Lyle Taylor - August 2025 signed for Chelmsford City (p295)

superclive98

SporadicAddick said:

Hope he is genuinely upset. He might not be, but I hope he is.

The likelihood is that you will be more upset than him.

YTS1978

Making_all_the_noise said:

He was on £25k a week, so he made ridiculous money compared to normal folk. I can’t stand the guy and I think he holds some ridiculous opinions but he is educated and I imagine that unlike some players, he hasn’t frittered away the wages and was fully aware that this was his career pay off. He’s probably invested it well enough to be secure for life. For all that I despise him, I can’t blame him for securing his finances. It was a sensible move on a personal level but he handled it so unpleasantly that it marked out his character. He deserves all the vitriol because he lacked class and grace which you simply can’t buy, no matter how big a contract you sign. 

Can only hope that Richard Rufus was advising him on investment opportunities...

soapy_jones

Long walk off of a short pier.
Shit juggling contest.
Alligator wrestling.

Just three of the projects I would like him to consider!

InspectorSands

Perhaps he’ll sit on Luton Town’s bench for another payday.

guinnessaddick

InspectorSands said:

Perhaps he’ll sit on Luton Town’s bench for another payday.

That’s a bit of a gamble for Luton, as he’s never played above championship level. 

SporadicAddick

YTS1978 said:

Making_all_the_noise said:

He was on £25k a week, so he made ridiculous money compared to normal folk. I can’t stand the guy and I think he holds some ridiculous opinions but he is educated and I imagine that unlike some players, he hasn’t frittered away the wages and was fully aware that this was his career pay off. He’s probably invested it well enough to be secure for life. For all that I despise him, I can’t blame him for securing his finances. It was a sensible move on a personal level but he handled it so unpleasantly that it marked out his character. He deserves all the vitriol because he lacked class and grace which you simply can’t buy, no matter how big a contract you sign. 

Can only hope that Richard Rufus was advising him on investment opportunities...

and that before Richards earnings pay out, he spends a load of money getting Steve Jones to frame his shirts. 

SporadicAddick

superclive98 said:

SporadicAddick said:

Hope he is genuinely upset. He might not be, but I hope he is.

The likelihood is that you will be more upset than him.

Not really. If he's not upset, then it doesn't bother me. If he is upset, I'm happy. 

JamesSeed

Wheresmeticket? said:

Chris_from_Sidcup said:

Wheresmeticket? said:

Rob7Lee said:

I think he'll play on.

Whilst 3 years on 15-20k seems a hell of a lot (which it is), it's not going to mean he can live the high life for the rest of his days. At best for those three years is £1.1-£1.4m in your pocket, and he'll have spent a proportion already.

He'll get a 12 month gig at Championship or more likely league one on £150k+ a year, he'll take that and kick the can down the road.

But prior to that he was probably on around £250k per year for a few years so unless he was being stupid with that theres no reason to think he didnt already have a substantial amount salted away before he went to Forest.

Invested sensibly he shouldn't have to "work" again unless he wants to.

It's such a comfort to know that the narcissistic entitled prick won't be destitute.

Probably not even that much really. I doubt he was earning 5k a week at the likes of Falkirk, Scunthorpe and AFC Wimbledon.

I've no doubt he's not exactly struggling but at the age of 33, would his career earnings really be enough to never have to work again?

Say he has a couple of million in the bank.

Buy a couple of houses and rent them out for 3k a month each.  

Have 500k for spending money.

Tax. Upkeep of the houses. And the agency fees, as he won’t want the hassle of fixing things himself. 

JohnfromNorfolk

Surprised Forest are letting Jesse Lingard go on a free.

iaitch

I thought he only signed a contarct for one season?

shine166

JohnfromNorfolk said:

Surprised Forest are letting Jesse Lingard go on a free.

Not really, considering his wage they get to clear. 

North Lower Neil

shine166 said:

JohnfromNorfolk said:

Surprised Forest are letting Jesse Lingard go on a free.

Not really, considering his wage they get to clear. 

