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Almost all footballers have zero qualifications. They’ve been full time footballers since they were 16. There are sod all opportunities out there for young people, let alone 30+ with zero experience. If Ralls has the opportunity to make more money, he should absolutely take it.
Maybe he will, maybe he won’t. People always say “they’re paid loads so it doesn’t matter”. If you could get double to do the same job you would. If you could get paid enough to never work again after, you would. When Ralls isn’t good enough, the club won’t think twice about moving him on. Ralls is just an example. There is no loyalty in football from clubs so I don’t see why we should expect it from players. I want Ralls to stay but you can’t blame him for looking around. It’s our fault we’ve let it get to this situation.
Someone who earned 1400 a month for their full time normal job is offered 2000 a month to dpnthe same job but move companies, you'd have to think most would take it. More things to consider, but put it to people in basic monetary terms and.more people take it than don't.
To us mere mortals the extra seems massive, but put it side by side and compare it with like for like pay increases for the same job and not many turn it down.
For the likes of us in a reasonable commutable distance yes we would.
If he isn’t prepared to relocate or stay over too long thats far away - as the kids are settled in the area with schools etc. We are still very much a viable and maybe sensible option even at supposedly lower money than he may get further afield.
Thanks for 10 years service and all that but we Don’t owe him anything and there
are able and willing replacements who would relish the prospect of coming to us.
I like Ralls, but I think football has to move on and I'm glad we are now being sensible with our wages and trying to sort out our finances.
I know lads in my line of work that swap companies for an extra quid an hour.
People try to point out the big money in football and say the extra 2k a week he may get elsewhere shouldn't matter when they earn such big money already, but you can't blame them for doing so, because in a like for like scenario most of us would be gone.
with regard to average wages I happen to know that when he was Captain Darren Purse was on £26K a week and he was the highest paid footballer in the club. That equates to about £37K today.
Since then we have had the banking collapse and various other things. I think that todays average will be not much higher than it was then, and probably lower in purchasing power.
And if it's true to this club it will probably be true for many others too.
Plus paying over the odds could get a club into a fight over the financial limitations today.
Totally agree a refresh, for both the club and player all need to to move on from all the past players wages and ways of playing if we are to develop a new style built around young modern players and tactics .
Keeping someone on high wages for being Mr Consistency doesn't make commercial sense
Everyone can be replaced .
I like Ralls but if we’re truly looking to change the way we play, he should be one of many to leave. Fresh start for all please.
I hope he stays, but only if it can be done within the new wage structure
Footballers are essentially contractors, and like many contractors, are rewarded based on performance. I hope that he can squeeze as much as possible, wherever he ends up. Good luck Joe.
Spoken like a true statistician... I love it.
I figure that's got to be the mean. Massive wages of clubs that have been recently relegated would hugely inflate the mean (100k a week for Mitrovic for example); I bet the median would be a good deal less than 29k as every club that hasn't got parachute payments is reigning in the spending.