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Joe Cole's Agony?
  • brett
    Posts: 665
    I have seen this exact headline crop up all time. This one is in what I thought was a decent newspaper. at the moment along with miliions of other people I am worried about work, how it effects life at home, If I lose work what would happen. I wouldn't moan too much on a personal level because people are much worse off. I would never describe myself as going through agony. Yet these are the exact words I have read about footballers like Cole who are sitting around on money that will already mean they don't have to work ever again when they retire in their 30s. They are doing a job I would have sacriifced everything to do. Maybe it seems a petty point but probably sums up how spoilt and selfish the game is becoming at the very top level and if I was someone who was genuinely going through agony with fottball as one of the bright spots I think I would struggle to watch a game again,
    Joe Cole's decision is whether to sit on one of the highest salaries in the country doing nothing or take a pay cut for a few years and do his job safe in the knowledge he will never have to worry about money in his life.
  • OldGoldenVision
    Posts: 19,448
    Question of context I guess...
  • brett
    Posts: 665
    i can imagine its frustrating...but maybe Joe Cole's Frustration wouldn't have made people read it. Unless Cole himself described it as agony
  • brett
    Posts: 665
    i doubt he is taking anti-depressants because of this
  • feelingblue
    Posts: 637
    The majority are primadonna's m8, they have absolutely no idea how the real working people manage. But, on the other hand, playing footy for the rs would be agony for me too.
  • brett
    Posts: 665
    true but seems like he is unlikely to play so Joe Cole's Self Inflicted Agony Finally Over should be the headline
  • escla
    Posts: 2,450
    The only way to look at it is that its only RS money and as long as they continue to pay it he is at least making a significant
    contribution to the treasury coffers and reducing our national debt.
  • brett
    Posts: 665
    escla said:

    The only way to look at it is that its only RS money and as long as they continue to pay it he is at least making a significant

    contribution to the treasury coffers and reducing our national debt.

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    or if we look at it the way that we are told to view other people in times of austerity then he is not needed at his place of work and is on wages that could be spent elsewhere. Even capitalist economists in the past accepted that it is boosts the economy much more to have people at a lower level who spending who do spend a massively higher amount of their income on goods and services that employ people. By my calculation we could employ 200 people on 20,000 a year. If some of them want to sit around and do nothing then fair dos.
  • brett
    Posts: 665
    but not even trying to make a bigger point here. he and the club agreed the salary, turned out to be a bad valuation of his worth, lucky him, poor club...no big deal
  • ninjarhino29
    Posts: 9
    He's playing tonight so he'll probably pick up another injury, always thought he was over rated anyway. Still funny that he's wasting liverpool's money tho.
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