What goes around comes around ... one day these things will backfire on the big clubs that steal players and Giampaolo Pozzo will be the big winner.
I don't blame the kid......it's Man Utd afterall. I blame the system for screwing us, and all other lower league clubs, over. This will not be the first or last time it will happen either.
It's all very well thinking you would but at the end of the day these kids all believe their agents that tell them they're going to be the next Messi.
The kid probably get a couple of grand a week for being a youth! Don't blame him if I was 16 earning anything over a grand a week is be bloody delighted! Still hope he fails tho if he goes there but if he stays I'll love him forever
There should be a system whereby the poaching club has to keep paying the academy club every year the player is still on their books, as well as an automatic sell on percentage. That way, if the player isn't good enough, at least they will be dumped quickly to be picked back up by a FL club.
http://www.sl10.ng/news/articles/le...at-man-united-compensation-for-ogo-obi/173387 A strange report this one, quoting chairman Raffaele Riva, who is more elusive than Gladys Protheroe.
This article is utterly made up conjecture. They looked up Watford on Wikipedia to find the chairman and turned it into a story.
Agreed ... not one quote and the rest stating the bleeding obvious ... Raffaele Riva has probably never even seen him play.
As an adult if I was earning a grand a weeks I'd be delighted. At 16 I'd be over the moon with a quarter of that just to play football.
If he stayed with us this season, would he get ahead of Vydra and Deeney? Almost certainly not. If he stayed with us next season, would he get ahead of Vydra and Deeney, or any replacement that the Pozzos deem Premiership quality if we are promoted? Probably not. The life of a footballer is incredibly precarious, so why not take the money now? Even though he will probably never play for them, he will be training at the best training facilities in the country amongst better players, and the fact he has played for Man Utd will mean that he will most likely be picked up by a Championship team at least. Maybe he will even return to us. I wish him all the best and have no problem with the fact he has left us, as we are no longer filling our team with academy players. My only gripe is with the powers that have said one of the most highly rated teenager strikers at his age-group is worth less than what some of their players make every 7/8 hours. EPPP is an absolute farce and has to be stopped.
That is the key point. The EPPP is such an obnoxious regulation/system, that when it is eventually set aside at some form of quasi judicial forum, it will be castigated as a crass effort at bullying by the big boys and horrendously damaging to football. Sadly the creators of the system will have buffered themselves from any personal repercussions.
If one googles Raffaele Riva, all you find is a load of articles from July 2012 when he joined us and nothing else. In fact the number one result I got was a thread from this very message board!
I look forward to Laughing when we are getting promoted and united are going into Administration!!! £75m for DiMaria when they have NO defenders!!!! Not including the £50m they are going to pay him in wages. That means that DiMaria is worth 576 x Obis
UK average wage is 26.5k for full time. Anyone who isn't somewhat happy with 52k a year (i.e. double the national average) needs some perspective.
that might sound double the wages, however, after tax, tax credits, child benefit, child care vouchers the 'real' difference is about £800 a month between earning £52k & 26K, so a shade under £10k in real terms.
26k = take home of £1719 + child benefit, tax credits, higher rate child care vouchers 52k = take home of £3100, lower rate child benefit, no tax credit, low rate child care vouchers which i would estimate in total comes to between £3-500
I earn 26k and get naff all tax credits because my wife works too. If I made 52k my wife wouldn't need to work, our son wouldn't need to go to nursery and we'd be a lot better off as a result. Plus my wife would be more relaxed. Take your "52k isn't much more than 26k" and stick it up your chuff.
Still not sure where these numbers come from, you know if you earn over £34,700 (or whatever it is this year) you dont get charged 40% on the lot? I work it out as about £300 a week more take home at £52k. I dont know about tax credits mind. Either way think we can agree its a noticeable amount more salary for anyone.
Maybe, but likewise look at it this way too - if you take an 'average family of 2 kids where both parents work at £26000k they bring in a shade over £3108 and are entitled to £486 childcare vouchers plus £147.55 child benefit, total of £3742. Whereas, in a family with one-parent working earning twice the average at £52k brings in £3108 plus a reduced rate of child benefit of £118, total of £3226. So between the 2 families there is a difference of £516 a month...that's quite a lot and a ****ed up tax system that doesn't allow you transfer tax allowance between couples and hardly an incentive to work like ten men making your way up the greasy pole or get yourself educated to maximise earning potential.
I recently got a new job (based on experience and additional qualification that I've worked). It came with a £12k pay rise...just seen my first pay, that £1000 a month becomes £446 a month extra, including the loss of child benefit, in my pocket. On another note, I consider myself to have a decent wage (not a fortune, but more than average) but I'm always staggered that I seem to have the worst car, the cheapest clothes, don't drink or smoke and lead a very normal inexpensive life which leads me to ask either (a) what am I doing wrong, or (b) where does everybody else get their money from?
Ask yourself: how much debt do I have? Because if that number is close to 0 then you've got your answer.
Yeah I really do not know what the ***** I was adding up to be honest. Shocking mistake. 52k a year is very good don't get me wrong but maybe because I'm still young I'm dreaming big. I'm not going to pay 27k a year for uni to earn 26.5k a year, no thanks!
