Chelsea Thread - 2021/22

[Vialli98]

and there it is, all that is wrong in football being defended by a normal working man.

I fucking hate football sometimes.

What?

 

[dickie davies]

I know you're saying this in jest but what would you do if you were one of the top performers in the team but also one of the lowest earners in the team? He earns less than CHO, RLC, Alonso, Kepa etc. If you can get close to 250k or more elsewhere, why would a 190k offer be satisfactory?

In all honesty, I've been there
I had a job that paid extremely well and I was performing as well, if not better, than a couple of colleagues that were earning more
Instead of focusing on what I didn't have I concentrated on what I did have. I wasn't going to let it chew me up as I knew how fortunate I was compared to someone earning an average salary
But my circumstances were different to Rudiger's
I knew it'd be very difficult to find another position that would pay me that amount, whereas in football there are clubs lining up to pay obscene salaries

 

[PannickAtTheDisco]

That's not much of an add when you consider the true cost of those players on the open market is roughly £600m!

Bale's wages alone will be coming off at £31.2m. Adding £70m to the wage bill for those four players would be worth it to them.

And that's without them perhaps selling someone?

I just don't think it is that unrealistic to think they could not do at least three of those players.

Hopefully leaving Haaland to us!

Well he's the only 1 of the 4 worth signing unless your only objectives are to sell shirts and copies of FIFA

 

[Vialli98]

In all honesty, I've been there
I had a job that paid extremely well and I was performing as well, if not better, than a couple of colleagues that were earning more
Instead of focusing on what I didn't have I concentrated on what I did have. I wasn't going to let it chew me up as I knew how fortunate I was compared to someone earning an average salary
But my circumstances were different to Rudiger's
I knew it'd be very difficult to find another position that would pay me that amount, whereas in football there are clubs lining up to pay obscene salaries

But what would you have done if you were literally holding contract talks because your current one was expiring and you had offers from other places far exceeding what your current company were willing to offer, which was still lower than your lesser performing colleagues?

 

[bluealf]

What?

Do you really need it explained to you?

A guy earning what 30k a year defending a footballer turning down a 3 year 30m contract because he might make another 10m elsewhere.

Is that easier for you to understand, I wasn't slagging you off, I wasn't slagging Chelsea off, just entitled overpaid footballers.

ie I hate football sometimes.

 

[dickie davies]

But what would you have done if you were literally holding contract talks because your current one was expiring and you had offers from other places far exceeding what your current company were willing to offer, which was still lower than your lesser performing colleagues?

Are we talking lottery winning money (footballer's wages) or my extremely well paid salary?

 

[Withnail]

Chelsea now lost Kante again to the same knee injury.

Thiago also out for at least a month with a hamstring issue.

Bad news for Chelsea, 2 key players especially Kante. I was hoping that Chelsea could get at least a draw against the Scousers, but not as confident now.

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

Well he's the only 1 of the 4 worth signing unless your only objectives are to sell shirts and copies of FIFA

Those other three will be more than adequate to do both - maintain their current superiority in La Liga and sell shirts.

 

[PannickAtTheDisco]

Those other three will be more than adequate to do both - maintain their current superiority in La Liga and sell shirts.

Wouldn't win them the CL

 

[Vialli98]

Are we talking lottery winning money (footballer's wages) or my extremely well paid salary?

Both. Rudiger is obviously living and working in an alternate reality but the concept is the same. If you're a top 3 performer in your team but you're outside the top 10 earners in your team, when it's time to renegotiate contracts, that disparity will be get emphasised.