Your title says it all "amazing rumour" well if he tried it on the Daily Mirror reporters, he failed miserably, perhaps they were excluded, hence the frequent attempts to undermine what has been happening here. Your OCD sticks out a mile, what do you get out of winding up my fellow posters on here, it is quite unhealthy, I think you need a bit of help. http://www.adaa.org/living-with-anx...s/screening-obsessive-compulsive-disorder-ocd
That's suprisingly cynical even for you, when was the last time a player left here for another Club for major bucks? There are many that say that Pompey didn't win the FA Cup, they bought it and are still, now, paying for it.
Nope. Absolutely wrong. That would be the key part in any decision I was likely to make. Are you just projecting by any chance?
My goodness, I took you for being fairly cynical, but today you've excelled yourself. Does anything strike you as genuine..?
I would be a hypocrite if I ever said I liked NC, I just revelled in what he did for us, opportunities to actually find out what he was really like as a person were very limited. In time I can see a shedload of skeletons popping out of various cupboards, fair enough, but they will have little effect on the future, as far as I can tell, and unlike some, I don't expect to see him back, certainly not as a Chairman. For now he will be an easy target to hit on, a bit cowardly, as he could/would not be able to defend himself, and I suspect he wouldn't be bothered anyhow. I only hope he doesn't go away thinking that we were a total waste of a few years of his life. I am sure even he got some pride out of his work and the JPT was a prime example of what might have been, I regarded that as just a starter, now it is time to have a rethink about the future.
Well, I can't say and neither can you. Maybe it will be "THE" kit in 20 years time, maybe it will be "THE WORST" kit of all time.
I think that's certainly true with a lot of jobs, but not footballers. If I were hired as an accountant, or some manager of a business, and my new employer showed me the video, yes, I would be disinterested. Why? Because the idea of a successful employee in the corporate world refers to the amount of profit they make for the business. I am unlikely to care how much profit my employers are making. However, for footballers, it's a different story. The video won't depict the rise of a business making millions after millions of pounds. Instead, it will depict a Premiership football team, winning trophies, playing some world-class football. This video would be of great interest to me, and I imagine to most footballers. The difference between footballers and most other employees, is that they would do their job for fun (for the most part), and hence buy into the excitement a lot more.
YOU make... but YOU are not a professional footballer. You don't have an agent who is in your ear 24/7, wanting his percentage. You don't operate in a business that treats people as commodities, to be bought & sold, often with you having little control over it. The footballer looks after himself and will be more swayed by money in the bank than a DVD vision.
Really? You would make a major career decision based on who showed you the best promotional DVD? Get real.
Absolutely wrong, I'm afraid. The vast majority of top footballers simple do not do it for the "fun".
You are probably right, but its worse than a Class A drug. It's in my blood and always will be. Like being married to an utter bitch at times and you can see all her faults, but you still can't stop yourself loving it. Football has never been that beautiful, its often been very bent behind the scenes, even going back 50 years or so. The issue these days is that we want to know the ins & outs, the goss, the business, everything and there are the means to comment on it. Ignorance is bliss. I keep telling myself to ignore all the off-field ****e and just go to games. So that's my weakness.
agreed. I have met many a talented player who just didn't really care. Broke my heart, as every time I met one, I'd want to know about everything and some of them just weren't bothered. One even said, "I can take or leave football" Fans don't understand this when they come across it. It's not all, but certainly some.
Oh for goodness sake. Conceptually. I'm saying that money would be a part of the decision, but more important would be the career aspect, which we're using the DVD to represent.
All the better for you when they fall by the wayside then, there might be lots of money in it for a precious few, not so for the rest of them and careers at the top are extremely short in most cases, there is always a tightrope of the sudden career ending injury to be aware of. When you see players pulling their shirts off and all of the celebrations, is that not how they find their "fun" as you call it?. Success brings them financial reward, the better they are, the more they should get, but they surely do it for other reasons, Team ethic, fan base, Club and Country tradition, they are human beings, not a lot different from you or I, and no two of them are alike. You need to lighten up a bit, look for the humour not the downside of everything, depression is very unhealthy in any human being, avoid it at all costs.
No I don't work in football, but rather awkwardly I do work in music where people are perhaps even more treated as commodities, so I'm afraid that presumption falls rather flat.
There are exceptions like Benali & Le Tiss etc, but even they are from a different era. When players get agents when they are still children, they have all the "business" side drummed into them from an early age. But I've even met some non-league footballers who have said they play football "because I'm good at it" and don't take any notice of the game outside of the times they are playing it. That probably shocked me more than a Professional saying it.
