Chris Solly - joining our academy coaching staff says Cawley (p34)

clb74 said:

You are all talking b@llocks.
Of course Mr Solly doesnt have to work again.
He just needs to set up residence in a place like Albania or Syria.

kentaddick said:

cafcdave123 said:

a quick google suggests is net worth is $1.5m

even if his net worth was 50p it doesn't change the fact he took wages and refused to be available to play whilst under contract, just like parker, taylor, kermongant...

utter rubbish.

clb74 said:

You are all talking b@llocks.
Of course Mr Solly doesnt have to work again.
He just needs to set up residence in a place like Albania or Syria.

ElfsborgAddick said:

Chippycafc said:

I spoke to Chris Solly a few weeks ago at Carshalton in an FA cup match. He wasn't playing and was a sub.

Basically he was ignorant and didn't want to know.

You should not have addressed him as Judas, you may have got a better response.

Notts_Addick said:

SELR_addicks said:

cafctom said:

SELR_addicks said:

buckshee said:

To even put him in the same bracket as Taylor is laughable frankly. Chris has a young family and knew that due to previous injuries he’d struggle to get a decent contract elsewhere and wanted to protect that. Taylor just wanted to line his own pockets. 

On the other hand Solly has had a long career and is already set-up for life. 

Taylor knew his one big payday was round the corner. 

They're both as bad as each other, least Taylor was honest about his intentions and took the flack. Solly scurried away and apparently went to the PFA and 'settled' for more money. 

“Solly is set up for life” - and you know this how exactly? The lad is about 30 years old and spent most of his career on League 1 / low-end Championship money.

As for your final sentence, I’d be keen to know where you’ve got that info from. Unless it’s just another one of your assumptions.

If you're on 2000 a week, that's 104000 a year. 

Solly is not struggling for money and a sensible person would be set up for life with 10 years of wages in the hundreds of thousands a year. 

If he earned 5000 for even one season, that's a quarter of a million pounds. 

Those figures are before you factor in tax, national insurance and pension. By the time you knock that off you are getting a substantially lower figure. 

I don't doubt Solly was well rewarded for his time here but I think people have a over-inflated view of what players earn over their careers, I just checked and he is only 30 years of age having only had one career in his life, that of a professional footballer. You would assume like the rest of us that whatever career he goes into next he is going to be starting at the bottom of the ladder, and professional footballer sounds great on paper however I doubt there are many industries where it counts for very much in the real world.

If he was sensible then perhaps he's put some money away or made some wise investments but I imagine he isn't going to be living out the rest of his days on a tropical island somewhere, he's going to have to make a living doing something else.

Rob7Lee said:

Ebbsfleet are flying at the moment, still unbeaten after 15 games (12 wins, 3 draws), Solly even scored the other day! Yes captain and coach I believe.

Manic_mania said:

hopefully, for Ebbsfleet he can make it the season without breaking a toe nail. One of the worst captains we have ever had

we nursed this guy through an entire career, if he wasn't a football basket case he'd have been off far sooner. and his thanks to us? covid? SEE YA. Fuck that guy

“Unfortunately for us three of those players have said they’re not going to play, and Lyle is one of them.

“Chris Solly has said the same and Davis is on loan from Birmingham and he’d said he doesn’t want to come back and play games.

“So we’re three players down.

“It’s just another hurdle. We’ve got another 22 or 23 players who do want to play, and that’s the moment important thing to me now, I have to brush that under the carpet and move on.

“That’s what we’ll do as a football club, we’ll move on without those players and we’ll fight until the end.”

Taylor is a mercenary but a mercenary that Bowyer somehow managed to forgive as he took him on loan at Birmingham. Look at what Bowyer said about him during his time there:

"I think he has been very good since he has been here.

“He has given the place a lift and shown the reason why I wanted to bring him in. The goals that he has scored we are seeing it every day in training. He has definitely improved us and made more competition for places.”

But some supporters want a player like Solly, who served us so well for a decade and was unlikely to kick a ball in anger for us again anyway, to be treated far worse than Bowyer ultimately treated Taylor. 

As I mentioned above, Solly is coming back to the Club and that will be the ideal opportunity for those who hold him responsible to ask him directly what went on.

Addick Addict said:

We should also remember that Solly had not been picked for six months by Bowyer and was highly unlikely to have been selected anyway. For the three games he missed when in contract at the end of that season we did not concede a single goal. Solly would not have made one bit of difference and having not played might have cost us points.

It wasn't Solly's fault that we went down but it helped the "siege mentality" that Bowyer wanted to create to tell anyone who wanted to hear that we weren't just missing one player in Taylor but that we had three that had refused to play. 

“Unfortunately for us three of those players have said they’re not going to play, and Lyle is one of them.

“Chris Solly has said the same and Davis is on loan from Birmingham and he’d said he doesn’t want to come back and play games.

“So we’re three players down.

“It’s just another hurdle. We’ve got another 22 or 23 players who do want to play, and that’s the moment important thing to me now, I have to brush that under the carpet and move on.

“That’s what we’ll do as a football club, we’ll move on without those players and we’ll fight until the end.”

Taylor is a mercenary but a mercenary that Bowyer somehow managed to forgive as he took him on loan at Birmingham. Look at what Bowyer said about him during his time there:

"I think he has been very good since he has been here.

“He has given the place a lift and shown the reason why I wanted to bring him in. The goals that he has scored we are seeing it every day in training. He has definitely improved us and made more competition for places.”

But some supporters want a player like Solly, who served us so well for a decade and was unlikely to kick a ball in anger for us again anyway, to be treated far worse than Bowyer ultimately treated Taylor. 

As I mentioned above, Solly is coming back to the Club and that will be the ideal opportunity for those who hold him responsible to ask him directly what went on.

Addick Addict said:

se9addick said:

Addick Addict said:

We should also remember that Solly had not been picked for six months by Bowyer and was highly unlikely to have been selected anyway. For the three games he missed when in contract at the end of that season we did not concede a single goal. Solly would not have made one bit of difference and having not played might have cost us points.

It wasn't Solly's fault that we went down but it helped the "siege mentality" that Bowyer wanted to create to tell anyone who wanted to hear that we weren't just missing one player in Taylor but that we had three that had refused to play. 

“Unfortunately for us three of those players have said they’re not going to play, and Lyle is one of them.

“Chris Solly has said the same and Davis is on loan from Birmingham and he’d said he doesn’t want to come back and play games.

“So we’re three players down.

“It’s just another hurdle. We’ve got another 22 or 23 players who do want to play, and that’s the moment important thing to me now, I have to brush that under the carpet and move on.

“That’s what we’ll do as a football club, we’ll move on without those players and we’ll fight until the end.”

Taylor is a mercenary but a mercenary that Bowyer somehow managed to forgive as he took him on loan at Birmingham. Look at what Bowyer said about him during his time there:

"I think he has been very good since he has been here.

“He has given the place a lift and shown the reason why I wanted to bring him in. The goals that he has scored we are seeing it every day in training. He has definitely improved us and made more competition for places.”

But some supporters want a player like Solly, who served us so well for a decade and was unlikely to kick a ball in anger for us again anyway, to be treated far worse than Bowyer ultimately treated Taylor. 

As I mentioned above, Solly is coming back to the Club and that will be the ideal opportunity for those who hold him responsible to ask him directly what went on.

If he wasn’t going to play, then why did he refuse to play? 

Because Bowyer probably wanted him available "just in case" he was needed. Bowyer had given up on him as a Championship player, not played him since the previous December and Solly wasn't getting another contract. It just served Bowyer's siege mentality agenda by throwing his name into the pot.