Re: Alonso on Bentiez...
[quote author=mark1975 link=topic=35598.msg937501#msg937501 date=1251904593]
[quote author=LarryHagman link=topic=35598.msg937478#msg937478 date=1251903369]
Benitez was out of order expecting Alonso to miss the birth of his child for a game of footy. I don't care if you get paid £2.50 a week or £100k a week, it shouldn't be an expectation that you prioritise your job over your family. If it is, look for a new employer.
He then turned 'cock' in that he created a vendetta.
Also, good to see the old 'Xabi was shit for 2 years' is back, life wouldn't be the same. Is this from the same spanners telling me that Lucas is playing OK now?
Right...
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If you live in cloud cuckoo land, yeah.
These players earn SHIT loads of money and I'm sure it stipulates in contracts that a player must be available for games when fit, give or take the odd exceptional circumstances.
Alot of money rides on both the club and the competition that they're in and if a game is lost because a club becomes a soft touch with one of it's players, the club has then lost out on revenue and the fans who pay extortianate amounts of money to watch these games (and in turn help fund said players massive wages), have been short changed.
In a business that's built on a shit load of revenue there's little room for sentiment. This isn't a guy working in an office, it's a player in an exceptionally fortunate position of playing one of the Worlds biggest sports at the highest level, for one of the Worlds biggest clubs, for the highest level wages. Alot is riding on him, which is why there is so much insurance backing him up too.
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So, if you were a footy player Mark, and enjoying the financial trappings etc. that come with it, you'd prioritise your job over your family?