08-27-2021, 04:57 PM
(08-27-2021, 04:27 PM)ACM2021 Wrote: just thought of something random (maybe not belong here, so my apologies)
When asked why Kessie didn't want to take the #19 back after Bonucci left, didn't he say that he didn't want to do that because fans wouldn't need to waste their money to buy another jersey?
If he truly is a greedy mofo, he certainly did an excellent job hiding it for this long. Now maybe we are just now missing that lost jersey sale revenue to meet his salary demand. /s
I think people are making too big of a deal with the whole "greedy" label. Just because a player wants his fair market value does not make him "greedy". At the end of the day, we probably are all working. If you are presented two offers for your services, one is 30% higher than the other, how many of us would take the lower offer? I get it, it is still a lot of money for Kessie even if he accepts our offer (compared to what we make), but his career is also much shorter and his life style is much more expensive, so he needs a lot more money than we do. If Kessie is worth 8M but he wants 15M, then he is greedy; but if he is worth 8M and he wants 8M, that's just fair game. And frankly speaking, asking him to turn down 8M a year to accept our offer of...5.5M isn't really even that fair of an ask.