Fan if you were a player

[Spiritwalker]

7 hours ago, goose2010 said:

United because it would kill me if my own fans from the club I supported booed me if I was off the pace after coming back from injury or something.

Good point, imagine being booed when you come on as a sub or when your name is announced when the teams are read out.

[LestaFox92]

Leicester I don't think I could ever play for a direct rival like Man U (god i love saying that) in all seriousness tho Leicester is my Man U the only other club that tickled my fancy was Real Madrid because of beckham and Zidane well the galatico's in general had a soft spot for Liverpool as well when gerrard was there and they were a bit medicore.

[Oxfordfox83]

9 hours ago, Mickyblueeyes said:

Man U. I love Leicester, I’ve been a fan since I was a kid but what’s life if you don’t test yourself at the absolute max level you can get to. There is nothing wrong with taking a higher a challenge, with the pressure of expectation. I’d want to do what I can for Leicester but if the next level came knocking, you have to go. The same applies to “real life”. 

Fair enough if it’s the next level. But what about Man Utd?

[filthyfox]

9 hours ago, Unabomber said:

If you as a Leicester fan were a professional footballer and you could either play for Leicester for £100k a week or play for Man U for £150k a week what would you do? 

LEICESTER 

[Royston.]

10 hours ago, Unabomber said:

If you as a Leicester fan were a professional footballer and you could either play for Leicester for £100k a week or play for Man U for £150k a week what would you do? 

What true leicester fan being paid 100k a week would leave for a mere 50k extra?

[Wasyls Pec Deck]

I’d play for Leicester and get paid bread and water (as long as it was a nice loaf) over the United Nancy boys. 

[Bayfox]

Leicester until Barca or Real wanted me. The I'd leave for the food and lifestyle before returning to take over from the birch.

[filthyfox]

2 hours ago, Spiritwalker said:

Good point, imagine being booed when you come on as a sub or when your name is announced when the teams are read out.

Being paid 100k per week, I am sure I could manage.

[foxfan92]

10 hours ago, Steve_Walsh5 said:

Change the figures from £100k to £10k a week and then see how many people say Leicester. 

When I look at how much I earn in my dead-end job, even at £10k a week ... which is still half a million a year (before tax), to play the game I love, for the team I love ... if, as a player, I could see outside the football bubble, I'd like to think I'd be loyal. 

 

However if I'm also good enough to have Man Utd offer me 150k a week to prise me away and I'm still only on 10k a week at Leicester,  I'd assume my agent would be working hard to improve my weekly earnings at Leicester...

[Webbo]

Seeing as it's hypothetical and I'm not actually turning down a real extra £2.5 million a year, I'm going to say Leicester. 

[ARTY_FOX]

Leicester. Easy choice right now because we are really good. 

[sylofox]

10 hours ago, weller54 said:

I'd hang out at st Margaret's bus station until Mansfield Town came along.

That's put that right.

[Illusion35]

Leicester.

[FoxesWalk]

In practice, regardless of what they say now, the majority would take the money once in the industry. 
 

All footballers are fans of a team growing up, and the same thing happens all the time. 

[Jazzy_Jeff]

Definitely Leicester.

 

if the difference in salary was greater then it becomes a more difficult question.

 

it annoys me when footballers angle for moves or new contracts when already on more in a week than 5 times the average annual salary in our country. Sickening how much they get paid. 

[rn9013]

A question I’ve pondered in dreamland now and again and the answer is it would depend on what stage I was at in my career. 
 

If I was at Vardy’s stage, later years of career, won the premier league, FA Cup, charity shield and a golden boot, then I’d stay at Leicester. Finish off my career and preserve legendary status at a club I love. 
 

But…if I was early twenties and not yet won a trophy with Leicester, it might be trickier to turn down a big move. Not so much for the money, but more the chance to win major trophies. Yes I know Man United is probably a bad example over the last 5 years but if you play for a ‘big 4’ the chances of you winning a champions league or league title are much improved. It’s that I’d want more than the money. 

