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Hodgson urges footballers to get real over wages

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ROY HODGSON has urged his unwanted Anfield stars to put their careers ahead of cash and accept their Kop career is over.

Fringe players such as Milan Jovanovic and Ryan Babel are available when the transfer window opens.

But Hodgson fears the massive salaries of those surplus to requirements will make them tough to shift in January.

And he has questioned whether players - and their agents - are putting finance ahead of their love for the game.

Hodgson said: "It's a problem throughout football. For us to even loan players out we have to virtually pay the players' wages. We need to prepare players more for the fact they have to change their demands when they leave.

"We pay money for players to help us get into the top four.

"But when they can't even make the top 18 players, they must accept that the money they're on won't be there somewhere else.

"If they want the money ahead of playing, they may have to kiss their careers goodbye because they'll be sitting on their backside.

"It's money versus playing. What means more? Are you so disinterested in playing you will take the club's money until the very last day, even when it's made perfectly clear there is no place for you?

"It's a question I feel should be brought up more often. I'm not certain the general public are so aware of this fact.

"They expect you to just get players in and out. You can spend money having to pay players to leave which could be put to better use.

"It even goes beyond the first team. Reserve and youth players get contracts which seem normal for Liverpool but when the day comes for them to leave, even clubs in the Championship can't pay."
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Don't blame the players! Clubs need to be smarter and structure the players wages much like they do when buying young players where clauses are included for increased fees and/payments dependent on appearances and progression.
 
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Don't blame the players! Clubs need to be smarter and structure the players wages much like they do when buying young players where clauses are included for increased fees and/payments dependent on appearances and progression.
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Quite right.
 
He's not exactly wrong though is he? if he said the opposite people would rip him too
 
[quote author=Molbystwin link=topic=43295.msg1238073#msg1238073 date=1293455028]
Roy in whinge about being a manager shocker...

Cunt.
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He's said absolutely nothing wrong there. He's right. I think people don't even bother reading posts sometimes. They see the mention of 'Roy' in a thread, skip straight to 'Reply' and type 'Cunt'.
 
Yeh maybe.... to be honest i hadnt really joined in the frenzy of attacks on Roy and hadnt found his utterances to be that offensive to my LFC sensibilities however it is yet another interview with Hodgson in which he is complaining. Another one.

I'm not going to lie i think hes wrong and should go and i hope he goes very very soon Its one thing when the press talks you down but when your own manager does it all the fucking time... nah... im right he is a cunt.

What is the point of that interview exactly?? Who is it directed at?? Jovanovic? Babel?.... what use can it serve exactly? It is a whinge that is all and a pointless one at that.

Im dissapointed that we havent lost to Blackpool twice yet.
 
I wonder if he will start the ball rolling by taking a pay cut too?

Or better still got on performance related pay, but then he'd owe us money!
 
Welcome to the big club world Roy Hodgson. You have never been here before and you certainly dont belong here. But now you have had a look in, and know how to negotiate with a big club next time you need a player on loan!

Now fuck off...
 
Clubs,agents,players- they all need to wake up.

Well said roy.

Over the past two weeks I think roys nailed just about everything he's said
 
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