Abdoulaye's going t'Souk transfer thread
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I like Eagles, but who the holy feck decided giving him a contract worth £30k a week was a good idea?!
Also, "and despite being a real fan favourite last season"?!
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I thought that too, but the average Prem salary was around the 25/30k mark last year, so it was certainly on the high side of average when we gave him that contract.Prufrock wrote:I like Eagles, but who the holy feck decided giving him a contract worth £30k a week was a good idea?!
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And how much is his mate Tyrone on? How Coyle was allowed to make the pay awards he made is absolutely staggering.
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Report here suggests 25k per week.
Report here suggests 25k per week.
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Worthy4England wrote:http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/foot ... 42669.html
Report here suggests 25k per week.
That article. Wow.
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My view also. Big money for an OK player who had one (relegated) Premiership season behind him.Worthy4England wrote:I thought that too, but the average Prem salary was around the 25/30k mark last year, so it was certainly on the high side of average when we gave him that contract.Prufrock wrote:I like Eagles, but who the holy feck decided giving him a contract worth £30k a week was a good idea?!
Also, "and despite being a real fan favourite last season"?!
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No wonder we got ourselves into trouble.
... & if £25k pw is closer to the mark well, whoop. That's a whole pile better.
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What with citys average salary last week, gartside this week and a report like that, in can only be classed as a 'sport' in name only.Worthy4England wrote:http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/foot ... 42669.html
Report here suggests 25k per week.
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suspending all normal world thoughts on salaries and earning thereof, unless someone can show that we were paying well over the going rate for the players at the time, I don't see what the issue is.Bruce Rioja wrote:And how much is his mate Tyrone on? How Coyle was allowed to make the pay awards he made is absolutely staggering.
we were competing in the PL and paying those levels came with the territory. Of course you may question who was bought, but then again they only just went down.
relegation and failure to get back up has of course brought a different perspective. I still think its been more of a crime to still be paying some of those salaries and not getting the best out of those players.
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Is that right? Did Danny Shittu really only play ten games for us?
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I thought it was less tbh. We used him in cups (disastrously ... remember losing at home to Northampton ??) and sub now and again.CrazyHorse wrote:Is that right? Did Danny Shittu really only play ten games for us?
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The worry isn't so much what we were paying in the Premier League (ridiculous and unsustainable, but broadly in line with our rivals), it's what we've continued to spend in the Championship. Seemingly few relegation clauses and a whole boatload of big new contracts (Andrews, Knight, Wheater, Beckford, Baptiste). The biggest losses, the most debt, the highest wage bill.
Meanwhile, we can't get into the top half. It is staggering mismanagement on every level.
Meanwhile, we can't get into the top half. It is staggering mismanagement on every level.
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Exactly my point. If he's going, then fine (despite nobody confirming that yet) but not picking him whilst we're paying him money for doing nothing in order to prove a "I'm in charge" point says more about the manager than the player (am I right in thinking Dougie has denied any rift between them?). Things making sense is always a good reason for doing them. Not much so far about what D.F does seems to back this. Eagles is just one example.bobo the clown wrote:Very difficult to see why he'd have not selected him, not even on the bench, for 2 to 3 months. I can get that he's expensive and wouldn't get a new contract .... not at that salary at any rate, just why not use him while you have him ?
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I can tell you what the issue was.StaffsTrotter wrote:suspending all normal world thoughts on salaries and earning thereof, unless someone can show that we were paying well over the going rate for the players at the time, I don't see what the issue is.Bruce Rioja wrote:And how much is his mate Tyrone on? How Coyle was allowed to make the pay awards he made is absolutely staggering.
we were competing in the PL and paying those levels came with the territory. Of course you may question who was bought, but then again they only just went down.
relegation and failure to get back up has of course brought a different perspective. I still think its been more of a crime to still be paying some of those salaries and not getting the best out of those players.
Our wage bill the year we went down was the 13th highest in the division. We finished 18th. That would suggest to me, we were paying too much for either the players we had (and I think there was some of that) and the manager we had (and I think there was plenty of that).
We spent a good while punching above our weight, but the season we went down, we were clearly paying too much for the cloggers on show.
Coyle bought largely championship level players and put them on premiership wages.
We spent £20m on salaries more than Norwich and Swansea who finished 11 points in front of us.