And the fact he barely played after January.

soapboxsam

seth plum said:

When he actually played football for Charlton he was good.

This:  I believe that's why Charlton fans/critics were/are so bitter towards him.
If 'Lyle Taylor baby' had been bang average no one would have cared.

He gave 100% every game he played and his ego, Skill and goals made him so popular. The worse game I saw him play was the last game before the Covid shut down when we lost to Middlesbrough at home 1-0. 

In life if you burn too many bridges you will run out of options.
Ironic that when Lyle got his big Contract at Forest he hardly played and he couldn't see the wood for the trees but he could see his bank balance go up and that was his new goal.

Swisdom

JamesSeed said:

Wheresmeticket? said:

Chris_from_Sidcup said:

Wheresmeticket? said:

Rob7Lee said:

I think he'll play on.

Whilst 3 years on 15-20k seems a hell of a lot (which it is), it's not going to mean he can live the high life for the rest of his days. At best for those three years is £1.1-£1.4m in your pocket, and he'll have spent a proportion already.

He'll get a 12 month gig at Championship or more likely league one on £150k+ a year, he'll take that and kick the can down the road.

But prior to that he was probably on around £250k per year for a few years so unless he was being stupid with that theres no reason to think he didnt already have a substantial amount salted away before he went to Forest.

Invested sensibly he shouldn't have to "work" again unless he wants to.

It's such a comfort to know that the narcissistic entitled prick won't be destitute.

Probably not even that much really. I doubt he was earning 5k a week at the likes of Falkirk, Scunthorpe and AFC Wimbledon.

I've no doubt he's not exactly struggling but at the age of 33, would his career earnings really be enough to never have to work again?

Say he has a couple of million in the bank.

Buy a couple of houses and rent them out for 3k a month each.  

Have 500k for spending money.

Tax. Upkeep of the houses. And the agency fees, as he won’t want the hassle of fixing things himself. 

If he had £3m in the bank he could get a high interest account quite easily.
6.5% interest with a 1% charge 

stick £2m in there, take a £10k a month “salary” and never touch your investment and it will grow slightly.  There will be times you spend more than £10k a month but before long you’d run out of unnecessary shit to buy

And still have £1m to piss about with

you can see why he took the move as he’s set for life. He could go and live un Montserrat and live like a deity.  

can’t see him being a pundit as he dislikes the game 

soapboxsam

Swisdom said:

JamesSeed said:

Wheresmeticket? said:

Chris_from_Sidcup said:

Wheresmeticket? said:

Rob7Lee said:

I think he'll play on.

Whilst 3 years on 15-20k seems a hell of a lot (which it is), it's not going to mean he can live the high life for the rest of his days. At best for those three years is £1.1-£1.4m in your pocket, and he'll have spent a proportion already.

He'll get a 12 month gig at Championship or more likely league one on £150k+ a year, he'll take that and kick the can down the road.

But prior to that he was probably on around £250k per year for a few years so unless he was being stupid with that theres no reason to think he didnt already have a substantial amount salted away before he went to Forest.

Invested sensibly he shouldn't have to "work" again unless he wants to.

It's such a comfort to know that the narcissistic entitled prick won't be destitute.

Probably not even that much really. I doubt he was earning 5k a week at the likes of Falkirk, Scunthorpe and AFC Wimbledon.

I've no doubt he's not exactly struggling but at the age of 33, would his career earnings really be enough to never have to work again?

Say he has a couple of million in the bank.

Buy a couple of houses and rent them out for 3k a month each.  

Have 500k for spending money.

Tax. Upkeep of the houses. And the agency fees, as he won’t want the hassle of fixing things himself. 

If he had £3m in the bank he could get a high interest account quite easily.
6.5% interest with a 1% charge 

stick £2m in there, take a £10k a month “salary” and never touch your investment and it will grow slightly.  There will be times you spend more than £10k a month but before long you’d run out of unnecessary shit to buy

And still have £1m to piss about with

you can see why he took the move as he’s set for life. He could go and live un Montserrat and live like a deity.  

can’t see him being a pundit as he dislikes the game 

Lyle Taylor is full of contradictions.
I have heard him say he doesn't like football or watch it often but he would be a forthright pundit !

