Is that one of the injuries of the Knee?
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Should be ācrimes against footballā.
Stupid Yanited loser.
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DCL will win every header against Guehi, they should buy him.
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DCL must have a very long neck to be able to win headers from the physio room
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I was thinking about creating a new thread about this subject, however seeing as though several players that fit this criteria are utd players, I think I will ask it here and if it balloons into a full on discussion then the mods can move it.
I think this relates to Rashford, Sancho, Antony and maybe even Mount. The strategy they seem to be adopting is stay on inflated salaries at utd rather than taking a significant pay cut and moving to another club.
I was wondering if this was shortsighted from a financial pov?
Option 1: Stay (and loan I guess) and its 12m PA, wind down contract and hope you are still marketable enough to command maybe a lesser wage with a largish signing on fee. Guaranteed 24m (assuming 2 years left).
Option 2: Take a pay cut 8m PA, and sign a 5 year contract (Guaranteed 32-40m)
So if they take option 1, then for this example they need to at least get 16m (5.33m a year) to match option 2.
They will all have the calculators out, trying to work out the best route to maximize earnings. Man Utd have massively overpaid on these contracts, so the players are sitting pretty.
Part of me, due to the redemption arc, would like to see Rashford playing with joy again. When he came through he looked like he had the world at his feet. I think he would have become one of the best had Klopp signed him. But then somewhere along the way it all got a bit much for him, the fans turned, his attitude dropped, and he seemed to lose his passion.
As a football fan I want to see him get it back again, though obviously not at Man Utd. There were a few signs of it at Villa, not much, but more than he had shown at Man Utd for a good while. Good luck to him.
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Cash in hand is better than what someone might potentially earn in future.
I suspect the same might be true for Trent as well in different ways. The sportsmen know their bodies the best. Suspect for a Trent , he doesnāt want to risk a stay in Liverpool because of the fear that heāll be found out in the premier league. Which is something as far as recent seasons go canāt be entirely ruled out.
Instead heās got a very good signing on fee and a stay for 4 years or so (whatever his contract states) in Madrid. That too with comparitively less taxes and a huge signing on fee and increased wages.
People might see Trentās transfer move as an ambition move but I however see it as a lack of ambition. He doesnāt have the drive anymore to lead Liverpool to titles.
Same goes for Rashford , he might be talking the talk but he isnāt walking the walk.
So option 2 (leaving would be best, generally speaking, cash in hand)
Itās their career. Fuck knows when a injury will derail that. Just ask Fati
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Antony seemed to be a decent player at Betis, probably will end trying to get a loan. The problem is Man Utd have gone yeah we want to get rid of all these players so the clubs are like well we can bide our time.
They will probably have to end up supplementing some of the wages.
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Who takes a job where they earn less and work harder?
The club have fucked up here.
Ultimately they havenāt just set these contracts up theyāve basically declared them for sale and not wanted before the window opened.
Itās such a poorly run club and Radcliffe should have said to Amorim to shut the fuck up. Slot hasnāt been going around shouting who he wants to fuck off has he?
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You, working in a hotel?
Not any more.
ATM Iām not working due to health.
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Yeah sorry I was being facetious. But I regularly talk to people who change career to something lower paying (and in certain ways āharderā) because it was more rewarding. Iām sure itās the same within professions, in this case a footballer - for instance AOC - moving for less money and more āworkā on the training pitch in order to play for Liverpool and Jurgen.
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Iām pretty sure itās a minority.
The reward for most āworkā is the pay.
Recently Iāve been struggling to keep my daughter calm as sheās feeling pressure at work. I said to be patient and test the other options and she did. She found that her conditions and pay was better than most of the competition was offering. So sheāll bite her tongue a little longer. Sheāll find something better eventually.
I do think a good number of footballers prefer playing and accept that is a motivation to accept a less prestigious position. Even so prestige can easily work the other way. Thereās a lot who are very willing to take the money in the middle east.
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Gareth Bale knows the way.
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To be honest I applied for a job that was less pay a few months back as it was outside of London and thus cheaper to rent so the pay decrease wasnāt a major factor. It was probably a similar workload though it should have technically been more.
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Iāve given up a (relatively) successful career as a real estate agent to follow a career in cricket, which with wildlife and LFC, are my three great passions in life. Getting into wildlife again is a no with a family and Iām never getting a job at LFC so here we are. Iām the Cricket Services Manager for a Sub Union of Cricket South Africa, Iām a Level 3 umpire and I have started my own Academy which together pay me a third of what I used to make.
My finances are in flux and the wife has taken some convincing, let me tell you. I do work a lot harder, long hot days on the field of play plus tons of admin. Somehow doesnāt actually feel like work, though. Point is, for some people if youāre doing something that feels rewarding, the fact you could be making more elsewhere doesnāt always matter.
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@wyld.at.hrt
I love this.
And its worthy of a bigger discussion.
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