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Maybe there's other expensive clauses in his Contract like appearance fees, assist/goal bonuses etc. maybe Freedman had determined we weren't going up and weren't going down, so he'd save himself the extras....TANGODANCER wrote:Exactly my point. If he's going, then fine (despite nobody confirming that yet) but not picking him whilst we're paying him money for doing nothing in order to prove a "I'm in charge" point says more about the manager than the player (am I right in thinking Dougie has denied any rift between them?). Things making sense is always a good reason for doing them. Not much so far about what D.F does seems to back this. Eagles is just one example.bobo the clown wrote:Very difficult to see why he'd have not selected him, not even on the bench, for 2 to 3 months. I can get that he's expensive and wouldn't get a new contract .... not at that salary at any rate, just why not use him while you have him ?
If I was petty minded I'd think DF saw his arse when he declined a loan to Charlton. So he sulks and cuts off OUR nose to spite OUR face. Oh, I've just remembered ... I AM petty minded.
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↑↑↑ You may well be right Worthy. So the club/manager/twitter/Lofty/Phyllis, the tea-woman should say that It's not difficult this treating people like adults stuff.
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Might be the case indeed Worthy, which begs the question, did Dougie accept mid-table mediocrity three months ago? Pretty negative....Worthy4England wrote:Maybe there's other expensive clauses in his Contract like appearance fees, assist/goal bonuses etc. maybe Freedman had determined we weren't going up and weren't going down, so he'd save himself the extras....TANGODANCER wrote:Exactly my point. If he's going, then fine (despite nobody confirming that yet) but not picking him whilst we're paying him money for doing nothing in order to prove a "I'm in charge" point says more about the manager than the player (am I right in thinking Dougie has denied any rift between them?). Things making sense is always a good reason for doing them. Not much so far about what D.F does seems to back this. Eagles is just one example.bobo the clown wrote:Very difficult to see why he'd have not selected him, not even on the bench, for 2 to 3 months. I can get that he's expensive and wouldn't get a new contract .... not at that salary at any rate, just why not use him while you have him ?
If I was petty minded I'd think DF saw his arse when he declined a loan to Charlton. So he sulks and cuts off OUR nose to spite OUR face. Oh, I've just remembered ... I AM petty minded.
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They might be under Non-Disclosure formally within the Contact....bobo the clown wrote:↑↑↑ You may well be right Worthy. So the club/manager/twitter/Lofty/Phyllis, the tea-woman should say that It's not difficult this treating people like adults stuff.
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To be fair, 3 months ago we were looking over our shoulders with a bit of unease rather than looking ahead with a telescope!TANGODANCER wrote:Might be the case indeed Worthy, which begs the question, did Dougie accept mid-table mediocrity three months ago? Pretty negative....Worthy4England wrote:Maybe there's other expensive clauses in his Contract like appearance fees, assist/goal bonuses etc. maybe Freedman had determined we weren't going up and weren't going down, so he'd save himself the extras....TANGODANCER wrote:Exactly my point. If he's going, then fine (despite nobody confirming that yet) but not picking him whilst we're paying him money for doing nothing in order to prove a "I'm in charge" point says more about the manager than the player (am I right in thinking Dougie has denied any rift between them?). Things making sense is always a good reason for doing them. Not much so far about what D.F does seems to back this. Eagles is just one example.bobo the clown wrote:Very difficult to see why he'd have not selected him, not even on the bench, for 2 to 3 months. I can get that he's expensive and wouldn't get a new contract .... not at that salary at any rate, just why not use him while you have him ?
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I'd say that that's fine if you're getting the going rate of player in return. As I've pointed out repeatedly, there wasn't a single other club in for the out of contract Zat Knight, yet we decided to give him £25K a week, apparently.StaffsTrotter wrote:suspending all normal world thoughts on salaries and earning thereof, unless someone can show that we were paying well over the going rate for the players at the time, I don't see what the issue is.Bruce Rioja wrote:And how much is his mate Tyrone on? How Coyle was allowed to make the pay awards he made is absolutely staggering.
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And Ricketts, Andrews, Mills... and I see (according to the Mail) we're set to continue subsidising Sordell's wages if he's at Brentford next year.Bruce Rioja wrote:I'd say that that's fine if you're getting the going rate of player in return. As I've pointed out repeatedly, there wasn't a single other club in for the out of contract Zat Knight, yet we decided to give him £25K a week, apparently.StaffsTrotter wrote:suspending all normal world thoughts on salaries and earning thereof, unless someone can show that we were paying well over the going rate for the players at the time, I don't see what the issue is.Bruce Rioja wrote:And how much is his mate Tyrone on? How Coyle was allowed to make the pay awards he made is absolutely staggering.
None of which makes Freedman a good manager, but it's pretty much unarguable that we're still paying a lot of wages to Coyle's deadwood.
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