Anyone else sickened by this?
Frank Lampard will have to make one of the biggest decisions of his career if Chelsea fail to increase their contract offer to the England midfielder.
The Blues' FA Cup final preparations have been hampered by speculation that the club have issued final 'take-it-or-leave-it' offers to captain John Terry, Lampard and Dutch winger Arjen Robben.
Terry and Lampard want pay parity with top earners Andriy Shevchenko and Michael Ballack but Russian billionaire owner Roman Abramovich is understood to have blocked such an increase.
Ballack and Shevchenko, who will both miss Saturday's final through injury, are reportedly earning �121,000 a week.
Robben is believed to have been offered a new four-year contract worth �84,000-a-week and has two years left on his current deal.
Terry, who has led Chelsea to the Barclays Premiership title twice in the last three years, is understood to have rejected a deal worth �115,000-a-week along with Lampard.
and Chelsea want to be turning a profit by 2009 need to start peddling the shirts, scarves , socks,dvds...
i am sickened by Robben, two years left on his deal and he has the stupidity to reject a higher offer from them...
i also cant believe they would pay ballack that much...hes over the hill, shevs is heading that way too
it will be interesting to see where Terry & Lamps end up. if thats the sort of coin they're after there wont be many clubs who can afford them. Maybe FL will end up back at West Ham
I quite agree, they are disgraceful. Who needs over 50 000 pounds a week (well over NZ$100 000 a week)? Nobody. That money could be much better spent to fight poverty. That is just selfish what Terry, Lampard, and Robben are doing, they are selfish pillocks (along with a whole lot more players from around the world). It'd be good to see them get sold to tiny clubs where they earn precious little and see how they like that.
it would be nice to see fifa put a club salary cap internationally...haha like that would ever happen
Chelski have bought it on themselves. Jose is to blame for thinking that he was going to have a bottomless money pit forever. He's overpaid for lesser players and his other big name players want a piece of that. I don't blame them, the way English footy is now the BIG players expect that sort of money. I'm not condoning it, it's an insane amount of money for playing football. Turning down 115k per week is a bit off. I don't think anyone else is going to offer him that much..... not many clubs could afford it even if he was worth it.
im waiting for it to become fully comercialised. its already started in the USA with the New York Red Bulls, im waiting for the points table in the EPL to read "1st = Vodafone Manchester United, 2nd=Mobil Chelsea etc etc (only an example). it sickens me even more.
not many clubs will be able to pay that much to those players, but thats where the middle east comes in.
i wish football would go back the way it was with Ian Stewart & Co. very rarely do we see 1 club players, or players playing for the love of the game, the club and the fans. its all about $$$$$$
Robben is believed to have been offered a new four-year contract worth �84,000-a-week and has two years left on his current deal.
Terry, who has led Chelsea to the Barclays Premiership title twice in the last three years, is understood to have rejected a deal worth �115,000-a-week along with Lampard.
Firstly. I think it is silly to have a wage bill that big. I know it is modern professional football buy come on. Secondly, why reject 115,000 and hold out for 121,000 what does 6,000 get you a few extra subway meals.
I'll I can say is greedy!!!!!
Yes Arsenal, regrettably, are guilty as well. At least the Arsenal player like that (who I know about at least) has shifted club - Ashley Cole going to Chelsea.
Never heard of that happening but I hope it is true.
Did anyone see the excerpt from ashley Cole's book about how he nearly swerved off the road when he was "only" offered 60k a week?
I'm sure he woulda been offered more if he was a defender that could actually DEFEND...
LUMP-A-LARD!
Yea - and I think they're starting to realise that it's not working. Even Abromavich has limits to what he is willing to invest.Ronaldoknow2007-05-31 21:55:37
Haven't heard that but it wouldn't surprise me. God had a reputation for being smart with his cash tho'. Invested a lot and now doesn't need to earn the big bucks.
That's why he was happy to take a pay cut to come back to Liverpool as the move was more about loyalty and playing for the club he loved.
Shame there aren't a few more players around like him.