| Rob Green frustrated by lack of matches 00:13 - Apr 13 with 20175 views | Benny_the_Ball |
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/36020196
He says the reason he has not played for QPR since New Year's Day is "purely financial".
No shit sherlock! Much like many of the decisions you've taken throughout your career. [Post edited 13 Apr 2016 0:18]
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| Rob Green frustrated by lack of matches on 05:43 - Apr 13 with 7169 views | LadbrokeR |
When he he get frustrated at the lack of wages that'll be a headline. |  | | |
| Rob Green frustrated by lack of matches (n/t) on 06:04 - Apr 13 with 7158 views | Hitch |
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| Rob Green frustrated by lack of matches (n/t) on 06:05 - Apr 13 with 7156 views | Hitch |
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| Rob Green frustrated by lack of matches on 07:35 - Apr 13 with 7056 views | Lblock |
I agree with Hitch
I also share Rob's frustration. I'm frustrated he's still here.
Move to Palace fell through as he wouldn't accept longer Contract on less per week.
Joined the Leech Club for me there and then |  |
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| Rob Green frustrated by lack of matches on 07:39 - Apr 13 with 7049 views | rbsranger |
original reason might have been financial but considering his form pre-January and Smithies form since, one has to ask the question of how the hell it took so long for him to be dropped in the first place?
Smithies has been exceptional in every department (and is the type of goalie that does not make you nervous when the ball goes near him, as opposed to Green) |  | | |
| Rob Green frustrated by lack of matches on 07:51 - Apr 13 with 7023 views | Blue_Castello |
| Rob Green frustrated by lack of matches on 07:39 - Apr 13 by rbsranger |
original reason might have been financial but considering his form pre-January and Smithies form since, one has to ask the question of how the hell it took so long for him to be dropped in the first place?
Smithies has been exceptional in every department (and is the type of goalie that does not make you nervous when the ball goes near him, as opposed to Green) |
Spot on to think if he didn't have the clause in his contract he may well be being picked in front of Smithies, that's an effing crime in itself, Smithies has been excellent and should have replaced Green months ago.
Maybe Green should realise the only reason he was being selected before was because we were paying him Premiership wages and somehow the selection process appeared to be that seniority and financial outlay gave a certain player priority. | | | |
| Rob Green frustrated by lack of matches on 08:00 - Apr 13 with 6997 views | essextaxiboy |
Have to be honest and sat that in previous years Green has been worth points to us and had a great game at Wembley .
This season though his form was just awful , he has cost us points starting with the very first game at Charlton .
If Smithies had come in then and played like he has , we would be thinking about the playoffs now IMO . |  | | |
| Rob Green frustrated by lack of matches on 08:00 - Apr 13 with 6997 views | Dorse |
The reason is 'purely financial'? No, it is 'partly financial'. There is a difference. We'd be 9 points better off he hadn't behaved like Charles Hawtrey trying to swat a fly every time a cross came in. |  |
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| Rob Green frustrated by lack of matches on 08:52 - Apr 13 with 6908 views | simmo |
Apart from anything it's completely disrespectful to a younger, better keeper that has shown the benefit of having a proper keeper in form. Even with a huge upheaval and relocation to add to the usual issues of joining a new club, Smithies has still managed to perform more consistently and I can recount half a dozen times already that he has saved us points rather than costing us them. |  |
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| Rob Green frustrated by lack of matches on 08:56 - Apr 13 with 6885 views | bosh67 |
| Rob Green frustrated by lack of matches on 08:52 - Apr 13 by simmo |
Apart from anything it's completely disrespectful to a younger, better keeper that has shown the benefit of having a proper keeper in form. Even with a huge upheaval and relocation to add to the usual issues of joining a new club, Smithies has still managed to perform more consistently and I can recount half a dozen times already that he has saved us points rather than costing us them. |
This. Taxi for Mr Green please. |  |
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| Rob Green frustrated by lack of matches on 08:58 - Apr 13 with 6884 views | GloryHunter |
I listened to his interview on R5Live. I couldn't work out what news value it had - it wasn't even a sports programme that ran it. Can only assume it was placed by his agent in order to remind the football world that he still exists. |  | | |
| Rob Green frustrated by lack of matches on 09:10 - Apr 13 with 6857 views | adhoc_qpr |
Thank god for the clause!
