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.
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
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.
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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.
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