wayne bridge - mancini is my only handicap

[Corky]

It is not his fault he is not getting picked.

He had a good game against Birmingham when given the chance.

Most fans said he was a good buy, and the money didn't matter too much as we had it and needed a left back.

What if Kompany and Hart wanted to give us a break from their wages and just leave? You can't have it both ways.

 

[bluealf]

I wish he'd just fuck off and leave as well.

However... just looking at it from his point of view for one moment...

If you had a contract with your employer where they were paying your £100k a year for the next 3 years, and you knew you could only get £40k a year elsewhere, how keen would you be to just walk away? It's not Bridge's fault we decided to pay him stupid money. I blame the nob head who signed him.

The trouble with kind of thinking is, the man on the street needs to earn to pay his mortgage and feed his family, Wayne Bridge would still be able to do this even if he took a cut down to 20k a week leaving him 10k a week after tax etc, I'm sure we would struggle by on that eh ?

Also you have to take into account that he is a professional sportsman, what happened to wanting to play his choosen sport ?

Far to big in his own head to play at a lower level.

 

[gaudinho's stolen car]

I've got no time for Wayne Bridge. He is perfectly entitled to take his wage while he is still under contract but in my opinion he is perfectly happy kicking round the EDS. Being a footballer isn't like a real job, you earn enough in a year to support your family for life.

 

[TFC]

I've had a few arguments on here about Bridge in the past, but this is a bad PR move for him, and great for us IMO. Now if he doesnt accept an offer in Jan and move on, he will look a bigger twat than he already does.

*crosses fingers that there will be an offer...any offer...*

 

[laserblue]

Without reading the bullshit inbetween, those quotes sound quite reasonable.

And if you look at it from a personal perspectve, taking the Blue Tints off, if you had a chance of earning 5 mil a year compared to 1 mil, what would you do?

Or look at it like this, if you were on 50 grand a year, guaranteed, working at the top of your company but isolated away from the rest of the workers, would you give that up just so you could get to mingle with the lads on the shop floor but lose 40 grand in the process?

And don't give me the 'I'd want to play football/mingle with the lads' spiel, 4 mil (or 40 grand) a year is a hell of a lot to give up.

I know what I'd do.

that would be fine if he wasn't whingeing to a gutter journalist who has an anti-city agenda that all he wants to do is play football. he's not going to play football for city so to do so he needs to move elsewhere. however, it's clear he'd rather be sat on his arse taking the money. i don't blame him for that but he should at least be honest & say that's his preferred option & the reason he didn't move to celtic (where he'd have played every week) in the summer.

 

[ColinBellsjockstrap]

I wish he'd just fuck off and leave as well.

However... just looking at it from his point of view for one moment...

If you had a contract with your employer where they were paying your £100k a year for the next 3 years, and you knew you could only get £40k a year elsewhere, how keen would you be to just walk away? It's not Bridge's fault we decided to pay him stupid money. I blame the nob head who signed him.

This.

 

[Danamy]

I wish he'd just fuck off and leave as well.

However... just looking at it from his point of view for one moment...

If you had a contract with your employer where they were paying your £100k a year for the next 3 years, and you knew you could only get £40k a year elsewhere, how keen would you be to just walk away? It's not Bridge's fault we decided to pay him stupid money. I blame the nob head who signed him.

I'd worry about a 60% drop in my wages of £36000 a year but maybe I'd be able to adjust to only having £40000 a week. Unless I had no pride.

What the hell does "Pride" have to do with this? Bridge should stay and collect every penny he is contracted to get. If City wants him out, fire him and pay the rest of his wages.

Don't know why everyone is so much on the back of players who came to City in good faith. No one put a gun to CIty's head when they doled out these deals. So City should stand by the deals. And City fans should stop acting like 4 year old pricks who can't see beyond their infantile positions.

Just like many before him, Bridge has done nothing wrong. He was courted by City, contracted by City, and promised to be paid by City. That City has now gone on to find others who are better is not Bridges fault. Bridge never advertised himself as the best player alive. If CIty was poor in its evaluations of worth, that too is City's fault. You can't have your cake and eat it too. Which is what City and infant-like section of our fanbase want.

The reason Bridge is on 90k a week is coz City wanted to make it hard for other teams to compete with the advantages of coming to City. But we should also realize that these also has its downsides. As in players we deem unfit or not good enough too will be hard to discard once we have signed them. This attitude that said players should now help us out, is as stupid as it is laughable.

Why should Bridge work in the interest of Manchester City. I say City pay off the contracts of players they don't want, or let them off on a free. And can we stop with the pride argument. It is annoying!

Perfectly put indeed.

Just shows how fickle some fans are by reading the comments in this thread.

No doubt there'll be a thread in the future the same as this about Balo when Mancini has gone, same differance differant name.

