The Fletcher Scenario

[animallittle3]

From what I've read from ex players who were with the club during our PL season money did cause a fair bit of unrest .

Redders. Sherdian , Eaden and co were pretty pyssed off about Tinkler , Hristov and one or two more coming to the club on far bigger wages , Redders said in his book the senior players had got the club promotion and a bunch of unproven players just waltzed through the door and claimed the cream .

However , they didn't begrudge Ashley Ward a penny because he was the real deal with the quality and work ethic he brought to the club .

Hope that makes my point rather better than the previous post .

[pass_and_move]

From what I've read from ex players who were with the club during our PL season money did cause a fair bit of unrest .

Redders. Sherdian , Eaden and co were pretty pyssed off about Tinkler , Hristov and one or two more coming to the club on far bigger wages , Redders said in his book the senior players had got the club promotion and a bunch of unproven players just waltzed through the door and claimed the cream .

However , they didn't begrudge Ashley Ward a penny because he was the real deal with the quality and work ethic he brought to the club .

Hope that makes my point rather better than the previous post .

Fair point mate. I think the fact that they were foreign didn't help either and i don't use that term in a stereotypical way. I think hristov is the perfect example of a young unproven striker coming in for a big transfer fee and wages. Was he any better than the strikers we already had? Probably not.

Maybe players like Ward and Barnard came in on bigger money but our promotion players had instant respect for them because they knew all about them. Tinkler, Georgi, Marksted, Krizan etc were an unknown quantity simply because they were foreign yet expectations of them were high. Having seen them in training and how the season went they failed to deliver and you can understand discontent in the camp. Our foreign contingent contributed very little when you think about it.

Funny because De Zeeuw, Clint and jovo who were crucial to the promotion squad but were more than likely sharing parity in the wages with the rest of the lads. It's a very shrewd point you make Animal.

Unity is our strength, absolutely ***** is the spirit in this camp. Young lads who probably wear their hearts on their sleeves and probably are lacking in rational thought wouldn't welcome a player who still has much to prove yet is getting double the dough. Its a poser.

Should West Ham perhaps share the wages of Fletch with us then it may well ease any possible volatile situation. It's all hypothetical but in reality i think whoever loans him will have to pay his money, should that be a leeds, Derby, forest etc it's certainly not a problem to them. Certainly gives food for thought

[asbin]

I cannot see how you can complain about the wages of any player that comes in on loan, especially from a premier league club. If we buy a player and put him on a wage far greater than what existing players are on then fair comment. Its common knowledge that any premier league player is on far more money than our players are on.
If a club loans us a player, then we have to pay him his wages unless the parent club agrees to pay some as did Leicester last season. If West ham are saying we will have to pay all Fletchers wages then so be it.

[Hodger1957]

I think a lot depends on the character and attitude of the loanee.
I was really impressed with Fletcher away at Fleetwood. He didn't play that well in a poor team performance but he chased everything down and put more effort in than anyone that day.
It's one thing experienced old pro's like Redders & Eaden getting pissed off, but most of our present squad arrived recently from non league/lower league and we probably trebled their wages not that long ago. To expect parity with a loanee from the Prem would be a bit rich. They would also benefit from any win bonuses he helped them win. If he delivers on the pitch I can't see how they can complain. Surely if he proved to be a dud we could terminate the loan