08-27-2021, 05:40 PM
(08-27-2021, 04:57 PM)slifersd Wrote: 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.
It's not about fairness though. Football is very different than my and your job. Why? Cause only a few can afford to pay the 8 million. Within my field of work the pay is almost same across the board, no matter the company. Of course he is free to accept more, but then bunch of rich clubs will have 50 player squad size while the rest can't find players to fill their squads. It is not by scouting or smart football building that a team like Chelsea has dozens of players on loan, it is money.