So with a progressively increased pay packet over his career, Bridge was told he can leave City this January after becoming third choice wing back at the Etihad Stadium. The former England international will be 32 this year and may only have two seasons at the most at the top level of English football left in his career. No team in England or Europe is going to pay the same wage to Bridge that he is receiving in Manchester at the moment so why would he want to leave?
Professional footballers will only have around 12-15 years in the game and so is it not expected that they will try and earn as much money as possible in that time before early retirement? Some will obviously jump on the bandwagon that the players are just greedy but I don’t feel they are to blame and although playing football should be their goal, being paid as much as possible to do so in a short space of time has got to be understandable.
Admittedly the players do not deserve everything they get and the overall debate about money in football is for a different time, but a salary cap or something along those lines would be unthinkable in football as players wages are set to increase even more if they are on the move in the January transfer window.
The article was written by Brad Pinard for FootballFancast.com. Make sure to check out the latest news, blogs and podcasts at FFC – ed.
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what has this got to do with liverpool?
@Karim.Thank u.Exactly what i was going to say.’what’s d meaning of all these’ of all d things happenin at Anfield.wasn’t even patient enough to read it all.
I’m sure English owners were ramping up players wages long before foreign owners entered the league. Typical xenophobic pointless article. Hope your wages haven’t been inflated because the article goes out to the foreigners you clearly disdain. Pro-atheletes are the same all over the world, they want, as they should, their share of the pie for as long as they get it. As long as fans, TV, and advertisers pay their money, why shouldn’t the talent share in it?