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Fulham dont sell their players
I have been thinking about this because, size-wise and resource-wise, it is perfectly fair to compare us to Fulham and on the face of it they do seem to be progressing better than us.
My only explanation is that they possibly pay much higher wages which allows them to attract better players in the first place and ensure that those players are not itching to leave for pastures new for an extra few quid. I’m not sure where this leaves them debt-wise, compared to Wigan.
Also, for the shallow-minded footballer, lifestyle-wise, London is quite possibly a bigger draw than Wigan
It’s a case of The Kings Road or King Street, Knightsbridge or Marus Bridge, Notting Hill or Beech Hill. I know which I’d choose if I was a footballer.
Fulham probably do pay considerably higher wages than Wigan, as even though their size of fanbase is not dissimilar to Wigan, after Chelsea, their supporters have the highest average disposable income. There’s a lot more money being ploughed into the club from ticket sales, sponsors, and hospitality.
Not sure about their prices for the games against the “less fashionable” sides, but for the likes of Chelsea, City, Liverpool etc, Fulham have been charging the away fans (and presumably their own) in the region of £45 – £50 a time.
Admittedly, they’ve probably got a higher wage bill, but if you can attract 22K+ paying £50, you’re obviously earning more money than us, where we have to resort to “rewarding” the couch potatoes in our town by giving them tickets at £4 a time and our normal prices are less than half those of Fulham.
They’ve just sold their centre half, Smalling, to Utd for a fee that could rise to £10m. They, like all other clubs below the top 6-7 are basically a selling club, but they haven’t got too many that could fetch a decent price. Hodgsons gift has been gelling a group of ordinary players to overperform, like Jewell in 05/06.
Referring back to the original post, tactically deficient Martinez might be, but there’s no way either he or Whelan would let two of our (better?) players agree terms and complete medicals with another club whilst we’re still in a relegation battle and certainly not in the week before we play their supposed new club!
”Very true…Valencia was no better for us than N’zogbia has been. (Bar defensive duties, but I would probably give zoggy the edge in attack.)”You must be watching different players to me mate. How many goals has NZogbia actually set up this season? OK he’s hindered by playing on the wrong wing, but how many times does he get the ball, cut inside, beat one player and lose it. Too predictable, and one of the reasons we’re not beating the lower teams – no width.
He’s a decent player being completely misused by Martinez. Judging by his tactics this season, he’d have played Valencia on the left.
Valencia had a worse assist AND goals rate and he was playing on the correct wing! ( Definately better goals rate and i am assuming better assist rate because Vaencia got about 3 or 4 in his last season and I would think zoggy has already got that many!)
dempsey at fulham playes on the wrong side but it works for fulham,and correct me if i am wrong but didnt jewell play McCulloch on the wrong side as well
dempsey at fulham playes on the wrong side but it works for fulham,and correct me if i am wrong but didnt jewell play McCulloch on the wrong side as wellNO! He couldn’t have done…not the almighty Jewell! Only awful managers like Martinez does things as bad as that! :roll: (Sarcasm intended)
McCulloch’s game was completely different to N’Zogbia’s. Lee’s game was arriving late in the box to score (usually headers) this is why playing on the left benefited him. A player like Charlie’s game however, is to run at defenders and whip a cross in, and it’s far easier to do that on the “correct” side.
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