Rooney to china £1m a week

[cooliobhafc]

Reports Rooney has been told by Utd, that he can leave immediately if he reaches an agreement in this transfer window. Cannot believe that the now club record scorer has been told he can leave? If you were Rooney, would you go?

 

[Tricky Dicky]

Reports Rooney has been told by Utd, that he can leave immediately if he reaches an agreement in this transfer window. Cannot believe that the now club record scorer has been told he can leave? If you were Rooney, would you go?

Difficult. He's not an automatic pick now. I can't see him liking living there, but for the silly money - which I doubt he needs - maybe stick it for a season. I'd rather see him back at Everton, personally.

 

[Hamilton]

Reports Rooney has been told by Utd, that he can leave immediately if he reaches an agreement in this transfer window. Cannot believe that the now club record scorer has been told he can leave? If you were Rooney, would you go?

Rooney is past it.

If I were him I'd go for a season.

However, I miss the days when players from the top leagues paid football back a bit by having a stint in a lower league club. It's not like he needs the cash is it?

Rooney to Tranmere Rovers?

 

[sydney]

i reckon he'll go ...he's a bit of a pervert after all , imagine the shennanigans he could get up to with 350 million grannies to choose from ...and a million quid a week which is also a mahoosive joke ....obscene in fact.

 

[Driver8]

There's not much I wouldn't do for £1m per week.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

There's no way Spud will get a million quid a week, even the Chinese league regulators have got a bgit nervous and put a cap on the obscene numbers being bandied around.

Bit of a game-changer tho eh? Has-beens are starting to bypass Amerika completely in favour of China for their last big pay-day. Oh well.

 

[beorhthelm]

dont believe 1m a week. isnt that double what they've offered better players?

and i dont know why he'd go. doesn't need "one more pay day", up root the family, move that far, to play in a poor league? when you could still get £100k from a european league?

 

[Mellotron]

Which transfer window?

 

[Blackadder]

Rooney is past it.

If I were him I'd go for a season.

However, I miss the days when players from the top leagues paid football back a bit by having a stint in a lower league club. It's not like he needs the cash is it?

Rooney to Tranmere Rovers?

It's all about greed these days. Still can't believe that Giggs was granted a testimonial. Oh hang on, he donated some of the takings to charity.

 

[The Optimist]

Which transfer window?

Chinese transfer window

 

[cooliobhafc]

The Chinese transfer window, which I think closes in a week or so. so could happen.

China has taken the America model and turned it on its head by capturing top players in their prime. The Chinese league and players will benefit massively from these quality additions.

 

[Nixonator]

There's not much I wouldn't do for £1m per week.

Perspective. 1 mil to him is probably 1 grand to you for uprooting your family and living in China.

You can already live in china on 30-40k a year teaching English without knowing a word of Chinese.

He's going for his last big payday, can't really blame him but like others have said, would be nice if footballers were to actually give something back at the end of their careers to the clubs that nurtured them.

Of course, with agents in their ears at every turn telling them how they need to capitalise on their short careers as if working life should end for them at 30, it's all very unsurprising.

 

[Easy 10]

Its a backwater league that nobody outside of China gives a toss about, or ever will. The obscene sums involved are largely driven by corporate backing of the football clubs, and their vanity in doing so. In their culture, its actually seen as a badge of honour, or pride, to be seen to be spending the most money, so as to show an ostentatious level of wealth (and power). Paying these ridiculous salaries for players is not only about attracting them, but also sending out a message.

I read of an example of this in a Chinese nightclub, where there are actually screens on the walls showing the mounting bar bills of each table. Patrons will go out of their way to spend the most, loading up on $500 bottles of champagne etc. Order a certain amount, and it gets delivered to your table with an LED light show to draw attention.

They're very odd.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

I read of an example of this in a Chinese nightclub, where there are actually screens on the walls showing the mounting bar bills of each table. Patrons will go out of their way to spend the most, loading up on $500 bottles of champagne etc. Order a certain amount, and it gets delivered to your table with an LED light show to draw attention.

They're very odd.

Classy, that.

 

[Exile]

However, I miss the days when players from the top leagues paid football back a bit by having a stint in a lower league club. It's not like he needs the cash is it?

Rooney to Tranmere Rovers?

I agree entirely. In fact, I wrote about this, a few seasons back:

https://nortr3nixy.nimpr.uk/content.php?125-Faded-Glories

In another era - before Division One was division three, and long before Sundays were trademarked as Super - those fantasies might have come to pass, and Scholes might indeed have been starting this coming season as an Oldham player, taking his bow at Boundary Park, before enjoying back to back trips to the footballing outposts of Yeovil and Scunthorpe.

A once-great footballer, reaching the end of his top-flight career in 2011 has plenty of options. If he wishes, he can simply sit back and count his money. Those who find it too much off a wrench to lose contact with the game completely, travel the well trodden career path from professional footballer, to professional ex-footballer - put their name to a column in the Star, talk banalities with Talk Sport and yell "Unbelievable Jeff" down the phone line, from Edgeley Park on a match-day.

In that other era - before footballers interested gossip columnists, and when there were a total of a dozen sports broadcasting jobs available - the same footballer knew that once he hung up his boots, he could either open the obligatory pub or sports shop, drive a taxi, or 'coach' random children for the summer season at Butlins in Minehead.

With only such mundane inevitabilities awaiting them, the star player of yesteryear clung to his playing career for as long as his tired legs would carry him - dropping down the divisions, in search of an ever dwindling pay packet. As he descended to each subsequent level, the last lingering lustre of that stardom, raised a glimmer of excitement in his new club's fans, at least in the short term

 

[Tom Bombadil]

The Chinese transfer window, which I think closes in a week or so. so could happen.

China has taken the America model and turned it on its head by capturing top players in their prime. The Chinese league and players will benefit massively from these quality additions.

Which top players in their prime have gone there? i

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

I read of an example of this in a Chinese nightclub, where there are actually screens on the walls showing the mounting bar bills of each table. Patrons will go out of their way to spend the most, loading up on $500 bottles of champagne etc. Order a certain amount, and it gets delivered to your table with an LED light show to draw attention.

They're very odd.

Seems the perfect place for a Premier League player; they love this sort of thing.

 

[Tim Over Whelmed]

Reports Rooney has been told by Utd, that he can leave immediately if he reaches an agreement in this transfer window. Cannot believe that the now club record scorer has been told he can leave? If you were Rooney, would you go?

£1m x 156 = £156m .... yup, I'd give it a go!

 

[cooliobhafc]

Which top players in their prime have gone there? i

Oscar to name one

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

Which top players in their prime have gone there? i

Hulk, Jackson Martinez, Demba Ba, Alex Texeira, Ezequiel Lavezzi, Ramires, Gervinho, OSCAR (he's about 25)