Callum Cooke

No players will be signed on big contracts from now on. Football has been shaken to the core by Covid 19 and most likely will never be the same again.

 

But a footballers career is much, much shorter....

 

They are allowed to work once their football career is over just like the rest of us, could never understand that argument that they have short careers so they need to be asking top dollar, many Premier League players who have performed at that level may be made for life but lower down the pyramid they will have to get a job.

 

Most of your posts since the lockdown is about how bad it would be if Liverpool are not premiership champions that they won't be signing any players if it bothers you so much go register on their forum and you can all cry together and your only trying to wind our resident hammer up by mentioning West ham every post.
Think you should have a little rest again as this lockdown has sent you dafter than normal.

 

He's certainly a strange guy but I'd think he watches Bradford City not sure he's a fan/supporter though, I doubt he'd still be posting if he was just posting to wind other posters up.

 

I think he just likes the attention so has to move onto certain posters to try get reactions from them then move onto the next one.
Like you say a strange guy.

 

I've never subscribed to that 'short career' theory either. You earn what you are worth during your playing career, you then move on to something else, be it in or out of football. Even if they only play for 10 years and earn a salary comparable to the countrywide average salary, its better than working for a living. If you'd given me a chance to play football for 10 years on my wages i'd have bitten your hands off. And your feet.

 

I think faithful was being sarcastic Rodders.

 

I would like to agree but greed, stupidity and selflessness will prevail and it won't take that long.
It will just be a smaller pool of teams in the shit pool after a few fold in the upcoming months and years.

 

I work with athletes in a far less secure sports industry, and believe me committing to that sport is an all or nothing decision that often involves conflicting advice from various sources, ie, family.

Because it's less secure, secondary careers aren't just after thoughts, they are generally a very real and active part of their lives until an athlete reaches a certain point of their career and a contract capable of funding them for the immediate future.

That young people can forego all of that before they've even made it in football is bizarre, and possibly unsustainable going forward. In some ways it must make it much more difficult later in life to just switch careers. That's largely because football exists in a totally unrealistic financial bubble.

 

Footballers just like other sports stars have the opportunity to learn other things while playing, the time off they have gives them a lot of leisure time to do just that. Whether they choose to do just that is their perogative. I know personally of a few rugby league players who have taken the opportunity to undertake training for jobs such as trades and university courses whilst playing professionally. I have no sympathy with the ones that choose no to, after all, this moment in time has proved there are more important things in life thatn kicking a ball around a field.

 

If there is a bad recession(if!) and the majority of clubs are skint and the quality and quantity of squads are cut to the bone how on earth are you keeping paying customers coming to games as its bad enough City are in the khazi league but if it gets even worse to watch...................what would be the point?

"I really enjoyed us playing crap today sonny, shall we do it again in a fortnight?"

Masochism.

 

I'm sure you have thought the same many times over the years you've watched Bradford City, yet you still returned, Masochism maybe or blind loyalty, count me in the latter, although theres a lot to be said for the former.