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Modric is 1 of how many who proved the contrary. If RL fans want to compare Modric to Tomkins which is silly IMO, how many clubs can spend £50 million, hence why Tevez is stuck in limbo; transfer moves have windows, that window is now closed; who is to say Modric will be at Spurs next season?; has Modric been on fire this season?thegimble wrote:Tell Luca Modric a contract does not matter.
:eusa2:cpwigan wrote: :doz: :conf: I cannot believe people even believe or think a contract matters. What planet are you on and are you not just a tad hypocritical, nay deluded.
Whatever job you do I defy anybody to tell me that they have not encountered either a situation where they left a position because somebody offered them a better opportunity, a higher wage AND/OR where you consider you are being treated badly in your present position, under valued, abused SO you move. Whatsmore, life is not fixed, it is dynamic. Your circumstances 6 months, 6 weeks ago may be very different to those today.
Long contracts are a 2 way street. 1) The club is protected from losing everything with no compensation 2) The player gets some security, a slightly better deal financially
BUT let's not kid ourselves SPORT is a brutal business. It is short and at the whim of a coach / owner your career can nose dived and end in oblivion.
There is no loyalty in sport. There never has been. Fans are no better YET they want their 'heroes' to act in a farcically loyal masochistic self harming manner. Get real
If IL or whomever wanted to make a stand why not use a time with mass media presence to start to affect change. Obviously not hijack the key news but slowly start to talk about raising the cap, retention of key young players, central contracts. It is time for those with power and influence to stand up and be counted AND then you may be able to stop worrying. At the moment RL has its head in the sand and needs to look at the bigger picture. Whining about a meaningless contract achieves nothing.
Tevez is stuck in Limbo not because of the transfer fee on him but of his attitude and his agent (Slimy individual). Also the guy is homesick that is a known fact. So no South American team can afford him.cpwigan wrote:Modric is 1 of how many who proved the contrary. If RL fans want to compare Modric to Tomkins which is silly IMO, how many clubs can spend £50 million, hence why Tevez is stuck in limbo; transfer moves have windows, that window is now closed; who is to say Modric will be at Spurs next season?; has Modric been on fire this season?thegimble wrote:Tell Luca Modric a contract does not matter.
Let's nail this one once and for all shall we? There are two sorts of employment out there. Normal employment where you are an employee of a firm and work to a notice period and fixed term contract work where you are not. I spent quite a while working as an IT contractor early in my career on fixed term contracts. They were highly paid and there was plenty of demand for my services. What I and others doing the same did NOT do was start say a two year contract and then leave after a month because a better contract was on offer down the road. That was just not the done thing. If you did that your reputation went down the pan as your clients projects came off the rails. What you did was see the deal out and look for a better one next time. You could afford to do this because you were being well paid. THAT Is the real world of fixed term contracted employment and how highly paid people who are responsible behave and those are the parallels employment-wise. Not what you say above.cpwigan wrote: :doz: :conf: I cannot believe people even believe or think a contract matters. What planet are you on and are you not just a tad hypocritical, nay deluded.
Whatever job you do I defy anybody to tell me that they have not encountered either a situation where they left a position because somebody offered them a better opportunity, a higher wage AND/OR where you consider you are being treated badly in your present position, under valued, abused SO you move. Whatsmore, life is not fixed, it is dynamic. Your circumstances 6 months, 6 weeks ago may be very different to those today.
And the club can make long term plans which are screwed if people walk away. And as to "some" security I wish someone would guarantee my employment for five years.Long contracts are a 2 way street. 1) The club is protected from losing everything with no compensation 2) The player gets some security, a slightly better deal financially
It has nothing to do with loyalty. I do not expect any player to dedicate their lives to Wigan out of loyalty. If a player wants to leave after his contract is up then fine. In the meantime player contracts should enter the real world where they are honoured and if they don't want to get stuck on a five year deal then they should not agree to them in the first place.BUT let's not kid ourselves SPORT is a brutal business. It is short and at the whim of a coach / owner your career can nose dived and end in oblivion.
There is no loyalty in sport. There never has been. Fans are no better YET they want their 'heroes' to act in a farcically loyal masochistic self harming manner. Get real
So Wigan can enforce the contract and will keep a player who has asked to leave.cpwigan wrote:Wigan have decided that rather than keep a player wanting to leave they will let him go provided the compensation is what they want so that IMO is on our terms. If those terms are not met, Joel stays.
Your maths is pretty good MikeMike wrote:If joel is on around 70k say, and lenegan is going for value of contract plus 50% compensation, we'd be looking at something like 70x4x1.5 = 420K. Not enough IMO, we should be up near the 1M mark given the length of outstanding contract.
Also, to those stating the approach is illegal, i believe that only applies within a sport ,not between different sports.
Also ,remember that some of our great players were enticed to wigan with a substantial increase in wages ,not for a love of the game or the club. Boston and Hanley?
I would not go that far but I would be quite happy if he failed. Serve him right but may also put RU off flinging money at our players.Tbh if he goes i hope he breaks his cruciate knee ligament in both knees. Have no time for people like him who will jump asap at the first sign of a bigger pay check.