Stop loaning players we dont want

[marcoboogers]

Wayne Bridge should be took into a field & put down. The man has no professional desire

 

[bluemoondays]

I hate what he's doing but completely understand it. He'll probably get a free transfer and end up at Fulham, West Brom, QPR!! for his last 2 seasons on £25k/week.

Seriously, if you had a maximum of 3 years working life left and you could earn £7.3m (90k/week x 52)+(25k/week x 104) OR earn £3.9m (25k/week x 156) which would you choose?

Because of the idiotic contract he was given we are hoping he will just turn around and say "Nah, I'll give up on almost £3.5m because I really want to play football"?

You'd have to be certifiably insane to turn down £3.5m in the last 3 years of your career to turn out for a low-middle PL team just to be playing regular football (which he has a chance of anyway for his last 2 years if he goes on a free).

 

[LoveCity]

Every summer we pray that we can rid ourselves of these players but it's impossible, how can we sell a barely average left-back who is on £90,000/week? There is a fair chance we may be able to get rid of £17million Santa Cruz on a FREE TRANSFER this summer but the way things are looking another year will roll by where one of the club's top earners Adebayor has to be loaned out again. We're still paying for the sins of Hughes (and whoever sanctioned these deals) and if we can't sell Adebayor we won't fully absolve ourselves of these sins until the summer of 2014 when Adebayor's contract is up.

 

[citytill1die84]

I know he has a contract and many say fair play to him, he is well within his rights to hold us to it. And that is true.
But what about his competitive instincts as a professional athlete?
You would think as he approaches the end of his career, he would accept that he has already made his money and is set up for life, and so actually goes somewhere to play regular football for less wages.
This man, already a multi-millionaire for doing very little, would rather play in the Championship for a subsidised full wage than take less money and test himself at the highest possible level he can in what remains of his days as a professional.
For me he is a sad case. He has no dignity, shame, self-respect or professional pride.

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Give him a choice walk for free and find a new club or get your 90k a week and train with the kids. He will pick 90k a week

So would I 90k a week is loads he'd be lucky if somebody else would pay him 25% of that. He's 31 now will be 32 when he's on a free next year and will probably join one of the promoted Championship clubs for 2 years.

 

[Jackson-ctid]

Problem is no-one will pay the price we have gave, the players in question won't take a wage cut.

No club will pay more then 500k for bridge, 9M for Adebayor, 2M for Santa Cruz. In a way its good, its telling other clubs even if a player isn't in our plans and not needed we still won't let them leave for less value then what we think they're worth and that we won't give into demands.

A loan is the best option so far as it prevents these players from causing any disruptions in the dressing room.

Teams would pay these ammounts for the players easily, after Ade's season, people would pay £20m for him but with wages as high as his, there are maybe 3 teams in the world who can afford him and they don't need him.

 

[Lucky13]

I know he has a contract and many say fair play to him, he is well within his rights to hold us to it. And that is true.
But what about his competitive instincts as a professional athlete?
You would think as he approaches the end of his career, he would accept that he has already made his money and is set up for life, and so actually goes somewhere to play regular football for less wages.
This man, already a multi-millionaire for doing very little, would rather play in the Championship for a subsidised full wage than take less money and test himself at the highest possible level he can in what remains of his days as a professional.
For me he is a sad case. He has no dignity, shame, self-respect or professional pride.

Good post.

 

[mcmanus]

We're still probably paying Danny Mills.

 

[TCIB]

All that cash and he can't change that face of a rapist.

Am i the only one who thinks he looks like the type to eventually go on a gun rampage and take out half the village ?

 

[Groke]

We're still probably paying Danny Mills.

Yes, Bridge is another mills - a fckin parasite. I bet he was gutted when we got taken over as it meant he was back at a club with high expectations again. As has been said already, Bridge is a multi-millionaire and never need work again so where is the twat's professional pride? Pity JT can't have a go on his new bird

 

[ChicagoBlue]

The players are holding the club to their contract, just as the club holds players to their contract. Simple!

It is amusing to me to think that ANYONE ON BLUEMOON would not continue to stay at a company that had contracted them to be there for X number of years for £90,000!

City can loan him out ANY TIME THEY WANT, but have to make a deal that makes it attractive to everyone else. If not, then they swallow the contract.

BTW, this whole notion of "professional pride" is a complete joke! He can STAY at City and play football EVERY DAY with some great players for a few hours and then live his life anyway he wants. Players' careers are short at best, so when City (Hughes!!) agreed the long term £90,000 deal, they cemented his future....as long as he abides by his contractual requirements, which he has done without making a single wave.

I say "Good Luck to you, Wayne! Well done, and I hope you enjoy your impending retirement. After all, you must have EARNED IT, otherwise a highly sophisticated company like City, with lawyers out of the wazoo, would not have given it to you, would they?!"