Contracts and Wages

[dave.woodhall]

Pires was an awful signing, it makes you nervous as to what Houllier will do in Jan

What did you think of Sutton and Agathe? Awful and past it, or the best we could do outside the transfer window?

I thought most of us on here thought it wasn't too bad considering the timing of it.

My point entirely. He was the best we could get at the time, a body when one was desperately needed and who knows, he might end up as a more-than-useful coach.

[WikiVilla]

Pires was an awful signing, it makes you nervous as to what Houllier will do in Jan

What did you think of Sutton and Agathe? Awful and past it, or the best we could do outside the transfer window?

Sutton did a job for us and was mobile, physical and had some good games. We wont get any of that out of Pires.
As for the kids gleaming stuff of him, they'd be better off watching Video footage of Pires from about a decade ago.
Agathe agree - rubbish

[dave.woodhall]

Pires was an awful signing, it makes you nervous as to what Houllier will do in Jan

What did you think of Sutton and Agathe? Awful and past it, or the best we could do outside the transfer window?

Sutton did a job for us and was mobile, physical and had some good games. We wont get any of that out of Pires.
As for the kids gleaming stuff of him, they'd be better off watching Video footage of Pires from about a decade ago.
Agathe agree - rubbish

They were both the best we could get at the time. As is Pires.

[Dave Cooper please]

As for the kids gleaming stuff of him, they'd be better off watching Video footage of Pires from about a decade ago.

Let's not bother with coaches then, if all the players have to do is watch old footage of Pele and Cruyff we'll save a fortune.

[Shrek]

We seem to be paying the type of wages expected if we were in the CL.

I think in order to do that we need to compare ourselves to the regular CL clubs, which are Liverpool, Chelsea, Man Utd and Arsenal.  I'd imagine we're below the first three and maybe above Arsenal, but then the way Wenger runs their transfer policy that should be accepted and understood.

We are not a regular CL club so we can't compare too them.

We are/were a club trying to get there. I said we should look at how spurs did it, they bought young hungry players on a reasonable wage structure. Now they have made CL they have give new contracts to their top players. But we are already paying those wages without the CL money.

Ow and this notion that Arsenel have a low wage structure is a myth.

http://m.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/apr/20/arsene-wenger-arsenal-chelsea-wages?cat=football&type=article