Spot on I read a report a while ago that said after you earn £50k a year money doesnt make you happier
50% of what he's on now would (allegedly) still be £12.5k a week which is still bloody big money for a championship player. I think our most highly paid players in recent years (excluding the PL hangover players of course) were Koren and Fryatt on around £11k a week. I think a couple of the newer lads might be on similar figures but only the key players. I'd expect McShane to be offered less than those players. I think 6 or 7k a week might be more realistic.
Dont blame Paul McShane FFS. Anyone would have taken the deal that the Clueless Dufferman gave him. Kick backs and all that....alledgedly.!!!! We could have had McShane for £8k a week. Thats from the man himself (and not even in a car park..lol). I think he would get offered a deal but on much lower wages than he is on now. McShane is not on £25k a week by the way. Rumour has had it on around £18k.
2 worst years of his life because he didn't get much play time? It's not like he's got a proper job, Monday to Friday he goes into training, does much shorter hours than pretty much anyone else, all whilst having a laugh with his mates, running about a bit, kicking a ball round and just doing what he loves. Then he gets into his luxury car and goes back to his luxury home and does his own thing all the while with 25k going into his bank account on a weekly basis. The only way you could possibly consider it to be the worst two years of his life are if he gets bullied constantly, wedgied, swirlied, beaten up, robbed of his lunch money, smudged etc on a daily basis. If it really is the worst two years of his life he's had it all far too easy and everything put on a plate for him. ****ing stupid thing to say while most the country's on its knees struggling to get by pay the bills and put food on the table every day. ****.
I dont know about this. He didnt say it was the worst 2 years of anyones life just his. It could be unless you are secretly inside his head. Let me make the case that everything is in relation to the position before it and after it. Remember the experiment you did in school the one in Biology class with the water? You put your hand in a glass of ice water and it feels cold, you leave it there for a bit until it feels normal. Then you take your hand and immediately put it into a glass of room temperature water. Your body reacts to the warm temperature water like it is in boiling water. You feel like your skin is melting, but it isnt. After your hand returns to normal you put it into a glass of hot water, you get used to it and then you put it into a glass of room temperature water and it feels like the coldest thing you have ever felt. My point is that he may feel that the last 2 years were the worst in his life as the time before he was playing and now he is playing. Everything effects everything else. Unless you are him, in his head, knowing how it felt at every point you are not in a position to so strongly criticize him.
I think one day Paul will look back on these two years and think "Best two years of my life: got paid 25k a week for doing **** all when most folks were more than happy working their nuts off for 25k PER ANNUM. How lucky was I?"
He probably will. The trick with the experiment is that you know that what you are feeling isnt real. Real life doesnt work that way of course. That is perspective which in this case isnt a feeling at all but an intellectual observation. He may need to step back years from now and reevaluate. But that is life right? Some people end up with regrets, you mature, realize that life changes how you feel and what you believe. He is only 27 after all.
I watched a Justin timber lake film last night called 'in time'. Wasn't the best film but had an interesting concept. Mcshane would be on borrowed time right now...
Nice to see how supportive so many of you are – but what a bunch-o-****s some of you are! Paul McShane has done what every decent professional sportsperson does – sign a contract and then fulfil it to the best of their ability – form and opportunity play a massive part in that. Paul McShane has repeatedly represented his country and when called upon by the Tigers he has given his best (sic) – money is significant to the very large majority of folk (it comes across on here), but to a pro-sportsman it is simply the icing on the cake – playing, whatever form it takes, is the cake of life that keeps them going, as the career of playing is so very short and has a ‘fix’ incomparable to anything artificial. Instead of slagging a good player who puts it on the line and lives up to his words, try getting behind him – the rest of the team might just notice and think you really are worth putting in that extra effort for; because, after all, money isn’t everything! It may have escaped you, but Sean McShane, Paul’s dad, passed away after a fairly innocuous operation on his ankle. Sean was a decent hurler, as is Paul (could have gone professional), but football won out for Paul. A minor thing in some folk’s minds, maybe a money thing (LOL) but it was at the start of that 2 year period that his dad passed away and I can understand how not playing will have added to the situation. I met his dad and enjoyed a good pint with him (and Paul, his mum and their friends); he was a good man and a passionate advocate of Paul – but in a splendid manner that only passion for the sport and the son can accommodate - Sean insisted that Paul was being played out of position at right back and guess what – what does a father know! Forget the money, there’s much more to life than that! Get behind them all, because it’s the man, not the bank account, that crosses that white line!
Perhaps some of these players ought to play for expenses only if the wages are 'irrelevant' to their 'happiness'?
Some real arselickers on here... if they were the worst two years of his life and that he was depressed because he wasn't playing then why not take a pay cut and change clubs? I'm pretty sure the club tried to sell him on, it would have been easy had he really wanted to get out of this "hell" There's no defending him, and TWF's argument doesn't stand as usual. I CAN throw his wages in his face because clearly he prioritised them over his football career by staying at the club. I'm not surprised he's been depressed, I get it , he wants to play football but clearly not as much as earning 25k. He can't have it both ways. I always thought he was the most talentless footballer in the country, now on top of that I think he's an ungrateful ****
I wonder how you would live up to your own lofty ideals? Don't confuse love of the game with the love of money, the thing they have in common is a very small window of opportunity that is made available by others. You've clearly never gone through a **** period at work but cracked on and taken the dosh.
When I went through a **** period at work, when the new head of dept made it clear I wasn't wanted (unbelievable I know) it was making me miserable. So I left and got another job on a lot less money. True story