[Charl91]

I imagine it could get frustrating quite quickly if you were a mega-talented footballer, and the rest of the team weren't on your level.

 

I understand why people would choose Leicester, but it takes a great deal of sacrifice and drive to be a professional footballer, and I imagine most of them are competitive enough that they actually want to win something. I doubt any of them want to get to the end of their career thinking "I was good enough to have won trophies, but the rest of the team were holding me back".

 

If you're a top player, you want to play in the top competitions and you want to win trophies, because you want to be the best. Obviously if the stars align (like our title win) then that's the perfect scenario, but how often does that actually happen?

 

So I suppose if the question was "move to an equally placed team for a pay-rise", I'd like to think I'd stay at Leicester, if I were happy there. But if I was hovering around the upper third of the table, and I had chance to move to a top 3 team, then yeah, I think most players would take that chance.

 

 

Edited 18 September 2021 by Charl91

[sacreblueits442]

11 hours ago, iancognito said:

United. It's a 50% payrise and howver much you love the club it's a 50% payrise. No-one turns that down, in any job.

...do you think Le Tissier felt the same way!!!

[crazies]

Dependant on the manager not the club !

maybe you have gone as far as you can with the training team and have bigger better options outside the club you love 

it’s not always about money it’s sometimes  about growth 

[TWUKO]

I've always wondered what people's mindset would be in this situation. The Jack grealish example proves to me that even what you have everything at your boyhood club, start player, best paid, captain, England International, greed still takes over. But in his case he's just guaranteed himself about 30 million quid after tax over the next 5 years, so I suppose it would be difficult.

 

At leicester our top players are on what 130k a week? So after tax and over 5 years that would be about 20 million, so yeah it's a big jump but more than enough to see you and your family for life and beyond.

 

Forgetting money most players say its about trophies and playing in the champions league and I suppose that is a draw. For me I think it depends if the player is local and supports the team as a fan. Chilwell came through our academy but was not local and did not support the club, so no real heartfelt feelings for the club. Hesky was local born and bred, but supported Liverpool so I suppose that made it easy for him.

 

For me as long as Leicester were a Premier league club and I could potentially earn the money vardy and kasper do then i would be content. You could give me every club trophy going at another club and I wouldn't be interested, wouldn't be interested in playing champions league at all. Winning anything with Leicester would mean everything, even the europa conference! Even winning the community shield meant so much to me as a fan!

 

Would much prefer to play against the best rather than with, and big clubs are money making machines that demand success, Leicester is a family club that wants to try for success. Plus anything major you do with Leicester your a legend, other clubs your just another good player they bought!

 

If I had come through Derby or forest's academy, I would try and force a move to Leicester or any big club if not.

 

[drumbeat]

"greed"? Or ambition?

 

You want to win at the highest level possible. You want to win trophies. With all due respect to Villa, that ain't happening soon. Grealish hung around long enough, and is due respect for doing that, and I begrudge nobody for wanting to test themselves alongside the best in the prestige competitions.

 

 

Edited 18 September 2021 by drumbeat

[Fox92]

It's easy to answer when you're not in that position.

Leicester all day long.

 

But if a bigger club came, a club that wins trophies, then it become a difficult decision. I admire players like Shearer who stick with the club they love.

[Swalshed]

15 hours ago, sacreblueits442 said:

...perhaps the argument could be widened to other clubs!!!

Leicester all day long, back in the day might have considered Arsenal.

Surely, you'd walk right up to Wenger and say "chat shit get banged"?

[Koke]

I'd sign for Forest if they offered me a bigger contract. My love for Leicester isn't gonna pay for my kids tuition and my retirement. 

[st albans fox]

4 hours ago, Jazzy_Jeff said:

Definitely Leicester.

 

if the difference in salary was greater then it becomes a more difficult question.

 

it annoys me when footballers angle for moves or new contracts when already on more in a week than 5 times the average annual salary in our country. Sickening how much they get paid. 

The difference is £12.5 mill over the contract 

 

I love my club but I also love my family - it’s potentially a short career

 

im saying yanited