The only downside with Smithies is he's been so good, that if they've been paying attention a prem club might try and pinch him. | | | |
| Rob Green frustrated by lack of matches on 09:10 - Apr 13 with 6855 views | Hunterhoop |
Green should be embarrassed about this. Yes, it's clearly been written by his agent and pushed about "news" outlets to try and get him a contract somewhere else next year, but he should be ashamed he ever let his agent produce it!
It's completely disrespectful to Smithies, and, frankly, complete and utter bullsh*t. If he were to renounce that 30 game clause in his contract today, he still wouldn't be in the team because Smithes is far far better.
I thought he was a decent bloke and allowed him the first one of these "news" pieces (saying the same thing) several months ago. But, to let it go out again, based on the performance of his replacement since, is just tw*ttish.
Jog on, Rob. |  | | |
| Rob Green frustrated by lack of matches on 09:11 - Apr 13 with 6846 views | Toast_R |
Frustrated that he p*ssed away so many points with school boy errors.
Ever since his gaffe against Chelsea his mistakes have been as regular as a prune diet.
He has not been missed, the financial side of things may have played a factor in him being dropped initially but my God what a superb twist of fate. [Post edited 13 Apr 2016 9:12]
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| Rob Green frustrated by lack of matches on 09:33 - Apr 13 with 6789 views | A40Bosh |
I still don't get why people have a beef with Green - technically this is not his fault.
In any other industry he would probably be taking this employer to an industrial tribunal. Just because he is a "spoilt" footballer who earns more money than people want him to, people think that this gives the club and the supporters the right to ride roughshod over his income.
My post here, before certain posters jump on criticizing me, is not a bleeding heart poor old Robby Wobby Greenie, he is soooo hard done by "he has won us more points than he ever lost us" post, no this is a look at the facts.
If he WAS and continued to be that shi'te from the start of this season and successive managers believed the same then you drop him and you tell him he is dropped in what ever management style you want and he then either goes off in a sulk or gets on with it and tries to win his place back. Now that Smithies is the new Golden Boy and people are currently overlooking a couple of Greeno type clearances (I am sure they will come up with a string of migrating reasons for his cock ups) Green is not even on the bench and Ingham and Lumley are now above him in the pecking order, so therefore the club have decided that either they don't want to renew his contract for financial reasons because he is one of the big earners or they don't want to auto renew his contract because he is now very crap and they don't want to risk him between the sticks anymore. Either way, that is the club's problem, not Greens.
At the moment, no one from the club is publicly, and one would presume not privately either, are telling Rob Green that he is not wanted next year because he is crap. So he is faced with a situation where he signed a mutually agreed contract and now despite him having not been told he has done anything wrong he is being told that he will not play again this season to make sure he will not receive an automatic contract extension and therefore no further income from the club next season. And some how because he has gone fair enough, I will crack on here, keep myself in shape and wait to see what I can get at the end of the season he is deemed by here to be a leech because he won't simply fcuk off somewhere else quick on less money "if he wants to play football" to get him off .
Any sensible husband and father faced with that situation would say ok it is what it is let's see what my agent can work on line up for next season and then if necessary uproot the family and move them during the summer holidays if it means getting a contract in another part of the country and we need to put them in to new schools if it is not feasible to leave the family where they are and commute during the season - some of you might be surprised that 35+ year old family men might have to make other life considerations instead of rushing off to another employer at short notice on half his usual money.
