He’s already left. https://www.swanseacity.com/news/jon-beale-steps-down-swansea-city-ladies-head-coach
Some of the stories about him behind the scenes are eye opening. I can't say much else about it though but there is no surprise he didn't last and no surprise he found it hard to get a job after he left us.
Thought he was poor for us TBH. I wasn't disappointed when we didn't try to sign him, but he has clearly developed his game since then and had a really good season at Blackpool last year
Yeah, weird that. Almost as if playing a lot of football in a short space of time leads to muscle fatigue and raises the risk of injury. Can spot the non-athletes
We've got so many in the same boat though. The minutes Tetteh has played on a week's pre season is terrifying. Oscar has played too many minutes, I'll always worry about Alfie too with his injury record. We just can't rest them all.
I don't understand why they're giving a 21 year old who's never made an appearance for them a new deal. It's all about stockpiling players but it completely ****s up their careers. Man Utd used to do it so well under Fergie and Gill. In this day, we'd never be able to get Brady, or a Chester permanently but Man Utd seemed to be really fair and once they decided a player wasn't good enough they let them go for a reasonable fee so they could have a good career.
Chelsea are the worst offenders for it. They’ll sign any **** and leave them to rot in the reserves or send them on multiple loans over the next 5 years before finally letting them leave permanently. It’s ridiculous.
Chelsea are horrendous for it. These clubs are so worried about letting a player go early that they cripple plenty of good young player's careers. With the Lavinier one, he can't want to stay. They're still ****ers for dropping him from the 23s though. So why don't we get him permanently for a low initial fee and then give them a big juicy sell on clause. Everyone wins that way
I agree with your point, though I’d add that after those five years they are each millionaires. So not such a bad life.
They probably aren't millionaires either. Most will be on less than £10k a week, that's £500k per year but then you've got PAYE/NI. Your take home pay is actually £270k. It's clearly good money but in exchange for stunted development, it isn't a particularly good deal
Is that how they get paid? I would have thought they may be contracted through there own Ltd Companies or other more tax efficient means. I am assuming...so totally could be wrong.
