Fan if you were a player

[goose2010]

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.

Edited 17 September 2021 by goose2010

[The Horse's Mouth]

United and everyone would facing that situation, you have to secure the bag

[Carl the Llama]

Under which manager?  I'd do it for free if it meant seeing big Nige every day.

[Soar Fox]

6 minutes ago, sacreblueits442 said:

...if Burnley were offering 25k, the same thing would happen, not many would be saying Leicester!!!

  It is a strange premise to use such a comparison of 10k to 150k.

Sean Dyche looks like he stinks of piss. Wouldn’t be worth the extra £15k imo

[Aus Fox]

I’d say Leicester all day long, until the 8th thread appears on FoxesTalk stating I’m shit, my bag is ugly, I don’t put any effort in, I don’t score or create enough goals.

Then I’d either leave or start a new thread titled is Rodgers ruining Aus Fox to deflect attention.

The final straw would be when I score my 5th goal in the Champions League final someone on fat kid on Twitter saying I should have scored 6 and I didn’t put enough tackles in.

[weller54]

44 minutes 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? 

I'd hang out at the airport terminal until Manchester City came along.

[Samilktray]

United and I’m asking for at least 200k if I’m on 100k at Leicester 

[jayfox26]

You can't compare getting a pay rise in a normal every day job like most of us on here have, to getting a pay rise as a top level footballer. If you earn 20-30k a year and get offered a job earning 50-60k a year that's huge for your average working person and can be life changing in you could get a mortgage a better car etc. Earning 100k a week at Leicester to earning 150k a week at United isn't life changing its just pure greed. Anyone earning even 50k a week can live a lavish lifestyle and set up a lavish lifestyle for their kids and grandkids. 

 

For me it would be leicester all day long and I wouldn't even consider moving. I also wouldn't have a dodgy agent trying to swindle money out of me and the club I love. 

[HankMarvin]

Over 4 years it’s an extra 10.4m before tax

 

No brainer, so I guess the question becomes how many millions would you sacrifice to play for the team you support.

[Vindaloo FOX]

Leicester and knowing my luck they will send me out on loan to Forest 

[VLC86]

34 minutes ago, HankMarvin said:

Over 4 years it’s an extra 10.4m before tax

 

No brainer, so I guess the question becomes how many millions would you sacrifice to play for the team you support.

That’s literally the question being asked

[VLC86]

For that difference I’d stay at Leicester I recon if it’s purely a like for like situation. Like others have said though, if you are on loads less at City then players will leave.

[iancognito]

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.

[WigstonWanderer]

Personally I’d stay at Leicester. Yes, partially out of loyalty but mainly because I prefer a quiet, less stressful life and never really wanted a challenge. Of course, that’s also one of the reasons why I could never have been an elite anything, sports person or otherwise.

[HankMarvin]

17 minutes ago, Costock_Fox said:

That’s literally the question being asked

I meant how many millions would you pay to have the privilege of playing for the team you support.
 

So many dismissive replies thinking £50k a week is no big deal. I get it’s hypothetical but £20m pre tax over 8 years!!

 

Lots of top Premier league players support other teams or rivals.
I guess the main reason they don’t end up at the team they support, when they have the ability to pick any team is the same reason the majority have offshore accounts.

 

 

[filbertway]

Its a weak question.

 

Would you play for Leicester for 10k a week knowing you could earn 150k a week elsewhere.

 

Or the reverse which was andy kings career. Would you earn 50k at your boyhood club as 6th choice cm or go and play first team football on 15k a year?

[davieG]

Arsenal they’re the only one I could improve.

[shailen]

You've got to look out for your own interest and if you were a footballer your career is short anyway. £50k extra a week is a lot of money and in an industry where one injury could end it all, it is important to maximise everything you can.

 

Sentiment is great and I'd love to represent the club I support, but also know the club wouldn't think twice about disposing of you if you were injured or weren't at the right levels. 

 

Look at Grealish, he clearly loved Villa but they couldn't financially match the levels he was playing at. 

[Hollism]

1 hour ago, jayfox26 said:

You can't compare getting a pay rise in a normal every day job like most of us on here have, to getting a pay rise as a top level footballer. If you earn 20-30k a year and get offered a job earning 50-60k a year that's huge for your average working person and can be life changing in you could get a mortgage a better car etc. Earning 100k a week at Leicester to earning 150k a week at United isn't life changing its just pure greed. Anyone earning even 50k a week can live a lavish lifestyle and set up a lavish lifestyle for their kids and grandkids. 

 

For me it would be leicester all day long and I wouldn't even consider moving. I also wouldn't have a dodgy agent trying to swindle money out of me and the club I love. 

 

Not trying to illicit any sympathy for players earning many, many, many times the average UK wage, but I can imagine that when they have so much free time to spend their money and hang round with other millionaires, it won’t take long for them to find things they want but can’t quite afford. Rolex’s, cars, houses, etc. Most people want to earn more money so that they can use it to make themselves and their loved ones happy- not just pump up the numbers on the Nationwide app for the sake of it.
 

 

For me I’d like to think I’d stay at Leicester, especially if I was liked by the fans. 

If not, I would absolutely hate to pull the shirt on knowing that the fans want me replaced. I’d rather go and play for Villa or someone.

[Aus Fox]

Essentially the question here is would you rather be Jamie Vardy or Harry Maguire right now?

[foxile5]

Leicester for me every day of the week. 

[KFS]

I’d play for Leicester and invest in things so that extra 50k per week is coming in anyway  

[Adrian]

I used to think It was just about greed and material gain but I've realised there are more psychological  factors at play.... it's as much about holding as much power over personal destiny and competing forces as possible. A desire for autonomy and Freedom which is harder to sneer at than the 'i'm considerably richer than yow' syndrome 

 

For vardy I like to think he's compromised on bigger money deal because he's realised that his personal drive is closely aligned to the club's but this is an exceptional circumstance...as we know our owners are fairly unique...luckily

 

I'd go for UTD therefore cos it's human nature 

 

 

Edited 18 September 2021 by Adrian

[peach0000]

Leicester in that scenario. But I would probably be open to moving abroad if I had the opportunity to play at the highest level for a few years. Ultimately it would just be a few years, after I'd won everything I wanted to I would be running down my contract to get back to Leicester. Certainly wouldn't ever play for another English team other than Leicester and risk having to play against them. 

[ozleicester]

Good enough is nearly always good enough