D - Day for Smudge

[pip_y]

Good point. Come on pip_y catch up

Still got sea legs after getting back from Baltic cruise yesterday so no wifi for 2 weeks. Still walking with a distinct sway or is it swagger?

[Brin]

Still got sea legs after getting back from Baltic cruise yesterday so no wifi for 2 weeks. Still walking with a distinct sway or is it swagger?

I call it a stagger

[Redshank]

Geordie fan 100% but a mega wage packet turns anyones head.

Say we offer him 7k a week and Sunderland offer him 10k. Thats £156,000 more a year, times this by a 2 year contract and higher goal scoring bonuses and he's looking towards a possible £320k .......yeh he'll turn that down because he's a Geordie......err not.

Hmmmm...
Open question to MMadsters; if you were a pro footballer, how much would it take to get you to pull on a W*******y shirt every week and trot () out at the sty every other week?

Personally, I couldn't do it.

[Brin]

Hmmmm...
Open question to MMadsters; if you were a pro footballer, how much would it take to get you to pull on a W*******y shirt every week and trot () out at the sty every other week?

Personally, I couldn't do it.

Here we go then.....Okay I'm a pro Pro footballer not just a MM contributor so I have a profession. I have a Wife and young Daughter and another child on the way. I need to keep up my mortgage payments whilst providing an income for my family. Weds offer me 12k a week when I was only on approx 4-5k at my last club.....now let me think about this one....mmmmm......

It's a 2 year deal so worth £1.248 Million to me. My last two years at my old club paid me, (at £5k), £520,000.....''Taxi..Taxi"

We all know footballers have a very small working shelf life unless you are an elite player earning mega mind blowing bucks so you take the best what's on offer, within reasonable boundaries, travel etc.

[Pattylallacks2]

Hmmmm...
Open question to MMadsters; if you were a pro footballer, how much would it take to get you to pull on a W*******y shirt every week and trot () out at the sty every other week?

Personally, I couldn't do it.

That's going to be a bitter pill to swallow for the Wednesday Recruitment Team

[Jimmy Badfellow]

I think the only way the Chairman could have tempted Smith to stay is through length of contract,say 4 years, at a competitive annual salary.When you factor in that he never seems to get injured and has a very good attitude it would be a risk the club might be able to take even if there is a dip in form along the way.He may also have offered a couple of 'trigger clauses' as well to benefit Smith should someone come along with an exceptional offer but Smith will have to follow the money in my opinion.He is 31 soon and looking at his CV you don't need to be Alan Sugar to work out that he will not have earned a 'set up for life' income from his career so far.By the time his next contract expires ,at which ever club,so will his career.

[millertop]

Hmmmm...
Open question to MMadsters; if you were a pro footballer, how much would it take to get you to pull on a W*******y shirt every week and trot () out at the sty every other week?

Personally, I couldn't do it.

I would hope to be smart enough to have investments of some sort and savings but desperate times make you do desperate things

I wouldn’t begrudge Smith for moving on but I’d be disappointed but we have to get over these things and hope someone can do the same job or even better

[Grist_To_The_Mill]

That's going to be a bitter pill to swallow for the Wednesday Recruitment Team

What would be a bitter pill is for them to get Smith and Ladapo, play them both, get promoted and pass us going the opposite way.

[Citizen Erased]

I think the only way the Chairman could have tempted Smith to stay is through length of contract,say 4 years, at a competitive annual salary.When you factor in that he never seems to get injured and has a very good attitude it would be a risk the club might be able to take even if there is a dip in form along the way.He may also have offered a couple of 'trigger clauses' as well to benefit Smith should someone come along with an exceptional offer but Smith will have to follow the money in my opinion.He is 31 soon and looking at his CV you don't need to be Alan Sugar to work out that he will not have earned a 'set up for life' income from his career so far.By the time his next contract expires ,at which ever club,so will his career.

Lot of sense there. Id go further and have a massive goal bonus too. 4 year deal and a good consistent wage would be as important as a bigger salary.

I suspect his next move will be a 3 year deal though to be fair.

[gru]

re. length of contract. Players over 30 I'd say max' we can give them is 2 years with the option of an extra year.