Incase you don't know I'm soccer daft, love watcing it, love coaching it, love the passion and everything that goes with it.
Almost 2 years ago in college I done a piece of work highlighting how transfer fees for players have spiralled out of control, going from the 1st 1M player, to the 15M sale of Alan Shearer, to the 42M transfer of Zidane, the 85M transfer of Ronaldo to now the 86M transfer of Bale. It's really gone out of control but this is'nt what this blog is about.
The modern day footballer, on a wage per week that people struggle to make in 5-10 years and that's just for the average player. I've grew up watching the game, Scottish football, English football, Italian football and other leagues as they've produced players who've gone on to be household names. I remember when top players were on 50k a week, nowadays thats a wage for a distinctively average player with the best commanding upwards of 150k a week. I've seen bare average players who rarely play pick up 50k a week. It's got out of control.
This blog is based on one game I watched last weekend. Sunderland v Man U. Sunderland bottom of the league, their players got the manager sacked because he believed in old school management, having to earn the right to be where you are, respecting the senior players, young players having to seriously work to be where they want to be. But yet the senior players, who are picking up in excess of 50K a week took the huff, felt they didn't deserve to work extra hard in training 'pampered players' I call them and duely got the manager sacked. Welcome to modern day football.
Here's my biggest beef with modern day football, the 'young player'. Back in the day young players had to work super hard to get near the 1st team set up, they'd clean the senior players boots and no doubt a host of other stuff, they all couldn't afford cars so they got lifts to training. Nowadays its flipped, they swan around in fancy cars despite not featuring for the 1st team, picking up thousands of pounds a week before its earned. Who decided these players deserve big wages before its earned?. The governing bodies around Britain wonder why young players aren't getting produced , they are getting produced but they slack off once you hand them big fancy contracts, their work ethic no longer exists and their effort drops as in their eyes 'they've made it' and that contract will keep them happy for years to come.
Adnan Januzaj. The 18 year old Man U player who last week no one had ever really heard of. He starts against Sunderland (bottom of the league) and scores 2 goals on his debut. Now all of a sudden you'd think this was the next Messi, Ronaldo, Zidane by the way the media have acted. Not even a week has passed where already he's rumoured to be signing a new deal worth 50K a week and a number of countries are pathetically fighting over who he should play for (born in Belgium so that really should be the end of it) thanks to this stupid parent and grand parent rule. Born in Belgium but your Mum is Albanian, Dads French, Grandfather was born on Mars and your Grandmother was born in the air over Spain and Portugal so take your pick what country to play for. All because of one game, 2 goals.....against the worst team in the league. No one can justify how this kid is suddenly worth 50K a week after one performance. Who knows what he'll be like in 4 years time, if he's still amazing then give him what you want if he's proved it for 4 years solid at the highest level. In my view younger players get too much, too young, too fast. It's what's ruining the modern day game in my view and it shows no sign of stopping.
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