The best analogy I can use for football now, its like going down the pub to meet all your mates and one of them decides to bring their bird. Just her presence completely ruins the day. Dont get to watch just football anymore, always has to bring his divvy little bird along.
Frightening spectre in football
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Another important and new development in football is the number of high quality footballers in their prime leaving to the Saudi league. It shows the desire ( maybe greed) of agents and players to place money above playing in a higher quality league. And one has to say, that the players are not fans or angels, they have families that they want to support and that’s fair enough.
My point is simply that the regulators should not create a glass ceiling and facilitate employees breaking their contracts by going on strike.
It’s ridiculous that Sarr has a ‘groin injury’ which poor Sage has been now mired in lying about this to the media.
My point is simply that the regulators should not create a glass ceiling and facilitate employees breaking their contracts by going on strike.
It’s ridiculous that Sarr has a ‘groin injury’ which poor Sage has been now mired in lying about this to the media.
Yes no relegation is a big part of it.
I agree on the glass ceiling but how are they facilitating employees breaking contracts?
But without going over old ground what legally enforceable sanction do you suggest? The Premier League and FA don’t get to operate outside of English law including English employment and contract law. If you want the law to be changed that is fine but then it would apply to all employment contracts not just football.
There’s a certain irony in the fact that when there was a maximum wage of £100 per week for players back in the sixties , teams were brimming with young emerging talent which these days has largely disappeared as players are rewarded as if they were CEOs of multi billion corporations or Hollywood superstars.
Look at Scotland alone.
Celtic won the European Cup with a team all born within a 20 mile radius of Glasgow.
Scotland produced the likes of Mackay, Baxter, Law, Bremner and Dalglish.
Unthinkable these days that they would produce players of such quality.
When did they produce their last great player?
Our own most talented youngsters now are courted and poached by Arsenal and Chelsea signing lucrative contracts before they have hardly kicked a ball.
Rather than sweeping the dressing rooms and cleaning e.g Eze’s boots and learning the game, they are propelled to a kind of unwarranted superstardom which in many cases is likely to end in tears.
Of course there are other reasons for the change e.g lack of street football, computer games and other attractions, but it seems to me as the rewards have got greater less genuine talent is emerging.
Look at Scotland alone.
Celtic won the European Cup with a team all born within a 20 mile radius of Glasgow.
Scotland produced the likes of Mackay, Baxter, Law, Bremner and Dalglish.
Unthinkable these days that they would produce players of such quality.
When did they produce their last great player?
Our own most talented youngsters now are courted and poached by Arsenal and Chelsea signing lucrative contracts before they have hardly kicked a ball.
Rather than sweeping the dressing rooms and cleaning e.g Eze’s boots and learning the game, they are propelled to a kind of unwarranted superstardom which in many cases is likely to end in tears.
Of course there are other reasons for the change e.g lack of street football, computer games and other attractions, but it seems to me as the rewards have got greater less genuine talent is emerging.
martin2412
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Also if you did have a mechanism to do this all that would happen is players would then refuse to sign long contracts. They would move to signing one year deals for higher wages and that would mean they had even more power, not less. As I say the issue isn’t the rules and contracts it is that top players are in high demand and that is what gives them power.
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It would have been in every club's best interests for Liverpool not to sign Isak after he treated Newcastle like that. Instead, the precedent has been set. Isak hasn't even worked out for Liverpool, he probably never will. He has a poor attitude - obviously. But it has ruined the ability of clubs to control any aspect of their players.
Clubs need to collectively rethink their priorities.
The economics of the game has created a monster. For example, I am a consultant heart surgeon. If I went on strike, notwithstanding how accomplished I am, the hospital would sack me and replace me with a grateful registrar or unemployed consultant only too happy to inherit my £150 k salary.
As opposed to 150k a week.
As opposed to 150k a week.
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'Buy'. Seems to be working well enough.
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About 50% of players in the SPL are Scottish against 30% of the PL being English but that doesn't help much when the quality just isn't there.
Scotland's last great player? Probably Kenny Dalglish which was quite a while ago. The current favourite, Scott McTominay, was born in England, plays in Italy and has never played for a Scottish club.
That sounds like Braveheart. Directed and starring an Australian, financed by Americans and filmed in Ireland. 😀
Wow, I had no idea Scott McTominay was born in England.
To be fair, with a name like that, nobody is doubting his heritage...