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Just wondering if its time we started looking nearer to home. Has anybody noticed that all the petulance and disloyalty seems to be mainly a foreign trait. N,Zog is the latest in a long line of mercenararies not just at our club and it also seems to me that the Kermits are the main offenders.Obviously you will get the odd British player doing the same but its definately a foreign thing. If we have to go with the overseas players Dutch and Scandinavians appear to carry more sense of attachment to clubs and generally hang round a lot longer. Im sure we would all love a few players who would go on to become Latics legends i just dont see it happening with todays egotistic shower.I know cost comes in to it but im really fed up of seeing the antics of the likes of N,Zog, Anelka Chimbonda etc wouldnt it be a refreshing change if we could tell these gobshoites to F..K OFF :evil:
Don’t forget Kapo ! Signed on a Tuesday. By Thursday saying he wanted to leave. nd is still picking up a fortune for doing zip.
But then Cattermole isn’t French.
The reason we buy foreigners is because they are so much cheaper.
For example, Palacios cost us £1 million, and then we sold him on for £14 million.
Had we wanted to sign a British player of his quality, say Gareth Barry, he would have cost us £15 million? Plus he couldn’t have joined us anyway as Liverpool and City were after him.
In a nutshell, that’s why we don’t buy English players often.
Just wondering if its time we started looking nearer to home. Has anybody noticed that all the petulance and disloyalty seems to be mainly a foreign trait. N,Zog is the latest in a long line of mercenararies not just at our club and it also seems to me that the Kermits are the main offenders.Obviously you will get the odd British player doing the same but its definately a foreign thing. If we have to go with the overseas players Dutch and Scandinavians appear to carry more sense of attachment to clubs and generally hang round a lot longer. Im sure we would all love a few players who would go on to become Latics legends i just dont see it happening with todays egotistic shower.I know cost comes in to it but im really fed up of seeing the antics of the likes of N,Zog, Anelka Chimbonda etc wouldnt it be a refreshing change if we could tell these gobshoites to F..K OFF :evil:Bramble
Cattermole
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Are just three very recent ones that spring to mind when the words loyalty and British are mentioned, I see what your saying! :roll:The reason we buy foreigners is because they are so much cheaper.For example, Palacios cost us £1 million, and then we sold him on for £14 million.
Had we wanted to sign a British player of his quality, say Gareth Barry, he would have cost us £15 million? Plus he couldn’t have joined us anyway as Liverpool and City were after him.
In a nutshell, that’s why we don’t buy English players often.
Aye and their wage’s are low to Palacios on £8k a week,make’s me wonder where this alleged £42mill wage bill come’s from ;)
I’ll best put me tin helmet on :roll:
The reason we buy foreigners is because they are so much cheaper.
For example, Palacios cost us £1 million, and then we sold him on for £14 million.
Had we wanted to sign a British player of his quality, say Gareth Barry, he would have cost us £15 million? Plus he couldn’t have joined us anyway as Liverpool and City were after him.
In a nutshell, that’s why we don’t buy English players often.
Aye and their wage’s are low to Palacios on £8k a week,make’s me wonder where this alleged £42mill wage bill come’s from ;)
I’ll best put me tin helmet on :roll: [/quote]
I’ll step up to the plate…Not really that difficult to come to such a figure if you consider that for every Palacios, there is a Brown, Bramble, Kirkland or Melchiot.
Players are never on flat rate contracts, and they get bonuses for all sorts of things (wins, goals, staying up, appearances etc). The lower salaried players are usually highly incentivised, as it’s not certain they’ll make it in the Premier League, so if they perform well, they are well rewarded. Don’t take Palacios’ £8k a week as read – he’d have earned considerably more than that.
Then you have the Manager and coaching staff, reserve and academy players, Directors, and the rest of the people that it takes to run a football club – from ticket office assistant to Club Secretary. Remember, when it says £42 million, it doesn’t just mean the first team players. A total wage bill of £42 million is relatively low compared to other clubs.
Or perhaps you’re right. Wigan pay nowhere near that in wages, and I suppose Whelan pockets the difference.
The reason we buy foreigners is because they are so much cheaper.
For example, Palacios cost us £1 million, and then we sold him on for £14 million.
Had we wanted to sign a British player of his quality, say Gareth Barry, he would have cost us £15 million? Plus he couldn’t have joined us anyway as Liverpool and City were after him.
In a nutshell, that’s why we don’t buy English players often.
Aye and their wage’s are low to Palacios on £8k a week,make’s me wonder where this alleged £42mill wage bill come’s from ;)
I’ll best put me tin helmet on :roll: [/quote]
I’ll step up to the plate…Not really that difficult to come to such a figure if you consider that for every Palacios, there is a Brown, Bramble, Kirkland or Melchiot.
Players are never on flat rate contracts, and they get bonuses for all sorts of things (wins, goals, staying up, appearances etc). The lower salaried players are usually highly incentivised, as it’s not certain they’ll make it in the Premier League, so if they perform well, they are well rewarded. Don’t take Palacios’ £8k a week as read – he’d have earned considerably more than that.
Then you have the Manager and coaching staff, reserve and academy players, Directors, and the rest of the people that it takes to run a football club – from ticket office assistant to Club Secretary. Remember, when it says £42 million, it doesn’t just mean the first team players. A total wage bill of £42 million is relatively low compared to other clubs.
Or perhaps you’re right. Wigan pay nowhere near that in wages, and I suppose Whelan pockets the difference.[/quote]
Bramble’s supposedly on 40k-50k a week at wigan ,don’t believe it “some one’s telling Porkies”. ;)
I don’t believe the buy British policy, for a start we can’t afford good established British players and I also think players like Palacios and Valencia were more loyal than players like Cattermole and Heskey.
Loyally and nationality doesn’t go hand in hand for a club like our, because everyone would leave if a big club comes in for them.
We quite often tell players that we are a stepping stone club anyway, Bruce, Whelan and Martinez have all been quoted saying that. We often need to say that to attract good players
Yes they are, but they were signed from the SPL, as unestablished players that were relatively unknown and unproven at this level.
What about McArthur and McCarthey, thought they were british?We have bought a few British players recently, but we can’t buy a proven player. We always need to buy from the SPL or Championship, people who have potential. So its always a risk, probably more risky than a lot of foreign players.
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