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Robbie Keane I am MALDING Joined: 30 Nov 2014 Location: Trumpton Status: Offline Points: 44659 |
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2600 is around the average at Aberdeen, I can't imagine Rooney was much above that.
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The O'Shea
Jack Charlton I know everything and I’m NEVER wrong Joined: 16 Aug 2013 Location: Ireland Status: Offline Points: 9559 |
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He was their best player for a few years, so he may have been over 3 grand. I would imagine the big difference was that Aberdeen would not have offered him another 3 year deal on the type of money that Salford have. As I said, his international ambitions were dead, so he had no real reason not to go for the money.
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We're decent enough..
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Robbie Keane I am MALDING Joined: 30 Nov 2014 Location: Trumpton Status: Offline Points: 44659 |
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Not sure he was ever their best player, although it is very subjective, I thinkShinnie has been their main man since he signed, the rest of what you say is correct though.
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Jack Charlton Man City records obsession Joined: 20 Mar 2012 Location: Dundalk Status: Offline Points: 9647 |
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Given what he was on and his age he needs to earn as much as possible now.
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amccarten313
Davey Langan Joined: 29 Mar 2015 Location: USA Status: Offline Points: 994 |
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as has been mentioned cant blame him for taking more money at this stage of his career, just turned 30 and a young family, its a short career. that said I was surprised Aberdeen paid such low wages after reading here that avg wage is 2600/wk. would've guessed higher |
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Liam Brady Joined: 05 Feb 2013 Status: Offline Points: 2416 |
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Adam Rooney's tier-dropping transfer from Aberdeen to Salford is a symbol of the decline of Scottish football: For a moment the World Cup suggested that we might be about to enter a new phase of footballing fun; an era of upbeat, cheery, good-humoured entertainment. And then the pre-season arrived, smacking us collectively round the face with a dose of depressing reality, doing its best to smother all hint of optimism. Over in America Jose Mourinho, his team instructed to play football almost as dour and humourless as his public persona, appears to be on a one-man campaign to extinguish the light. Meanwhile, Everton are doing their best to demonstrate that the game has abandoned all connection with financial reason as they secure the services of Richarlison, a player unlikely to feature in a most-wanted list constructed around his own kitchen table, for an eye-melting sum of £50 million. But even this is as nothing in deflating the mood compared to the news emanating from Scotland. Normally the revelation that Aberdeen’s striker Adam Rooney had signed for a club in England would barely raise an eyebrow. That is what has happened for generations; there has long been a hosepipe sucking the ambitious down to where the money lies. But the balance between the two footballing economies used to be thought of as the one defined by the likes of Virgil van Dijk leaving the persistent champions Celtic to join Southampton, a middling Premier League team. This summer’s move, however, is something depressingly different. Because Rooney has swapped the club which finished runners-up in Scotland for the past four seasons, a club which once won the European Cup Winners’ Cup, for Salford City, a side just promoted to England’s fifth tier. The motives for his departure were made plain when it was revealed that playing in the National League he will earn twice what he was paid at Scotland’s second club. Or as used to be said, there were thousands of reasons why he left, every one of which had a picture of the Queen printed on it. Now there might appear to be exceptional circumstances at work here. As Accrington Stanley’s chairman, Andy Holt, angrily noted in a series of hostile tweets, Salford are an unusually well-funded operation, backed by five former Manchester United players and a Singaporean billionaire. But it was what was said by Motherwell’s manager, Stephen Robinson, that really hit home. Robinson had tried to recruit Rooney himself this summer, only to be blown out of any negotiating position by Salford’s ambitious offer. The thing is, however, he was not surprised. It was not the first time it had happened to him. As manager of one of Scotland’s most established clubs he finds himself increasingly unable to compete with non-league sides in England. According to Robinson, the Class-of-92-funded Salford are by no means alone in their ability to outbid the big guns north of the border. “Fifty per cent of National League clubs pay more than the bottom half of the Scottish Premier League,” he says. And no figure puts the decline in Scottish competitiveness into quite as stark a perspective as that. Scottish optimists were hoping that Steven Gerrard’s arrival at Rangers this summer, bringing with him several Liverpool cast-offs, might signal the start of a reversal in the usual talent drain. Not to mention, now that a challenge to Celtic hegemony has been engaged, spark a return of lucrative competition in the domestic league. Sadly, for the pessimist, Rooney’s move has indicated something altogether different: the Scottish Premier League is in danger of becoming a feeder division for England’s fifth tier. |
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Paul McGrath Joined: 17 Aug 2013 Location: Sunderland Status: Offline Points: 15881 |
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What a load of nonsense. Clubs in the 5th tier don't offer 4 figure wages, unless there's some ambitious project going on.
