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Wilfred Ndidi
- Thread starter Samba's Water Bottle
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Harvey
Chrissy Cohen
Contrary to popular belief post the inevitable nuclear apocalypse the only thing left will not be cockroaches but Harry Arter knocking on the door inside his locked cupboard begging an empty world to let him out
Otis Redding
Try A Little Tenderness
Quite frankly, Harry wouldn't attract any interest even if we settled every penny of his contract and he decided to come out of retirement.
At the moment he gets somewhere to go every morning with access to top-of-the-range gym equipment, a kick-about with academy kids and a freshly-cooked, nutricious meal before he fucks-off home for the rest of the day. A nice life if you can get it.
I have to say, I’d sign up for that!
Major Oak Morgan
First Team Squad
Not to mention £40k per week. I’d kill for that life
Project Zeus
Steve Chettle
It must be so embarrassing being a bomb squaded player hanging around the training ground like a bad smell. The other players must think he's a joke.
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alabamared
Stuart Pearce
Don't think so we aren't dealing with the school yard here. I suspect they fully understand that some times things don't work out and of course it may happen to them one day.
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So even just ignoring all the money he's already had from us to date - he'll be paid somewhere around a million quid after tax just between now and the end of the contract. I think he'll live down the embarrassment.
If he's actually earning 40K a week just to train and go home I'd say he's the one laughing
Samba's Water Bottle
First Team Squad
Any players in the first team earning less than him must absolutely resent the guy, like Worrall and Yates.
Maybe they make him jog round the Academy, with a bell round his neck, as some sort of warning-sign to the youth players?
„Buck up your ideas and knuckle down, or this could be you…“
„Buck up your ideas and knuckle down, or this could be you…“
Omar Devone Little
Mr Realistic
I think with Arter it's the fact he's had a couple of loan spells, including one in non-league and was a disgrace. Overweight, unfit and not interested.
He's still getting the same money whether it's fully covered by us or not so you'd think for his own pride he'd want to go out and just play a bit of football. You're a long time retired.
Of course if we were all given the chance to basically just chill and take home tens of thousands of pounds a week we'd love it but there must be a part of him that regrets the way it's turned out.
He's still getting the same money whether it's fully covered by us or not so you'd think for his own pride he'd want to go out and just play a bit of football. You're a long time retired.
Of course if we were all given the chance to basically just chill and take home tens of thousands of pounds a week we'd love it but there must be a part of him that regrets the way it's turned out.
That reminds me a bit of the famous story George Best used to tell, where he was in a Hotel room, with a naked Miss World in bed, bottles of champagne everywhere and a few grand in cash scattered around, and the room-service guy comes in and says:
„Where did it all go wrong, George?“
Any Time Now
Grenville Morris
That will come later in life
Professor Wolfgang Schnell BSc. PhD.
Fulchester United
When he's dying and he realises he still hasn't spent it all ?
Project Zeus
Steve Chettle
You think rich people don't feel embarrassment? Especially from other, richer people, who are doing better professionally than they are?
I'm sure Arter is doing just fine, but I'm sure he's also uncomfortable around the playing squad.
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Sure. But any discomfort will soon ease knowing he - and his entire family - are more than set for life.
GOBIAS
Ian Bowyer
Probably has a built in one year extension
Otis Redding
Try A Little Tenderness
I suppose it depends on a person's values and work ethic. I willingly accept I'm possibly being unfair by digging-out Arter without any knowlege of his personal or family circumstances, but there have been, and certainly still will be, players who take pride in their professionalism and will do anything to play football somewhere, even at a significant (from the point-of-view of the average working man) financial loss.
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Then you’ve got the legend that was Winston Bogarde, who tossed-off the last four years of his lucrative Chelsea contract in the coffee shops of west London, instead of actually playing football.
Nice work if you can get it, of course.
Nice work if you can get it, of course.
Captain Sinister
Senior doom Monger
We should have done a deal with hime to end his contract.
Mind you, that might have put even more pressure on FFP...
Ashley
Steve Chettle
If Arter wanted to play football, he could easily have gotten himself a loan spell somewhere and not be out of pocket. I'm sure Forest would welcome any contribution towards his wages, no matter how small. That he hasn't just indicates to me that he doesn't care about playing football and is happy to collect a wage. He'll retire after his contract ends here.
Monkman
Grenville Morris
I'm not against Ndidi, have an open mind about him coming in. Just a bit sad that it almost certainly means no Sangare.
Omar Devone Little
Mr Realistic
Surely at some point over the last year or two Arter has had the opportunity to go and play football somewhere. He'll never lose out financially as Forest have committed to his contract. If he was allowed to go to Notts for example in L2 we'd either have to pay him up or cover a vast majority of his wage.
And I know it's not worked out here but before that Arter was a well established 2nd tier/top tier midfielder and an international so there's ability in there somewhere. So I just think surely a VNL team would take him if he was bothered about playing again.
The fact it's never happened and he's not made it here under 2 managers who at least on the face of it seem like decent, genuine blokes suggests he's a waster and a leech on the club.