Alex Smithies Linkedin Post

[RichardGearman]

Absolute grim reading and completely confirming how Teflon Jon behaves.

[Tuna]

already discussed in the Rudkin thread

 

 

[FLAN]

when I first read this on twitter the final bit was removed. 
I thought the twat had still offered him a. New deal 

[Juan Carrito]

Pretty grim stuff. Doesn't reflect all that well on Maresca either 

Edited 15 April by Juan Carrito

[The whole world smiles]

Jesus Christ I am all for Rudkin bashing but do me a favour. Smithies was at the club for 2 years played not one single game and left with over 3 million quid. 

 

What's he want a cuddle? These modern footballers don't live in the real world. I don't know about you lot but I would rather be asked how much Rather than are you ok, Any day of the week except I don't work in an industry that pays me out if I get injured and can't work.

 

Football is a cut throat, mercenary business but you are handsomely rewarded even if your shit like Alex smithies was. 

[HankMarvin]

1 minute ago, The whole world smiles said:

Jesus Christ I am all for Rudkin bashing but do me a favour. Smithies was at the club for 2 years played not one single game and left with over 3 million quid. 

 

What's he want a cuddle? These modern footballers don't live in the real world. I don't know about you lot but I would rather be asked how much Rather than are you ok, Any day of the week except I don't work in an industry that pays me out if I get injured and can't work.

 

Football is a cut throat, mercenary business but you are handsomely rewarded even if your shit like Alex smithies was. 

You would also question the timing of this post, why now?

[LCFCCHRIS]

GERRIM ON BSLB

[Tuna]

15 minutes ago, The whole world smiles said:

Jesus Christ I am all for Rudkin bashing but do me a favour. Smithies was at the club for 2 years played not one single game and left with over 3 million quid. 

 

What's he want a cuddle? These modern footballers don't live in the real world. I don't know about you lot but I would rather be asked how much Rather than are you ok, Any day of the week except I don't work in an industry that pays me out if I get injured and can't work.

 

Football is a cut throat, mercenary business but you are handsomely rewarded even if your shit like Alex smithies was. 

"Grim"

 

[accessory]

1 hour ago, The whole world smiles said:

Jesus Christ I am all for Rudkin bashing but do me a favour. Smithies was at the club for 2 years played not one single game and left with over 3 million quid.

Where did you get this figure from?

 

And if it turns out to be true, wonder who'd have drawn up the contract?

 

No wonder Rudkin is a toxic, discredited figure whom no manager or player of any quality will touch with a barge pole.

[Cincinnati Fox]

2 hours ago, RichardGearman said:

Absolute grim reading and completely confirming how Teflon Jon behaves.

He should have said 100 million, Rudkin probably would have negotiated him down to 99.9 million.

[LCFCJohn]

4 hours ago, The whole world smiles said:

Jesus Christ I am all for Rudkin bashing but do me a favour. Smithies was at the club for 2 years played not one single game and left with over 3 million quid. 

 

What's he want a cuddle? These modern footballers don't live in the real world. I don't know about you lot but I would rather be asked how much Rather than are you ok, Any day of the week except I don't work in an industry that pays me out if I get injured and can't work.

 

Football is a cut throat, mercenary business but you are handsomely rewarded even if your shit like Alex smithies was. 

It doesn’t need to be either or (or you ok or how much).

 

It’s more about how a normal person converses. You’re advocating not just treating another person normally in terms of a conversation because they are a well paid footballer and particularly because they didn’t contribute during their time at the club.

 

Regardless of all this, it costs nothing to say in that conversations ‘I’m sorry to hear that, are you ok’? And ‘what is the plan next’? That would how a normal person would speak to another person. 
 

Regardless of whether Smithies contributed to us, he had a decent career for many years with a lot of appearances in the EFL. Just like when a person in a normal job retires, it can come as a shock. Aren’t there stats that there’s an increase in mortality for people after retiring? He might have been intending to have another couple of years playing at a lower level so being told his career was now done could still have thrown his immediate plans into doubt even if he knew at his age retirement was on the horizon. 

Nobody‘s saying he should have been given anything but the player has just had the news their career is done. A bit of empathy and check he’s going on his way ok would have cost nothing. Rudkin’s handling of it and people digging at Smithies and defending Rudkin normalises treating footballers as commodities and not people so it’s no wonder they turn into mercenaries! If it was a player who had contributed on the pitch, the reaction would be very different.

