[quote author=Whaddapie link=topic=34433.msg897441#msg897441 date=1246307655]
[quote author=Markeh link=topic=34433.msg896956#msg896956 date=1246238728]
Of course not but my point is when you get to a certain level of earning, say 50k+ a week, you have the luxury of considering non monetary factors. As long as we stay in touch with the wages of the sugar daddy clubs all is not lost.
We need that bloody stadium though
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And yet, players who "want to play in the champions league, that's the only reason I'm leaving..." choose citeh's big bag of sweet f#$! all over our legitimate shot at the league and the European Cup.
Wankers.
When we can offer you approx. $5m per year for 5 years, to represent the most successful team to ever play this game, but you choose citeh's $6.5m for 5 years, don't tell me it was EVER about the football, you mercinary cnut.
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While I'm not saying I disagree with you because money is obviously an important point, I think you have to factor in the fact that many of these so-called mercenary players have the ego issue of seeing an opportunity to be the legend who dragged a club like City or Villa (or whoever) into the Champions League and into a run for the title. While they may not have the opportunity to win trophies immediately, it is every bit as much a football/ego decision (and make no mistake, choosing to play for trophies is an ego decision) as electing to come to a club like Liverpool or United.
The fact that a lot of these aspirations are misguided and never come to pass is another point, but who said footballers were geniuses of prediction...?
[quote author=Markeh link=topic=34433.msg896956#msg896956 date=1246238728]
Of course not but my point is when you get to a certain level of earning, say 50k+ a week, you have the luxury of considering non monetary factors. As long as we stay in touch with the wages of the sugar daddy clubs all is not lost.
We need that bloody stadium though
[/quote]
And yet, players who "want to play in the champions league, that's the only reason I'm leaving..." choose citeh's big bag of sweet f#$! all over our legitimate shot at the league and the European Cup.
Wankers.
When we can offer you approx. $5m per year for 5 years, to represent the most successful team to ever play this game, but you choose citeh's $6.5m for 5 years, don't tell me it was EVER about the football, you mercinary cnut.
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While I'm not saying I disagree with you because money is obviously an important point, I think you have to factor in the fact that many of these so-called mercenary players have the ego issue of seeing an opportunity to be the legend who dragged a club like City or Villa (or whoever) into the Champions League and into a run for the title. While they may not have the opportunity to win trophies immediately, it is every bit as much a football/ego decision (and make no mistake, choosing to play for trophies is an ego decision) as electing to come to a club like Liverpool or United.
The fact that a lot of these aspirations are misguided and never come to pass is another point, but who said footballers were geniuses of prediction...?
