"Freddie brings Champions League experience, being captain of Sweden and that he is versatile but the biggest thing is that there is a hunger there."
He's still on about versatility. When will someone tell him that he doesn't have to buy players that can play in 5 positions any more?
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Hmmmm, tough choice that one!
If he's lucky then he can get another megadeal but yeah, why not just sit it out at Upton Park?
Interested to know why Wham are doing this? Have the Icelanders decided to tighten the purse strings?
I'd do a "Cory"
According to the Times;
"The Barclays Premier League club decided to rein in their transfer spending earlier in the season and are keen to reduce their wage bill"
Here's the full article for those interested;
"West Ham United have offered Fredrik Ljungberg £3million to leave Upton Park after one season. The Barclays Premier League club decided to rein in their transfer spending earlier in the season and are keen to reduce their wage bill. The Sweden midfield player has three years remaining on the four-year contract he signed when he joined the club from Arsenal last summer. The compensation package is less than his salary of about £3.9million a year - £75,000 a week.
Ljungberg, 31, has made 25 league appearances this season but has not been able to recapture the goalscoring knack he had several seasons ago. The loss of some of his pace, the lack of a creative midfield player and West Ham's regimented style have contributed to him scoring only twice this season. He suffered a cracked rib in the 2-2 draw against Newcastle United two weeks ago.
West Ham could make similar compensation offers to Lucas Neill and Luís Boa Morte, the forward, who are among the higher-earning players. The club have been looking for a new right back to replace Neill, the Australia player who earns about £65,000 a week and has a year left on his contract. West Ham released Roy Carroll, the goalkeeper, in similar fashion last summer.
The offer of payoffs to players is not unusual, but it is extraordinary after only one year. Players are not obliged to accept the proposal, but if they do so they can move as a free agent to another club. Winston Bogarde sat out his four-year contract at Chelsea, where he earned £40,000 a week, and refused to accept compensation to leave. The former Holland defender made 12 appearances, only four of them starts, effectively earning £693,000 per appearance. He spent much of his time training with the youth team."
Lundberg --sh*t- and--WHU--and-- give --Curbs-- couldnt-- a.
all the way to the bank
Take it, Freddie boy, and then sign for QPR for big potatoes.
or sign for us, and play for nothing.
He used to fly in from Holland everyday for training and then fly back home.
Here we have Curbs, the manager who looked after Charlton's money like it was his own, never spent all his transfer budget, and spend years travelling the length and breadth of the country turning over stone after stone looking for gems at bargain prices; goes to back to the club he supports and then merrily hands out somebody else's money by the barrowload to purchase players who are past their sell by date or serious sicknotes wasting his club squillions of Icelandic Krona.
You couldn't make it up.
Some of the injuries have been bad luck - Dyer for example.
Oh I'm firmly a Curbs supporter and I think he's done a good job at West Ham, I just find the irony of the different spending approaches funny.
That said, comparing West Ham then and now would seem to be a testament to the management.
The reality of Premiership finances are beginning to bite West Ham's new owners (who have only been there 18 months or so) and they are starting to realise the financial burden of running a Premiership club.
They made a lot of desperate bids to get players to come when they were in the shit (Lucas Neil on 65,000 per week, please, and Boa Morte on a reported 45,000 per week) and now they are paying the price, tough shit as far as I am concerned.
I know I might get hammered by Oooaahhmortimer for this but I have to say that I would prefer being where we are in the CCC and paying reasonable wages than paying greedy scum like Lucas Neil or Luis Boa Morte those sort of wages.
In fact, I think that the lower down the leagues you go the more integrity and honesty you find.
i know we all would love every player to play for charlton cos they supported them and came thru our youth set up and hope that they wouldn't want to treble their wages by going anywhere else but that's not gonna happen and as the game stands at the moment(who knows how long b4 the sky money stops) if we are to progress as a club and realistically to move to the 'next level' (upwards!) we will have to eventually pay joke wages etc to get there, as the game stands at the moment
if jonjo goes on to be as good as parker/bowyer to keep him we'd have to improve all round as a club and to fulfill his ambitions that would mean paying top whack for some players or as we all know will probably happen he'll move on like parker/bowyer for financial gain and to a 'bigger' club
to call players like neil and boa morte greedy scum is a bit harsh cos i'm pretty sure most people given the chance to improve their families future in the way they have would do, a bit like andy reid and i wouldn't call him greedy scum
the dream route to success doesn't exist, at the moment, will there ever be another wimbledon type dream story, i doubt it in the current climate, so for me i'd watch us wherever we are but i'd prefer it in a packed stadium in the best league in the world with some 'greedy scum' playing for us rather than in the rymans with 11 charlton loving less than capable youth team progressed players.....
The reality of Premiership finances are beginning to bite West Ham's new owners (who have only been there 18 months or so) and they are starting to realise the financial burden of running a Premiership club.
They made a lot of desperate bids to get players to come when they were in the shit (Lucas Neil on 65,000 per week, please, and Boa Morte on a reported 45,000 per week) and now they are paying the price, tough shit as far as I am concerned.
I know I might get hammered by Oooaahhmortimer for this but I have to say that I would prefer being where we are in the CCC and paying reasonable wages than paying greedy scum like Lucas Neil or Luis Boa Morte those sort of wages.
In fact, I think that the lower down the leagues you go the more integrity and honesty you find.[/quote]
I take your point about the likes of Lucas Neill being greedy, but really the fault lies with West Ham who signed these players/offered them these deals, I doubt I'd have turned down that kind of contract, especially if I was a run-of-the-mill premiership footballer.
More fool WHU for offering stupid money.
No, no, no......Jeffers was THIRSTY, not hungry.
He smirked his way through it with some bullshit about how he admired West Ham's history and traditions and it was "nothing to do with the money" - totally contemptuous of anyone with a brain.
I admit that I may be harsh in lumping Boa Morte in with Neil but the sort of greed that the bloke displayed last year just turned my guts.
How can any professional footballer turn down LIVERPOOL in favor of bottom of the table West Ham? Money, that's why and in my book that makes him a compete twat.