Now I am a die hard Arsenal fan and have been going for years now. This isn't a specific rant about Arsenal's wage policy, but more of a general observation about wages in football in general.
Now I know that there are obscene figures being throuwn around. £200k p/w etc etc, which is ridiculous. But putting that aside, I'm wondering why people get so annoyed when another club offers to double a players wages and they wonder why that player is tempted to join them (eg Nasri).
I'm sorry, but at the end of a day football is a players job. If they are offered more money elsewhere it is natural instinct to want to accept that. Nasri couldn't care less about Arsenal, Man City, Man Utd, Barcelona or even winning trophies. He wants to earn as much money from an employer.
Now this is exactly the same if an employer or another firm came in for you and offered to double your salery. Do you really show loyalty to your firm and say no, I can't go. I don't want to earn more.
I'm telling you if a recruitment agency phoned me and said X law firm is willing to double your salery to £160k would you like to go for interview.... I wouldn't hesitate for one millisecond. As I'm sure most people wouldn't.
So stop everyone complaining if a player is offered more money by another employer. It's a natural instinct. If another club can pay double, fair play to them. At the end of a day a club is only an employer to a player.
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posted on 19/8/11
And how has Fabregas not used us as a stepping stone? We gave him first team football at the highest level and made him a world class star at the most important stage of his development and made him captain. Now he's decided a bench role at Barca is more desirable.
posted on 19/8/11
I don't think that 8 years of service can be classed as a stepping stone in anyone's book.
If you try your best, but fail, at least your best.
That can be said of Fabregas. Can the same be said of Nasri?
posted on 19/8/11
*you tried your best.
posted on 19/8/11
stepanos,
I actually don't blame Fab for anything though I'm still bitter about his transfer. I'm just drawing parallels to the Nasri situation. And I'm not too sure Cesc took a pay cut, I think he only agreed to forgo his 'loyalty' bonus at Arsenal.
posted on 19/8/11
Fabregas will not be a bench player.
After all this fuss and publicity, he will be integrated - and no doubt very successfully - into the team, on a rotating basis.
posted on 19/8/11
mthierry, I'm bitter too about losing Fabregas, but my bitterness is directed entirely to the Barcelona board and most of their players. They make me sick, and I'm bitterly disappointed that Fabregas hasn't achieved his dream of lifting a trophy as Arsenal captain.
Who knows what the truth is regarding salaries, pay cuts etc.
All we do know is that the Spanish system of incoming presidents making collossal promises of who they will bring in to their clubs is disgusting, and I hope both Real Madrid and Barcelona lose out on the European Cup and national cup for many years to come.
posted on 19/8/11
I'm telling you if a recruitment agency phoned me and said X law firm is willing to double your salery to £160k
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Your current salary is 80k????
On that note, money is clearly viewed on a completely different perspective for the both of us. I would yes, like someone to double my salary.. but that still wouldn't take me over 20k per year. However from my point of view, I can't understand how someone getting anywhere from 20k upwards per week, could feel any need or desire for money. It is just pure greed.
Then add to the fact job satisfaction, if you loved your job and your company (some footballers still do) but were offered double salary elsewhere in return for less enjoyment, leaving behind employee relationships etc would you still take it?
I know no end of people who have left low paid jobs for high earning salaries and ended up hating there current job and the financial impact having no real healthy gain on there lives. Maybe the likes of nasri won't miss his team mates/fellow employees, working environment and atmosphere but in the real world, a lot of people do.
To some people, higher wages isn't everything. When you're talking wages in excess of what most memebers on here will make per year, being earnt in a week... I think fans have every right to judge and ridicule money hungry players looking to only double there salaries.
posted on 19/8/11
The beef on Nasri's wages is that Manchester City's wages bill is higher than their turnover. No one can compete with that sort of profligacy. Good luck to Nasri, bad luck on the Premiership clubs that cannot compete with Petrodollars. The whole situation disgusts me frankly. Manchester City are defying economics and destroying the hopes of most Premiership Clubs and fans. Just look at the situation at Everton.
posted on 19/8/11
On top of that, if i thought another company might want to employ me in 2yrs time, for alot more money, then i wouldnt commit to my current employer by signing a 5yr contract.
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A player signing a 5 year contract, even if he only intends to stay for 2 years would actually work in favour of the club though. That way, at least the club receives a transfer fee for him as opposed to him walking away for nothing.
Anyway, this argument (about players leaving for more dosh) works two ways, yet people tend to only complain about it when it relates to a player leaving their club as opposed to when a player joins. Take Oxlade-Chamberlain - he's most likely earning more at Arsenal than he was at Southampton. Yet if money was never a factor for players, then a case could be made that Arsenal (a club who can provide him with a much better footballing future than Southampton), would be able to pay him the same (or even less) than he was on at Southampton.
posted on 19/8/11
Yet if money was never a factor for players, then a case could be made that Arsenal (a club who can provide him with a much better footballing future than Southampton), would be able to pay him the same (or even less) than he was on at Southampton.
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That's very true and is probably how it should be
And day to day that does happen (probably not in football) but many people take pay cuts/drop hours in order to increase future prospectives etc.
But yeah, it's probably a lost cause in football.