Taylor while i accept he has done better than i thought he would do dont think he is worth £45k- £50k per week what he is rumoured to be asking for.....I want him to stay but i also want another quality LB that we will have to pay that sort of wage for a good one. Should we sell him baring in mind we wont get the full value as he has only a year on his contract left......I'm in two minds what i would do....pay him or sell him....
No wonder I sometimes fall out of love with the game when an "ORDINARY" player like Taylor wants over £2 million pounds a year. Good luck to him.......at those wages at another club.
Some feel that the personnel who enable the "surgeon" to perform his life saving operations deserve similar consideration,since he/she couldn't function without them.
Of course - hence the 'and the like' in my post. My point is that £45K per week for a footballer is ridiculous, especially when you consider there are people who save lives. The simple questions are these : Would you pay someone £45,000 to save your son/daughters life ? YES Would you pay someone £45,000 to score a goal ? NO It's that simple
From the clubs perspective if that goal keeps you in a league where you will earn £100 million I think they you would consider that to be a good investment. Don't get me wrong personally I think footballers earn a scandalous amount of money for what they do and agree with you. However the club, as a business, will have a different perspective. They know what quality is out there and at what prices and if they think that keeping Taylor et al will be more cost effective and a better investment than looking elsewhere then I am sure they will think it is worth it.
I wasn't disagreeing with you. The real point is that if a footballer/surgeon/doctor,earn such inflated wages/salaries,why shouldn't nurses,dustmen,teachers,policemen/women,firemen,etc.,etc.,be similarly remunerated? Isn't everyone entitled to eat steak,go on expensive holidays,drive nice cars,etc.? Why should the minority have to survive on gruel and scrag end?
Definitely not about football. It's all about greed as far as footballers are concerned. You offer me £10,000 a month for my job, I'd feel like I'd won the lottery. You offer a footballer £30,000 a week to play football and they tell you they want more. Unreal.
The trouble is If he wants say £10,000 more a week than we are offering then that would still be cheaper for the club than going out and buying someone new which would always be a risk. Over a 4 year contract that would be an extra £2 million in wages. Will we get better for Taylors' transfer fee plus £2 million. I am not sure. The thing is the player and agent will be fully aware of this sort of thing.
Brendan alerthttp://www.squawka.com/news/reports-liverpool-ready-bid-for-swanseas-neil-taylor/339438?.
Where does it stop if you give in to players demands all the time, It is only a short time ago that our top earners were on £15k/week and the others on a lot less. For as much as i loved Bony's contribution i did not like the wage we paid and the same with gomis as it created a big gap in what they earn too the rest even though a striker will normally earn more, we have now opened the flood gates on wages and they all want to get paid between £40k and £80k/week.....Our wage policy has gone out the window and that is a dangerous position for a club our size to be in...imo
I cant understand Brendan sometimes......I know he knows Taylor well from his time with us but why would he want him for Liverpool is beyond me, ....I think we should stick a £15m to £20m price tag on Taylor as we know Brendan is daft enough to pay it...
I agree, it's a very difficult tight rope to walk. I wasn't so troubled with Bonys' wages, it's the money we are forking out for Gomis I find incredulous. Along with a four year contract for an untried 29 year old.
This is how capitalism works, it isn't always fair and it doesnt always make sense but this is the way the beast is. Different cultures view jobs as amounting to differing worth; USA - Ultra Capitalist, if the business model exists then sports stars deserve everything they are paid UK - Socialist Capitalism, okay the money in the industry affords it, we will continue to support it, but Jesus H Christ they don't deserve that much, surely? USSR - Ultra Socialist, oh now hell no! Why do footballers deserve any more or less than I me, and the surgeon, and the teacher, and the soldier, and the scientist, and the farmer, and the rubbish collector?! We should all get the same salary! Regarding the USSR one, did you know the young Russian Federation nearly tore itself apart after the fall of the Soviet Union? When the educated skills like surgeons, scientists etc started to earn more than the likes of the toilet cleaners the majority of the country thought it is was massive fraud trick and sought ways of learning how to swindle the government in the same manner, then upon learning that it was how capitalism worked no less than 200 regions from all across the country seriously considered breaking away and forming their own communist mini states... the largest of which would have had a population of just 17m people which was the Moscow area. The idea that some people could earn more than others was an outrage.
