Ha! Right! But I picked the name when I lived in Foggy Bottom, now live in the burbs with the family - loved living in DC but feel at home in Bethesda.Shouldn’t you all’s name be MDSpur? ;-)
Ha! Right! But I picked the name when I lived in Foggy Bottom, now live in the burbs with the family - loved living in DC but feel at home in Bethesda.Shouldn’t you all’s name be MDSpur? ;-)
With the current trend for players to run down contracts, clubs have problems with losing valuable assets for free. That said, the players are under no obligation to sign new contracts and, in Eriksen’s case, have been a very good investment based on the price we paid originally.
I see lots of arguments on can we handle Eriksen but one angle people tend to ignore is the precedent that gets set. In the event no satisfactory bid comes in we could give him the ultimatum to sign a new deal or he won’t get picked for match day squads for the rest of the season.
Now, you have to be comfortable enough that missing out on the services of a (very good) player on your books is worth the signal it sends to everyone else. It makes them think twice about holding out for that lucrative move on a free if they are facing many months of no game time and risk the other club getting put off.
If it’s just down to Eriksen then my personal view is that the risk of missing out on top 4 by freezing him out is too great. We should just suck it up and make the best of a bad situation by playing him and let him go on a free in the summer. But if I’m Levy, and my job is to protect the longer term interests, then I should consider setting a precedent here.
I guess the final point is that you also have a manager or coach whose time frame is inevitably shorter than Levy’s. “Provided I can get Eriksen’s head straight, of course I want to use him in the team!”
You’d need to have a very strict club policy on this approach to ‘contract-runners-down’ and have a very clear understanding between the chairman and manager that this is the signal to send to players thinking about running contracts down. You then need to follow through on the threat to not play them.
Anyway, a broader club perspective offered here. As I say, I think that given where we are, we just have to use Eriksen the best we can for the rest of the season should we not get a satisfactory bid in the next few days. And yes, it sucks.
Freezing out a player doesn't solve the problem, in some cases it would augment it. What's to stop players from forcing moves with 2 or even 3 years remaining on their deals in response to the looming threat of being benched? It's a reactive ultimatum that undermines how a manager like Poch likes to motivate and run his team.
Bosman deals are going to increase and will eventually change global football economics. The club needs to address this inevitability and devise a proactive strategy to reduce exposure to it.
We also need to start working on how to pick up quality players on free transfers.
Agree but we probably won’t as they would demand such high fees
The club ends up saving money typically vs paying a transfer fee. The biggest issue with Bosmans, which will really require Levy to get out of his comfort zone, is paying the agent fees. Seems like they tend to get a larger slice of the pie on frees.
Look at him pretending he cares
Shit- that’s some serious professor of linguistics game right thereNo exclamation points shows that he’s not really that excited. 3 flame emojis just signify that there’s only 3 days of Hell left at THFC before he gets his move away.
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Wow, you must have been terrible!
Wow, you must have been terrible!
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#didnotneedtoknowtimesI once had a girlfriend who I banged all night... the following day she left me
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I once had a girlfriend who I banged all night... the following day she left me
#justsayin
#goodtimes
#sadtimes