 

 

 

 

 

[Mike Oxlong]

I'd have asked if I could go along for the ride on the next preseason tour of Thailand 

[damolcfc]

His knee isn't compatible with professional sport....???

 

Have they been to the KP recently?

I'd still trust him up front

 

🫣🫣🫣

 

[Officer Doofy]

The money is kind of irrelevant. It highlights the complete lack of human ability in the club. 

 

 

They would have treated Kasper the same way I'm sure. In fact they more or less did it's just that he wasn't injured.  

[LcFc_Smiv]

I get the point, but you only have to read through his and other ex pros posts on LinkedIn, its them marketing themselves for the next opportunity or the next role. Don't get me wrong, it doesn't reflect well, but its the same material as 99% of the other content on there, a story dramatised for reach and to generate reaction and get him his next gig.

[Samilktray]

I can just smell the stench of Huel and the feint murmur of Stephen Bartlett looking at that LinkedIn post 

[ClaphamFox]

That reads like it was written by AI.

[Chelmofox]

By the time he came here he was a journeyman footballer with no interest in playing first team football, even in cup games. I used to watch him in warmups and wonder what the point is. The most difficult thing he used to do was pick balls up for the other keepers. His view of Leicester City was purely transactional, so it seems fitting that his end was treated that way too. He used his experience to get the best possible payday he could at the end of his career, for doing the least amount of work possible. We have no idea if he was even meeting the basic expectations of his employment, if he putting all his effort into making sure his team performed the best they could - especially during the PL relegation season. Nothing any of us saw suggested he was remotely important to the overall fabric of the club at that time.

 

I'm finding it a little hard to be overly sympathetic, and find it hypocritical to some degree. Complaints of our players are loud and clear - they don't know they are born, get paid more in a week than i do in a year, where is the effort, they don't care about the club. Why all of sudden, do you care about Alex Smithies who barely lifted a finger for this club? Getting some sort of deal to pay off his retirement - i'd take that personally for doing very little over a phone call.  And as for the manager - I would like to think he had more important things to do than congratulate someone who had done next to nothing for him and was employed under the previous regime. 

 

That might feel harsh, but i have much more empathy for the 30k or so workers, some with decades of service, who were laid off one day via an email. 

 

And finally, whilst he might have been playing since he was 6, he had 0 appearances for us. Did his other clubs lay on something for him when he retired?  That would have been much more fitting to be honest, and if not, far worse than what Rudkin did or didn't do. I hope they did - as its service that should be rewarded.

 

Please by no means think that Rudkin is anything other than a **nt. 

 

 

Edited 16 April by Chelmofox

[Foxes1]

7 hours ago, Cincinnati Fox said:

He should have said 100 million, Rudkin probably would have negotiated him down to 99.9 million.

Or negotiated him up to 101 million.

[jayfox26]

He left as fans player of the season, what more did he want?

[Fox92]

Didn't we give Matty James a 4 year deal despite the fact he had terrible injuries and hadn't played for us for years?

 

Money for anyone.

[SK3Blue]

Third choice keepers, happy to collect the cash and do very little for it. 
 

Could have easily dropped down a league or two and be first choice I guess. 
 

Find it hard to feel sorry for someone who still picks up a five figure sum weekly for zero appearances. 
 

 

[Lionator]

9 hours ago, The whole world smiles said:

Jesus Christ I am all for Rudkin bashing but do me a favour. Smithies was at the club for 2 years played not one single game and left with over 3 million quid. 

 

What's he want a cuddle? These modern footballers don't live in the real world. I don't know about you lot but I would rather be asked how much Rather than are you ok, Any day of the week except I don't work in an industry that pays me out if I get injured and can't work.

 

Football is a cut throat, mercenary business but you are handsomely rewarded even if your shit like Alex smithies was. 

It can be both, transitioning back to ‘civilian life’ after being a footballer for your whole life is still tricky. Depression and alcoholism are rife in ex footballers. Yes money makes you more resilient but your lifestyle completely changing can be very challenging. Especially if you’re living in chronic pain too.

[Torten]

AI slop but not atypical for LinkedIn. 

[Stadt]

> Only gives a shit about finances

> Overpays anyway