It's not up to me - mcgoldrick (4 Viewers)

[wingy]

Some players take the money and sit on the bench.....Westwood

Some players don't take the most money offeted and play each week....Keogh

A very erudite point there Astute.

 

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[lordsummerisle]

Some players take the money and sit on the bench.....Westwood

Some players don't take the most money offeted and play each week....Keogh

Really? Was offered £12,000 a week at Derby which Cardiff weren't prepared to match apparently.

 

[SkyBlue_Bear83]

The thing is, he isn't a Coventry fan and has no attachment to us.

If somebody offered you a job on 300 quid a week and then somebody else 3,500 a week would you turn it down? A footballer's career is short.

He employs his agent to get him the best deals possible for him and his family, this is why he leaves it to the agent.

The way I see it though, the difference between £300 to £3,500 is massive and that extra cash will make a huge difference to the quality of that persons life. If that is the situation then yes you would take the 3.5k as it is the difference between financially struggling and living in luxury

Mcgoldrick has likely been earning 500-750k (guess) a year at Nottingham Forest for 4 seasons or so, is the difference between earning 5k at Cov and 10k at another club really going to improve the quality of life so much that money should be the only consideration and be all, end all?

Being a footballer should be about creating and leaving a legacy behind, he could sign here play for us 3 or 4 years and go down in the Coventry history record books as the guy who fired 30 goals to promote us out of our lowest position for 40 years and be remembered fondly by fans

Or he could sign for another club where it is a risk he may not settle, be a bit part player and not be the key man where the team is built around. He floats around a few championship clubs not really doing much and in 4 or 5 years time he is 30 years old and ends up on loan at another league 1 club. Having said that he could go and be great at another club but it is a risk

I just really dislike the fact that for most players it comes down to mostly money, it is hardly like Mcgoldrick would be living in poverty if he signed for Cov

 

[Jcap]

The way I see it is quite simple. He has a choice. He can choose to stay with us. Or he can go with the highest bidder no choice my arse. It's not up to his agent. Thanks David but if you don't want to stay then don't bother dressing it up. Just admit you're a greedy modern day footballer who will accept the highest bidder and we can move on eh?!

 

[Otis]

The way I see it though, the difference between £300 to £3,500 is massive and that extra cash will make a huge difference to the quality of that persons life. If that is the situation then yes you would take the 3.5k as it is the difference between financially struggling and living in luxury

Mcgoldrick has likely been earning 500-750k (guess) a year at Nottingham Forest for 4 seasons or so, is the difference between earning 5k at Cov and 10k at another club really going to improve the quality of life so much that money should be the only consideration and be all, end all?

Being a footballer should be about creating and leaving a legacy behind, he could sign here play for us 3 or 4 years and go down in the Coventry history record books as the guy who fired 30 goals to promote us out of our lowest position for 40 years and be remembered fondly by fans

Or he could sign for another club where it is a risk he may not settle, be a bit part player and not be the key man where the team is built around. He floats around a few championship clubs not really doing much and in 4 or 5 years time he is 30 years old and ends up on loan at another league 1 club. Having said that he could go and be great at another club but it is a risk

I just really dislike the fact that for most players it comes down to mostly money, it is hardly like Mcgoldrick would be living in poverty if he signed for Cov

Exactly. I know footballers careers are short, but the money they can make is beyond a normal person's comprehension.

5 grand a week? Astronomical.

He stays here and here could be a legend carried round the streets of Coventry on the shoulders of adoring fans.

I always admired Steve Bull at Wolves. Loads of offers to go elsewhere for more money, but he was happy where he was and remained loyal.

DMC has a great thing going on here. He could go elsewhere and completely flop.

 

[Astute]

Really? Was offered £12,000 a week at Derby which Cardiff weren't prepared to match apparently.

If you would like to make such a comment just try to get your facts right. No idea which club offered how much but the Derby fans know he took a lower offer to go to them. One of them is a good mate of mine. Also he is on less than 12k. No idea how much though. Supposedly the same as when he was with us. Was anyone on that much at the time?

 

[wingy]

I think he did the best he could for our club and went to the highest bidder.

 

[stupot07]

If you would like to make such a comment just try to get your facts right. No idea which club offered how much but the Derby fans know he took a lower offer to go to them. One of them is a good mate of mine. Also he is on less than 12k. No idea how much though. Supposedly the same as when he was with us. Was anyone on that much at the time?

Is that a fact or is it Derby folklore? There's also a difference that he was making a move to the league, slightly different if you comparing DMc signing for us and turning down a championship club.

 

[Astute]

Would put money on he could have got more money for himself though.

