Roger Posted 23 March, 2013 Share Posted 23 March, 2013 Sit on his arse and count the interest. Even £40k a week for a year is about £2m. You don't need to play at the top level for long to live off it if you're even remotely sensible with it. FWIW I was hoping we'd be signing a top 10-standard striker in the summer and this makes that slightly less likely. Ramirez needs to have someone to pass to -though Rodriguez is starting to step up as hoped. Though it's not unprecedented for Cortese to sign people to new deals and never use them, it often seems to have been his way of softening the blow of "you're dropped". Could also be a contractual performance-related incentive based on an appearance or scoring clause, as we're big on those with numerous promotion clauses having kicked in over the last couple of seasons for others. It could also just be a way of keeping other clubs away from him in the short term, or even just leveraging a larger transfer fee if the plan is to sell. He was already under contract until aged 32(and a half) and mid-2014, so to me it seems to be a short-term incentive to get Lambert to stay for the next year, as his effectiveness and fitness is likely to wane in the next couple of seasons and certainly will in the period the contract extension is for. You really are the most deluded 'fan' that has ever been on here aren't you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legod Third Coming Posted 23 March, 2013 Share Posted 23 March, 2013 I still find it almost inconceivable that he played lower league for so long' date=' considering how good he is.[/quote'] I consider it Alan Pardew's finest moment in football. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legod Third Coming Posted 23 March, 2013 Share Posted 23 March, 2013 Sit on his arse and count the interest. Even £40k a week for a year is about £2m. You don't need to play at the top level for long to live off it if you're even remotely sensible with it. I know people who earn hundreds of thousands of pounds a year and like me they never have any cash. It is the fallacy of those on say 30k a year that if you earn 150k you can suddenly bank 120k. You can't. Everyone lives to their means. So if you earn £2m a year, chances are you spend what you earn. Yes, you'll have advisors and so on, but you buy a £150k Ferrari (or two), you pay £20k per month on your mortgage on your bloody great house, you holiday first class in Barbados and so on... I'm not saying have sympathy - such people are clearly very very lucky. But they're not defacto sat on millions in the bank. Recent evidence shows a huge proportion of Premiership plays are broke within three years of retiring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St Matty Posted 23 March, 2013 Share Posted 23 March, 2013 I consider it Alan Pardew's finest moment in football. Good point!! What a purchase. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickG Posted 23 March, 2013 Share Posted 23 March, 2013 Good point!! What a purchase. I consider it Alan Pardew's finest moment in football. Just for clarity... Mayuka..... Transfer committee Lambert..... Pardew. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tokyo-Saint Posted 23 March, 2013 Share Posted 23 March, 2013 I know people who earn hundreds of thousands of pounds a year and like me they never have any cash. It is the fallacy of those on say 30k a year that if you earn 150k you can suddenly bank 120k. You can't. Everyone lives to their means. So if you earn £2m a year, chances are you spend what you earn. Yes, you'll have advisors and so on, but you buy a £150k Ferrari (or two), you pay £20k per month on your mortgage on your bloody great house, you holiday first class in Barbados and so on... I'm not saying have sympathy - such people are clearly very very lucky. But they're not defacto sat on millions in the bank. Recent evidence shows a huge proportion of Premiership plays are broke within three years of retiring. Then they are on a level with Merson for being dumb. My wealth management guy also works with a lot of sports people, I know that any decent club with set players up with this kind of advisor. Anyone who is earning that level of money and doesn't use some kind of investment company/wealth manager deserves everything they they get. You don't need a brain, just enough brains to know someone else should be handling you money. Someone to make sure it lasts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Kraken Posted 23 March, 2013 Share Posted 23 March, 2013 Just for clarity... Mayuka..... Transfer committee Lambert..... Pardew. Well, yes. Being as the transfer committee as it is today hadn't been recruited when we signed Lambert (and most of the signings that Pardew made for that fact). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legod Third Coming Posted 23 March, 2013 Share Posted 23 March, 2013 Then they are on a level with Merson for being dumb. My wealth management guy also works with a lot of sports people, I know that any decent club with set players up with this kind of advisor. Anyone who is earning that level of money and doesn't use some kind of investment company/wealth manager deserves everything they they get. You don't need a brain, just enough brains to know someone else should be handling you money. Someone to make sure it lasts. My guess is that you have a significantly higher IQ than most Premiership footballers, that your agent does not keep 20% of your income and that you are careful in your assessment of professional advisors, and quite probably you don't have a lot of friends from the ghetto who you have been extremely generous with over your career because you recognise how lucky you are... I'm not saying I have sympathy with them, but for every Michael Owen and Robbie Fowler there's at least two or three Paul Gasgoines... