If he's not willing to a loss we'd be lucky to make a saving of 1-1.5m on the 5m left owed to him I reckon. The savings will be insignificant. Couple of players on temporary contracts over the next year and a half.
If only in the game of football we could have performance managed him out, he would have been gone within the first 12mths. He just has no ambition and is content on taking a HUGE wage and gives nothing in return.
Maybe we should look to sue him under the trades description act? The lad was supposed to be a footballer right?
Can't see any club coming in for this twat, TBH. South Shields are reasonably ambitious, so that's them out. Blyth Spartans...?
All scum bag rats jumping a sinking ship; that they caused. Good riddance to the lot of them,, Give me young hungry players with passion..
Everyone in the club should send him to Coventry so to speak.. Basically let him turn up, and give him no medical help; just ignore him... But if he's paid by the club make him turn up everyday and do nothing
He is no doubt the most expensive mistake we have ever made, costing us close to 30m, not all his fault perhaps, but he is not blameless, just shameless.
Maybe have a fan protest game with placards and all the bollocks that would go with it. I'm sure this would catch on big time with other clubs as well who have players in similar situations....it will highlight what has gone wrong with the game. Nobody would deny these guys a good salary but when your getting 3.5 million a year for sitting on your f*cking ass something needs to be done. There is player power but I think on this fan power might be bigger.....
I agree, I don't know what exactly but it feels like something should be done about it because that 70K a week could be crucial to our survival yet this dickhead is taking it from us and giving us nothing.
It seems putting this out in public like Coleman has started to do is the way to go.....basically shaming him into making a decision....hopefully that he moves on. You see footballers kissing their badge....this guy should start and kiss the fans' arses....for what we have funded him to do. It comes down to making a decision on dignity and respect....or making a decision based on pure greed. If the lad played like Defoe and gave the same to the club as Defoe did I would have no problem with what he got paid but this is just taking the p*ss.......
I have no beef with Rodwell. None at all. He was an exciting signing and I for one thought we did well to attract him. He's injury prone and has been rubbish since he got here. Is it his fault that we offered him £60-70k a week? Should he have said "actually I don't think I'm worth that" or would anyone on here do that if they were offered stupid money for what they do? If you were on the end of the abuse he has been would you not want to leave? Surely the club are to blame for this idiocy not the player? Most on here thought he was a very good signing. He hasn't worked and has had loads of injuries. Not exactly hus fault. I hope he goes. He's been an absolute disaster. But one of SAFC's making not Rodwell's
Well I question his commitment, ethic and work rate so I'll have a few kilos of beef with the oxygen thief.
What he's paid isn't his fault. The fact that he's been injured a lot probably isn't his fault. The fact that he didn't play in a winning side for God knows how long isn't his fault. But his attitude has been called into question and his questionable attitude is his fault. If you had his undoubted talent wouldn't you want to make more of yourself? When he looks back on his career he might be a multi-millionaire but he'll have to look himself in the mirror everyday and know that he didn't achieve what he could have done.
