United have somehow turned a £10m profit on a player who has done sweet FA in two years, selling Dan James to Leeds for £25m. Why is it we struggle so much to sell players at all, let alone for a profit?!
Dan James played at the Euros I do recall saying at the time that, while we would have to pay a little bit more for Jack Clarke over Dan James, James was further along in his development - and that's before Leeds wasted Clarke's and our time by loaning him in and never playing him due to being over their loanee limit That being said, I have no idea where the talk of £15m + Dan James for Kalvin Phillips is coming from, other than wishful thinking
Not sure what amazes me more; the fact Arsenal managed to get rid of Willian, or the fact he still had 2 years left on his contract Who is making the decisions over there?!
Camavinga headed to Los Ladrones I'm guessing the infrastructure work in Madrid is being postponed for 2-3 years then?
No but a municipal car park was just mysteriously sold to a private developer to build a block of flats.
Using the money they put aside for Mbappe to get Camavinga and possibly one other. There’s talk they will get Mbappe and Pogba on a free next summer and also activate Haaland’s release clause. They could have a scary team in 2022
Re Willian; Goons saving £20.5m by the ending of his contract with 2 years remaining. Who the hell offered him him a contract of £10.25m a year? That's £200,000 per week ... for Willian ... who was let go on a free by Chelsea
PSG turning down €200m for a player who Real can sign for nothing in January. Haaland and Mbappe as a forward pairing is absolutely terrifying, too.
Immediately re-signed for Corinthians in Brazil: Put a message out on social media saying that he got a lot of press criticism for signing for the money. This is his way of proving them wrong, apparently. Losing about 70% of his wages.
Think he wanted to back home to Brazil...has been offered a contract a Corinthians I think...when you're as minted as him (think he was at Chelsea since 2014 so in the last 7 years he has been paid some where between £40-50m plus signing on fees, image rights etc ... guess he sees more happiness in going home?
amazing how often wealth doesn't come into it though. I'm sure Messi or Ronaldo haven't signed on apprentice terms even though both are as rich as croesus. Good for him actually sacrificing money for lifestyle.
Yeah madness. Though free transfers generally always get ridiculous wages as clubs save on paying a transfer fee. Don Fabio would’ve overseen Juve give Aaron Ramsey £400k a week when they got him on a free from the goons! Hopefully he don’t have any similar brainfarts here!
The money in football is simply mental. I have never understood the "I am worth more" mentality. Was one of the major reasons I was so anti Danny Rose. £65,000 per week, plus bonuses, plus image and naming rights, plus TV, radio and newspaper interview money. Signed that contract 5 years ago. Was on £35,000 per week before that for 2 seasons. And was apparently on £10,000 per week since 2011. That means from 2011-14 he got paid £1.5m in total. From 14-16 he got paid £1.8m And since 2016 he got paid £18m That's a total of £21m without bonuses and all the other things yet he complained about his pay ffs. Same with Kane. Annoyed cos we over valued him but if he took his current spurs wage of £200,000 per week (£10.4m a year) instead of the £400,000 per he wanted from City they could have used the difference (£60m over 5 years) to pay the fee we wanted. But he was intent on his bigger wage...even though he has been paid well over £40m so far in his career. To put these figures into perspective ... Someone on a brilliant wage of £100,000 per year would earn around £4m in a 40 year career. Someone earning a very good wage of £50,000 per year would earn £2m over 40 years. Someone earning the national average wage of £28,000 per year would earn just over £1m over 40 years.
I can understand that mentality when a club is taking the piss, for example Sugar was paying Steven Carr £5000 a week in spite him being one of our few genuinely good players at the time (and two-time PotY) but when you have Ashley Cole kicking off at "only" receiving £55k a week at a time Premier League wages like that weren't normalised it is hard to warm to them
It's capitalism there is no fairness involved. Purely supply and demand, just think, most of the useful people in society get low pay, most of the luxury unneeded people get paid high wages. So if you do something essential to society like a Binman expect poor money if on the other hand you are a luxury provider like a guitarist you may well get a fortune. One of the biggest bullshit phrases you get taught as a child is 'Cheats never prosper' Yes they do all the time. Stay loyal get exploited. The arseholes charter.
I'm guessing that being at Arsenal made him realise that there are more important things than money such as happiness, dignity and mental health
