Nolan Comments

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Kevin Nolan has revealed that a break down in trust with club officials forced him to leave Newcastle.

The midfielder surprisingly joined relegated West Ham this summer after failing to agree the long-term contract extension that he wanted at St James' Park.

Nolan had been one of the most influential captains in the Premier League last season, scoring 12 goals, but still decided to move to Upton Park.

The 29-year-old wanted to stay at Newcastle, however, the club have claimed that he would not have justified a new five-year contract.

And Nolan claims that represents an unfulfilled promise, as he said in the Sunday Mirror: "I envisaged spending the rest of my career at the club. I was settled, happy and I adored the supporters.

Laughable

"But ultimately I was forced out because I lost trust in key people at the club and when you lose trust in people it's almost impossible to regain it.

"From January and shortly following the sale of Andy Carroll to Liverpool, I was involved in ongoing discussions about signing a new contract between four and five years.

"I discussed the deal at length with managing director Derek Llambias and even shook hands on it. In my book when you do that man-to-man you expect them to see it through.

"But what we talked about and what they finally offered me was laughable. They did a U-turn on what we agreed. They showed me no respect. I felt totally betrayed.

"Then they had the nerve to claim I rejected a new contract. What contract? A deferred option to increase my deal by 12 months with a bonus that hinged on the success of the team on the pitch the following season.

"Perhaps I was just naive. I thought I had a good relationship with the board. But when it all came to a head in the summer I knew my time was coming to an end.

"I had given the club everything but they didn't want to give me anything in return, just broken promises. I simply couldn't work with people like that. There was no way back for me."


Broken promises from Llambias? Surely not...?

Just to clarify, I'm not overly fussed about Nolan leaving, but it's worrying that the board continue to find ways to somehow damage their reputation further.

 

How this man is even allowed to be a football chairman is beyond me. He knows as much about football as I do about bulding spaceships.

 

Nolan is pretty naive if he believed Llambias based on a handshake. And what were the 'laughable' terms? £45k odd per week for about 3 years I bet, **** off - it'd take most of us more than 3 years to earn what he'd get in one week. Get in touch with reality.

 

How much was he on then, that he considers 'laughable'??

 

That is reality for footballers though. They get paid staggering amounts of money. They couldn't give a flying **** if us plebs graft all week for a meagre wage, yet spend hard earned cash going to watch them. That is the unfortunate reality of football these days.

 

Not doing himself any favours saying 40k a week for a year is laughable...reminds me of ashley Coles comments a few years ago

 

Whether or not a 5 year contract was justified or not, if he had been told and verbally agreed on a long term deal you would expect the club to honor that and not pull out the rug from beneath him at the last minute, I personally would have liked to keep him but not as a first team regular, I think the goals he offered were fantastic but as a CM he didnt offer much else personally, but he obviously feels hes given absolutely everything to the club over the past two seasons and not many would disagree with him, so to be treated in this manner is a bit ridiculous and I personally dont blame him for moving on.

Having said that though, a 3 year deal for a 29 year old who's already slowing right down is a good deal, so I'm still on the fence about this one.

 

£45,000 works out at £6429 a day.
Wouldn't mind being a penny behind that

 

Nolan has gone down in my estimations now, leaving the club for money and now claiming he was forced out thats all that happens now they no the fans dont like Ashley and hes playing on it, its bullshit and its just to keep the fans on his side. andy carroll did exactly the same.

 

Doubt it. Jose's tweeting. Joeys tweeting (and getting retweeted by Routledge). I've been optimistic, but I'm starting to think its a lot worse than I feared.

 

I think Llambias is a horrible, greasy, slimey little prick. Can't stand the man and I think he's at the forefront of so many god awful decisions. I honestly hate him far more than I hate Ashley. After all, he's the managing director, so he's responsible for day-to-day runnings of the club. He doesn't have a ****ing clue how to run one.

Anyway, in football world it's a ****ty deal and it's probably based on principle more than anything else. He was only offered a 12 year extension, and after the three years he would have had some difficulty getting another contract on a reasonable wage which would have carried him until retirement. That's what he was looking for.

The other issue is the bonus. How the hell can his income be dictated by how the rest of the team perform? He's the team captain, and whilst he can help with morale and performances, the responsibility of that is ultimately with the manager, Pardew. If anyone should get performance based payments, it's him.

Taking that into account, and taking into account the trust which was broken, I honestly don't blame him one little bit for leaving.

 

I asked my manager if he'd give me £2Mpa for the next five years based on my performance being pretty poor over the last few months, when he said no I'll tell you what, I stomped about and not gonna lie, cried a little.

From a financial point of view I completely empathise with the club on this one, Nolan was being a bit greedy in my opinion and would have been much smarter to instead negotiate a 2/3year contract instead, knowing he's peaked.

 

You'll need to change that signature Mod Face!

 

Can we please get this fat cretin's face off the homepage plz ok thnxxxx

 

Why? I'm loyal to Blyth and Newcastle and that will never change. I'm very settled in the region and want to commit my future to both Harrogate and Man City. *ahem* I mean Blyth and Newcastle.

I'm loyal me.

 

. It isn't a performance bonus for HIM. It's a performance bonus based on the TEAMS performance. What the hell do the other 10 players have to do with him? Yes he's the captain, but the morale and performances of the team are all the sole responsibility of the manager.

Offering Nolan a raise based on how well the other 10 players can be arsed to play, whilst other players are getting new contracts with most certainly higher wages, is a bit ****ing stupid really. In fact, Nolan would have been a mug to not even attempt to get a proper payrise and instead sign a long team-performance based contract, ESPECIALLY when it would have ran through until he was at an age where he could no longer get another long contract with a good wage.

Think about it. If he's earning £10k more at West Ham, he'll earn an extra £2.5MILLION over the next five year contract which he's now guaranteed to have up until he's 34 or so. If he signed our contract offer, he would have turned down a guaranteed £2.5million and signed a team-performance contract up until he was 32. By then, he would struggle to get another long-term contract at a good wage. Signing our contract frankly would have been a mental decision. Don't forget, players aren't fans. It's their job.

And people need to stop this whole comparison between the footballing world and the world we live in. The fact they earn more in a week than we do in a year makes absolutely no god damn difference whatsoever. Accept it.

 

I meant because Blyth released Robbie!

 

We can slam Nolan all we like for his 'greed', which is the common property of all footballers these days, but the fact remains we will struggle without him.

 

**** me!

I knew Gavin Fell didn't like him (shouted at him "you're a lazy ****er Robbie, get in the box!" during a match) but on form he's nearly unplayable at this level. Pretty gutted especially since Galas looks like he needs a bit more time to adapt to the physicality of the English game.



<EDIT> Just read the official statement, if he's signing for Whitley Bay I reckon he's going to compeltly rape that league.

 

Apparently it was done over the phone too, so that's a bit ****ty. The thing with Robbie was that I think he was living off his amazing season a few years ago. I watch Spartans a lot and he often looked bored and put in very little effort, but at the same time would do something amazing. He was so frustrating to watch.

I saw Galas against Hartlepool and he was pretty awful. He tries to be skillful, but that won't work at Blyth's level, he'll just get snapped in half. Once he realises this, he could be a good signing as he's really pacy.