obviously its quite alarming that an average player like whitts can turn down 1 mill and the security of a 5yr deal because he has a very over inflated idea of his own value. I guess if he believes he is that good of a player then he is welcome to try his luck else where.
Can you imagine being payed 1 mill per season to play a game you love infront of 50000 fans and playing champions league or uefa footie every season. All this coming fae a lad who used to play his footie for hibs!. It makes me sick to think that the modernday footballer has no moral ground and no sense of loyalty. And you wonder why our game is in decline, i mean most of us are hard working individuals who get up at fhooking 6am most days and dont get home to 6 or 7 five or six days a week.
We pay over the odds every year for footie tops home away third strips. We buy overpriced season tickets to watch the quality decline year on year we buy other merchandise not because we really need it but out of some deep laying loyalty to our club we grew up supporting.
We take our children and wifes or partners to these games to watch little prhicks like whitts play crappy average footie week in week out,come rain snow or shine were there and thats the reward and thanks we get.
No wonder we feel no association to these players I mean how can we?
What do we have in common witn them ?
When most of us are looking over our shoulders to make sure our jobs are safe so we can pay our mortgages and provide food on the table little pr**ks like him lord it up on thousands per week an have the cheek to turn down money most of us can only dream about , yet if we papped him in with the kids to play his last year of football he would be the first to go moaning and greetin to the press about how unfair life is.
The sooner he leaves the better i dont want anyone of his ilk at my club. Great example for our youth to look up to eh!
Instead of hiring more coaches or directors of football we should cap the money they can earn and if they dont like it fhuck right off and go try working for a living
I say good riddence to bad apples
rant over
morally bankrupt
posted on 23/6/11
I'm obviously in the minority here but I've no problem with the lad turning down the contract.
It's funny money to us but if you're being offered that and can get more elsewhere why should you just take the contract and stay if you fancy a change???
You talk about loyalty but it's business, he signed a contract and is willing to honour it.....that's all you can ask he's not indebted to the club for his whole career just as the club don't owe him anything other than what we think is in our own interests to offer him.
If he becomes a free agent he'll have options of the EPL or a cash rich club on the continent who will pay way over what we're offering and if he has another good season the contract from us will still be on the table if he doesn't get an offer he fancies............it makes sense to me.
posted on 23/6/11
Titanic... are you drunk?
posted on 23/6/11
Somewhere here it's seems to be forgotten that he's not really very good! Yes he's versatile yes he plays where ever we ask him too but at the end of the day he's very very average.
I'd be happy for him to stay but at the same time if he leaves I really don't think we would struggle to find a replacement at right back I prefer papac to him at left back and I think we will be signing a few midfielders anyway.
To us he's worth around 10-12k a week i wouldn't really push the boat out any more than that. If he's being offered more elsewhere. I don't blame him for wanting to take it.
If he ends up at a team that need to defend more than rangers week in week out he will soon be shown up.
posted on 23/6/11
lets wait and see what whittaker was offered. At the moment its just press speculation that he was offered 20k a week.
I cant see it being 20k. Hes a good player but to be on 20k a week would make him our 2nd best paid player. I dont think its likely. As i say, lets wait and see what the offer was before tearing whittaker too shreds.
Btw, in fairness to titanic , hes right. There was a gers poster saying it was 200k a year, 4k a week that was offered. Again tho, pure speculation.
posted on 23/6/11
Whittaker in fairness should look after himself and take big money whereever its offered! In fairness to Celtic fans big money means nothing to players these days consider Bobo and Freddie!
posted on 23/6/11
rab e keane!
posted on 24/6/11
"It makes me sick to think that the modernday footballer has no moral ground and no sense of loyalty"
assuming you actually have a job, and a nother company offer to double your wages, what would you do?
footballers careers are short...make hay while the sun shines...
if he isnt that good or your not bohtered, why write a post about it...?
posted on 24/6/11
he was one of your best players last year.
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No wasn't and never has been.
Good player but never our best, not even close.
He can barely tackle for a start.
I don't blame anyone for wanting to move jobs for more money, we'd all do it. But he has to understand he won't be going unless the right fee is offered. And £400k etc is not even close, last year or not.
We paid £2m for him, he has most certainly improved at Ibrox, has a great deal of European experience and has broken into the Scotland team. He is worth at least what we paid for him but probably £3m+. I'd take £1m-£1.5m though considering his contract is nearly up.
Anything lower than that and the club concerned can gtf and he stays, if he doesn't want a new deal he can stay on what he's on for the rest of his deal. If he doesn't want to play 1st team or doesn't look up for it then put him in the U19s for a season.
posted on 25/6/11
I cannot blame Whitty for this. Yes, he is paid top end for our own little goldfish bowl of a league, but he could earn more in the English Championship or even top of League 1, never mind across Europe.
His going rate is therefore what somebody is willing to pay him.
"loyalty" - hmmm - loyalty like many fans were slating him a season or two ago. That sort of loyalty?
He has to think of himself. Recently he has given his all for the club that pays his wages. We can ask no more than that.
The days of players spending their whole careers at one club are long gone, with only a very few exceptions.
If Whitty thinks he wants to move on for more money, that is his choice, and if he does, we should say good luck, and thanks for your efforts.
If he stays, he needs to continue to offer his all.
Either way, for fans to say "because I pay so much you should stay at this club" or "who do you think you are" - is, IMO, wrong. He is a professional footballer with a short career. That he wants to earn as much for him & his family within that short timespan is only natural.
Loyalty - pah
posted on 25/6/11
If Whitty thinks he wants to move on for more money, that is his choice, and if he does, we should say good luck, and thanks for your efforts.
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Like I said,I've no problem with that. Rangers are however entitled to get the fee they feel he is worth. At the end of the day he has signed a contract in good faith that he will play for Rangers until the end of this season. Upon signing that contract he knows he can't move without the club being compensated, with the amount of compensation being determined by Rangers.
In short if we don't receive an acceptable offer he doesn't go anywhere and he stays on his current wage (which he agreed to when singing the deal) until the end of the season.
It may cost us more in the long run to pay his wages until May but the point must be made. We will not be bullied into accept a pittance of a transfer fee from a club who can lure a player into being unsettled by dangling the carrot of £50k a week in front of them.
Pay us what he is worth and I'll be the first to say good luck to him.