Generic clubs in financial crisis Thread

[Uke]

Have any agents gone bust?

[Wimb]

Monster, Monster has

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Hall

[Big Ern]

I'm sorry, but how can you earn premier league wages and end up bankrupt? Who advises these dick heads? The first thing I would do is a get a decent (cheap) accountant, and then save some (all) fucking money. Wankers. I hate footballers.

Just for you Leon, as I know you struggle with most things, Accountants are more for Tax Returns, what footballers need are called "Financial Advisers." As the title suggests, these people can advise people financially and show them how to put in place plans for when they retire to ensure they have plenty of money.

[soggy biscuit]

loosely related - friend of the mother-in-law said she was recently dealing with an RFC player as he was investing in her employers business and she complained about him saying how rude and obnoxious he was.

She couldn't remember his name so I asked for a description of him. All kind of made sense then.

[Sanguine]

Brad Friedal? Jesus. Riise too.

Some of the others like Hendrie - they were around before the real wages boom and also didn't enjoy 10-15 years earning top salaries, but Friedal? He's been a Premier League player forever. Incredible.

[Silver Fox]

Didn't Riise have to declare himself bankrupt, even though he was nothing of the sort, as part of the process of suing some adviser or other who had rinsed him for loads of cash?

[John Madejski's Wallet]

Monster, Monster has

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Hall

Good.

That guy was a nasty, nasty pcunt

[John Madejski's Wallet]

Brad Friedal? Jesus. Riise too.

Some of the others like Hendrie - they were around before the real wages boom and also didn't enjoy 10-15 years earning top salaries, but Friedal? He's been a Premier League player forever. Incredible.

Wasn't Feidel because he'd pumped his money into some USA soccer school thing that went belly up?

[Ian Royal]

I'm sorry, but how can you earn premier league wages and end up bankrupt? Who advises these dick heads? The first thing I would do is a get a decent (cheap) accountant, and then save some (all) fucking money. Wankers. I hate footballers.

Unless you're going to employ an accountant on an exclusive basis it'll proably cost no more than a couple of days wages, even for an expensive one.

There's no excuse for any of these guys to piss all their money up the wall.

You forget they're mostly fukwits with no one telling them "no, don't be a fukwit".

[Franchise FC]

I'm sorry, but how can you earn premier league wages and end up bankrupt? Who advises these dick heads? The first thing I would do is a get a decent (cheap) accountant, and then save some (all) fucking money. Wankers. I hate footballers.

Unless you're going to employ an accountant on an exclusive basis it'll proably cost no more than a couple of days wages, even for an expensive one.

There's no excuse for any of these guys to piss all their money up the wall.

You forget they're mostly fukwits with no one telling them "no, don't be a fukwit".

Heard a story about Mitchell Thomas from someone who played junior football with him - you should use him as your definition of fukwit.

Allegedly, his parents tried to persuade him to invest, save and generally look after his money, but he decided the best thing to do was tell them to oxford off, 'I'm a big star with a big club, what do you know' was the quote. Errr, Mitch, they clearly knew you were going to blow it all.

[Alexander Litvinenko]

As well as that, a lot of them are fukkwits with poor educations who are surrounded by hangers-on telling them how wonderful they are all the time whilst doing everything they can to leech as much cash as they can off them.

And they have no life skills - footballers at big clubs literally have to do nothing. The players or the club employ people to do everything for them - for instance when they go abroad they're not even trusted with their passports. The tour manager will hand the players their passports at immigration or passport control them collect them back in once they're through it - like a school teacher with a party of six-year-olds.

Take that away and leave these people in the real world on their own and they just can't cope.

[soggy biscuit]

Read something recently about what goes on at training grounds. Days organised when leading shops come in to display their goods so the players don't have to go out shopping.

[ZacNaloen]

Read something recently about what goes on at training grounds. Days organised when leading shops come in to display their goods so the players don't have to go out shopping.

I oxf*rd hate shopping so this sounds like a great idea.

[Alexander Litvinenko]

There are also magazines aimed at PL footballers exclusively. Really small print run but really high-value items being advertised.

[GreaterTorontoRoyal]

And they have no life skills - footballers at big clubs literally have to do nothing. The players or the club employ people to do everything for them - for instance when they go abroad they're not even trusted with their passports. The tour manager will hand the players their passports at immigration or passport control them collect them back in once they're through it - like a school teacher with a party of six-year-olds.

You don't remember what happened last month with the Cardiff rugby player Jason Tobey? His puppy ate his passport the day before a game. Always a good idea to have the passports in one place so something doesn't go wrong.
Found this pic:


However, I do agree that most of them are clueless as I have twitter.

[Rev Algenon Stickleback H]

And they have no life skills - footballers at big clubs literally have to do nothing. The players or the club employ people to do everything for them - for instance when they go abroad they're not even trusted with their passports. The tour manager will hand the players their passports at immigration or passport control them collect them back in once they're through it - like a school teacher with a party of six-year-olds..

Very true.

I saw the Spurs team once in an airport departure lounge, and they not only had one guy holding all the passports, he even told each of them which chair to sit on.

I was sure if he'd got up to have a piss they'd have all followed him.

[Alexander Litvinenko]

Relevant to this, perhaps - just seen this in a Q&A with Footie Journalist Paul Jiggins :

Q: If you could introduce one change to improve PR between football clubs and football writers what would it be?
All match reports to include 'mixed zone reports' chronicling the behaviour of players afterwards. It might give fans an idea of how rude some of their highly-paid 'butter wouldn't melt' heroes really are. What kind of industry is it when a teenage div in a huge pair of headphones believes he is well within his rights to completely ignore a polite request from a professional journalist 20 years his senior just because he is fortunate enough to be able to run fast or kick a ball hard? Only in this industry is this kind of behaviour tolerated. Could you imagine an apprentice labourer behaving like that on a building site?

[Silver Fox]

While I'm sure that's true LOLz@ journalists telling people how to behave

[PieEater]

Lol at the parasitic journalist expecting some footballer to spend his spare time for free so he could sell the story.

[Alexander Litvinenko]

Lol at the journalist expecting some footballer to have his profile raised and his stardom and merchandising income increased by giving him free exposure.