Quote Originally Posted by Power_n_Glory View Post
This is totally backwards because you don't need to prop up the wages of players like Denilson, Bendy, Wilshere, Ramsey or Ox to stay! Nobody is coming in for them and they're smart enough to know that they're at a club that will give them a chance to play regualr first team football. No other top Prem club is going to offer that and they themselves know this because we have a reputation of giving young players a shot.
there is a market outside of the premiership.

and yes, teams were coming for those players at the time they signed contracts. Its not about propping up wages, its about keeping up with other CL teams. If you drop the salary of middle/young players (and I knew it was going to come to bashing the wages of middle players) then they are going to leave.

that doesnt dismiss that we need to pay more for top players tho. I have never said that. If you have a world class striker like RVP, you have to at least give him a tough decision financially. Clearly the club did not do that.

Quote Originally Posted by Power_n_Glory View Post
And with that argument and defending such a backwards policy, it makes no sense to then look at the top performers of the club, the guys that get us Champs League football and then talk about greed and disloyalty. The young kids won't leave because of their wages, they'll complain and leave if they're not given a fair shot to play first team football. Bendy, Merida, Vela, Pennant, Quincy....you can look at Coquelin' recent complaints and he mentions nothing about wages. Chesney threatened to leave if he wasn't given a shot a couple of years ago.
there is nothing backward about it. You keep saying it, but look at United, Chelsea, City, etc. Their middle tier and young players get paid a lot too. Apparently Daniel Welbeck and Tom Cleverly are getting 60k a week. What have those two done in their careers so far, especially Cleverly?

Chesney can threaten to leave because he can get that salary somewhere else.

Quote Originally Posted by Power_n_Glory View Post
It's never about wages for these guys. But it can boil down to that for some of our established stars and it baffles me that some could suggest that it's okay to pay over the odds for the players that aren't on anyones radar while important first teamers walk season after season because the club aren't smart enough to offer a cash incentive to our top performers. It's backwards. Ice, I don't understand how you can have so much venom for guys like RVP, Theo, Cesc...etc yet excuse us paying over the odds for players who haven't even contributed half of what these guys have over the years.
well you have made that up, no one has said that except you in this post.