So people have also been complaining that he could have gone to Palace or back to West Ham and because it suits them to believe the rumours that "he would not move" because "he would not take a pay cut" then Mr Leech is more in the bad books. Sorry, but if the rumours are true then fair play to him. Can you seriously imagine if you were working on a temporary contract for a few years at a desk job with the promise of an extension for another year at the end of it if you did a good job and in your last year the owners came up to you and said, you're a lovely bloke and you have done a good job for us, but because of finance restraints in our budget next year we are going to have to ask you to go and sit in the staff room and not go to your desk until your contract expires because we can't risk you doing a good job for the next few months and us having to keep you on. Oh and by the way is there any chance you could actually resign now because there is a company down the road who are looking for an experienced bloke like you but it will be on half the money. Now that bloke can make a decision and I believe neither is the right one and neither is the wrong one. He either says to himself, well I have enough money in the bank to look after me and the kids so I am quite prepared to stick two fingers up to you walk away on principle and go and earn half the money I am worth (and remember at this point no one has told him he is not WORTH his money anymore) because I know where I am not wanted and he walks away with his head held high. Or he says, I am not in the wrong here, I am going to sit here and they are going to pay me what we agreed and I will keep my ear to the ground, keep up to date on the industry, take the money and then when my contract expires I will hopefully find another job with similar money and not get stuck on half pay just yet.
How many of you in your job would say, "yeah, no problem boss, I understand your financial situation and I appreciate that I am fortunate and spoilt enough to own a 2 bed terrace house when others are living in a council flat who can't get on the ladder and earn less than me, so I must not be greedy so I will go and take a job on half my current money because it suits you now financially to get rid of me. I don't care if you earn 5K, 10K, 20K, 40K, 80K, 200K, the principle is the same. You don't give up your agreed income because it suits someone else at the time. Most of us I would think would be straight on to HR first and then the Citizen's advice or Employment Lawyers R Us to ensure we got what was rightfully ours.
So like I said, whether you think Green has cost us more points than he ever saved us or he is still a great goalkeeper, irrelevant. If you don't have the balls to tell someone they are crap and that is why you don't want to keep them, then don't expect them to take it lying down. Given the circumstances if I was Green then I would do exactly the same thing and good luck to him. |  |
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| Rob Green frustrated by lack of matches on 09:33 - Apr 13 with 6784 views | BrianMcCarthy |
| Rob Green frustrated by lack of matches on 09:10 - Apr 13 by Hunterhoop |
Green should be embarrassed about this. Yes, it's clearly been written by his agent and pushed about "news" outlets to try and get him a contract somewhere else next year, but he should be ashamed he ever let his agent produce it!
It's completely disrespectful to Smithies, and, frankly, complete and utter bullsh*t. If he were to renounce that 30 game clause in his contract today, he still wouldn't be in the team because Smithes is far far better.
I thought he was a decent bloke and allowed him the first one of these "news" pieces (saying the same thing) several months ago. But, to let it go out again, based on the performance of his replacement since, is just tw*ttish.
Jog on, Rob. |
I had a lot of sympathy for him until now, if you can have sympathy for someone's career when they're earning as much as him. This is poor form.
During his Rangers career he has behaved extremely professionally and some of the personal and aggressive stick he has got has been over the top, in my opinion at least. I can also see that he would want to keep his name out there and keep his career alive, after all he wants to play somewhere next year. Also, every human being will see a dispute from his/her viewpoint and the mind does play tricks.
But the line that this is purely financial does disrespect Smithies and is ill-advised at best. I can't see that they'll be at each other's throats this morning in training or anything like that, but it still leaves a slightly sour taste in the mouth. |  |
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| Rob Green frustrated by lack of matches on 09:36 - Apr 13 with 6779 views | daveB |
| Rob Green frustrated by lack of matches on 09:10 - Apr 13 by Hunterhoop |
Green should be embarrassed about this. Yes, it's clearly been written by his agent and pushed about "news" outlets to try and get him a contract somewhere else next year, but he should be ashamed he ever let his agent produce it!
