Morale...has Gastons pay package had an affect?

[Dibden Purlieu Saint]

Can we move all future DPS/Helen threads directly to the muppet show?

 

Why aren't you responding to me? Who is this Helen that you speak of?

[pap]

After rumours that he is on circa £60k a week, and people criticising players like Lambert for being disinterested, has Ramirez's 'bumper' pay packet had an affect on the side?

 

Personally I think Gaston is quality, and once fully fit will really show what a top quality player and prospect (we have to remember he is still only 21) we have, but has he been worth potentially disrupting the harmony in the squad.

 

Thoughts?

 

If the club and players have any sense, they'll keep quiet about what people are on. I earn a lot more than most of the people I work with; they know this - yet I've always been tight-lipped about the actual difference. Most people are smart enough that price paid doesn't denote "value to company", but some can't help doing the simple arithmetic of "I earn 25. He earns 50, yet I'm twice the man of him". The smarter thing to do from a player's perspective when looking at someone else earning a high wage is to realise that kind of renumeration is available for them too, not to take the hump because someone else getting a better whack.

 

Besides, most of these people have been professional players for years. Disparities of income are nothing new. There are always one or two top boys in every club. Most players will be used to that.

 

In the specific case of Lambert; I'd love to know what's really going through his head. Is he thinking "Gaston earns more than me", or is he perhaps considering where he is now to where he was three years ago?

[Dibden Purlieu Saint]

If the club and players have any sense, they'll keep quiet about what people are on. I earn a lot more than most of the people I work with; they know this - yet I've always been tight-lipped about the actual difference. Most people are smart enough that price paid doesn't denote "value to company", but some can't help doing the simple arithmetic of "I earn 25. He earns 50, yet I'm twice the man of him". The smarter thing to do from a player's perspective when looking at someone else earning a high wage is to realise that kind of renumeration is available for them too, not to take the hump because someone else getting a better whack.

 

Besides, most of these people have been professional players for years. Disparities of income are nothing new. There are always one or two top boys in every club. Most players will be used to that.

 

In the specific case of Lambert; I'd love to know what's really going through his head. Is he thinking "Gaston earns more than me", or is he perhaps considering where he is now to where he was three years ago?

 

I did raise this a while ago when Rickie looked disinterested and down, I guess it was all down to results in the end though...

[pap]

I did raise this a while ago when Rickie looked disinterested and down, I guess it was all down to results in the end though...

 

The problem with the club's tight-lipped policy is that it invites endless speculation about what is really going on. I have no idea what was going on at the start of the season, but there are myriad potential reasons for Rickie looking uninterested. Frustration at team selection, formation, not being picked, being substituted or my personal favourite, the observers not being able to detect an uninterested person

[Saint Charlie]

Rickie looks ok now, miles better since Gaston started with him, nice partnership developing. As FF said you can tell the other players love Gaston.

[Genk]

No..Gaston, Rickie & Adz were all round Chappys the other night for a FIFA lounge. They all get along. Great harmony

[John Boy Saint]

Lambert and Lallana at least are not on bobbins money, Lambert probably has more trouble thinking about spending it, especially as he use to rock up in a Jeep that had a few years on the plate and not the blinged up pimp wagons most footie players swan around in.

Probably in reality most of the players who made the journey from league 1 were more startled rabbits in the headlights than hacked off with someone coming in for silly transfer money who might be on stratospherically more per week than they are.