Quote Originally Posted by animallittle3 View Post
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