It's completely disrespectful to Smithies, and, frankly, complete and utter bullsh*t. If he were to renounce that 30 game clause in his contract today, he still wouldn't be in the team because Smithes is far far better.
I thought he was a decent bloke and allowed him the first one of these "news" pieces (saying the same thing) several months ago. But, to let it go out again, based on the performance of his replacement since, is just tw*ttish.
Jog on, Rob. |
sadly he said it all himself on a radio interview . I thought green was pretty good for us until the Hull away game last season, since then he has cost us a lot points. Smithies is in the team on merit at the moment, nothing to do with money but he needs to spin the story to help him get a new club in the summer. |  | | |
| Rob Green frustrated by lack of matches on 09:43 - Apr 13 with 6751 views | BrianMcCarthy |
| Rob Green frustrated by lack of matches on 09:33 - Apr 13 by A40Bosh |
I still don't get why people have a beef with Green - technically this is not his fault.
In any other industry he would probably be taking this employer to an industrial tribunal. Just because he is a "spoilt" footballer who earns more money than people want him to, people think that this gives the club and the supporters the right to ride roughshod over his income.
My post here, before certain posters jump on criticizing me, is not a bleeding heart poor old Robby Wobby Greenie, he is soooo hard done by "he has won us more points than he ever lost us" post, no this is a look at the facts.
If he WAS and continued to be that shi'te from the start of this season and successive managers believed the same then you drop him and you tell him he is dropped in what ever management style you want and he then either goes off in a sulk or gets on with it and tries to win his place back. Now that Smithies is the new Golden Boy and people are currently overlooking a couple of Greeno type clearances (I am sure they will come up with a string of migrating reasons for his cock ups) Green is not even on the bench and Ingham and Lumley are now above him in the pecking order, so therefore the club have decided that either they don't want to renew his contract for financial reasons because he is one of the big earners or they don't want to auto renew his contract because he is now very crap and they don't want to risk him between the sticks anymore. Either way, that is the club's problem, not Greens.
At the moment, no one from the club is publicly, and one would presume not privately either, are telling Rob Green that he is not wanted next year because he is crap. So he is faced with a situation where he signed a mutually agreed contract and now despite him having not been told he has done anything wrong he is being told that he will not play again this season to make sure he will not receive an automatic contract extension and therefore no further income from the club next season. And some how because he has gone fair enough, I will crack on here, keep myself in shape and wait to see what I can get at the end of the season he is deemed by here to be a leech because he won't simply fcuk off somewhere else quick on less money "if he wants to play football" to get him off .
Any sensible husband and father faced with that situation would say ok it is what it is let's see what my agent can work on line up for next season and then if necessary uproot the family and move them during the summer holidays if it means getting a contract in another part of the country and we need to put them in to new schools if it is not feasible to leave the family where they are and commute during the season - some of you might be surprised that 35+ year old family men might have to make other life considerations instead of rushing off to another employer at short notice on half his usual money.
So people have also been complaining that he could have gone to Palace or back to West Ham and because it suits them to believe the rumours that "he would not move" because "he would not take a pay cut" then Mr Leech is more in the bad books. Sorry, but if the rumours are true then fair play to him. Can you seriously imagine if you were working on a temporary contract for a few years at a desk job with the promise of an extension for another year at the end of it if you did a good job and in your last year the owners came up to you and said, you're a lovely bloke and you have done a good job for us, but because of finance restraints in our budget next year we are going to have to ask you to go and sit in the staff room and not go to your desk until your contract expires because we can't risk you doing a good job for the next few months and us having to keep you on. Oh and by the way is there any chance you could actually resign now because there is a company down the road who are looking for an experienced bloke like you but it will be on half the money. Now that bloke can make a decision and I believe neither is the right one and neither is the wrong one. He either says to himself, well I have enough money in the bank to look after me and the kids so I am quite prepared to stick two fingers up to you walk away on principle and go and earn half the money I am worth (and remember at this point no one has told him he is not WORTH his money anymore) because I know where I am not wanted and he walks away with his head held high. Or he says, I am not in the wrong here, I am going to sit here and they are going to pay me what we agreed and I will keep my ear to the ground, keep up to date on the industry, take the money and then when my contract expires I will hopefully find another job with similar money and not get stuck on half pay just yet.
