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Fair play to him, some interesting and refreshingly honest responses.
It really does go to show the pitfalls of young players listening to the advice of unscrupulous agents who don't have their best interests at heart. They'll get you one decent payday, then that's probably your career done - or at least the career you could have had if you'd focused on making football-centred decisions rather than purely financial ones. See also Ben Knight.
i don't see any hubris here at all. He's just picked up a season-wrecking injury in training, and this (to me) is a self-deprecating admission that he's always been relatively quiet in the social media but that now he has nothing better to do.
Fair play to him, some interesting and refreshingly honest responses.
It really does go to show the pitfalls of young players listening to the advice of unscrupulous agents who don't have their best interests at heart. They'll get you one decent payday, then that's probably your career done - or at least the career you could have had if you'd focused on making football-centred decisions rather than purely financial ones. See also Ben Knight.
Agree. Fair play to him. I hope for his sake he recovers and makes some sort of career in football.
I agree re some Agents. Their percentage comes first, second, third. Sadly, players and their parents won’t always see this. I’ve always held the view in life that if you look after your career first, the money will come along in its own good time and possibly more of it if you don’t chase it. Priorities I guess.
Agree. Fair play to him. I hope for his sake he recovers and makes some sort of career in football.
I agree re some Agents. Their percentage comes first, second, third. Sadly, players and their parents won’t always see this. I’ve always held the view in life that if you look after your career first, the money will come along in its own good time and possibly more of it if you don’t chase it. Priorities I guess.
Indeed, and Simpson is a case in point. He was absolutely flying at Swindon, bossing the division, loving his football and developing very quickly. Ashton asks him to sign a new contract so the club is protected (ie can get a decent fee for him if it comes to that), but Simpson's agent knows better and thinks he can get him a 'better contract '. Which he ultimately does with Huddersfield (then a Championship club), but at what cost? His Swindon loan gets pulled, he sits on his bum for six months, and ends up as Huddersfield's sixth choice striker. In the blink of an eye, that magical moment in his career when he is developing at a lightning rate is gone, probably forever.
Silly, silly boy, but at least he's mature enough to acknowledge it. He's only 23, so who knows, maybe he can get those levels back one day. The real blame lies with his agent.
Agree. Fair play to him. I hope for his sake he recovers and makes some sort of career in football.
I agree re some Agents. Their percentage comes first, second, third. Sadly, players and their parents won’t always see this. I’ve always held the view in life that if you look after your career first, the money will come along in its own good time and possibly more of it if you don’t chase it. Priorities I guess.
It must be hard for a young player. If you think you’ve got what it takes to get to the top, then you’d back yourself and take a big move when it comes along. So many do fall short though and then it seems that their career is set back. It’s a risk. If I was in their position I’d regret not having a go at a big club. If not, you’d always think ‘what if’. Of course, if the move doesn’t work out all the fans will think you just moved for money even if you didn’t.
Agents can have far too much power and influence though. Apparently when Laudrup came to Swansea, his partner/agent was pushing the club to give him a contract that gave him both a say on transfer policy and a cut of all future transfers (not just his players - basically he wanted to be head of transfers for the club). Taking the piss. It caused a bit of controversy - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/38219962#:~:text=Maybe%20later-,Michael%20L
Young kid makes a bad decision - we've all made at least one bad decision when young. That's life, that is how we learn, we learn from our decisions.
He could have stayed at Town, but no guarantees he would be in a better situation than now. We cannot live in parallel universes to see which option will work out best, we have to choose one route. Nobody should be condemned if they take what is deemed an incorrect choice in hindsight.
But its better to make mistakes when young as you still have time to correct them.
What i would say to him is you made a choice that you viewed as the correct choice at that time and thats all you can do. Smile, accept and move on.
Young kid makes a bad decision - we've all made at least one bad decision when young. That's life, that is how we learn, we learn from our decisions.
He could have stayed at Town, but no guarantees he would be in a better situation than now. We cannot live in parallel universes to see which option will work out best, we have to choose one route. Nobody should be condemned if they take what is deemed an incorrect choice in hindsight.
But its better to make mistakes when young as you still have time to correct them.
What i would say to him is you made a choice that you viewed as the correct choice at that time and thats all you can do. Smile, accept and move on.
It’s easy to say it’s a bad decision with the benefit of hindsight.
Someone offers to treble your wages, you take it don’t you?
There is absolutely no guarantee that his career would have been any better if he had stayed put, bearing in mind the speed with which our growth has accepted over the last couple of years. He could easily have been left behind in the way people are now talking about Ali
Young kid makes a bad decision - we've all made at least one bad decision when young. That's life, that is how we learn, we learn from our decisions.
He could have stayed at Town, but no guarantees he would be in a better situation than now. We cannot live in parallel universes to see which option will work out best, we have to choose one route. Nobody should be condemned if they take what is deemed an incorrect choice in hindsight.
But its better to make mistakes when young as you still have time to correct them.
What i would say to him is you made a choice that you viewed as the correct choice at that time and thats all you can do. Smile, accept and move on.
As you suggest, it's not even sure that the agent, if that's who it was, made a bad decision. Simpson only needed to look as far as Tristan Nydam to see that there are no guarantees in football.
It’s easy to say it’s a bad decision with the benefit of hindsight.
Someone offers to treble your wages, you take it don’t you?
There is absolutely no guarantee that his career would have been any better if he had stayed put, bearing in mind the speed with which our growth has accepted over the last couple of years. He could easily have been left behind in the way people are now talking about Ali
Exactly right. Can blame agents all you like with the benefit of hindsight but we offered him a pretty lousy wage, he’s been offered significantly more on a 4 year deal, for a £500k move to a recently relegated premier league side playing at the level above we were, who probably sold him the dream of first team football. We would all be billionaires if we could see in to the future. The fact it didn’t work out doesn’t mean it was the wrong decision at the time.
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