And Salford are the first in that league
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As said above, cant blame the chap. At his age he has to look after himself financially but its mad the difference in money being paid
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Some people just deserve a slap
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Liam Brady Joined: 05 Feb 2013 Status: Offline Points: 2416 |
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'There are a lot of people saying I went for money. It's got nothing to do with it':
Rooney claiming he's not 'motivated by money,' and has given up the chance of winning another Ireland cap and joined a team newly promoted to the 5th tier to further his career.
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The O'Shea
Jack Charlton I know everything and I’m NEVER wrong Joined: 16 Aug 2013 Location: Ireland Status: Offline Points: 9559 |
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He's never won an Ireland cap, so he's not trying to win another. I think the reality is that if he couldn't get an appearance for us when he was scoring 25+ goals a season in the SPL, he knew he wasn't going to be winning one as a bit part player for Aberdeen either... His ship has sailed as far as Ireland is concerned, the "I haven't given up" attitude is just window dressing.
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We're decent enough..
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Robbie Keane Stay Home & watch Lethal Weapon Joined: 03 Feb 2008 Location: Ath Cliath Status: Online Points: 37954 |
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Robbie Keane I am MALDING Joined: 30 Nov 2014 Location: Trumpton Status: Offline Points: 44659 |
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Reminds me of the Michael Caine quote on one of the Jaws sequels, after being asked if he had ever watched the atrocity he Sai something along the lines of: "I have never seen it, although I do I believe it was terrible. I regularly see the house it built and I can assure you that is terrific."
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Eamonn Dunphy:"I'll tell you who wrote it, Rod Liddle, he's the guy who ran away and left his wife for a young one".
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Liam Brady Joined: 05 Feb 2013 Status: Offline Points: 2416 |
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True enough, he's uncapped and I meant 'call-up'. Point is, he's only 30, and had other options in the Premiership, Motherwell for one, at a standard where he could have won further call-ups had he been playing regularly and well at that level, yet eschewed them in order to drop to a recently promoted National League side for more money. Hardly ambitious.
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The O'Shea
Jack Charlton I know everything and I’m NEVER wrong Joined: 16 Aug 2013 Location: Ireland Status: Offline Points: 9559 |
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No, it's certainly not an ambition-fuelled move. From Rooney's POV though, ambition won't pay for his childrens' upbringing when he's retired...
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Lenny82
Liam Brady Joined: 20 Aug 2010 Location: Ireland Status: Offline Points: 2914 |
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Exactly. It's not like he has millions in the bank. Can't blame the man for going for money.
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Jack Charlton Man City records obsession Joined: 20 Mar 2012 Location: Dundalk Status: Offline Points: 9647 |
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Only 30.... He’s not going to get better with age. 4 years ago he scored 28 goals in 47 games. The next two seasons he scored 20 goals each season. If he didn’t win a cap in those years he is hardly going to win one now. As others have said, given what he was on he should look to maximise what he can earn over the next few years. He’s be looking for a job after his football career is over.
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Jack Charlton Cork Airport Dogging Administrator Joined: 17 Aug 2009 Location: P. Rep of Cork Status: Offline Points: 5289 |
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Rooney and Rory Gaffney both in Salfords team currently playing v Leyton Orient live on BT1
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time is the stuff that life is made of, don't waste it.
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