Official: Phil Jones will leave United at the end of the season

Absolute case study in how injuries can ruin a player’s career. Was a very exciting young player, had the physicality, bravery and desire to defend.
It’s a real shame to see how his career has panned out. I wish him all the best and hope that he can find a career somewhere, be it in football or not.
 
Woodywizz said:
The lad has earned millions for years whilst sat at home in Hale and driving round in his Lambo - so he can stick his heartfelt open letter to the fans up his arse. Contract should have been terminated years ago as even when fully fit he was a liability. He is the epitome of everything that was wrong under Woodward.
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This post is twat
 
Jim Beam said:
Fernando Redondo refused to receive salary from AC Milan for more than a year while he was being injured because he didn't want to get paid while he isn't playing. He even wanted to return the house and a car he got.



Now, I wouldn't do such a thing certainly and 99% people either, but there are obviously small exceptions. I feel sorry for his career, but maybe, considering everything, he should have end it by himself a year earlier. It would be a nice gesture and something that would make a lasting bond with the fans... But hey ho, as I said, 99% or even more players, logically take the money (which is their right).
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Agree with all that. Especially if he retires now.
 
VanDeBank said:
He should have handed in his resignation two years ago and then gotten a job he was trained for, preferable one that requires knee cartillage.
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Oh feck me, people actually took my post seriously and didn't get I was parodying the pot noodle eaters living in their mum's basement. :lol:
 
But too early saying goodbye, he can still get the last minute winner against City in the final.
 
Just seen the tribute video with Fletcher handing him the shirt, fecking disgusting how some have discussed him. Looks a shadow of a man.

People on a forum telling a man to forgoe his pay because. . . people on a forum would, feck off.
 
Wouldnt all his pay/expenses/ bills have been covered by insurance?

If the cover was proper, which you'd think it was with the way clubs work, he may have made Utd money.

Could be wrong but wasn't it similar with Owen at Newcastle?
 
golden_blunder said:
Let’s see how you’d fare with your bones running together.
i know you like to play devils advocate but your posts are being gimps in this thread
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I just don't get the fawning over him. Despite early promise he just wasn't that good in the end, and he wasn't some great servant to the club either. Anyway, i'll leave it at that for this thread.
 
"You'll always be a red"

Man you can say that again. Remember when people used to give Saha stick for always being injured? This guy is Saha and Hargreaves *50

And the club kept him on for an entire career. Good luck to him anyway.
 
Woodywizz said:
The lad has earned millions for years whilst sat at home in Hale and driving round in his Lambo - so he can stick his heartfelt open letter to the fans up his arse. Contract should have been terminated years ago as even when fully fit he was a liability. He is the epitome of everything that was wrong under Woodward.
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And yu can stick this post up your arse. Absolute car crash.
 
He could have atleast tried to earn his wages and taken on the role as the mascot fred the red
 
top1whoisman said:
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If he really wants to repay the fans, all he has to do with this saturday with his accessibility to the glazers is to go up to them in their box during the fa cup final and smack them up the side of head
 
Rhyme Animal said:
Bless him. I really, really hope he finds somewhere he can contribute and play and enjoy his footy again.

Always seems a top bloke and decent person. Absolute best of luck to him.
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I'm afraid his playing days are behind him. If he so chooses, hope he gets his badges and finds a career in the game.
 
Jim Beam said:
Fernando Redondo refused to receive salary from AC Milan for more than a year while he was being injured because he didn't want to get paid while he isn't playing. He even wanted to return the house and a car he got.



Now, I wouldn't do such a thing certainly and 99% people either, but there are obviously small exceptions. I feel sorry for his career, but maybe, considering everything, he should have end it by himself a year earlier. It would be a nice gesture and something that would make a lasting bond with the fans... But hey ho, as I said, 99% or even more players, logically take the money (which is their right).
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I think what people are forgetting is that this club is not owned by fans, but by shareholders. Why should he donate his contracted salary to a for-profit commercial enterprise? Just so that shareholders can get a fatter dividend? Of course, it doesn't sit right, but if he's injured, someone needs to lose out, there is no optimal solution.

And that is why they have a contract. If he would not have been injured and let's say become and England starter, and a wealthier club come along and offered him more money to sign, he couldn't have - due to the contract. So it has positives and negatives and we ended up losing on this one. We're one of the wealthiest clubs in the world, big deal!
 
Don't think we should ever have signed him in the first place.Fergie seemed enamoured with him because he played well in a game against us.
I remember telling people at that time the player we should buy was Gary Cahill from Bolton.He was already a better player and would have cost less than half the price that we paid for Jones.
The club should never have given him that last contract,crazy,made no sense.We could of still helped him out going forward with his future without the silly contract and wages.
Any way good luck to him ,always comes across as a nice genuine fella.
 
stolen from ivor said:
I remember telling people at that time the player we should buy was Gary Cahill from Bolton.He was already a better player and would have cost less than half the price that we paid for Jones.
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I mean ... he's six years older than (the then-19-year-old) Jones, so you would really hope so.

Also very easy to say this with hindsight 12 years later because we know how Jones's injuries panned out, but based on his first couple of seasons with us 95% of fans (including Chelsea fans) would have agreed he had a much higher ceiling than Cahill, who was an adequate but hardly top-level center back. He had a couple of great seasons under Mourinho (as the junior partner to Terry) and then Conte (in an extremely well-drilled defensive setup that even made David Luiz look great). He was poor under Rafa, then again in Mourinho's meltdown season, and then again in Conte's meltdown season - a bit similar to Evans's career with us, in that he floundered a little too often whenever he had to take the responsibility of leading the defence.
 
Nothing to do with hindsight,I didnt know Jones would be injury prone back then.I just thought Cahill would be a better more obvious signing,never rated Jones that much,in his first season or so I remember him being all over the place positionally. Cahill ended up having a really good career anyway.
 
he finally has no value to protect. spare a thought for how you’d feel being deemed as such.
 
Wonder if all the staff will gather round the treatment table at 10 to 5, with a card, some flowers a little going away present and stand there while he makes an awkward speech about how he's loved it here, met some great people, is going to miss it......
 
I remember when we signed him. Us, the Scousers and le Arse were in for him, and I think all triggered his £16m clause. Jones opted for us, and then the Venkys tried demanding £25m for him, because they didn't undetstand what a release clause was. Those were good times (literally, we were still winning leagues with SAF in charge).

Jones was a very talented young player, and it's a shame injuries derailed his entire career. All the best to him.
 
"I'll always remember the day I left Utd, I sat in the car park and cried my eyes out for a full 20 minutes before I was even able to turn the key in my £250k limited edition Range Rover."


Joking aside, it's a shame how injuries ruined his career, I remember thinking Fergie had played a blinder in succession planning having Jones & Smalling lined up to replace Vidic & Rio... shows what I know.
 
Best of luck to him, always put his body on the line for the cause. Hopefully he can make a name for himself in the next career step
 
Good luck with what he does next, don't think he will still be a professional footballer.
I remember, when we signed him, he was so strong for his age, so fast and with decent ball skills. Never expected his career to take such a nose dive.
 
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