Contracts are contracts both ways ultimately. At some point in our somewhat checkered ownership/managerial merry go round someone at some point has seen him as worth that amount of money.
Footballers have short shelf life – if it’s not financially sensible for him to move on, you can’t really blame him for wanting to see out the contract before having to rebuild his image and career for substantially less dough.
Where I think football agents generally have had most of the football ecosystem over the barrel is a lack of KPI based payments. A wage should be representative of work output – not just a handout because someone seen something in you once four years earlier.
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Good riddance to that wage thief
Contracts are contracts both ways ultimately. At some point in our somewhat checkered ownership/managerial merry go round someone at some point has seen him as worth that amount of money.
Footballers have short shelf life – if it’s not financially sensible for him to move on, you can’t really blame him for wanting to see out the contract before having to rebuild his image and career for substantially less dough.
Where I think football agents generally have had most of the football ecosystem over the barrel is a lack of KPI based payments. A wage should be representative of work output – not just a handout because someone seen something in you once four years earlier.