21 Jun 2015 12:31:49
A question to all on here.
If you were a professional Footballer on a GOOD wage would you be happy to just keep taking the money and not playing or would you take less money from another club and getting regular playing time. There does seem to be an awful lot of players who are now content to not be playing but are earning vast amounts

1.) 21 Jun 2015
21 Jun 2015 12:55:37
First of all you assume " an awful lot of players ". What facts do you have to support this theory ?

2.) 21 Jun 2015
21 Jun 2015 12:58:38
I would want to leave for less money,and prove my last club wrong to let me go.

If you go to a club that gets the best out of you, you will get a new contract to keep you.

3.) 21 Jun 2015
21 Jun 2015 13:21:44
Depends on the circumstances. If you have a wife and family and a mortgage it isn't so easy to upbucket and also take less wages. For a player who is single it is a less complicated decision. Nobody can really be happy not playing. Must make training a demoralising exercise in futility.

4.) 21 Jun 2015
21 Jun 2015 14:16:52
I'd stick around and try to get myself in the first team, but why should I move on if I'm getting paid well. If I couldn't force myself into the team I'd ask for a loan. I wouldn't go to a club for less money.

At the end of the day you can't blame footballers for wanting to stay for more money and less playing time.

5.) 21 Jun 2015
21 Jun 2015 16:18:56
Ifs buts and maybes.the deal has to be right for that player.if it's a poor club or with staff there that aren't as good as what your used to why would you leave?theres to many ifs and buts about the question you have asked.you make it sound like its a easy decision.like what's been said if you have a family and a kid that is in school would you move from notts to say Brighton just to play a bit and miss out on seeing your kid?like hell you would,is it also a good thing to pull your kid out of school just because you want to play?what about there lives?

6.) 22 Jun 2015
22 Jun 2015 06:53:31
Asking the same question but rewording it, if you were at work and your boss comes in and says "look you are not really needed here so for the next 3 years you can either chill out at your desk not doing a lot, just scrolling through Facebook and going on sikipedia and we will still pay you your full wage or you can move to a smaller company, work your arse off and get paid half the money we are paying you."

What would you do?

7.) 22 Jun 2015
22 Jun 2015 14:24:17
Seems like the key to managing footballers then might be the length of contract? Why have previous managers given such long contracts out? There are lots of professions where people have to complete a probationery year to see how they get on then have a contract, which can be temporary, or to a set number of years etc. It's really hard to go to the City Ground and watch some of our highly-paid professionals not putting in any kind of shift and being paid huge amounts of money.