Think this is when the Bosman ruling went wrong! Barcelona and a lot of top top clubs are now so far in debt that 95% of their signings are freebies. AC Milan, Juventus and plenty more. Most prem clubs are now offering 4 and 5 year deals to try and keep hold of their players and if losing them manage to get top price due to contract. We started doing it too when normally deals were 2 to 3 year deals. We also know that once the contract gets to 2 years the value falls off a Cliff. It all goes wrong for the club when a player loses value because of injury, especially when the club think they have a top top striker who scores almost 20 goals in the Prem and gets an England call so his value rockets and the club act by giving him a huge pay rise and a long contract. Injury then forces a lack of fitness and goals and games for 2 years. The player is rewarded for nothing which means the club have lost out. Bamfords value will have been £30m+ at the end of 20/21 season but now only £10m as not performed since.
Good luck with getting that much for a crock who is finished. Surely there is not another club in the world daft enough to take a punt on him.
Would be as a pay as you play punt but as we’re giving him 4 m a year for next four years he’s going nowhere
Spot on bud let's just hope we can wheel him on now and then and he gets the odd goal then goes down injured.
Never fear. I think I spotted victor in crowd at this first match. Hope he has several suitcases of cash with him
So Aski… just as an alternate spin on the same information. Most observers I’ve seen have the MLS at mid champ - top league 1 level. So exciting young talent can come through… eg Aaronson - but 26 year olds? whoscored ratings are just algorithms and of all the sites that do stats, ratings are the thing I pretty much ignore. Not least that they can’t help but favour certain attributes/actions. If you look at ratings in the MLS All the top players are listed as AMs. Our boy on ratings is in the lower end of the top 10 overall, but that also makes him lower end top 10 for his position. So would you be excited about signing the 8th best attacking midfielder in league 1? Now I actually like the look of him from what I’ve seen… just pointing out the joys of interpretation….lies Damn lies and statistics
Of course, had Bamford been on fire but running down his contract, dumb and dumber would be slagging the club for not having him signed up for longer
That’s the problem, it’s a gamble and look at scum, 500k a week on Ronaldo. Arsenal with Ozil etc. Think we forget we paid 7 million for him, which is next to nothing for the premier league.
All valid points Milky, however when trying to do a basic assessment of a player you don't know and have never seen play, you have to start somewhere
Very true fella. We’ve just indulged in stat presentation from a glass half full and glass half empty perspective regarding a player that neither of us know from Adam.
On the subject of Bamfords contract I tried to highlight the problems clubs have these days in the Prem. The contract is supposed to protect the club but in Bamfords are and any other player who isn’t doing the biz, the contract is loaded in favour of the player and damages the club. Players are already blackmailing their clubs by demanding a pay rise and a long term contract because they can walk away on a free. Thats wht better players are doing and walking to the likes of Barcelona and getting a big pay rise….. to me the contract has gone full circle from Bosman.
Took great delight today turning the telly off when the World Cup started. Looked at Lineker and the rest of the hypocrites trying to explain themselves after the barrage of criticism they’re getting. I then hear they didn’t run the opening ceremony so put on the we are really really good people and they are really really bad people crap. Decided I will not even be watching England now. I dont have a thing about gays trannies, migrant workers or even womens rights, my view is that all the fkg hypocrites who are taking cash for going there after trying to force feed us on BLm, inclusion, diversity, trans rights bollox etc and then say fk all about what happens in real life in these Middle Ages based countries is a joke. i dont want re-educating about my views on migrants from these hypocrites. So not even posting on the World Cup thread. always looked forward to the WC and the footy but this is not flicking my switches
All correct and annoying part as you say if city Come with their bag of cash the player is on his way regardless of length of contracts. The beautiful game is badly broken. Just noticed firpo under contract till 2025. Not good news either
Lots of talk about Klich being allowed to leave In January and offers coming in for Cody Drameh from various clubs. Offers in the region of £10m+ so far if true. skinny hthe new U21s coach thinks Drameh is the dogz, Jacko has been singing his praises for 3 seasons yet for some reason Bielsa and Marsch are not fans?
Who the fck does that cnut Southgate think he is, take the knee ffs, obviously the FA will have told him to be a leader t do this. Well you fkg woke twat Southgate we are fed up of this black sh1t being rammed down our throughts, hope we get fkd in all the games and he’s history, wan ker.
Whole team should be booked for taking the knee https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/harry-kane-risk-being-booked-28540661
