Jimmy Bullard SACKED

[Biscuit]

He'll be on nearly 50k a week I should have thought. I hope we don't go near him.

 

[Marc1901]

We don't need Bullard to be honest, we have got good enough players as it is in midfield.

 

[dennis]

Denis Wise took Leicester to court after they sacked him for breaking a team mates JAW (while the guy was asleep), and successfully got his contract paid up in full.

In light of that, I'd say any half-decent lawyer would get Bullards cash for him no probs.

He won’t get paid out, don’t think he’s got a leg to stand on!

 

[Stat Brother]

Something tells me they were just waiting for something like this to happen. They can't afford his wages.

I bet if it was one of their top (and lesser earning) players who turned up half cut, they'd give him a break.

Which then makes you wonder why he gave them the reason.
Naturally other than all the usual reasons:-
cos he's a 'dumb ass' Soccerballist.

 

[Easy 10]

He won’t get paid out, don’t think he’s got a leg to stand on!

You mean he turned up legless

 

[Easy 10]

Which then makes you wonder why he gave them the reason.
Naturally other than all the usual reasons:-
cos he's a 'dumb ass' Soccerballist.

Wise successfully argued that Leicester were sacking him not because of the offence, but because they couldn't afford his wages (this was around the time they were in admin or about to go into admin).

If Bullard argues the same thing, ie that they're using it as an excuse to sack him, then I could see him successfully suing Hull for the rest of his contract, especially if he'd had no prior misdemeaners at the club or hadn't had any prior warnings. Put it this way, if it had been their main striker Matt Fryatt who'd turned up pissed one day, the chances are he'd have been fined 2 weeks wages and given a formal warning as to his future conduct.

The value of the player to the club should not dictate the severity of the punishment, but in this case, at face value it looks like thats what has happened.

 

[Falmerfourtickets]

Sign him up.

 

[kevtherev]

He is a dead ball expert and just because he was on 50/60k a week does not mean he can demand it now, just look at the list of players without clubs. Ive always liked him, seems to enjoy his football,loves playing the game and seems a very popular figure with team mates. Whats not to like?...A class act if fit, I would take him in a heartbeat.

 

[smudge]

I can't see he'd expect to be paid what he's been on. I wouldn't say no, he could be class of he could stay fit.

 

[beorhthelm]

seems to enjoy his football,loves playing the game and seems a very popular figure with team mates. Whats not to like?

i get the impression this isnt the case anymore. to much mucking about and now allegedly turning up pissed for training? i think he could be trouble and disruptive.

 

[kevtherev]

He will get a pay as you play deal, just like Woodgate....Amazing how Woodgate made it though 90mins on Saturday isnt it, or am I just an old cinic....Maybe thats what Kieran Dyer needs, wages by minutes on the pitch?

 

[Chester Drawers]

Plenty of fishing for him off the Marina ....

 

[Tim Over Whelmed]

Something tells me they were just waiting for something like this to happen. They can't afford his wages.

I bet if it was one of their top (and lesser earning) players who turned up half cut, they'd give him a break.

In fairness to Hull I think they have given him a break twice before, he did something at the club and was reprimanded and I think he's also done something or been somewhere he shouldn't when he was injured.

To be honest he's very lucky if he's getting a payout, turn up at most companies pissed and I don't think they'd negotiate a settlement!

 

[Gerbil]

What a lad!

Did he turn up and only have one eyebrow too? ??

 

[Brightonfan1983]

Wise successfully argued that Leicester were sacking him not because of the offence, but because they couldn't afford his wages (this was around the time they were in admin or about to go into admin).

If Bullard argues the same thing, ie that they're using it as an excuse to sack him, then I could see him successfully suing Hull for the rest of his contract, especially if he'd had no prior misdemeaners at the club or hadn't had any prior warnings. Put it this way, if it had been their main striker Matt Fryatt who'd turned up pissed one day, the chances are he'd have been fined 2 weeks wages and given a formal warning as to his future conduct.

The value of the player to the club should not dictate the severity of the punishment, but in this case, at face value it looks like thats what has happened.

But people lose their jobs all the time, purely because this or that company needs to cut costs. Why are football clubs treated differently?

 

[Marc1901]

Did he turn up and only have one eyebrow too? ??

f*** off

I want to get camera's because I think my wife is cheating on me, ( woman on the phone ) " pahahaha, classic! "

 

[otk]

He's not bright enough to play for us tbh. Anybody that can blow a 60k/week gig must be a quarter-wit...

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Surely the only way that someone would take him now is on a pay as you play basis?

As long as its not us.

 

[BensGrandad]

Wise successfully argued that Leicester were sacking him not because of the offence, but because they couldn't afford his wages (this was around the time they were in admin or about to go into admin).

If Bullard argues the same thing, ie that they're using it as an excuse to sack him, then I could see him successfully suing Hull for the rest of his contract, especially if he'd had no prior misdemeaners at the club or hadn't had any prior warnings. Put it this way, if it had been their main striker Matt Fryatt who'd turned up pissed one day, the chances are he'd have been fined 2 weeks wages and given a formal warning as to his future conduct.

The value of the player to the club should not dictate the severity of the punishment, but in this case, at face value it looks like thats what has happened.

Equally any semi competent lawyer will argue that as Hull have a financial benefactor his wages are not a problem, so the decision that they made was not influenced by financial concerns.

 

[GT49er]

He is a dead ball expert and just because he was on 50/60k a week does not mean he can demand it now, just look at the list of players without clubs. Ive always liked him, seems to enjoy his football,loves playing the game and seems a very popular figure with team mates. Whats not to like?...A class act if fit, I would take him in a heartbeat.

I've always liked him too - a terrific player at his best. Don't know why wages are such an issue - he may have been on squillions a week (so he should have made enough to last him a lifetime by now) but now he's unemployed. Weekly wages.......errr.....nil. So, why should he expect to get the same again? If he loves playing football (and most players do) then a smaller wage must be better than nothing. Let's face it, millions of people would kill for a weekly wage that had three noughts on the end of it, regardless of the first number! - and if that was being paid for something you would actually do for fun if you weren't being paid for it, well, that's a no-brainer really (unfortunately, many footballers do appear to be no-brainers - or at least their agents do!)