Arrogant and selfish to Charlton fans but a guy who when at Wimbledon, sorted out a senior pro who took umbrage to an academy player who had skilled him up.
The academy player's mum told me the story and loved the man.

Hero to Zero at Charlton but he has raised thousands for charity and when he sponsored a Charlton Woman's match at Oakwood a few years back we had a long chat about his parents roots and the life of a pro footballer. Interesting character but I felt he had insecurities below the surface. Like most footballers they seek the contract to upgrade their lives.

Lyle Taylor should've ended up in our hall of fame not our hall of shame.

CL_Phantom

"doesn't like football"

But he sure spends a lot of time watching it and posting about it on social media, interviewing on talkshite about it and arguing with TV pundits on twitter over it. 


🤷🏻‍♂️

KingKinsella

soapboxsam said:

seth plum said:

When he actually played football for Charlton he was good.

This:  I believe that's why Charlton fans/critics were/are so bitter towards him.
If 'Lyle Taylor baby' had been bang average no one would have cared.

He gave 100% every game he played and his ego, Skill and goals made him so popular. The worse game I saw him play was the last game before the Covid shut down when we lost to Middlesbrough at home 1-0. 

In life if you burn too many bridges you will run out of options.
Ironic that when Lyle got his big Contract at Forest he hardly played and he couldn't see the wood for the trees but he could see his bank balance go up and that was his new goal.


What's wrong with wanting to earn more money?
I'm not overly keen that he didn't for fill his contract with us, but I can see why he did it.  As for burning bridges he still has 71 EFL clubs (and 19 Premier league but I think that's a long shot) to choose from, so...
 I would welcome him back and IF he can play to the same standard( big ?? on fitness, sharpness, motivation) I think he would be accepted by most of the fans.

cookierules

soapboxsam said:

Swisdom said:

JamesSeed said:

Wheresmeticket? said:

Chris_from_Sidcup said:

Wheresmeticket? said:

Rob7Lee said:

I think he'll play on.

Whilst 3 years on 15-20k seems a hell of a lot (which it is), it's not going to mean he can live the high life for the rest of his days. At best for those three years is £1.1-£1.4m in your pocket, and he'll have spent a proportion already.

He'll get a 12 month gig at Championship or more likely league one on £150k+ a year, he'll take that and kick the can down the road.

But prior to that he was probably on around £250k per year for a few years so unless he was being stupid with that theres no reason to think he didnt already have a substantial amount salted away before he went to Forest.

Invested sensibly he shouldn't have to "work" again unless he wants to.

It's such a comfort to know that the narcissistic entitled prick won't be destitute.

Probably not even that much really. I doubt he was earning 5k a week at the likes of Falkirk, Scunthorpe and AFC Wimbledon.

I've no doubt he's not exactly struggling but at the age of 33, would his career earnings really be enough to never have to work again?

Say he has a couple of million in the bank.

Buy a couple of houses and rent them out for 3k a month each.  

Have 500k for spending money.

Tax. Upkeep of the houses. And the agency fees, as he won’t want the hassle of fixing things himself. 

If he had £3m in the bank he could get a high interest account quite easily.
6.5% interest with a 1% charge 

stick £2m in there, take a £10k a month “salary” and never touch your investment and it will grow slightly.  There will be times you spend more than £10k a month but before long you’d run out of unnecessary shit to buy

And still have £1m to piss about with

you can see why he took the move as he’s set for life. He could go and live un Montserrat and live like a deity.  

can’t see him being a pundit as he dislikes the game 

Lyle Taylor is full of contradictions.
I have heard him say he doesn't like football or watch it often but he would be a forthright pundit !

Arrogant and selfish to Charlton fans but a guy who when at Wimbledon, sorted out a senior pro who took umbrage to an academy player who had skilled him up.
The academy player's mum told me the story and loved the man.

