You can't sack them in the traditional sense. They get all the benefits of a standard employee (thanks to those ****s in the EU and that Bosman bastard), but you have to pay the shit heads off if you want to get rid of them. Wouldn't be bad that, would it? If normal employees could behave like footballers no work would ever be done. Employees would sign 5 year contracts and then take a 5 year fag break. If the boss got pissed he'd have to hand over 5 years of wages to get a lazy bastard out the door. EU laws shouldn't apply to football until they apply fully and equitably. Chamakh and Arshavin should definitely be sacked, no doubt about it. There is no penalty whatsoever for these wasters just sitting it out and taking the cash week after week. Bendtner too, Squillaci. In any other walk of life if you fail in the manner these guys have failed you are out on your ear with a shitty reference.