Dont Chelsea stipulate that alll their players live within 3 miles of Cobham? Hardly living the 'London Life'.
Money clearly matters most to 90% of players but location does come into to it for the very best (IMO)
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as utd fan I feel money is the number 1 priority.
It is a matter of whether the difference in wages can make them ignore other factors like location.
a club like utd or liverpool can usually "out wage" a very good player. When it comes to the absolute wordclass players who are also wanted by the richest clubs in the world it becomes near impossible that your wages on offer will be the deciding factor. At this point player can afford to be picky opting for factors like location, history, style of play etc based on players preference.
This is why the EPL has struggled to attract the best talents in the world. We have attracted a lot of very good players. But the only players that came to the league as worldclass players (not including rejects like adm/fab/ozil) has been costa and maybe hazard
Which footballers live in Cheatham Hill?
comment by gratedbean (U4885)
posted 1 minute ago
Which footballers live in Cheatham Hill?
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Ashley Young.
Adnan Zanussi too before he left.
It's all down to money in the end.
The best players in world football are possibly mainly South Americans or at least from warm, sunny, Latin climates and if they were all perfectly honest would prefer to play their football in Italy/Spain.
Even London is not a favourable option for these players as it's just as grey a place as the rest of England, maybe a couple of degrees warmer.
London smells funny, is busy all the time even on Sunday's, everything is overpriced, it takes ages to get anywhere, only the queen has a big house, the accent is irritating, the football teams are all pretty average, many people go days without seeing a blade of grass, crime is a constant threat, nobody has ever managed to get their car over the 20mph mark, and there is a persistent fear you might bump into Boris Johnson. So I'm not really sure what this "pull" is you speak of...
Agreed Bean, although central London is very nice at night. Also Westfield, nice shopping centre. Apart from that though..
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"Although central London is very nice at night"
Yeah. Until you come round and realise you've been in a crowd of people watching some cnunt walk on a tightrope for three hours.
Central London is nice but the players can't live there, they still have to travel into the centre using notoriously crowded transport etc.
Outside surrounding areas of London are no doubt nice places, but it also has its sh¡te holes, as do all cities.
Stoke for example is not somewhere a player would necessarily want to go to, yet in fact is 15 minutes from beautiful Cheshire, and that's where most of them tend to live.
London's a much more glamourous city than Madrid. It's in Paris's league; Madrid is in Bucharest's.
Most London based footballers reside in Surrey and Hertfordshire anyway. I've never met one living in the city centre itself.
Same with the Manchester based players, most of them live in Cheshire. Aside from Darmian, he's got a flat in the city.
I like the nightlife , I like boogey...
comment by Boris 'Inky' Gibson (U5901)
posted 41 minutes ago
Dont Chelsea stipulate that alll their players live within 3 miles of Cobham? Hardly living the 'London Life'.
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You're aware that Chelsea aren't the only football team in London though right?
"You're aware that Chelsea aren't the only football team in London though right?"
Shut the front door?!
The op does have a point to some degree though, Newcastle/Sunderland and probably soon to be joined by Middlesborough in the League will always find it difficult to persuade footballers of a Latin type to join them, that's where the money comes into it.
Newcastle can possibly pay bigger wages than Palace and Watford (London ish club) maybe Sunderland can too.
Steven Fletcher is close to 100k a week at Sunderland
Doubt many Latin players know where any of those places actually are, let alone what they're like.
"Central London is nice but the players can't live there, they still have to travel into the centre using notoriously crowded transport etc."
You have to also have to consider things from the spouse/kids viewpoint. A capital city gives them more to do when they are idle and the player is at work, likely larger resident ex-pat community to interact with etc.
Was in London the weekend for the first and apart from a few attractions that you'd soon get bored of its not a million times better than Manchester. Then again I'm not on footballers wages
comment by De Gea's Right Foot - Supreme Leader Arab (U11781)
posted 30 minutes ago
Steven Fletcher is close to 100k a week at Sunderland
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If he could stay fit he could have been a pretty good player IMO, that said, this is what 23 goals in nearly four seasons get's you at Sunderland...
http://www.expressandstar.com/wpmvc/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/crop-550a827faebdb-imgID10628711.jpg
Fletcher is certainly an Allardyce player, but 100 a week?
The game has gone crazy.
comment by The RDBD (demoted to supporting the team managed by Pep Guardiola) (U1062)
posted 10 minutes ago
"Central London is nice but the players can't live there, they still have to travel into the centre using notoriously crowded transport etc."
You have to also have to consider things from the spouse/kids viewpoint. A capital city gives them more to do when they are idle and the player is at work, likely larger resident ex-pat community to interact with etc.
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You see well known people all the time in central London, you also see Bentley's, RR and Merc's with blacked out windows in places Mayfair and Paddington, so it's not like they would HAVE to take the tube, if you're filthy rich, it's a great city to live, no question.
It's not just central London that's nice either, there's loads of suburbs that would be great to raise a family if you can afford it, for me, it sh*** all over Manchester, Birmingham Liverpool, Newcastle etc
There is a huge southerner snobbery when it come to views on the north,I say as that much.
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posted on 20/1/16
Dont Chelsea stipulate that alll their players live within 3 miles of Cobham? Hardly living the 'London Life'.
posted on 20/1/16
Money clearly matters most to 90% of players but location does come into to it for the very best (IMO)
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as utd fan I feel money is the number 1 priority.
