated above. Bobby was offered just a few hundred quid a week. However, this was before Ben Mansford took over. Luke Steele's offer improved significantly after the changes at the top, so maybe that was the same for Bobby.

No reason at all to believe any of the above, but that's what I was told.

 

I apologize for my laughter and that wage is an absolute joke compared with our other players

 

Someone somewhere is ghost writing his book which come out after his contract with the club as expired,

 

I will just say that , he is on less than a grand a week, a lot less, but more than £250

 

If that is true then the previous regime should be ashamed of themselves.

 

I really can't vouch for the accuracy mate and even if it is true the idea that he got an improved offer under the new regime is pure speculation on my part.

 

All footballers at our club have to pay for meals and with stoppages (tax & Insurance) he takes home little more then minimum wage,

 

Oh my God.................is things that bad that everything now boils down to Bobby Hassell..........if that's the case then Hassall needs sacking ASAP

We have a manager that in my opinion I would not part with.............but we need to start getting things right on the field..........obviously it dosent need me to tell him that..............but to start to talk about a player whos best years were about 4 years ago is just fooooking BERSERK

 

To play devils advocate, the club have paid what they were willing to pay to someone, who was free to pursue employment elsewhere, and he has decided to stay with us. And to be fair if the management (rightly or wrongly - I'd argue the latter) don't rate him highly enough for him to make the matchday squad then that probably is his value to us

 

It's not about Bobby, it’s about the alleged treatment of a good man who has given this club ten years service and it seems the treatment of Luke Steele. It doesn't matter to me who it is, they have shown loyalty and deserve better. I hate the salaries in the premier league but if this is true then Bobby deserves so much better and I'd say that about any player who had given ten years to us.

 

It's also about the club openly telling us Steele is/was the highest paid player (which should never be made public IMO). Then offering him a 1 year deal. Then a 2 year when the new regime took over. He signs. Then 4 games in he's dropped. For Flickers 'pool side' buddy! Then Flicker says on RS 'Steeles been under no pressure'....... then next sentence if I heard it right..... 'so we've fetched Mike in to take the pressure off?!?!?'

I love Flicker but this seems to have disaster written all over it.

Unless its a master stroke.., Watch that space

 

I'm sure Flicker said something in his post-match interview along the lines of "I treat all my players equally, whatever their position (referring to the GK issue) and regardless of if they're fan favourites because that's how I manage"

Having weighed up the evidence on accounts of several player issues even already so far this season, I would say he's telling porkies. That's my main issue with Flicker atm, which has been brought to further attention by the GK debacle.

 

No matter what's happened over the summer and what hassle got offered and how much he gets paid a week. He will receive a large sum off money for his 10 years at the club from his testermonial. So I'm sure he won't be to bothered about his wages

 

Hassell - Flitcroft did NOT offer him a deal, Flicker didn't wanna keep him, I heard from a realiable person the Board kept Hassell on to get his Testimonial year, once he signed then obviously its his 10th year and then he was allowed to leave on Loan. Only reason he stayed was for Testimonial, Flicker does not want him

 

This is almost turning into good versus evil, with more than a nod to the Movementarians. A defeat on Saturday and I can already hear the "Hassell for Player Manager" shouts.