victor":1y9e3fli said:
Ridders made it clear today that players are preferred creditors so, in the event of administration, they are guaranteed full payment of the money they are owed, and have not been paid.
However, the backroom staff do not have this cover.
So, the players have nothing to worry about - their payments may be delayed but they will come, whatever happens! It's the backroom staff that have to be worried, and they are clearly not the ones on thousands a week.
So, I say that the players should keep quiet and count their enormous blessings.
Furthermore, if they fail to perform for us, who will want most of them if we go bust?
They need to keep themselves on a wanted list, if nothing else!
Well, said Victor.
I'm sorry to have to say it but I think that a number of the players we have had over the last two to three years have not delivered what I felt as supporters was due. Things like committment, effort, passion and pride. For the latter part of last season a good number of performances were woeful and lacked anything that might be have been considered professional. And yet these players continued to draw down payment, through what I assume to be relatively standard contracts, tweeked to account for whatever personal terms can be squeezed out by agents.
Now, don't get me wrong I more than happy to see
any individual rewarded for dedication, performance and committment, but I doubt that there are many supporters of any club who, if they put in a half assed working week and feeble performances, would expect anything other than a good kick up the ass as a start and ultimately the sack.
I am delighted that the PFA has a safety net for players, especially for those who through no fault of their own find themselves unpaid for the good work they have done, but, the players too are part of the problem in that the wages they can negotate seem, to me at least, lacking in any downward related playing performance penalty and absurdly large in relation to what is third tier football.
It has to be said that high wage demands and poor performances have been a significant contribution to the state in which Argyle find themselves. Irrespective of who is to blame for agreeing to stump up
weekly payments of Ā£5000 plus for journeyman players, the trend mirrors the malaise that is affecting football. Namely, living beyond our means to try and achieve some sort of success.
Yes, people should get paid for the work they do and ultimately the players will, but, If success means that putting players on a pedestal at the expense of abandoning backroom staff, living beyond our means, making local business suffer and forgetting we are a football club-Count me out. I don't ever want to go through this again.