Hero to Zero at Charlton but he has raised thousands for charity and when he sponsored a Charlton Woman's match at Oakwood a few years back we had a long chat about his parents roots and the life of a pro footballer. Interesting character but I felt he had insecurities below the surface. Like most footballers they seek the contract to upgrade their lives.

Lyle Taylor should've ended up in our hall of fame not our hall of shame.

Spot on…after the way he let us down so badly it’s easy to forget how great he was to the lady and her family who was in the hospice with cancer. 

There was good in him but he massively made a bad decision which let our club and fans down and unfortunately that undone all the good he had done in both terms of scoring goals and going out of his way to support fans in need etc. 

We need to move on, he’s not coming back here and we have bigger problems than Lyle Taylor! 

North Lower Neil

soapboxsam said:

Swisdom said:

JamesSeed said:

Wheresmeticket? said:

Chris_from_Sidcup said:

Wheresmeticket? said:

Rob7Lee said:

I think he'll play on.

Whilst 3 years on 15-20k seems a hell of a lot (which it is), it's not going to mean he can live the high life for the rest of his days. At best for those three years is £1.1-£1.4m in your pocket, and he'll have spent a proportion already.

He'll get a 12 month gig at Championship or more likely league one on £150k+ a year, he'll take that and kick the can down the road.

But prior to that he was probably on around £250k per year for a few years so unless he was being stupid with that theres no reason to think he didnt already have a substantial amount salted away before he went to Forest.

Invested sensibly he shouldn't have to "work" again unless he wants to.

It's such a comfort to know that the narcissistic entitled prick won't be destitute.

Probably not even that much really. I doubt he was earning 5k a week at the likes of Falkirk, Scunthorpe and AFC Wimbledon.

I've no doubt he's not exactly struggling but at the age of 33, would his career earnings really be enough to never have to work again?

Say he has a couple of million in the bank.

Buy a couple of houses and rent them out for 3k a month each.  

Have 500k for spending money.

Tax. Upkeep of the houses. And the agency fees, as he won’t want the hassle of fixing things himself. 

If he had £3m in the bank he could get a high interest account quite easily.
6.5% interest with a 1% charge 

stick £2m in there, take a £10k a month “salary” and never touch your investment and it will grow slightly.  There will be times you spend more than £10k a month but before long you’d run out of unnecessary shit to buy

And still have £1m to piss about with

you can see why he took the move as he’s set for life. He could go and live un Montserrat and live like a deity.  

can’t see him being a pundit as he dislikes the game 

Lyle Taylor is full of contradictions.
I have heard him say he doesn't like football or watch it often but he would be a forthright pundit !

Arrogant and selfish to Charlton fans but a guy who when at Wimbledon, sorted out a senior pro who took umbrage to an academy player who had skilled him up.
The academy player's mum told me the story and loved the man.

Hero to Zero at Charlton but he has raised thousands for charity and when he sponsored a Charlton Woman's match at Oakwood a few years back we had a long chat about his parents roots and the life of a pro footballer. Interesting character but I felt he had insecurities below the surface. Like most footballers they seek the contract to upgrade their lives.

Lyle Taylor should've ended up in our hall of fame not our hall of shame.

Sad thing is he could have played those last few games, moved on to Forest anyway and be held in good regard.

Wheresmeticket

JamesSeed said:

Wheresmeticket? said:

Chris_from_Sidcup said:

Wheresmeticket? said:

Rob7Lee said:

I think he'll play on.

Whilst 3 years on 15-20k seems a hell of a lot (which it is), it's not going to mean he can live the high life for the rest of his days. At best for those three years is £1.1-£1.4m in your pocket, and he'll have spent a proportion already.

He'll get a 12 month gig at Championship or more likely league one on £150k+ a year, he'll take that and kick the can down the road.

But prior to that he was probably on around £250k per year for a few years so unless he was being stupid with that theres no reason to think he didnt already have a substantial amount salted away before he went to Forest.

Invested sensibly he shouldn't have to "work" again unless he wants to.

It's such a comfort to know that the narcissistic entitled prick won't be destitute.

