I think it depends on the player. Players careers are short and most would want to play. Some will sit in the reserves and mooch off while others will try to find clubs where they are more wanted. Like you mentioned, it worked for Chelsea with Gallagher. De Gea held out for mega wages and now can not find a new club. In hindsight, he should have accepted our offer of extension on lower wages.
Definitely. The high salaries and having players who might have chosen us over another club due to a higher salary, is really the root of all evil I believe.
All great points, and I'd argue F- Find suitors and propose deals to clubs who need these players would be even more important. A department to find out the West Ham's the Fulham's, etc, and aggressively tries to contact the clubs (wait until the market is scanned and then contact all at the same time to drive the price up) would be a decent solution.
So the job of a player’s agent?
+ any loyalty bonus he has in his contract. if he stays for a year he gets it next June
It’s all very public at Juve. Anyone who wishes to see out their contract won’t play and will be made to feel comfortable. It’s better to move on in that kind of circumstance. I’m not saying who’s wrong or right here, simply how it is. Juve are very firm on their stance.
The basic problem are big salaries some of our players are on and it's a leftover from Ed and co. which will be hard to deal with.
It's stems from poor talent ID and how such players know that the only way from here is down so they try to hold on for as long as possible. As a club we shouldn't indulge this nonsense by making them comfortable here, we should freeze them out until their contracts are up, there isn't much cost results wise because we are shit anyway.
Or he's on a lot more than 90k, which might explain why we've had one of the highest wages bills in the past decade whilst not paying out any bonuses for success?
Agreed.
He is not the only one that holds "only one year left on contract" card. He knows he can get that in signing on fee if he signs on free next year, and for this year he is still getting paid by United. Nothing wrong from him in my opinion. What is wrong is for club management letting players to get to the last year of his contract without extending or selling player. If he was on a 2+ years contract he could be forced to reserves for two years or not playing and he would think twice what to do. But with one year left and him knowing how light we are on fullbacks he knows he will get minutes during the season plays final year of his contract and gets paid and gets lucrative free agent contract next year.
Should do what Mourinho did to Scwheinsteiger...
They avoid getting to the point where players of value are in the last year of their contract. The other problem is anyone we want rid of will nearly always be earning less at their next club due to our ridiculous contracts. For other clubs it's the other way round.
I read this a few days ago and did not pay too much attention. Wan Bisaka's contract was extended this January, and £7m seems to be right in the middle of the reported agreed transfer fee with West Ham.
