James Maddison - 4 year deal, £110k per week

[1972 Fox]

On 09/08/2020 at 20:32, Bourbon Fox said:

Jesus Christ, is there no limit to the man's bellendery?!!

 

On 09/08/2020 at 20:56, Samilktray said:

He’s drinking water 

Jesus would have turned his water into wine.

[HighPeakFox]

44 minutes ago, Farrington fox said:

Wtf is that top he's waring, looks a girls.

Blackadder: To you, Baldrick, the Renaissance was just something that happened to other people, wasn't it?

[majaco]

Surely supporters should get behind our players.

[HighPeakFox]

42 minutes ago, majaco said:

Surely supporters should get behind our players.

You'd have thought, wouldn't you?

[urban fox]

43 minutes ago, majaco said:

Surely supporters should get behind our players.

Yes but this is FT. 

[norwichfox]

10 hours ago, Blue Fox 72 said:

 

Jesus would have turned his water into wine.

Just by adding 2 level teaspoons of the red powder and stirring vigorously....

[Ric Flair]

12 hours ago, foxinsocks said:

Anyone think we play better without him?

(His corners are not improving...for that money I think he could practice them)

A fully fit and on form Maddison, no we don't. Maddison when he's dropped about as deep as Ndidi and slowing down play in our own half then yes we probably do.

[urban fox]

At least we won't have to put up with a daily barrage of media rubbish about him going to utd for the rest of the summer. Lets hope he is fully recovered from his hip injury and shows some of the form from the first half of the season.

[Lesta2014]

guess this be announced when he returns for pre season? 

[foxinsocks]

2 hours ago, Ric Flair said:

A fully fit and on form Maddison, no we don't. Maddison when he's dropped about as deep as Ndidi and slowing down play in our own half then yes we probably do.

I think that's it - the key is how we play him (or what he does).

[Sol thewall Bamba]

4 hours ago, majaco said:

Surely supporters should get behind our players.

Comments on a forum that won't get read by the players are pretty much as inconsequential as you can get. As long as when the players are on the pitch and the fans are in the stands things are positive, that's fine in my opinion. 

 

Back them during the game, praise/call them out afterwards as necessary. 

[fuchsntf]

11 hours ago, majaco said:

Surely supporters should get behind our players.

Bellends always taper down .....!!!

They know nothing of any supporting task....

 

[turkish14]

1 hour ago, fuchsntf said:

Bellends always taper down .....!!!

They know nothing of any supporting task....

 

Many in this fragile world have become “entitled”... I see it across all of the Range of social spectrums and society.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited 11 August 2020 by turkish14

[fuchsntf]

22 hours ago, Sol thewall Bamba said:

Comments on a forum that won't get read by the players are pretty much as inconsequential as you can get. As long as when the players are on the pitch and the fans are in the stands things are positive, that's fine in my opinion. 

 

Back them during the game, praise/call them out afterwards as necessary. 

Lambasting them, over their Choice of clobber & dress....Shows The immaturity of the poster....Plus a few use it on the side to build or make an agenda,when

bringing in other issues...for The Male of the species,its somehow suprising how much the bitch,they can hold their female partners /Sisters accountable for....

 

Not many real men left to have a decent Football Conversation with on football forums today...!!

 

[turkish14]

1 hour ago, fuchsntf said:

Lambasting them, over their Choice of clobber & dress....Shows The immaturity of the poster....Plus a few use it on the side to build or make an agenda,when

bringing in other issues...for The Male of the species,its somehow suprising how much the bitch,they can hold their female partners /Sisters accountable for....

 

Not many real men left to have a decent Football Conversation with on football forums today...!!

 

Absolutely 👍

[shade]

2 hours ago, fuchsntf said:

Lambasting them, over their Choice of clobber & dress....Shows The immaturity of the poster....Plus a few use it on the side to build or make an agenda,when

bringing in other issues...for The Male of the species,its somehow suprising how much the bitch,they can hold their female partners /Sisters accountable for....

 

Not many real men left to have a decent Football Conversation with on football forums today...!!

 

bet you wear brogues and cropped chinos, ughh.

[fuchsntf]

42 minutes ago, shade said:

bet you wear brogues and cropped chinos, ughh.

