Anyone else sickened by this?
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.
That's an awfully big wage bill must be close to 22 million pounds
alone for those players
and Chelsea want to be turning a profit by 2009 need to start peddling the shirts, scarves , socks,dvds...
and Chelsea want to be turning a profit by 2009 need to start peddling the shirts, scarves , socks,dvds...
I have my shirt, my DVD and a passionate following....we should do
whatever it takes to keep JT and Lamps...
Carvalho just signed for another 5 years - awesome news!
JT & Lamps are worth way more than Shevs & Bollocks to
Chelsea.
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 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
Chelsea are disgraceful. They use there RIDICULOUSLY HIGH AMOUNT of
money to create power, and in turn power to creat titles. Ruins the
game of soccer. uncle steve2007-05-20 13:55:53
How could anyone in their right mind reject a contract
paying 115,000 pounds a week? What planet are these
selfish w*nkers from? Players like Lampard and Rio Ferdinand
are the very personification of what is wrong with football at the
top level right now. All take, no give, and absolutely no
understanding of life in the real world. Hope he does his cruciate
so bad he's crippled for life. And his metatarsal. Rhetorically, if
Lampard, overrated t**ser that he is, is worth that, what
would Bobby Charlton be worth today? Can anyone imagine, in
twenty years time, anyone saying, "Now that Frank Lampard, he was a
helluva player"?
I can't, it'll be more like "Who's that pr*ck, and how did he
get so rich?"
Get used to it, its called MODERN FOOTBALL.
I know, and it's turned into a soulless McDonald's of a league. I
admit, I watch it, and I enjoy it, but when I hear stories like
this it makes me wanna puke.
I'm not the only one. Scores of Premiership clubs saw average
attendances down last year while virtually all of the lower
division clubs have had increased attendances over the past few
years - Conference (and below) included.
Why? Because fans are deserting the top league as a result of
either being priced out of it or having a gutsfull of the attitude
at the top. I mean 40 quid fora replica shirt that costs less than
3 quid to make? Rio Ferdinand getting 100,000 a week so as he can
spend it on overpriced, overpowered sports cars that he hasn't got
the brain to drive and not giving a frig how many lives he
endangers when he gets pulled up for speeding for the third time
(over 100mph -note mph not kmh ) past a parked cop car? And this
guy's a hero to millions? He's been banned from driving 3 times
FFS. No responsibility whatsoever... Total effwit.
The increased revenue from the TV money next season will only
exacerbate the situation and in a few short years we will see clubs
playing in empty stadiums to entertain a a world of satellite dish
toting morons (like myself). The game's in danger, people, and so
few can actually see it.
I need a lie-down.
Chelsea are disgraceful. They use there RIDICULOUSLY HIGH AMOUNT of
money to create power, and in turn power to creat titles. Ruins the
game of soccer.
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.
i couldnt agree more loyalgunner, sadly, there's always fools with
too much money to spend on trying to buy success.
it would be nice to see fifa put a club salary cap internationally...haha like that would ever happen
it would be nice to see fifa put a club salary cap internationally...haha like that would ever happen
Steady on Gunner! It is the same at any club - Arsenal
included! I agree that it is a ridiculous amount of money, but IMO
the fault lies with the Clubs rather than the players.
it is human nature to want more and if the clubs keep offering
it around, then it'll get taken. If you were in their position and
you were one of the team mainstays, but found out someone else was
being paid more, you'd be pissed off too, no doubt...
Steady on Gunner! It is the same at any club - Arsenal
included! I agree that it is a ridiculous amount of money, but IMO
the fault lies with the Clubs rather than the players.
it is human nature to want more and if the clubs keep offering
it around, then it'll get taken. If you were in their position and
you were one of the team mainstays, but found out someone else was
being paid more, you'd be pissed off too, no doubt...
