JamieMCFC wrote:Peter Doherty (AGAIG) wrote:DoomMerchant wrote:Peter Doherty (AGAIG) wrote:I fully expect him to turn out for us next season. I just hope he doesn't get a penny more than he's on now.
who cares if he gets more? i hate the way he's handling this, but he's one of the best in the world on current form and i think has at least 1-2 more years at this level. Another 25K a week won't kill us if he gets something out of this for his hard work.
It sets a bad precedent, both in terms of what it suggests to other players and in terms of Toure himself. They're paid to play well and should not be encouraged to think that they can hold the club to ransom if they have a good season. A good season should be the least that is expected of them and they are handsomely rewarded for it at our place.
Toure is just behaving like all of the other top world class footballers. Messi has never gone about it the way Toure has but he has gotten an imporved contract 6 of the last 7 years. Ronaldo has gotten improved contract a couple of time since joining Real. I think it's either something we are going to have to learn to accept being at the top end or realize we won't hold onto those types of footballers if we are able to attract them or they come through the academy.
i think both Messi and Tranny did similar things in terms of having their camp leak to the press that they wanted out, etc. Maybe it was a little more polished, but it was the same crap. As with Rooney.
Par for the course i guess. Where does he work that he thinks he needs to be a giant cunt to get paid "market value"?
Playing devil's advocate....im sure most players all have a set of handlers...agents, managers, PR people, etc who are whispering in their ear about how short their half life is in this business and that they need to aggressively pursue the almighty dollar while they can because clubs are fickle and don't give two fucks about players at the end of the day if situations change or their skills slightly diminish. And they'd be right in saying that tbh.
cheers