Can't blame people for wanting to make money, period. As much as footballers like to bullshit about passion for the game, playing for the fans, wanting to win trophies, at the end being a footballer is a job. You move where the money is.
If you didn't make an acceptable offer to the club you can't blame the player for moving to side that has.
Can't blame people for wanting to make money, period. As much as footballers like to bullshit about passion for the game, playing for the fans, wanting to win trophies, at the end being a footballer is a job. You move where the money is.
If you didn't make an acceptable offer to the club you can't blame the player for moving to side that has.
Can't blame people for wanting to make money, period. As much as footballers like to bullshit about passion for the game, playing for the fans, wanting to win trophies, at the end being a footballer is a job. You move where the money is.
I understand the move on Shakthar's side, that was the price and you never even came close to hitting it. Not sure I understand it on his side though. Someone would have triggered that in the summer.
That said, this isn't about the modern player, been happening for decades. China is just a different location offering the same historical thing.
26. Prime of your career. Desperate to break into the Brazil side for the next World Cup (quite possibly your last chance of that.). And you disappear into obscurity in China.
Nope, can't blame someone already on riches the majority can only dream about who would of increased those in Europe for chasing the new Chinese money. What a fantastic pro
What can you do, modern football is not a "people's game" anymore.....
Nothing new from the last 40 years. Chasing the money won't make him any less a pro. Won't stop him playing for Brazil either.
Chasing money is nottin' new it's true.
Disappearing off the football landscape in a Country like China certainly is in the prime of your career. If he's not getting picked for Brazil in the Ukraine, good luck getting in in China, who are never going to rival what they think they will no matter how much money they pump into it.
Like you said, if this goes through, to Shaktar it's just a business transaction to what they wanted.
It puts the player though, and the likes of Martinez, in a whole other light. And not a good one IMHO.
Italians said the same about England in the 90s tbf.
China are the new moneyed frontier. Let's not kid ourselves. We might have a storied history, but many came for the money, and still do.Oh come on mate, there's no comparison there at all.
We're a long standing, major football player when it comes to club football.
China on the other hand .....
I'm not even bothered that we didn't get him. That's in part down to ourselves. In part down to dealing with the Ukrainians. That's now dead and I never expected us to be back in for him the summer. But I don't understand, outside of money being the overriding thing to him, why the player himself would want to in effect disappear off the footballing landscape in such an embryonic league. He'd of gotten his big European move the summer as you noted.
..... I'm not even bothered that we didn't get him. That's in part down to ourselves. In part down to dealing with the Ukrainians. That's now dead and I never expected us to be back in for him the summer.....
Some reports are saying it's a done deal, but so far as I can tell it's only that Shakhtar have accepted the offer. He still has to agree personal terms, and there's a chance he'd rather wait for a better move in July
Reports flying around of £200 K a week AFTER tax.
So if there's any modicum of truth in that he'll be signing and there's the reason why.
10mil a year making him roughly the tenth highest paid player in the world is what i keep seeing