Comments on: Gylfi Sigurdsson: Another star to succumb to the necessary evil of football?

By: Matty Francis

Matty Francis — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 12:14:33 +0000

Seems like agent has been looking to get biggest and best deal for player as he in entitled to do.

Disappointing but I guess it is just how the game is now.

Rodgers will look at other players! As mentioned on here if he thought sigurdsson was worth a larger contract he would demand it. Clearly he does not feel he is!! Oh well.

By: DST

DST — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 00:35:03 +0000

Shouldn’t believe everything you read ? Such as Spurs offering Sigurdsson silly wages ! With Spurs paying top of £70k week to stars VDV,Modric & Bale, not new signings. Plus his father now reported as saying wages story is all lies. So what you really saying is believe what you want to believe .. Red tinted specs !!!

By: James

James — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 14:56:27 +0000

The club just don’t want to pay inflated wages to mediocre player’s like they have countless times in the past. with tht considered the Sigurdsson saga is a good sign. Would rather see the club paying large wages to player’s who warrant them. The Davies story has no truth in it. Shouldnt believe everything you read, eh?

By: DST

DST — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 13:23:33 +0000

So after many years of over inflating players wages to attract them to Liverpool, new owners are now trying to use some sort of salary structure. By now offering lower wages you’ll be attracting players like Davies from Bolton that nobody else wants. Harsh reality is that whilst club has great history then present & future look pretty bleak to potential signings.

By: Hazz

Hazz — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 11:35:09 +0000

To be fair, author did make note of Spurs’ recent successes and also said people should take reports ‘with a pinch of salt’

Isn’t as if the piece was just about mocking Spurs, it posed the question of the deal being motivating by money.

By: Ross

Ross — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 19:47:55 +0000

Yeah they are both solvent and well run which is why it was surprising they stumped up £6.8m on one player however gifted.

It is the sort of thing Pompey did on a regular basis before they went bust however to date Swansea haven’t. I have the greatest respect for Swansea if anyone was wronged in this saga it is the Swans not L’pool

By: Martyn

Martyn — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 17:30:44 +0000

Act 1 as silly mistake Swansea are more solvent than most premiership clubs and are run by people who support the club unlike Liverpool owned by carpetbaggers .

By: Martyn

Martyn — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 17:27:12 +0000

You pool fans make me laugh . Not so funny now Gylfi as bombed you out.
Good luck to him he did well for us last season .nevermind hey there is always mark Davies from Bolton lol how the mighty have fallen

By: Ross

Ross — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 17:22:05 +0000

In 90% of cases it is about wages and every utterance made by a footballer that suggests anything else is at best PR fluff fans that believe anything else are putting it kindly a little bit gullible.

My take on Sigurdsson is

act1 Much to everyone’s surprise Swansea found £6.8m to meet Hoffenheim’s valuation. At this point he is joining Swansea and lets just assume he not joining the Swans out of the kindness of his heart and there are no other offers on the table.

act2 Rodgers jumps ship to Liverpool. Happy days Sigurdsson now very keen to join Rodgers on Merseyside particularly as the money is better and Hoffenheim manage to squeeze another £1.2m from Liverpool for their trouble. Sigurdsson’s excuse for jilting Swansea is they haven’t got a manager and he worships the very ground that Rodgers walks upon.

Act 3 Enter Spurs with more money. Not sure where they were during Act’s 1 or 2 but they are here now to turn the young man’s head with the bright lights of London a place in the Europa League and critically more MONEY. They do not have a manager (although he might be lurking somewhere offstage not formally involved because his compensation deal does not allow it) but they do have more money and the excuse for dumping Liverpool is that Spurs finished higher up the league.

At the end of the day have been another £10k a week but that is £500,000 a year or £1.5m over the course of a 3 year contract. It also put’s Sigurdsson’s wages at an even higher level when he get’s his dream move to Man City, Man United or where ever happens to be paying top dollar at the time.

Now repeat after me “SHOW ME THE MONEY”

By: James

James — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 17:18:44 +0000

Liverpool’s owners simply are not willing to pay over the odds for a player like the club has many times in the past. If they were to up their offer to match Spurs then there is no doubt that Sigurdsson would then join Liverpool!He just is not good enough to demand “Champions League” wages.

Do you not think Rodgers would demand the deal is financed if he was sure the player was worth it? He knows him better than anyone involved in the deal.

Think you Spurs fans need to face facts. A few good seasons doesn’t mean every player will jump at any chance to join your club.