How many of you in your job would say, "yeah, no problem boss, I understand your financial situation and I appreciate that I am fortunate and spoilt enough to own a 2 bed terrace house when others are living in a council flat who can't get on the ladder and earn less than me, so I must not be greedy so I will go and take a job on half my current money because it suits you now financially to get rid of me. I don't care if you earn 5K, 10K, 20K, 40K, 80K, 200K, the principle is the same. You don't give up your agreed income because it suits someone else at the time. Most of us I would think would be straight on to HR first and then the Citizen's advice or Employment Lawyers R Us to ensure we got what was rightfully ours.
So like I said, whether you think Green has cost us more points than he ever saved us or he is still a great goalkeeper, irrelevant. If you don't have the balls to tell someone they are crap and that is why you don't want to keep them, then don't expect them to take it lying down. Given the circumstances if I was Green then I would do exactly the same thing and good luck to him. |
Good post. I do think today's line is disrespectful towards Smithies. Otherwise, I agree with every word. | |
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| Rob Green frustrated by lack of matches on 09:43 - Apr 13 with 6752 views | A40Bosh |
| Rob Green frustrated by lack of matches on 09:36 - Apr 13 by daveB |
sadly he said it all himself on a radio interview . I thought green was pretty good for us until the Hull away game last season, since then he has cost us a lot points. Smithies is in the team on merit at the moment, nothing to do with money but he needs to spin the story to help him get a new club in the summer. |
But DaveB that is clearly not the case. Ian Taylor and Paul Morrissey have both publicly said in the last few months that there is a known financial situation with Robert Green and now Smithies has been given his chance. It's easy to jump on the Green bashing bandwagon and tell him to "jog on" on here when he has said nothing negative about the club and has openly admitted it is what it is. If I was told that I was only not playing because of the money then I would make damn full sure I sang it from the highest mountains so that everyone can hear so other clubs don't think I have been dropped. As I said in my post above, if the club don't play honest with him then don't expect him to take it lying down although it cannot be said that he has ever thrown his toys out of the pram. "His People" are obviously going in to marketing overdrive between now and the new season to get him in the minds of other clubs. You can't blame them. | |
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| Rob Green frustrated by lack of matches on 09:56 - Apr 13 with 6714 views | A40Bosh |
| Rob Green frustrated by lack of matches on 09:43 - Apr 13 by BrianMcCarthy |
Good post. I do think today's line is disrespectful towards Smithies. Otherwise, I agree with every word. |
Brian, I had not seen your post but I don't have a problem with Green relaying the facts as were presented to him. He was obviously brought in and told we cannot play you again because of financial reasons to do with your contract. If that conversation had not happened then fair enough he would be blagging it and disrespectful to Smithies, but I saw the interview where Paul Morrissey said that " the situation with Rob Green is widely known now" so just because Smithies has come in and done us proud since taking over does not change the facts that Green was dropped for purely financial reasons and is perfectly entitled to state that for the record to anyone who will listen. | |
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| Rob Green frustrated by lack of matches on 10:05 - Apr 13 with 6686 views | BrianMcCarthy |
| Rob Green frustrated by lack of matches on 09:56 - Apr 13 by A40Bosh |
Brian, I had not seen your post but I don't have a problem with Green relaying the facts as were presented to him. He was obviously brought in and told we cannot play you again because of financial reasons to do with your contract. If that conversation had not happened then fair enough he would be blagging it and disrespectful to Smithies, but I saw the interview where Paul Morrissey said that " the situation with Rob Green is widely known now" so just because Smithies has come in and done us proud since taking over does not change the facts that Green was dropped for purely financial reasons and is perfectly entitled to state that for the record to anyone who will listen. |
I agree, but it would be easy for him to simply say 'I've been told that I've been dropped for financial reasons, best of luck to Alex, though - he's playing very well since getting his chance'.