Probably not even that much really. I doubt he was earning 5k a week at the likes of Falkirk, Scunthorpe and AFC Wimbledon.

I've no doubt he's not exactly struggling but at the age of 33, would his career earnings really be enough to never have to work again?

Say he has a couple of million in the bank.

Buy a couple of houses and rent them out for 3k a month each.  

Have 500k for spending money.

Tax. Upkeep of the houses. And the agency fees, as he won’t want the hassle of fixing things himself. 

But he wouldn't have to work for the rest of his life.

Garrymanilow

CL_Phantom said:

"doesn't like football"

But he sure spends a lot of time watching it and posting about it on social media, interviewing on talkshite about it and arguing with TV pundits on twitter over it. 


🤷🏻‍♂️

I don't think he's doesn't like football, I think he just said that he doesn't really watch football in his free time. There are a fair few footballers who think that way, either because they just treat it as a job or because they need separation from it for their own mental health. Taylor's primary source of amusement is being an arsehole to people online and football is a good way for him to do that. It wouldn't shock me if he became a pundit of some kind because he'd treat that as a job and he'd get engagement for them through being controversial

CL_Phantom

Garrymanilow said:

CL_Phantom said:

"doesn't like football"

But he sure spends a lot of time watching it and posting about it on social media, interviewing on talkshite about it and arguing with TV pundits on twitter over it. 


🤷🏻‍♂️

I don't think he's doesn't like football, I think he just said that he doesn't really watch football in his free time. There are a fair few footballers who think that way, either because they just treat it as a job or because they need separation from it for their own mental health. Taylor's primary source of amusement is being an arsehole to people online and football is a good way for him to do that. It wouldn't shock me if he became a pundit of some kind because he'd treat that as a job and he'd get engagement for them through being controversial

Good point. The ultimate football troll sounds about right for him. 

Ducktapeshoerepairs

The ‘obsession’ with this former player is real 

Swisdom

Garrymanilow said:

CL_Phantom said:

"doesn't like football"

But he sure spends a lot of time watching it and posting about it on social media, interviewing on talkshite about it and arguing with TV pundits on twitter over it. 


🤷🏻‍♂️

I don't think he's doesn't like football, I think he just said that he doesn't really watch football in his free time. There are a fair few footballers who think that way, either because they just treat it as a job or because they need separation from it for their own mental health. Taylor's primary source of amusement is being an arsehole to people online and football is a good way for him to do that. It wouldn't shock me if he became a pundit of some kind because he'd treat that as a job and he'd get engagement for them through being controversial

He told me at a golf day that he doesn’t like the game at all.  His only enjoyment is scoring goals in different ways.  He’s an attention whore basically

SporadicAddick

Ducktapeshoerepairs said:

The ‘obsession’ with this former player is real 

Obsessions usually are real, otherwise they are not obsessions? 

Garrymanilow

Swisdom said:

Garrymanilow said:

CL_Phantom said:

"doesn't like football"

But he sure spends a lot of time watching it and posting about it on social media, interviewing on talkshite about it and arguing with TV pundits on twitter over it. 


🤷🏻‍♂️

I don't think he's doesn't like football, I think he just said that he doesn't really watch football in his free time. There are a fair few footballers who think that way, either because they just treat it as a job or because they need separation from it for their own mental health. Taylor's primary source of amusement is being an arsehole to people online and football is a good way for him to do that. It wouldn't shock me if he became a pundit of some kind because he'd treat that as a job and he'd get engagement for them through being controversial

He told me at a golf day that he doesn’t like the game at all.  His only enjoyment is scoring goals in different ways.  He’s an attention whore basically

Lyle is one of those people where I believe about 25% of what comes out of his mouth, the rest is just bluster and self-promotion. I think you're exactly right about him being an attention whore, but I don't buy that the bloke we saw chasing down nothing balls in the corner just to fire up the crowd and get under the skin of the opposition defenders was having a horrible time and just waiting for the opportunity to try scoring off his knee for some light relief. I think he loved being on the pitch for us, and particularly loved scoring. I think he worked his arse off to get to where he did with us and he visibly loved every minute of that L1 season. He can tell people he's too cool and unique to enjoy football but I suspect he's lying.

shine166

Ducktapeshoerepairs said:

The ‘obsession’ with this former player is real 

Never understood, why people open up and comment in a topic... to maon about people talking about said topic. 

soapboxsam

I'm sure I'm not alone in thinking that over the last 25 years, Taylor, Mendonca, Yann and Parker were major x factor players when we had successful seasons and Parker especially at the top end of the premier which now seems like another world!