It's football get over it.......................

 

[Skashion]

If you're that desperate to play you would have gone. Never had faith in his ability anyway but his attitude is worse. I don't have any sympathy or respect like I do for Ade either because he desperately wants to play and does have the ability.

 

[The Future's Blue]

Without reading the bullshit inbetween, those quotes sound quite reasonable.

And if you look at it from a personal perspectve, taking the Blue Tints off, if you had a chance of earning 5 mil a year compared to 1 mil, what would you do?

Or look at it like this, if you were on 50 grand a year, guaranteed, working at the top of your company but isolated away from the rest of the workers, would you give that up just so you could get to mingle with the lads on the shop floor but lose 40 grand in the process?

And don't give me the 'I'd want to play football/mingle with the lads' spiel, 4 mil (or 40 grand) a year is a hell of a lot to give up.

I know what I'd do.

that would be fine if he wasn't whingeing to a gutter journalist who has an anti-city agenda that all he wants to do is play football. he's not going to play football for city so to do so he needs to move elsewhere. however, it's clear he'd rather be sat on his arse taking the money. i don't blame him for that but he should at least be honest & say that's his preferred option & the reason he didn't move to celtic (where he'd have played every week) in the summer.

That's why I said 'Without reading the Bullshit'. If you just read the quotes there's not to much whinging but more of an insight into a players mentality. And if you read the final paragraph he actually states a valid point that this is all about the money to us, so why shouldn't it be for him? Anyway:

'Roberto Mancini obviously doesn't know me very well because I don't play golf,'

'The only player I've seen isolated like this was Bogarde at Chelsea'. 'When I was at Chelsea I was playing for a team where Ashley Cole was the best in the world and I still got games. It won't happen at City. There has never been an explanation, but it's obvious they don't want me.

'Mancini doesn't really speak to me, he doesn't really speak to any of the players. The only time I've known a player isolated like this was Winston Bogarde at Chelsea. Usually you still train with the first team, even when they want you out.'

'I've never caused trouble, I'm not that kind of character,' he said. 'There will be days when I'm frustrated - not depressed, but down. Training helps take my mind off the fact that I don't play.

'I don't like confrontation, to be honest. It takes a while for me to lose it, but when I do…

'Some players are totally different to me - they would phone the manager and say things there and then. I just get on with things and hope they resolve themselves. Even when I'm playing I just like to get on with my own life. 'If I kicked up a fuss I might have got out easier.'

'I feel I am letting my mum and dad down and they basically live for following me around and watching me play football.

'I hate that my parents can't come and watch me or Frankie, who loves to watch football, can't come with her mum and dad.

'It is like I am letting them down as well because they are so proud to see me out there playing. They have been really supportive.

'They are people I can call when I am down. They cheer me up straight away and slap me back into place. Aaron Lincoln, my agent, has been amazing.

'Everyone has been so supportive and they can all tell when I have been down.'

'There was a time when I could have gone to Portsmouth on loan, but I had to say no - my dad's Southampton and I grew up supporting them. Dad would never have spoken to me again.'

'Everyone misses being an international when they don't play. It is the thing everyone wants to be - an England international. When you start playing professional football it is the next step.

'It has been difficult for me over the last couple of years football-wise - I have not played great and personal stuff that had gone on. I don't want to talk too much about it. I don't want to bring up the situation that happened because I didn't talk about it at the time and what's the point?

'If I had gone to the World Cup it would have been an absolute media frenzy. I probably could talk about it one day, but at this precise moment I don't think it is going to help me and I don't think it's going to help anyone else who was involved.

'I had never been in the press before. Then I was and everyone had an opinion about it. It was like I felt, "Just leave me to get on with it". Some were supportive and some weren't. That's just the way it is. But I got a lot of support and I am thankful for the support I did get. I can deal with it. Everyone was talking about it and I just didn't want to talk about it.

'At the time, (England manager) Fabio Capello called me two or three times but it wasn't right. 'My personal life has got better. I am happy at the moment and the football has got to get better in January.'

'My next move has to be right for me. I'd rather play three games a week than none, but I'm entitled to leave. City claimed I'm only at the club for the money, but when it comes to the deal to let me go, it becomes about the money for them.'

 

[St Helens Blue (Exiled)]

Wayne

You are shite-fact
You are only interested in your private vip shopping trips to harvey nics-fact
You are the worst defender I have ever seen in a city shirt-fact.

99% of city fans are praying you fuck off in January.-fact




Your bird is worth a wood mind!!<br /><br />-- Sat Dec 24, 2011 12:50 pm --<br /><br />I'd fooking love to see Neil Ashton outside the Etihad to give him a piece of my mind. What a fucking **** and I bet his wife is a slut!