The Great Big Amazing Fantastic Takeover Thread

[Rich]

I think you have missed my point. Footballers get grief for the amount they earn because it is an astronomical figure compared to the average wage/cost of living. If most footballers wages were halved, there would be no noticeable decline in their standard of living. The same cannot be said for the rest of us.

Of course most Indians don't have the same spending capacity as UK citizens, but a middle-class Indian is relatively better off than a someone here on minimum wage - but evidently not in real terms. it's akin to saying that "When I were a lad you could go to the cinema, buy a bag of chips and get the bus home and still have change from 50p." It doesn't mean anything unless you account for inflation etc.

You also have to factor in their earning years, though. While the wages are high, they're only astronomical for a very short period, with a few exceptions footballers will probably have 5 years where their earnings are ridiculous, and then retire 30 years before the rest of us, so have to live in what they've earned.

I know that's not a difficult thing, but when the players ate earning £10k a week and spending like they're on £100k, it's quite possible that they will run out of cash by the time they're 40.

You have to factor in that these wages are going to kids - I shudder to think what most of us would be like with that much money at 21, I'd guess many wouldn't see 22.

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[Alvar Hanso]

Seems a bit disrespectful to John McGovern to label Luke Chambers as formerredscaptain.

[winnits]

You also have to factor in their earning years, though. While the wages are high, they're only astronomical for a very short period, with a few exceptions footballers will probably have 5 years where their earnings are ridiculous, and then retire 30 years before the rest of us, so have to live in what they've earned.

I know that's not a difficult thing, but when the players ate earning £10k a week and spending like they're on £100k, it's quite possible that they will run out of cash by the time they're 40.

You have to factor in that these wages are going to kids - I shudder to think what most of us would be like with that much money at 21, I'd guess many wouldn't see 22.

Or maybe they could continue to work when they stop playing?

[ac-forest]

'Or maybe they could continue to work when they stop playing?'

was just about to say simular, 30 years is plenty time to find a new job and keep earning money!

[puds1970]

I can't blame players trying to get all they can while they can.
But at the same time if I was a player on top wages I couldn't blame people for criticising the immoral sums that they get paid..

[Joe90]

You also have to factor in their earning years, though. While the wages are high, they're only astronomical for a very short period, with a few exceptions footballers will probably have 5 years where their earnings are ridiculous, and then retire 30 years before the rest of us, so have to live in what they've earned.

I know that's not a difficult thing, but when the players ate earning £10k a week and spending like they're on £100k, it's quite possible that they will run out of cash by the time they're 40.

You have to factor in that these wages are going to kids - I shudder to think what most of us would be like with that much money at 21, I'd guess many wouldn't see 22.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...otelli-1137092

Probably like that.

[chriscl]

there's always players to sign but it just wont be free transfers. Forest must be training with about 8 players at the moment.

We have Seventeen players at the moment according to the OS.

[merriman]

2012/13 squad photograph #NFFC http://twitter.com/OHara1971/status/...646658/photo/1

[D***y Red]

Grant ‏@GazNffc
So only Karl Darlow GK (u22), Kieron Freeman (u21) & Jamaal Lascelles (u19) with the 1st team today. #nffc

Grant ‏@GazNffc
Would like to see Evtimov,Regan,Morgan & Osborn as u19s there as well. Hopefully be the case with more football based training in next week

[nffcjoe]

really hope something gets announced soon, whether it be today or within the next couple of days.

[troy21]

you and me both brother

[BuckeyeRed]

The local journos are conspicuous by their absence today. They seem to know fa about when this will be done. To them, "investigative journalism" seems to mean checking message boards.

[nffc13]

8 players turned up for Pompey training today... and we talk about having only a few defenders!

[troy21]

we're going to have 8 players left ourselves if this isint sorted

[Papa Shango]

Next person to post has a tiny penis

Absolute gold!

[robbobestever]

If we only have half a team will the new owners be paying half the asking price. Seems fair to me as long as the spare cash is spent on new players.

[RobbieLePop]

He does have a point, to some degree, though, which is why we have numerate and real terms when it comes to money.

The hamburger index illustrates this quite well.

Obviously he's missed the mark by using something like India, where they may only pay 8p a litre of petrol, but need three generations of life savings to buy a moped, but his point was valid, the numerical value of something is subjective, not objective.

I realise that it is subjective, I was just baffled by suggesting India of all places fits into this model when the majority of its people suffer from horendous poverty due to the country having the biggest wealth inequality in the world.

[Alf-Inge of Fudge]

Or maybe they could continue to work when they stop playing?

If a player can hit 30 with their mortgage paid and a good pension they've got more than most working men anyway and just need beer & bill money.

When you see a 20 y/o with barely 20 games under his belt driving round in a top of the range Merc it makes you wonder if they couldn't make the money they earn stretch a lot further too.

Personally, both to build character, give players a better perspective on real life, and to physically toughen them up I'd give youth players between 16-20 at least 1 day a week labouring. Light-ish labour that would carry less risk of injury (shovelling, gardenwork etc.), but labour none-the less

[The_City_Is_Ours]

If we only have half a team will the new owners be paying half the asking price. Seems fair to me as long as the spare cash is spent on new players.

No chance :P They'll have to compensate the Doughty's for the money spent buying Earnie (for example), paying his wages and then letting him go for nothing. ND might have put £100m in but the asking price [i]should[./i] be a fraction of that.

As for the transfer it needs to fucking hurry up. When the statements came out I thought it'd be a week, now everyone is saying the 12th = get it sorted!!

[D***y Red]

@JordanRhodes90: Thanks to all the #HTFC fans for their support over the years, but I am joining #BHAFC this evening!

[derbynil]

Next person to post has a tiny penis

Absolute gold!

Ah but penis size is all relative

If you compare it to an Indian kids...

[incapable hulk]

@JordanRhodes90: Thanks to all the #HTFC fans for their support over the years, but I am joining #BHAFC this evening!

Blimey? Is that Brighton?

[TheDude]

Bostwick has joined Posh. No ambition.

[nffc13]

Ian Edwards ‏@IanEdwards46
@will_forest not sure who decreed that it would be done today, but looks unlikely now. Hopes for later in the week.

[forestsim]

Apparently the Rhodes one is a fake account. Brighton fan apparently.