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Tyldesley and Griff, i take your point, see where your’e coming from but still disagree, for me Jimmy Bullard will always be a legend, and can’t be thought of in the same vaine as Chimonda and the likes. It is common place to have contracts renewed before they end and he is not going to ask for less when he is playing at a higher level is he?
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To Mr Logic and whoever else you post as, this is how a few posters disagree on a certain subject (good points from both sides) without resorting to name calling and ripping someones spelling.Good post Griff,
Right we will compare football to ‘normal work’, say you start at a small company like Jimmy joined us as a small club, you start off on say minimum wage, then the company realy takes off, gets new contracts , more customers and more proffit and progress at the same rate as Latics, going from strength to strength, the company hits its peak, latics get to the prem, Jimmy had never missed a game in the process just as you had never missed a day at work, Then cos were in the prem and want to stay we need new, better ,more expensive players and because your company is doing as well as it possibly can they need to recruit better staff to sustain its succes, you signed a contract the previous year still on min wage but all the new staff are coming in and getting twice as much as you and haven’t bin there as long as you, i am sure you would want to renegotiate your deal.
Sorry for rambling, I definately do agree that the wages are too high by miles but that was the going rate long before we got to the prem and if you dont pay it players will go, if your not getting payed the going rate at your work and have bin offered double else where you will go.
Agree with you about Giggs It just goes to show if you give them the going rate they will stay and look loyal, Giggs would not be there if they only offered him 30k a weak.Fair enough, we will have to agree to disagree, i can see your point but i think you are misguided (don’t know if thats the right word). I am actually a bit shocked that anyone could class JB as a mercenary but everyone has their own opinions.
What is everyone elses view on this please?
I think Figgy’s on his way
”why can’t these injuries happen to the mercenaries that have infected our game”Whilst I wouldn’t have wished his injuries on anyone I’d class Bullard as a mercenary
Sure he plays with a smile on his face & is a team joker but lets not forget that this is the fella who wanted to re-negotiate his deal with Latics less than a year after signing a new & improved deal. The same fella who (allegedely if you believe some stories) gave his agent permission to tout his “sell on clause” to every club in the top flight when he didn’t get the new deal he wanted. And the same fella who having spent donkey’s out with a career threatening injury & who had by no means proved his long term fitness started to come out in the press & state he wanted Fulham to offer him a new long term deal (even though he had 18 months to run on his existing deal) & if they didn’t he would look to move on
Not to mention his alleged £50k a week wage at Hull (not that I or anyone else would turn down them wages like!!)Yep he puts more effort into 1 game than Kapo does in a whole season but IMO some of his actions off the pitch mark him out as just as mercenary as most of the other players about these days
Your post seems to be riddled with ‘apparentlys and allegedlys’, alegedely he told his agent to tout him, the alleged 50k wages at Hull. you also are having a bit of a dig because he wanted a long term deal at Fulham, now to me that is him commiting his future to Fulham wich, considering England were sniffing round at the time they should have bin greatfull, a mercenary would have gone on strike demanding a move to a bigger club to improve his chances of an international call up (Chimbonda).
You can’t call Jimmy a mercenary, he is in his 30s now and only played proffesionaly for 4 clubs,started at the bottom and worked his way up, i would say he is well respected at all his former clubs and would get a fantastic reception at them all.
Now to be honest i think we have moved on since then and we have never reely missed him too much, he is just a player i like, he never went hiding when we had our backs to the wall and gave his all, good character, and a lovey looking fella aswell :lol: :lol: :lol:GentsEach to your own, but I do not think there is too much football on TV, not can there ever be for my liking.
Primarily, I am a Latics supporters and secondly, I’m a football fan. I will watch football no matter who is playing and no matter what competition it is.
As long as people in Korea and Japan (etc) want to watch the Prem, the money will always be there, and the English game will always be on TV, and that’s what funds our game. If they didn’t watch us, they’d watch the Italians, Spanish or even the Germans, so let’s be happy about it and carry on taking their money and keeping some of the world’s best players in our league.
Fair enough, but does the constant changing of fixtures not wind you up,Like the noblot and sjoke games being moved, you could have booked time off work for these fixtures and be stuck now.
I wouldn’t expect or want him to say any different.
I would be a bit shocked and dissapointed if he came out and said “well of course city are going to steam roll us, even their reserves would batter us, i wish i could swap squads with Sparky because my lot are turd”.I like the way he comes across in his interviews, he knows what we do well and what we don’t do too well in each game, if he can adress it or not is a different thing but i think he will eventually, it might click very soon it might be after crimbo but i think we will see some of the best football we have ever seen at new springy this year, in fact we already have vs Chelsea.
Is there too much football on TV?
Yes, one dinner time kick off on a sat to watch in the pub before you watch your local team and one on a sunday is enough. throw in your internationals as and when and your laughing. I personally never watch the c.r.a.p.p.y europa league and champs league.
Is football out of control and how are we going to sort it?
Yeah, the money obssesed F.A and especially the prem have gone to far but as long as the armchair fans subscribe for the ‘matchday experiance, in your own living room’ they will carry on. we cant do nothing to sort it we are just customers of the premier league product (as vat69 correctly brands it). They know we will be there weak in weak out.