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Dan's Summer Transfer Thread. Aka: " Post Mortem Time""


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4 minutes ago, Foogle said:

Although in the US sports stars contracts can be ripped up at any time if they suffer a long term injury or aren't performing, you don't end up with a Rudy Gestede situation in American sports which means fans don't get as resentful.

it's not quite that simple because of the way caps work in most American sports, and some players (especially in the NFL) have guaranteed money, regardless of if they get cut or injured or whatever.

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Just now, Will said:

Depends on the individuals contract to be fair, but yeah some players can just be cut for little to no cost.

Yes usually the ones with big guaranteed money in their contract are seasoned pros and the only reason they're usually cut is if they suffer a career ending injury. It's a great system for the owners but not so much for the players...

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5 minutes ago, Neverbefore said:

That'll factor in all those players on their first professional contract on a few hundred quid a week though won't it? That'll distort the average pretty considerably. 

Agreed, equally I have seen claims from other website that the average is more like £29k a week but the source is apparently a leaked survey and comes via the daily mail so it may be more like something the middle of those two claims

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30 minutes ago, Will said:

Clubs are poorly run.

I do find it an odd difference between the US and UK that when big sports stars get paid big money over there there isn't this pearl clutching disgust that they earn a lot of money, instead they congratulate them for making their money and accept that they are the attraction and therefore deserve their share of the pie.

And then they go all OJ 

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Personally I think the discrepancy is more damaging to academy players more than anything. Read the multiple stories of teenagers getting depressed after being cut from top academies because they haven’t ‘made it’.

The truth is even a career in league 1 is nothing to be sniffed at, you will still be on a nice wage doing what you enjoy with an amazing opportunity to move up the ladder either while playing or getting in to coaching (or a multitude of other football related careers) afterwards.

Getting your foot in the door at any professional level is still an amazingly rare opportunity, even if you don’t fully benefit from it your kids might. 

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Former Liverpool and England right back Jon Flanagan has signed for second tier danish team HB Køge. What a cataclysmic fall from grace he has suffered. 

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6 minutes ago, Borodane said:

Former Liverpool and England right back Jon Flanagan has signed for second tier danish team HB Køge. What a cataclysmic fall from grace he has suffered. 

has he had injuries or something, he's had a weird career.

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1 hour ago, estonpidge said:

NFL average salary is about $300k, with an average career of 3-4years

The average career length is correct, but $300k is lower than the minimum NFL salary, even for a fresh out of college rookie.

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7 hours ago, Denzel Zanzibar said:

Normally we lose these pre-season games so to win 3-0 regardless of who the opposition is has to be seen as a plus

I don't think we usually lose to the likes of Bishop Auckland. 

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4 minutes ago, Will said:

The average career length is correct, but $300k is lower than the minimum NFL salary, even for a fresh out of college rookie.

Not for undrafted rookies and practice squad players.  If you think that an NFL roster has 90 players on it to begin with, and then gets gradually cut down to 53, a lot of those players won't be on big money I'd guess.  The average of the 53 will be a fair bit higher than the average of the 90.

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6 hours ago, BoroJake said:

Fisher probably out the entire season according to the gazette

Someone getting injured playing around on a scooter, someone getting injured when their mate fell on them.  Have we got a squad full of Frank Spencers?

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