villaajax Posted May 25, 2014 Share Posted May 25, 2014 A mere £5000 a week sounds alright to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djdabush Posted May 25, 2014 Share Posted May 25, 2014 Non of those billionaires are a slightly better than average footballer. In a 15 year career on £20k per week Alby will make a basic wage of approx £14.4million, that's BASIC, then you get add-ons, bonuses, various sponsorship payments. I'd settle for that at my local boyhood club. Don't forget about the tax they will be paying out of that wage. I think it's sometimes easy as fans to forget that for players it's a job and I doubt that many of us would turn down a job offer which doubled our salaries, had better opportunities and offered more security. I don't blame Albrighton, but I do think Leicester are crazy for offering him that contract. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodgyknees Posted May 25, 2014 Share Posted May 25, 2014 He isn't worth what they are paying him, I'd rather let him go and put the 20k he was on towards Barry coming home. The one thing that does bother me is how we will compete (as we are) if players like Marc can get 40k. Any delay in this takeover is bad news. We have to get Lescott and Barry in NOW..but this is for another thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Con Posted May 25, 2014 Share Posted May 25, 2014 A mere £5000 a week sounds alright to me. Since you love the club, how about we go lower. Would you get out of bed for training for £500 per week? If we brought in Jurgen Klopp? I guess for some the ideal wage for Albrighton to earn is about the same amount as they earn. The point is though that would be extremely unfair on the players because their career lasts about 15 years at best and involves a high degree of risk (career ending injury). It is right that they earn vastly higher sums per week than regular workers because their career is high-risk and condensed into so few years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Xela Posted May 25, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted May 25, 2014 Villa fan or not, if i was given the choice of £20k a week at Villa, a club in crisis and £40k at Leicester, a club seemingly on the up and local enough not to move house then i'd go with Leicester. Sorry to say it, but that is what I would do. I think too much is put on who the players support as a kid. They're professionals and will do what is right for their career and/or wallet. 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ingram85 Posted May 25, 2014 Share Posted May 25, 2014 A mere £5000 a week sounds alright to me. Since you love the club, how about we go lower. Would you get out of bed for training for £500 per week? If we brought in Jurgen Klopp? I guess for some the ideal wage for Albrighton to earn is about the same amount as they earn. The point is though that would be extremely unfair on the players because their career lasts about 15 years at best and involves a high degree of risk (career ending injury). It is right that they earn vastly higher sums per week than regular workers because their career is high-risk and condensed into so few years. #yesallaveragewingers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dakid007 Posted May 25, 2014 Share Posted May 25, 2014 He doubled his wages & it's guaranteed for 4 years. See ya later Marc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P3te Posted May 26, 2014 Share Posted May 26, 2014 The question is whether he can be replaced for the £5.5m he would've cost on 35k over 3 years. Assuming we spent £3m on a replacement's fee, that'd give us about £18k a week for wages. I'm not sure that buys any better than we had with Marc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bannedfromHandV Posted May 26, 2014 Share Posted May 26, 2014 But who says the overall outlay has to be the same? We probably won't even replace him with a like for like player anyway given that we don't really play with out and out wingers/wide midfielders Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Pangloss Posted May 26, 2014 Share Posted May 26, 2014 (edited) We should have nipped this in the bud and offered a contract extension much earlier on in the season. Edited May 26, 2014 by Dr_Pangloss Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PussEKatt Posted May 26, 2014 Share Posted May 26, 2014 He should have started more games.I thought he was one of our better players TBF. With Lambert in charge he will probably get replaced with a cheapie from a lower division. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abdulaziz1 Posted May 26, 2014 Share Posted May 26, 2014 I think we were planning to replaces him anyway, I mean he would've been squad player so the club might thought 40k for a squad players isn't that worth. So the 5.5m isn't really that accurate because he was going to be replaced anyway (And that if we were playing 442 which we usually don't). Saying that doesn't mean that I agree with letting him leave, Atleast not until we know where the club is going exacly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big_John_10 Posted May 26, 2014 Share Posted May 26, 2014 In terms of careers football has a short one. If I was a footballer and my choice was key player at a prem club or usually sub's bench for villa then I'd choose playing. Add on more money and its an easy choice to make. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa_shere Posted May 27, 2014 Share Posted May 27, 2014 Maybe the club forgot his birthday or didnt get him a cake 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
packoman Posted June 5, 2014 Share Posted June 5, 2014 (edited) No Aston Villa offer says Marc Albrighton The winger signed for Leicester on a four-year contract last month after being allowed to leave. Boss Paul Lambert had previously said Villa were confident of sealing a deal – but Albrighton insists he didn’t get an offer. “Having been at Villa for 16 years it’s going to be weird and strange to make that change, but it was a decision made by the club,” he said. “They said they didn’t want my services any more but I don’t hold anything against them. “I wasn’t expecting a massive bumper deal from Villa but, if I’m honest, I was expecting something.” Edited June 5, 2014 by packoman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PieFacE Posted June 5, 2014 VT Supporter Share Posted June 5, 2014 Shameful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted June 5, 2014 Share Posted June 5, 2014 sad they didn't even try to keep him Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodders0223 Posted June 5, 2014 Share Posted June 5, 2014 Yeah, because he was wank for 85% of his time here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted June 5, 2014 Share Posted June 5, 2014 Yeah, because he was wank for 85% of his time here. which is really not true since he was professional 4 full seasons in a terrible team and was arguably player of season in 1st season and had decent spells in between. that's not including his previous 12 seasons in youth team in which he was obviously decent. but yeah 85% of the time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avfc96 Posted June 5, 2014 Share Posted June 5, 2014 Utter stupidity on Villa's part. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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