Erling Haaland

[BlueMonkey79]

Just wondering if this might get done a bit quicker now. Talk on the radio today of regulating agents next season. Whispers of 10 per cent of a players fee is all they can charge.

 

[Keeper!]

Agents are generally good. They protect working class lads who know nothing about contract law or economic value from the vultures who run football clubs. They make sure their boys get paid the right amount. Without them, we'd still have footballers on £20k a week.

Agree but also those same agents do take advantage of the same naïve players for their personal benefit.

I still don't understand why players don't use the PFA reps who do it for free.

 

[moh]

Agents are generally good. They protect working class lads who know nothing about contract law or economic value from the vultures who run football clubs. They make sure their boys get paid the right amount. Without them, we'd still have footballers on £20k a week.

They are usually the reason none of their electricity gets cut off each month by paying the bills for them

 

[Gaz (FMwkdsoul)]

Agree but also those same agents do take advantage of the same naïve players for their personal benefit.

I still don't understand why players don't use the PFA reps who do it for free.

I would expect they just deal with the one club they are told too, employed agents will do the full ring round and circus stuff to get anyone to the table.

 

[Gaz (FMwkdsoul)]

Kinda love it if this was on for Jan with all the fixtures about to be congested and rearragned till after that.. lol.

 

[bluealf]

It's is a bad thing. Why should working class lads who have dedicated themselves to a craft since they were toddlers, get good enough to be one of the in the world and earn their clubs tens of millions per year and be paid 0.1% of that?

Its simple business. People who make the company money deserve to be rewarded with a good percentage of that money they generated. The football business is the players business. Without the players, nobody cares. It is their talent that generates the money.

Because eventually, they will put football clubs out of business, it is called biting the hand that feeds you.

Boys earning 20k, established players earning 150-400k the common working man who has dedicated himself to his craft since he was 16yo gets 30k a year if he is lucky, this person then has to pay more and more to watch the impoverished players ply their trade, sometimes twice a week and in some cases three times in a week.

I am not advocating that football goes back to pre-Jimmy Hill levels but obviously football at all levels can not afford to keep on paying through the nose.

If a big club like Barcelona are financially fucked it says a lot, but really it is the trickle effect to lower leagues, where these footballers are now on 1,2 5k a week and that really is unsustainable but the player still holds all the cards as they can see out their contract and walk to a club willing to pay the increase.

It has got to stop/slow down soon or even we will not be able to finance all the contracts for the star players we have never mind new signings looking at 350k or more.

 

[talkativesprout]

It's is a bad thing. Why should working class lads who have dedicated themselves to a craft since they were toddlers, get good enough to be one of the in the world and earn their clubs tens of millions per year and be paid 0.1% of that?

Its simple business. People who make the company money deserve to be rewarded with a good percentage of that money they generated. The football business is the players business. Without the players, nobody cares. It is their talent that generates the money.

I think i'm a commie because in my ideal world the ownerwould charge £3.50 to get in

 

[decmancity]

Because eventually, they will put football clubs out of business, it is called biting the hand that feeds you.

Boys earning 20k, established players earning 150-400k the common working man who has dedicated himself to his craft since he was 16yo gets 30k a year if he is lucky, this person then has to pay more and more to watch the impoverished players ply their trade, sometimes twice a week and in some cases three times in a week.

I am not advocating that football goes back to pre-Jimmy Hill levels but obviously football at all levels can not afford to keep on paying through the nose.

If a big club like Barcelona are financially fucked it says a lot, but really it is the trickle effect to lower leagues, where these footballers are now on 1,2 5k a week and that really is unsustainable but the player still holds all the cards as they can see out their contract and walk to a club willing to pay the increase.

It has got to stop/slow down soon or even we will not be able to finance all the contracts for the star players we have never mind new signings looking at 350k or more.

Disagree.

Football clubs have no problem signing billion pound tv deals, sponsorships and charging £6 a pint and £8 for a pie to the fan in the stands.

Barca are fucked because of corruption, arrogance and greed. It was their choice to go and burn money, like 150m on Coutinho and give him a huge contract despite it being completely ridiculous and laughable at the time, it looks even worse now and you can put that alongside all of the other crap they bought.

Players shoud get their slice of the pie, they train all year round to play at the highest level. They should get rewarded for it.

 

[Summerbuzz]

It's is a bad thing. Why should working class lads who have dedicated themselves to a craft since they were toddlers, get good enough to be one of the in the world and earn their clubs tens of millions per year and be paid 0.1% of that?

Its simple business. People who make the company money deserve to be rewarded with a good percentage of that money they generated. The football business is the players business. Without the players, nobody cares. It is their talent that generates the money.

Deserve is an interesting word. Although I tend to agree.

I'd rather it went to them - but I also think there's a strong case for providing more support for the others who are not as successful, and those without who the whole process would not work. There are things to be tweaked.

The idea however is that in focusing on 'overpaid' stars, the US style owners employ public opinion in their favour. Which is to not pay anyone a penny more than they can get away with. More for them.

I can't help but think of the farce of College Sports, 18-21 year olds turning out in front of hundreds of thousands, generating revenues from national broadcasts. And not a penny goes to them. The colleges and broadcasters and everyone else gets paid big time. But not them.

That is one alternate reality we should be very wary of.

 

[metalblue]

Disagree.

Football clubs have no problem signing billion pound tv deals, sponsorships and charging £6 a pint and £8 for a pie to the fan in the stands.

Barca are fucked because of corruption, arrogance and greed. It was their choice to go and burn money, like 150m on Coutinho and give him a huge contract despite it being completely ridiculous and laughable at the time, it looks even worse now and you can put that alongside all of the other crap they bought.

Players shoud get their slice of the pie, they train all year round to play at the highest level. They should get rewarded for it.

This. Barca are fucked because they couldn’t run a piss up in a brewery, they’ve been in the shit before and haven’t learned owt from it. Fuck them.