No idea what they are......   but I'll have a laugh with you...

[oxtonfox]

£22m sounds like a nice contract for Madders. Can’t see him staying that long if he does well in the next 1-2 seasons which we hope he will. 

[Guest Lako42]

Football is gone (again) when Maddison is on this amount of money. 

 

He needs to seriously improve his key stats (assists, goals) to warrant such a wage. 

 

Does this count as not supporting him? Or are we all supposed to be pleased about us spending beyond our means on players who haven't achieved what they should have done?

 

I wonder if the extra dosh is enough to entice him not to go and have a nice laugh with the opposition as soon as the final whistle goes? Especially when we've just lost.

[HighPeakFox]

23 minutes ago, Lako42 said:

I wonder if the extra dosh is enough to entice him not to go and have a nice laugh with the opposition as soon as the final whistle goes? Especially when we've just lost.

You really should negotiate contracts.

[Guest Manini]

23 hours ago, Lako42 said:

 

Does this count as not supporting him? Or are we all supposed to be pleased about us spending beyond our means on players who haven't achieved what they should have done?

Whilst I agree the fee is extortionate, I’m confused by this part of your post...

 

I can’t imagine Susan Whelan would be in a job for much longer if she was signing off salaries that the club couldn’t afford. I’m fairly sure she and the owners have spent infinitely more time than any of us with the club accountants working out what we can pay players and what we can’t. We haven’t spent beyond our means since probably Sven was here, early 2000s before that, so it feels like you’re getting yourself wound up over nothing there. 

Edited 14 August 2020 by Manini

[Guest Lako42]

On 14/08/2020 at 10:58, Manini said:

Whilst I agree the fee is extortionate, I’m confused by this part of your post...

 

I can’t imagine Susan Whelan would be in a job for much longer if she was signing off salaries that the club couldn’t afford. I’m fairly sure she and the owners have spent infinitely more time than any of us with the club accountants working out what we can pay players and what we can’t. We haven’t spent beyond our means since probably Sven was here, early 2000s before that, so it feels like you’re getting yourself wound up over nothing there. 

You do realise this is modern football? Of course we are spending beyond our means, to believe anything else is utterly deluded. 

 

We are consistently taking out huge loans against future TV money, this is about as obvious an example of a club spending beyond its means as anything I've ever seen. It eclipses the overspend in the Sven era by a substantial amount.

 

The stats achieved by Maddison last season do not warrant this salary, its quite absurd. 

[coolhandfox]

10 minutes ago, Lako42 said:

You do realise this is modern football? Of course we are spending beyond our means, to believe anything else is utterly deluded. 

 

We are consistently taking out huge loans against future TV money, this is about as obvious an example of a club spending beyond its means as anything I've ever seen. It eclipses the overspend in the Sven era by a substantial amount.

 

The stats achieved by Maddison last season do not warrant this salary, its quite absurd. 

To get the money early rather then in staged payments, not to spend more money the we have coming in.

 

We have made a loss in 1 of the last 5 seasons.

[Guest Manini]

1 hour ago, Lako42 said:

You do realise this is modern football? Of course we are spending beyond our means, to believe anything else is utterly deluded. 

 

We are consistently taking out huge loans against future TV money, this is about as obvious an example of a club spending beyond its means as anything I've ever seen. It eclipses the overspend in the Sven era by a substantial amount.

 

The stats achieved by Maddison last season do not warrant this salary, its quite absurd. 

Ey? 
 

It’s a loan against money that then comes in to the club account the following season. It’s guaranteed against the money that we are then at liberty to pay back. It’s to ease cash flow. If we were consistently borrowing more then we could afford then James Maddison’s salary would be the least of your worries because we’d be on the way to going bust! 

[turkish14]

2 hours ago, Lako42 said:

You do realise this is modern football? Of course we are spending beyond our means, to believe anything else is utterly deluded. 

 

We are consistently taking out huge loans against future TV money, this is about as obvious an example of a club spending beyond its means as anything I've ever seen. It eclipses the overspend in the Sven era by a substantial amount.

 

The stats achieved by Maddison last season do not warrant this salary, its quite absurd. 

So you don’t think Maddison was excellent up to the new year?