It's just words, but easily done. | |
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| Rob Green frustrated by lack of matches on 10:15 - Apr 13 with 6667 views | Hooparoo |
To borrow the words of the immortal Maradona: "He can suck it and keep sucking" |  |
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| Rob Green frustrated by lack of matches on 10:38 - Apr 13 with 6614 views | simmo |
| Rob Green frustrated by lack of matches on 09:56 - Apr 13 by A40Bosh |
Brian, I had not seen your post but I don't have a problem with Green relaying the facts as were presented to him. He was obviously brought in and told we cannot play you again because of financial reasons to do with your contract. If that conversation had not happened then fair enough he would be blagging it and disrespectful to Smithies, but I saw the interview where Paul Morrissey said that " the situation with Rob Green is widely known now" so just because Smithies has come in and done us proud since taking over does not change the facts that Green was dropped for purely financial reasons and is perfectly entitled to state that for the record to anyone who will listen. |
It seems to me that the financial situation was the excuse we needed to drop a massively overpaid player in awful form. He must realise himself he was playing badly at the time (more mistakes that led to goals than any other keeper across all leagues), but that doesn't go down very well as a reason when you're trying to find some other club to sign you up and pay you from next year.
There's nothing wrong with acknowledging that statements like this from Green are bollocks but also understand the reason behind it. He needs to do what he has to do to get another deal but everybody that has actually watched him week in week out for this season knows that the ends have justified the means. The club is hardly going to come out and say - 'yeah it's because you've been dogshit'.
The bad taste is left when it comes across more as 'I would be playing now if it wasn't for admin and contracts' rather than some kind of acknowledgement that a younger, better keeper is ahead of him on merit. | |
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| Rob Green frustrated by lack of matches on 10:40 - Apr 13 with 6611 views | PunteR |
I'm with A40Bosh on this.
Yes Smithies is the new golden boy and is playing better than Green this season, but Greens issue is a financial one .
I'm not sure why Green should be so gracious to Smithies as he's effectively taken his job. Of course its all part of football but Green has been nothing but professional and gave it 100% for the club.
Even if Green was in the form of his life he still would have been dropped because of his contract situation. Its us fans that are saying he's been dropped because he's crap.Even the clubs angle on it is that its a financial one.
I'm sure Smithies couldn't give a monkeys about this. He's No1 now. |  |
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| Rob Green frustrated by lack of matches on 10:41 - Apr 13 with 6609 views | Toast_R |
| Rob Green frustrated by lack of matches on 09:33 - Apr 13 by A40Bosh |
I still don't get why people have a beef with Green - technically this is not his fault.
In any other industry he would probably be taking this employer to an industrial tribunal. Just because he is a "spoilt" footballer who earns more money than people want him to, people think that this gives the club and the supporters the right to ride roughshod over his income.
My post here, before certain posters jump on criticizing me, is not a bleeding heart poor old Robby Wobby Greenie, he is soooo hard done by "he has won us more points than he ever lost us" post, no this is a look at the facts.
If he WAS and continued to be that shi'te from the start of this season and successive managers believed the same then you drop him and you tell him he is dropped in what ever management style you want and he then either goes off in a sulk or gets on with it and tries to win his place back. Now that Smithies is the new Golden Boy and people are currently overlooking a couple of Greeno type clearances (I am sure they will come up with a string of migrating reasons for his cock ups) Green is not even on the bench and Ingham and Lumley are now above him in the pecking order, so therefore the club have decided that either they don't want to renew his contract for financial reasons because he is one of the big earners or they don't want to auto renew his contract because he is now very crap and they don't want to risk him between the sticks anymore. Either way, that is the club's problem, not Greens.
