This is the madness of English football. 50 k / week = £ 2.5m./year. At the risk of boring some of you, I'll mention again that my Czech team Viktoria Plzen thrashed the ass off Napoli last night with an entire squad which costs £1.8m /year. Yet Zigic is Serbian. Players from former Yugoslavia come to the Czech Republic to earn far more than they can at home. So how come this Zigic ends up in England, being paid three times as much as Ricardo Fuller? It's doing my f*****g head in!!!
If Zigic asked for £50,000 a week and Birmingham agreed then so be it, they could have refused.
THIS
and the fact the contract runs until 2014 means the mugs have another season of paying him
Sort of agree, if its offered, then you aint gonna turn down 50k a week - however, its this sort of mad mismanagement that has seen the likes of Portsmouth and Coventry go to the brink. It aint right, but there are still people out there who rubber stamp this - my assumption is that Zigic was bought whilst Brum were under the reign of Gold and Sullivan ?
If Zigic asked for £50,000 a week and Birmingham agreed then so be it, they could have refused.
THIS
and the fact the contract runs until 2014 means the mugs have another season of paying him
Sort of agree, if its offered, then you aint gonna turn down 50k a week - however, its this sort of mad mismanagement that has seen the likes of Portsmouth and Coventry go to the brink. It aint right, but there are still people out there who rubber stamp this - my assumption is that Zigic was bought whilst Brum were under the reign of Gold and Sullivan ?
Summer of 2010..think they had thrown in the towel by then, but could be wrong.
I agree that it's hilarious Brum have to pay this clown until 2014, but in the end we all suffer. Agents benchmark salaries of course, just like real estate agents benchmark house sales. So when we enquire about players like Baldock and DJ Campbell we get quoted 19/22k/week. For players who'd never get near the Europa League teams. Jiminez probably told the agents to do one, but as they departed they doubtless shouted at him that he doesn't know a bargain when it's offered him, that Zigic is on 50k at Brum, Tony....
It's stories like this that make me want the "bigger" teams in europe to break away and for the rest of europe to bring a similar but better system that many american sports use.
It would hopefully bring back the days of a good manager being able to win the league even if he does not have the biggest cheque book from the owners and in the same process bring the price of football down on all levels if done right.
“Nikola trained very, very well. By all accounts from the staff, and from what I’ve seen on his GPS stats, he’s worked harder than any player.
“I will have a conversation with him and we will see where we go.”
Asked if he was encouraged, Clark simply replied: “Yes, I should thank him for running around, yes... “
“I don’t want to say any more on it,” he continued.
“All I know is that I have had some magnificent phone calls, football managers and chairmen, coaches, over the last three or four days – high-profile, not just in Britain, but also from Europe – in support.
“I don’t want pats on the back, this is just something that had to be done.
“I’m from the East End of Newcastle.
“My brothers and sisters went without Christmas presents one year to allow my father to buy me football boots to let me fulfill my dream.
“I have worked damn hard to make myself a very wealthy man, to give my family what they’ve wanted.
“But I don’t ever forget what made me get there.
“I played for some of the biggest clubs and should – and it still annoys me to this day – have had a Premier League winner’s medal on my cabinet, in 1996.
“I played with not just the best in Britain but some of the best strikers in the world.
“And I know why they are in that position.
“I’m sick of this, I’ve got to tell you, and I’m disappointed in the media, I’ve got to say, because I don’t know where you’re coming from with it.
“It confuses me. Because I keep reading the rubbish that players are pampered and get away with this and they’re not in touch with the real world and I’m in a position where I’m involved in both sides of it, I try and bring it to the fore and I get battered.
“There will be a chat with Nikola, hopefully he will be involved and he will help us win the game.”
"“All I know is that I have had some magnificent phone calls, football managers and chairmen, coaches, over the last three or four days – high-profile, not just in Britain, but also from Europe – in support"
So do we really believe that coaches from across Europe have bothered to phone Lee Clark to say well done for dropping Zigic? I'm not quite sure any would really give a sh*t.
"“All I know is that I have had some magnificent phone calls, football managers and chairmen, coaches, over the last three or four days – high-profile, not just in Britain, but also from Europe – in support"
So do we really believe that coaches from across Europe have bothered to phone Lee Clark to say well done for dropping Zigic? I'm not quite sure any would really give a sh*t.
More a case of, if you're not playing him, can we have him and you pay his wages.
Bloody Hell, I though those Lee Clark quotes were someone taking the piss, and was about to say how funny it was, especially the bits about brothers and sisters not getting xmas presents, which was like the '4 yorkshiremen sketch'.
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It's doing my f*****g head in!!!
and the fact the contract runs until 2014 means the mugs have another season of paying him
I agree that it's hilarious Brum have to pay this clown until 2014, but in the end we all suffer. Agents benchmark salaries of course, just like real estate agents benchmark house sales. So when we enquire about players like Baldock and DJ Campbell we get quoted 19/22k/week. For players who'd never get near the Europa League teams. Jiminez probably told the agents to do one, but as they departed they doubtless shouted at him that he doesn't know a bargain when it's offered him, that Zigic is on 50k at Brum, Tony....
It would hopefully bring back the days of a good manager being able to win the league even if he does not have the biggest cheque book from the owners and in the same process bring the price of football down on all levels if done right.
“I will have a conversation with him and we will see where we go.”
Asked if he was encouraged, Clark simply replied: “Yes, I should thank him for running around, yes... “
“I don’t want to say any more on it,” he continued.
“All I know is that I have had some magnificent phone calls, football managers and chairmen, coaches, over the last three or four days – high-profile, not just in Britain, but also from Europe – in support.
“I don’t want pats on the back, this is just something that had to be done.
“I’m from the East End of Newcastle.
“My brothers and sisters went without Christmas presents one year to allow my father to buy me football boots to let me fulfill my dream.
“I have worked damn hard to make myself a very wealthy man, to give my family what they’ve wanted.
“But I don’t ever forget what made me get there.
“I played for some of the biggest clubs and should – and it still annoys me to this day – have had a Premier League winner’s medal on my cabinet, in 1996.
“I played with not just the best in Britain but some of the best strikers in the world.
“And I know why they are in that position.
“I’m sick of this, I’ve got to tell you, and I’m disappointed in the media, I’ve got to say, because I don’t know where you’re coming from with it.
“It confuses me. Because I keep reading the rubbish that players are pampered and get away with this and they’re not in touch with the real world and I’m in a position where I’m involved in both sides of it, I try and bring it to the fore and I get battered.
“There will be a chat with Nikola, hopefully he will be involved and he will help us win the game.”
http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/birmingham-city-boss-lee-clark-1329006
So do we really believe that coaches from across Europe have bothered to phone Lee Clark to say well done for dropping Zigic? I'm not quite sure any would really give a sh*t.
Except he actually said those things...
Judging by their result last saturday a few others may have trained well but not actually played well.
Didn't Clark get in a spot of bother once by slagging off Sunderland fans when he was playing for them? Not very professional.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/picturegalleries/8847332/Footballs-most-controversial-shirt-messages-in-pictures.html?image=3