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tokyo-Saint Posted 23 March, 2013 Share Posted 23 March, 2013 That's what I said, as dumb as Merson. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legod Third Coming Posted 23 March, 2013 Share Posted 23 March, 2013 That's what I said, as dumb as Merson. And plenty are! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The9 Posted 23 March, 2013 Share Posted 23 March, 2013 You really are the most deluded 'fan' that has ever been on here aren't you. A question requires a question mark. So what you're saying is that we've given Lambert two more years on his contract because we plan on playing him just as much and will be expecting him to get around 15 goals for each of the next 3 seasons into his mid-30s, even 2016 when his deal will be expiring and we'll definitely need to be replacing him, and despite the fact that our stated goal is to be in Europe by then ? You know, rather than it being a short term financial incentive of benefit to the player and the club (who would also subsequently get more for any transfer) - which also coincidentally happens to tie into our need to ramp up the wage bill in order to be able to increase it further under the new Prem financial rules. Or are you saying that the club hasn't, on a number of occasions, offered extended contracts to people they had no intention of picking (Butterfield, Barnard, Dickson and Richardson immediately spring to mind) ? And you think I'm the deluded one ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The9 Posted 23 March, 2013 Share Posted 23 March, 2013 I know people who earn hundreds of thousands of pounds a year and like me they never have any cash. It is the fallacy of those on say 30k a year that if you earn 150k you can suddenly bank 120k. You can't. Everyone lives to their means. So if you earn £2m a year, chances are you spend what you earn. Yes, you'll have advisors and so on, but you buy a £150k Ferrari (or two), you pay £20k per month on your mortgage on your bloody great house, you holiday first class in Barbados and so on... I'm not saying have sympathy - such people are clearly very very lucky. But they're not defacto sat on millions in the bank. Recent evidence shows a huge proportion of Premiership plays are broke within three years of retiring. Only the very stupid ones, the ones who haven't managed to work out that they won't be earning that kind of money forever and need to save some at some point. Either way, I don't regard it as any football club's responsibility to do players favours just because they have wasted their money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horton Heath Saint Posted 23 March, 2013 Share Posted 23 March, 2013 One of our best signings ever. He has got us to where we are now. He is up there with Le God. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
farawaysaint Posted 23 March, 2013 Share Posted 23 March, 2013 One of our best signings ever. He has got us to where we are now. He is up there with Le God. Great, yes; God, no. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaintBobby Posted 24 March, 2013 Share Posted 24 March, 2013 I know people who earn hundreds of thousands of pounds a year and like me they never have any cash. It is the fallacy of those on say 30k a year that if you earn 150k you can suddenly bank 120k. You can't. Everyone lives to their means. So if you earn £2m a year, chances are you spend what you earn. Yes, you'll have advisors and so on, but you buy a £150k Ferrari (or two), you pay £20k per month on your mortgage on your bloody great house, you holiday first class in Barbados and so on... I'm not saying have sympathy - such people are clearly very very lucky. But they're not defacto sat on millions in the bank. Recent evidence shows a huge proportion of Premiership plays are broke within three years of retiring. Rickie Lambert isn't very, very lucky. He's very, very talented! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CB Fry Posted 24 March, 2013 Share Posted 24 March, 2013 Rickie Lambert isn't very, very lucky. He's very, very talented! So was Sir Stanley Matthews. Rickie is lucky to be a footballer now, and to live in a culture that massively over values the contribution a footballer makes vs other professions. He's hit the sweet spot of talent and demand. Nice work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turkish Posted 25 March, 2013 Share Posted 25 March, 2013 Thre is only one thing more important than great players at football clubs these days and that's great chairmen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint Garrett Posted 29 March, 2013 Author Share Posted 29 March, 2013 His 500th career appearance tomorrow. Can't understand a fella with his talent only played 30 odd as a prem player! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toadhall Saint Posted 30 March, 2013 Share Posted 30 March, 2013 Rickie Lambert isn't very, very lucky. He's very, very talented! And the time and effort he has put in to becoming not just talented but fit are a testament to him & the SFC dieticians/coaching staff. He's got where he's got through his own hard work. Hats off to him I say! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olallana Posted 30 March, 2013 Share Posted 30 March, 2013 Grant Holts view on Lambert in the national team. Makes a bit of sense for once... http://www.sportinglife.com/football/premier-league/news/article/312/8606533/holt-bugged-by-england-snub Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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