At the moment, no one from the club is publicly, and one would presume not privately either, are telling Rob Green that he is not wanted next year because he is crap. So he is faced with a situation where he signed a mutually agreed contract and now despite him having not been told he has done anything wrong he is being told that he will not play again this season to make sure he will not receive an automatic contract extension and therefore no further income from the club next season. And some how because he has gone fair enough, I will crack on here, keep myself in shape and wait to see what I can get at the end of the season he is deemed by here to be a leech because he won't simply fcuk off somewhere else quick on less money "if he wants to play football" to get him off .
Any sensible husband and father faced with that situation would say ok it is what it is let's see what my agent can work on line up for next season and then if necessary uproot the family and move them during the summer holidays if it means getting a contract in another part of the country and we need to put them in to new schools if it is not feasible to leave the family where they are and commute during the season - some of you might be surprised that 35+ year old family men might have to make other life considerations instead of rushing off to another employer at short notice on half his usual money.
So people have also been complaining that he could have gone to Palace or back to West Ham and because it suits them to believe the rumours that "he would not move" because "he would not take a pay cut" then Mr Leech is more in the bad books. Sorry, but if the rumours are true then fair play to him. Can you seriously imagine if you were working on a temporary contract for a few years at a desk job with the promise of an extension for another year at the end of it if you did a good job and in your last year the owners came up to you and said, you're a lovely bloke and you have done a good job for us, but because of finance restraints in our budget next year we are going to have to ask you to go and sit in the staff room and not go to your desk until your contract expires because we can't risk you doing a good job for the next few months and us having to keep you on. Oh and by the way is there any chance you could actually resign now because there is a company down the road who are looking for an experienced bloke like you but it will be on half the money. Now that bloke can make a decision and I believe neither is the right one and neither is the wrong one. He either says to himself, well I have enough money in the bank to look after me and the kids so I am quite prepared to stick two fingers up to you walk away on principle and go and earn half the money I am worth (and remember at this point no one has told him he is not WORTH his money anymore) because I know where I am not wanted and he walks away with his head held high. Or he says, I am not in the wrong here, I am going to sit here and they are going to pay me what we agreed and I will keep my ear to the ground, keep up to date on the industry, take the money and then when my contract expires I will hopefully find another job with similar money and not get stuck on half pay just yet.
How many of you in your job would say, "yeah, no problem boss, I understand your financial situation and I appreciate that I am fortunate and spoilt enough to own a 2 bed terrace house when others are living in a council flat who can't get on the ladder and earn less than me, so I must not be greedy so I will go and take a job on half my current money because it suits you now financially to get rid of me. I don't care if you earn 5K, 10K, 20K, 40K, 80K, 200K, the principle is the same. You don't give up your agreed income because it suits someone else at the time. Most of us I would think would be straight on to HR first and then the Citizen's advice or Employment Lawyers R Us to ensure we got what was rightfully ours.
So like I said, whether you think Green has cost us more points than he ever saved us or he is still a great goalkeeper, irrelevant. If you don't have the balls to tell someone they are crap and that is why you don't want to keep them, then don't expect them to take it lying down. Given the circumstances if I was Green then I would do exactly the same thing and good luck to him. |
I'm not sure you can compare Rob Greens situation to the average employee though. Different worlds.
He can retire at the end of his current contract and never need to work again.
Perhaps if he sat down and agreed that although he is entitled to auto re-new at his current salary when said amount of appearances have been met, he wouldn't renew his contract or he will re-negotiate the terms of a renewal based on the financial position the club now finds itself in compared to 2012 when he signed, then he’d be re-instated to the match squad.
I don’t see how he would have the right to take the club to an employment tribunal as legally, they are not doing anything wrong by not using him in matches and he is still being paid what he is entitled to. That’s football, he’s still a rich man.
Agree, I wouldn't call him a leach, I'm glad he’s not playing because I genuinely believe Smithies is a much better goal keeper and is important for the clubs future player investment. | | | |
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