It always end in tears 😢at Cafc: Clive through injury, Yann as he couldn't get the extra year on his contract, Scott because of odious Chelsea's offer and finally Lyle through fear of getting injured in the 9 match mini season and stopping him getting his first big contract. 

KingKinsella

cookierules said:

soapboxsam said:

Swisdom said:

JamesSeed said:

Wheresmeticket? said:

Chris_from_Sidcup said:

Wheresmeticket? said:

Rob7Lee said:

I think he'll play on.

Whilst 3 years on 15-20k seems a hell of a lot (which it is), it's not going to mean he can live the high life for the rest of his days. At best for those three years is £1.1-£1.4m in your pocket, and he'll have spent a proportion already.

He'll get a 12 month gig at Championship or more likely league one on £150k+ a year, he'll take that and kick the can down the road.

But prior to that he was probably on around £250k per year for a few years so unless he was being stupid with that theres no reason to think he didnt already have a substantial amount salted away before he went to Forest.

Invested sensibly he shouldn't have to "work" again unless he wants to.

It's such a comfort to know that the narcissistic entitled prick won't be destitute.

Probably not even that much really. I doubt he was earning 5k a week at the likes of Falkirk, Scunthorpe and AFC Wimbledon.

I've no doubt he's not exactly struggling but at the age of 33, would his career earnings really be enough to never have to work again?

Say he has a couple of million in the bank.

Buy a couple of houses and rent them out for 3k a month each.  

Have 500k for spending money.

Tax. Upkeep of the houses. And the agency fees, as he won’t want the hassle of fixing things himself. 

If he had £3m in the bank he could get a high interest account quite easily.
6.5% interest with a 1% charge 

stick £2m in there, take a £10k a month “salary” and never touch your investment and it will grow slightly.  There will be times you spend more than £10k a month but before long you’d run out of unnecessary shit to buy

And still have £1m to piss about with

you can see why he took the move as he’s set for life. He could go and live un Montserrat and live like a deity.  

can’t see him being a pundit as he dislikes the game 

Lyle Taylor is full of contradictions.
I have heard him say he doesn't like football or watch it often but he would be a forthright pundit !

Arrogant and selfish to Charlton fans but a guy who when at Wimbledon, sorted out a senior pro who took umbrage to an academy player who had skilled him up.
The academy player's mum told me the story and loved the man.

Hero to Zero at Charlton but he has raised thousands for charity and when he sponsored a Charlton Woman's match at Oakwood a few years back we had a long chat about his parents roots and the life of a pro footballer. Interesting character but I felt he had insecurities below the surface. Like most footballers they seek the contract to upgrade their lives.

Lyle Taylor should've ended up in our hall of fame not our hall of shame.

Spot on…after the way he let us down so badly it’s easy to forget how great he was to the lady and her family who was in the hospice with cancer. 

There was good in him but he massively made a bad decision which let our club and fans down and unfortunately that undone all the good he had done in both terms of scoring goals and going out of his way to support fans in need etc. 

We need to move on, he’s not coming back here and we have bigger problems than Lyle Taylor! 

 "undone all the good he had done in both terms of scoring goals ". 


His goals were not cancelled/disallowed and there was no points deduction in the games he played therefore this statement is not true. Therefore he he made positive contribution in that season.
You are disappointed about his behaviour, so was I. But get over it. Its his career move of his life, many people would make the same decision in other walks of life for increasing their salary 400~~%.

mendonca

Taylor is a big International. Am sure most PL clubs will be queuing up to sign him.