Good points, and some similarities - although on a much, much
smaller scale - to the situation in NZ when clubs who can barely
afford it offer money to players. What happens if Player X takes a
stand and turns it down? Player Y takes the money instead. But we
are talking a couple of thousand bucks for a season here, and
100,000 pounds a week in Europe. Big difference. Put simply, nobody
needs the money the guys at the top are taking.
Back about twenty years ago, a guy called Ian Stewart, a
Northern Ireland international, made the headlines in turning down
a pay-rise from his club, QPR, saying that he didn't need it, he
was comfortable earning what he was getting. But evidently the days
of such integrity have long since passed.
In another ten years when the game is going through a
depression of it's own in the UK (it happens, it's cyclic) the
players who milked the game in the 2000s will be asked a lot of
questions. And the clubs who paid them will be too.
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.
I doubt Chelsea will make a profit by the end of the '09
season. Even if they cap their wages now.
Chelsea will struggle to make a profit by '09, the average crowds
are dropping while ticket prices are climbing...they'll become more
and more dependant on Abromovich and the sponsors.
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 $$$$$$
im waiting for it to become fully comercialised. its already started in the USA with the New York Red Bulls, im waiting for the points table in the EPL to read "1st = Vodafone Manchester United, 2nd=Mobil Chelsea etc etc (only an example). it sickens me even more.
not many clubs will be able to pay that much to those players, but thats where the middle east comes in.
i wish football would go back the way it was with Ian Stewart & Co. very rarely do we see 1 club players, or players playing for the love of the game, the club and the fans. its all about $$$$$$
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.
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!!!!!
Steady on�Gunner! It is
the same at any club - Arsenal included! I agree that it is a
ridiculous amount of money, but IMO the fault lies with the Clubs
rather than the players.
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it is human nature to want more and if the clubs keep offering
it around, then it'll get taken. If you were in their position and
you were one of the team mainstays, but found out someone else was
being paid more, you'd be pissed off too, no doubt...
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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.
On the upside Phil Neville recently paid for a family from Bury to
take their daughter to the States for a potentially life saving
operation and footed the entire bill. What a good bastard - and
what's he earning - probably 50 - 60k a week.
A few years ago Bury FC were in the financial poo, and Neville
Neville (tee hee) the brothers' dad was, I think, club secretary.
He appealed to his sons to help the club out. Gary, forever the
philanthropist, donated - I kid you not here - a signed Man U shirt
for them to raffle.
So Phil may have a generous streak, but his brother is tighter
than a nun's nasty.
This money thing is why i like the A-League, every player is down
to earth and have time to talk to the fans.
Yep I'm really looking forward to watching proper football again,
wiv The Nix, instead of the English premiership rubbish that is
dished up around the world.
Which ex-Liverpool player had a habit of putting large sums of cash
into envelopes and dropping them off, anonymously, at all sorts of
worthy causes on Merseyside? dairyflat2007-05-23 12:58:06
Didn't Robbie Fowler have a reputation for such?
Which ex-Liverpool player had a habit of putting large sums of cash
into envelopes and dropping them off, anonymously, at all sorts of
worthy causes on Merseyside?
Wasnt it Bruce Grobbelar or somthing?
Which ex-Liverpool player had a habit of putting large sums of cash
into envelopes and dropping them off, anonymously, at all sorts of
worthy causes on Merseyside?
Wasnt it Bruce Grobbelar or somthing?
No, Grobbelaar was more in the habit of receiving
envelopes full of cash.
Oops, sorry, "Allegedly".
Which ex-Liverpool player had a habit of putting large sums of cash
into envelopes and dropping them off, anonymously, at all sorts of
worthy causes on
Merseyside?�
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!
Chelsea are disgraceful. They use there RIDICULOUSLY HIGH AMOUNT of
money to create power, and in turn power to creat titles. Ruins the
game of soccer.
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
So they turned down an offer in pounds per week similar to what I
earn in dollars per year. Damn. At current exchange rate of approx
2.5 pounds per dollar that is approx 130 times what I earn. And
I've got a student loan to pay off. I knew I should have stuck with
football 
Didn't Robbie Fowler have a reputation for such?
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.