dandannieldanok Posted 8 August 2008 Posted 8 August 2008 If you read through that there is a reference to the PFA's Player Transfer Directory, I went on it and registered, it's pretty good showing all free transfers available, can see why managers use it.
davieG Posted 8 August 2008 Posted 8 August 2008 Everyone's job is at risk and more and more people are having to change careers more than once and do not have the cushion of high wages that many footballers have. Also your average joe has to start at the bottom each time they are forced to change many ex-pros do not and have the bonus of being an ex-professional footballer to open doors for them. Footballers also know in advance that they will need to change careers so have the luxury of being able to plan for it. I have no more sympathy for them than I do for anyone else losing their job.
Mickey O'Neil Posted 9 August 2008 Author Posted 9 August 2008 I have no more sympathy for them than I do for anyone else losing their job. I have less sympathy. I fooking hate it when people say 'it's a short career'. Bollocks you cnuts.
Narborough Bod Posted 9 August 2008 Posted 9 August 2008 I have less sympathy. I fooking hate it when people say 'it's a short career'.Bollocks you cnuts. I do have some sympathy for the lower level players who don't earn the mega bucks. However, my first thought is...work harder, that's what most people have to do, spend 8 hours training / improving skills / getting fit rather than 4-5. Secondly, no sympathy for Joachim. He made a lot of money and it's no one elses fault but his own that he's gambled most of it away. Stop looking for sympathy / excuses and take responsibility for your own actions. They all still live in a bubble, probably never watch the news and don't realises what is going on with the world economy. FFS open your eyes lads, we all live in troubled times. I have now jumped off my high horse.
Thracian Posted 9 August 2008 Posted 9 August 2008 It's an interesting article and sounds like a party political broadcast on behalf of the PFA. I'm with DavieG on this. I've changed career direction lots of times and would have loved the cushion of footballer wages to have done it on. As for the players short careers there are so many alternative avenues for them the whole argument is cobblers. Coaching, managing, PR, after-dinner speaking, agent, scout, television/media pundit and so much more. I've no symnpathy with their shorter contract offers either. Half the time the veterans get a contract and don't deliver, spending weeks and weeks on the treatment table or simply underperforming and, even with the younger players, they sign contracts and then sometimes want out the minute they or their agent gets wind of a more tasty option a la Ronaldo. The PFA might want to keep as many ageing footballers on the gravy train for as long as possible - why the hell do you really think they have so many match-spoiling substitutions - but the PFA aren't having to foot the bills for running the clubs. The Government are as bad. They talk about being anti-ageist which is all very well in theory but just think about some of the veteran players we've had in recent seasons and ask if you'd have wanted to pay their wages? Who would you genuinely say has been good value for money. Not many. I buy and sell every hour of every day and would have been horrified to have wasted the money City have wasted over the last five years.
OzFox Posted 13 August 2008 Posted 13 August 2008 http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/7543528.stm "About 15 to 20%, that's 1/6 of footballers, are losing their jobs at the end of every season" Most of them at Leicester surely?
SOCCERROO FOX Posted 13 August 2008 Posted 13 August 2008 http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/7543528.stm "About 15 to 20%, that's 1/6 of footballers, are losing their jobs at the end of every season" Most of them at Leicester surely? All ready been a thread on it
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