| Question ...... 20:39 - Feb 8 with 1480 views | BlueandTruesince82 |
One that came up in the barbers, you're a professional footballer playing for your hometown club the might ITFC tbe team you supported all your life, they are mid to upper tier championships and you earn 20k a week.
Norwich, now an established PL team are in for you, Town have accepted a bid, its good money for the club but you dont have to go. Ncfc are offering you 60k week, do you go? If not how much would you need pw to make the move?
Inspired by Paul Merson, a Chelsea fan that played for Arsenal, and Darren Bent who (my barber says, no idea if true had assumed him a town fan) is an Arsenal fan who played for spurs. I'm sure there are many other examples.
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| Question ...... on 20:41 - Feb 8 with 1431 views | ITFC_Forever |
A lot of players don’t have or lose the intensity of the passion for the club they support when they play.
You’re in the realms of the impossible by suggesting Norwich as an established Prem club anyway. |  |
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| Question ...... on 20:49 - Feb 8 with 1346 views | FrimleyBlue |
Don't go as you know they wouldn't be prem for long so would end up on lower wages after they're cut following relegation |  |
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| Question ...... on 20:52 - Feb 8 with 1338 views | PhilsAngels |
Not go |  |
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| Question ...... on 20:55 - Feb 8 with 1313 views | WD19 |
This is what agents are for. If they are willing to pay you £60k per week then there will be someone else out there willing to pay you at least £40k and a taste of premier league football. |  | | |
| Question ...... on 20:56 - Feb 8 with 1299 views | Linners |
I think it depends how deep in you are. They way I felt about N*rwich when I was twenty there's no way I'd have made that move, unless the money would've literally saved the club. |  | | |
| Question ...... on 21:00 - Feb 8 with 1262 views | BloomBlue |
Go, play like a tw@t, score a few OGs, get them relegated and all while earning £60k a week. |  | | |
| Question ...... on 21:02 - Feb 8 with 1254 views | redrickstuhaart |
Benty is very much an Arsenal fan. Though has affection for his first club. | |
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| Question ...... on 21:22 - Feb 8 with 1190 views | Ftnfwest |
| Question ...... on 21:02 - Feb 8 by redrickstuhaart |
Benty is very much an Arsenal fan. Though has affection for his first club. |
Goldstein asked him last season if Arsenal play Ipswich who would h want to win and he said town. ‘that’s my team’ |  | | |
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| Question ...... on 21:26 - Feb 8 with 1161 views | BeachBlue |
Blasphemy! I would sooner shovel poo with a rusty spade than disgrace my family name by playing for them lot up the road! |  |
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| Question ...... on 21:34 - Feb 8 with 1129 views | LevelTheLand |
| Question ...... on 21:22 - Feb 8 by Ftnfwest |
Goldstein asked him last season if Arsenal play Ipswich who would h want to win and he said town. ‘that’s my team’ |
I think that was longer ago than last season, it was also referring to an FA Cup final. He did say Town, but I think that was for the listeners, he's an Arsenal fan. |  | | |
| Question ...... on 21:40 - Feb 8 with 1082 views | Ftnfwest |
| Question ...... on 21:34 - Feb 8 by LevelTheLand |
I think that was longer ago than last season, it was also referring to an FA Cup final. He did say Town, but I think that was for the listeners, he's an Arsenal fan. |
The one I heard was definitely during last season. Yes of course he is but was put in a conundrum and because we were his first side would genuinely have wanted us to win which Goldstein couldn’t believe and went off on one as usual etc. | | | |
| Question ...... on 21:44 - Feb 8 with 1065 views | Swansea_Blue |
In this scenario that can only be hypothetical, unless we’re looking like genuine promotion contenders you’d probably go. If we’re only mid league and looking like staying there, you definitely go. It’s a career and players want to challenge themselves and play at the highest level while they can. You wouldn’t turn down a move to an established PL club whoever they were. [Post edited 8 Feb 22:17]
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| Question ...... on 21:54 - Feb 8 with 1008 views | LevelTheLand |
| Question ...... on 21:40 - Feb 8 by Ftnfwest |
The one I heard was definitely during last season. Yes of course he is but was put in a conundrum and because we were his first side would genuinely have wanted us to win which Goldstein couldn’t believe and went off on one as usual etc. |
Fair enough, I can't stand Goldstein, so I don't actually listen, I was just aware it happened at some point. To be honest, I think it's a close call for him between the two teams. | | | |
| Question ...... on 22:21 - Feb 8 with 938 views | BlueandTruesince82 |
| Question ...... on 20:55 - Feb 8 by WD19 |
This is what agents are for. If they are willing to pay you £60k per week then there will be someone else out there willing to pay you at least £40k and a taste of premier league football. |
Ideally yes but for the purposes of this no other clubs are in for you..... you are trippling your wage and moving up a division if you go..... [Post edited 8 Feb 23:28]
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| Question ...... on 22:39 - Feb 8 with 882 views | WeWereZombies |
Accept the offer, before you leave Town agree the location of park benches upon which you leave newspapers with the team selections for games, true injury situations of your new teammates, any incriminating evidence about board members such as alcohol intake etc., folded up inside. Use your privileged position to enhance their trophy cabinet with the picture of Delia wearing Town colours at the '78 Cup Final. |  |
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| Question ...... on 10:58 - Feb 9 with 576 views | OldFart71 |
| Question ...... on 21:44 - Feb 8 by Swansea_Blue |
In this scenario that can only be hypothetical, unless we’re looking like genuine promotion contenders you’d probably go. If we’re only mid league and looking like staying there, you definitely go. It’s a career and players want to challenge themselves and play at the highest level while they can. You wouldn’t turn down a move to an established PL club whoever they were. [Post edited 8 Feb 22:17]
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I worked at Atco in Stowmarket. Apparently there was some sort of agreement that I.C.I. wouldn't take there workers. Whether true or not that was passed on to us by the then personnel officer at I.C.I. when I went for a test and interview.
I did however get a job and seeing as the work was easier and the money a lot more I moved over.
In a way it was sad as I had some decent mates at the lawnmowers and shift work killed a lot of our nights out at the pub.
I had a young family and really there was a no brainer situation.
Whilst football allegiance is maybe a bit different many players have moved from friend to foe as it were. | | | |
| Question ...... on 12:01 - Feb 9 with 505 views | Jon_456 |
For a professional footballer it’s hardly even a question these days.
They sacrifice far more just to become footballers in the first place. Asking them to play in the PL and tripling their wages, albeit for a rival, is probably one of the easiest decisions they’d ever have to make in life. | | | |
| Question ...... on 12:30 - Feb 9 with 433 views | tiptreeblue |
£20,000 a week is over £1 million a year, if you have signed a three year contract, you wouldn't have to work another day in your life, and that's if you are unlucky to get a career ending injury. so I've never understood this rubbish that players have to move nearer the end of their career to make sure they are ok, it's just greed over principles, and I try not to break my principles | | | |
| Question ...... on 19:12 - Feb 9 with 253 views | Bluespeed225 |
Didn't this happen with Foxy and Donowa? Dale Gordon going the other way. | | | |
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