It is a matter of whether the difference in wages can make them ignore other factors like location.
a club like utd or liverpool can usually "out wage" a very good player. When it comes to the absolute wordclass players who are also wanted by the richest clubs in the world it becomes near impossible that your wages on offer will be the deciding factor. At this point player can afford to be picky opting for factors like location, history, style of play etc based on players preference.
This is why the EPL has struggled to attract the best talents in the world. We have attracted a lot of very good players. But the only players that came to the league as worldclass players (not including rejects like adm/fab/ozil) has been costa and maybe hazard
posted on 20/1/16
Which footballers live in Cheatham Hill?
posted on 20/1/16
comment by gratedbean (U4885)
posted 1 minute ago
Which footballers live in Cheatham Hill?
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Ashley Young.
Adnan Zanussi too before he left.
posted on 20/1/16
It's all down to money in the end.
The best players in world football are possibly mainly South Americans or at least from warm, sunny, Latin climates and if they were all perfectly honest would prefer to play their football in Italy/Spain.
Even London is not a favourable option for these players as it's just as grey a place as the rest of England, maybe a couple of degrees warmer.
posted on 20/1/16
London smells funny, is busy all the time even on Sunday's, everything is overpriced, it takes ages to get anywhere, only the queen has a big house, the accent is irritating, the football teams are all pretty average, many people go days without seeing a blade of grass, crime is a constant threat, nobody has ever managed to get their car over the 20mph mark, and there is a persistent fear you might bump into Boris Johnson. So I'm not really sure what this "pull" is you speak of...
posted on 20/1/16
Agreed Bean, although central London is very nice at night. Also Westfield, nice shopping centre. Apart from that though..
posted on 20/1/16
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posted on 20/1/16
"Although central London is very nice at night"
Yeah. Until you come round and realise you've been in a crowd of people watching some cnunt walk on a tightrope for three hours.
posted on 20/1/16
Central London is nice but the players can't live there, they still have to travel into the centre using notoriously crowded transport etc.
Outside surrounding areas of London are no doubt nice places, but it also has its sh¡te holes, as do all cities.
Stoke for example is not somewhere a player would necessarily want to go to, yet in fact is 15 minutes from beautiful Cheshire, and that's where most of them tend to live.
posted on 20/1/16
London's a much more glamourous city than Madrid. It's in Paris's league; Madrid is in Bucharest's.
posted on 20/1/16
Most London based footballers reside in Surrey and Hertfordshire anyway. I've never met one living in the city centre itself.
posted on 20/1/16
Same with the Manchester based players, most of them live in Cheshire. Aside from Darmian, he's got a flat in the city.
posted on 20/1/16
I like the nightlife , I like boogey...
posted on 20/1/16
comment by Boris 'Inky' Gibson (U5901)
posted 41 minutes ago
Dont Chelsea stipulate that alll their players live within 3 miles of Cobham? Hardly living the 'London Life'.
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You're aware that Chelsea aren't the only football team in London though right?
posted on 20/1/16
"You're aware that Chelsea aren't the only football team in London though right?"
Shut the front door?!
posted on 20/1/16
The op does have a point to some degree though, Newcastle/Sunderland and probably soon to be joined by Middlesborough in the League will always find it difficult to persuade footballers of a Latin type to join them, that's where the money comes into it.
Newcastle can possibly pay bigger wages than Palace and Watford (London ish club) maybe Sunderland can too.
posted on 20/1/16
Steven Fletcher is close to 100k a week at Sunderland
posted on 20/1/16
Doubt many Latin players know where any of those places actually are, let alone what they're like.
posted on 20/1/16
"Central London is nice but the players can't live there, they still have to travel into the centre using notoriously crowded transport etc."
You have to also have to consider things from the spouse/kids viewpoint. A capital city gives them more to do when they are idle and the player is at work, likely larger resident ex-pat community to interact with etc.
posted on 20/1/16
Was in London the weekend for the first and apart from a few attractions that you'd soon get bored of its not a million times better than Manchester. Then again I'm not on footballers wages
posted on 20/1/16
comment by De Gea's Right Foot - Supreme Leader Arab (U11781)
posted 30 minutes ago
Steven Fletcher is close to 100k a week at Sunderland
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If he could stay fit he could have been a pretty good player IMO, that said, this is what 23 goals in nearly four seasons get's you at Sunderland...
http://www.expressandstar.com/wpmvc/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/crop-550a827faebdb-imgID10628711.jpg
posted on 20/1/16
Fletcher is certainly an Allardyce player, but 100 a week?
The game has gone crazy.
posted on 20/1/16
comment by The RDBD (demoted to supporting the team managed by Pep Guardiola) (U1062)
posted 10 minutes ago
"Central London is nice but the players can't live there, they still have to travel into the centre using notoriously crowded transport etc."
You have to also have to consider things from the spouse/kids viewpoint. A capital city gives them more to do when they are idle and the player is at work, likely larger resident ex-pat community to interact with etc.
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You see well known people all the time in central London, you also see Bentley's, RR and Merc's with blacked out windows in places Mayfair and Paddington, so it's not like they would HAVE to take the tube, if you're filthy rich, it's a great city to live, no question.
It's not just central London that's nice either, there's loads of suburbs that would be great to raise a family if you can afford it, for me, it sh*** all over Manchester, Birmingham Liverpool, Newcastle etc
posted on 20/1/16
There is a huge southerner snobbery when it come to views on the north,I say as that much.
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