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[Carra_is_legend]

Saudi clubs failing to pay wages as ex-Premier League captain axed after requesting money

 

 

[El Rojo]

1 hour ago, chrisbonnie said:

Steve mcmahon was a prick.... A moany prick at that.. 

 

I don't know about you lads, but if the Saudis offered me 10 grand a week to do my job, I'd snap their fucking hands off. So annoying and immoral as it may be, I totally understand why these footballers are taking the money. How could you say no.... 

 

Most of the ones heading over there at the moment are wealthier than small countries.

 

They don’t need the money, but I guess they still look enviously on peers who have even more than them.

 

As for the whole morality thing, generally they’re not the deepest thinkers anyway and they’re insulated enough that little enough is probably said to them. Also - can you imagine the commission their agents will get? 
 

And McMahon was brilliant.

 

 

 

[elvis]

1 hour ago, chrisbonnie said:

Steve mcmahon was a prick.... A moany prick at that.. 

 

I don't know about you lads, but if the Saudis offered me 10 grand a week to do my job, I'd snap their fucking hands off. So annoying and immoral as it may be, I totally understand why these footballers are taking the money. How could you say no.... 

It's pretty fucking easy to say no really , all you need is a conscience and a quick look at your already obscene bank balance. It's the same argument you hear from political numbtees , " oh I bet you'd vote Tory if you were rich" , erm no I actually wouldn't thanks.

[joe_fishfish]

2 hours ago, chrisbonnie said:

Steve mcmahon was a prick.... A moany prick at that.. 

 

I don't know about you lads, but if the Saudis offered me 10 grand a week to do my job, I'd snap their fucking hands off. So annoying and immoral as it may be, I totally understand why these footballers are taking the money. How could you say no.... 

The difference is I suspect you aren't already rich enough that your kids, actually your grandkids, will never have to work a day in their lives.

 

That's the level of wealth players like Benzema have already achieved, I don't get why they need another half a billion dollars or whatever it's going to be.

[No2]

Benzema played the Muslim card. Gonna be much harder for Gerrard and the likes to explain what attracted them to Saudi league.

[Pete]

At what point does the rest of the league (Us, Arsenal, Spurs etc) say enough is enough and refuse to play the oil state owned clubs?  Do they have the balls to form a breakaway top tier league where finances are fully regulated or are we doomed to be playing for scraps in a completely unbalanced league? 

[Barrington Womble]

18 minutes ago, Pete said:

At what point does the rest of the league (Us, Arsenal, Spurs etc) say enough is enough and refuse to play the oil state owned clubs?  Do they have the balls to form a breakaway top tier league where finances are fully regulated or are we doomed to be playing for scraps in a completely unbalanced league? 

 

None of them will ever do that because all their owners want to sell up one day and funds from unpalatable sources keeps the value of the clubs up. 

[Baltar]

1 hour ago, No2 said:

Benzema played the Muslim card. Gonna be much harder for Gerrard and the likes to explain what attracted them to Saudi league.

Only an idiot would believe Benzema is going there for religious reasons. He'd move to Jewish Israel or Communist China if they were paying him what the Saudi's are.

[Baltar]

1 hour ago, Pete said:

At what point does the rest of the league (Us, Arsenal, Spurs etc) say enough is enough and refuse to play the oil state owned clubs?  Do they have the balls to form a breakaway top tier league where finances are fully regulated or are we doomed to be playing for scraps in a completely unbalanced league? 

Football is a business and as long as business is good and the clubs are making money, we won't do a damn thing. Whether we like it or not these oil kingdoms are good for the money side of things since they are investing in English football. There are regional economic benefits too when these despots spend silly money on their clubs, so the government will never block such wealthy regimes from buying clubs either. Sadly we have to get used to seeing a future where City, Newcastle and United will dominate. Until of course, another club wins the lottery and gets bought by another oil kingdom, and we'll fall even further behind. 

 

[Bobby Hundreds]

Saudi, Qatar and Abu Dhabi no one else is competing with that even other oil nations because these are Tyrants whose nations wealth is their personal wealth and life is one giant playground to live a life of debauchery and enforce unspeakably evil acts while demanding strict adherence to rules from their subjects. Yet people will accept monsters if it means they get better footballers. Humanity is fucked the sport is just a tiny blatent example of the entire world around us.

[Reacher]

They can try and rationalize it as much as they want, but they know in the pit of their stomach what they are doing is wrong. They will not be able to look at themselves in a mirror and like what is looking back. The wages provided to them are a product of an appalling regime, there is no freedom of expression, there human rights record speaks for itself, unfair trials, the death penalty, that is before the weaponization of oil money to exert undue influence on the freedoms enjoyed by the west.

 

I cannot circle the square of a Liverpool legend and captain coming from a socialist city, along with lots of fans in particular from the Liverpool area not wanting LFC to become part of a sport washing organisation. They can make any number excuses buts it is poor form and money cannot buy your virtue back.

[Scott_M]

Do I not like this…

 

 

…unless he’s paid £10bn per season and is returning in 3 years to buy us. 

[Bobby Hundreds]

Love him as a player but as a man 

 

 

[El Rojo]

12 minutes ago, Bobby Hundreds said:

Love him as a player but as a man 

 

 

 

Increasingly, I look at most goings-on in modern football with a face of Phil Leotardo-esque distain.

 

(Literally laughing to myself here thinking of his rant about how the family name was mangled at Ellis Island). 

[Reacher]

Something about all this is off; like many have mentioned. The same year the Saudi's are throwing out massive contracts is the same year the Prem are looking into bringing in a wage cap?

[No2]

1 hour ago, Scott_M said:

Do I not like this…

 

 

…unless he’s paid £10bn per season and is returning in 3 years to buy us. 

The "best of luck Stevie" at the bottom of that tweet is akin to sports washing as far as I'm concerned. 

[Anubis]

Gerrard has made his bed and now he can swelter in it. He doesn’t need the money. He knows who are paying his wages. He can fuck off as far as I’m concerned.

[Baltar]

Disappointed with Gerrard. His managerial career in Europe is already over after this in my view. 

[Lurtz]

57 minutes ago, Anubis said:

Gerrard has made his bed and now he can swelter in it. He doesn’t need the money. He knows who are paying his wages. He can fuck off as far as I’m concerned.

 

This. I had plenty to say about Beckham and about the gay, black, ex ingurlaund ladies player who's name escapes me trying to justify a Quatar world cup whilst shovelling handfuls of cash into their pockets so Gerrard can fuck off as well. What a fucking idiot. 

[Chris]

What an absolute dick that bloke is. 

[Aventus]

Genuinely thought he'd be better than that.

 

You either die a hero or live long enough to become a scummy money grubbing cunt, or whatever the saying is. 

[Bjornebye]

7 hours ago, Scott_M said:

Do I not like this…

 

 

…unless he’s paid £10bn per season and is returning in 3 years to buy us. 

 

Green?! 

 

 

 

[Funkasy]

Pathethic from Gerrard.

[El Rojo]

6 hours ago, Baltar said:

His managerial career in Europe is already over after this in my view. 

 

'Yeah, of course,' as he says himself in every interview. 

[Harry's Lad]

From hero to zero. Well done Stevie.