by madgull » 26 Jan 2016, 03:34
ferrarilover wrote:
Nor do footballers. Certainly not at our level. Angus Mac already has a sideline flogging cars, you think he'll risk half his salary and any future move by acting up for 6 months?
You don't think football is a tiny little world where everyone knows everyone and if you get a poor reputation without the talent to match, you're f***?
If signing players for peanuts is so easy, then I think we do let him go. Then we just sign John Terry as cover and win the league. Easy this football lark, innit.
Matt.
Of course they do, we're a small club used by any ambitious footballer as a stepping stone, if they get a better offer and we don't let them leave of course they'll get resentful. He isn't risking his salary because if we just release him then he gets his way anyway. Football is a pragmatic world, and demanding to be allowed to leave isn't seen as acting up so won't get you a poor reputation, it's seen as normal.
Signing players for peanuts is easy if you're a more attractive prospect than their current club. Hence we are signing players for free from crap SDL clubs, that's the kind of level we are more attractive than.
It isn't pleasant to admit this, but that's the way it is. I know it's nicer to blame the board and think they're just mugs, but this pattern happens all across football, clubs in our position getting great fees really doesn't happen much. We're pathetic little Torquay, we get shafted.
[quote="ferrarilover"]
Nor do footballers. Certainly not at our level. Angus Mac already has a sideline flogging cars, you think he'll risk half his salary and any future move by acting up for 6 months?
You don't think football is a tiny little world where everyone knows everyone and if you get a poor reputation without the talent to match, you're f***?
If signing players for peanuts is so easy, then I think we do let him go. Then we just sign John Terry as cover and win the league. Easy this football lark, innit.
Matt.[/quote]
Of course they do, we're a small club used by any ambitious footballer as a stepping stone, if they get a better offer and we don't let them leave of course they'll get resentful. He isn't risking his salary because if we just release him then he gets his way anyway. Football is a pragmatic world, and demanding to be allowed to leave isn't seen as acting up so won't get you a poor reputation, it's seen as normal.
Signing players for peanuts is easy if you're a more attractive prospect than their current club. Hence we are signing players for free from crap SDL clubs, that's the kind of level we are more attractive than.
It isn't pleasant to admit this, but that's the way it is. I know it's nicer to blame the board and think they're just mugs, but this pattern happens all across football, clubs in our position getting great fees really doesn't happen much. We're pathetic little Torquay, we get shafted.