 

[Astute]

Is that aøo fact or is it Derby folklore? There's also a difference that he was making a move to the league, slightly different if you comparing DMc signing for us and turning down a championship club.

And nothing to do with us wanting to sell him to cash in on him and needing to keep McG

 

[lordsummerisle]

If you would like to make such a comment just try to get your facts right. No idea which club offered how much but the Derby fans know he took a lower offer to go to them. One of them is a good mate of mine. Also he is on less than 12k. No idea how much though. Supposedly the same as when he was with us. Was anyone on that much at the time?

So you have no facts at all to back up your original claim, just guesswork, yet ask me to back up with facts?

Know that you suffer a bit with discalculia as was shown when you couldn't work out how much interest Ranson paid himself, so will excuse you.

I read that he'd been offered £12,000 a week by Derby, more than Cardiff were willing to pay, though newspapers not always accurate.

This from Wiki, again not always reliable

"In May 2012, Coventry had rejected a £250,000 bid from Bristol City and a £800,000 from Cardiff City, as they opened contract negations with Keogh.[8] In July an undisclosed bid from Cardiff was rejected, believed to be in the region of £800,000.[9] Fellow Championship club Derby County had a reported £800,000 bid accepted on 17 July 2012.[9] Cardiff had pulled out of the bid two days later after refusing to match Derby's wage offer.[10]"

 

[oldskyblue58]

He might well want to stay but unless CCFC put in an offer that meets Forest's expectations then he wont be given the choice to come here before the end of the season and the end of his contract. With his form the price hasnt been going down despite 6 months left on contract.

In the mean time if nothing sorted Forest would have a player sitting around who has added to his worth up to this point, which will devalue if not playing.... and McGoldrick has a choice sit around go or play for someone who has made a satisfactory offer to Forest. Neither Forest or McGoldrick would want it not dealt with in January, they want a return on him - he wants to be playing. Forest wont be looking to do us any favours financially but neither do they want to keep paying out for a player they do not rate and whose contract is nearly done. McG only gets a good contract at another club if he is playing/scoring - no player really wants to sit on the bench for 6 months (including Westwood)

So in a real sense the decision is not his to make initially. The ball is firmly in CCFC's court as to whether they can make a deal with Forest that is as good as any other offers ........... then they need to make a deal with McG that tempts him........... then he and his agent can decide

 

[oldskyblue58]

another thought is that if no acceptable offer received by Forest for him they send him out on loan to a Championship team who can pick up all his wages (something I doubt we can) ......... wouldnt have thought likely because anything over £100k is probably going to be too rich for us but easy money for a club in the division above and still leave them money to pay him.

We might not get him but I am sure MR has a plan B, C and D that is achievable

 

[Astute]

Derby offered the most to CCFC, but not to Keogh. Keogh could have refused to sign.

So you are right and the Derby fans are wrong?

 

[lordsummerisle]

Derby offered the most to CCFC, but not to Keogh. Keogh could have refused to sign.

So you are right and the Derby fans are wrong?

Do you not read?

I at least put up some references to back up my arguments, yet to see any from you apart from hearsay?

You just can take the word of some random Derby fans on his wages, but going by the variations on what players earn here from our own fans wouldn't put too much credence on it.

 

[stupot07]

Derby offered the most to CCFC, but not to Keogh. Keogh could have refused to sign.

So you are right and the Derby fans are wrong?

I'm sure he would loved to of stayed an take a pay cut and help pull us out of this league.

Derby offered the most, we accepted, they then got the chance to formally talk to him offered him a deal which would have increased his wages. He signed.

Did we accept a bid from any other club?

 

[covcity4life]

stu are the chances of dmc signing as bad as they were for cov having chance of playoffs?

i only ask as you were so sure earlier in the season

you like to talk in a matter of fact way so i assume you know what you are talking about.

 

[@richh87]

Like someone said a few pages ago - it's very much up to him. Let's just be thankful he's scored all these goals and assume that we won't be signing him.

 

[Tank Top]

I'd love him to stay but shouldn't sisu pay their bills first?

Good Morning All
Just a thought? With SISU/ CCFC in a legal process with ACL over a debt, can the transfer Embargo be reinstated until that Debt is cleared, its happened in the recent past, we always seen to be owing Somebody Something, this situation would surely Sabotage any attempt to sign McGoldrick or anyone else if it comes to that matter.
Am I correct???

 

[lordsummerisle]

Good Morning All
Just a thought? With SISU/ CCFC in a legal process with ACL over a debt, can the transfer Embargo be reinstated until that Debt is cleared, its happened in the recent past, we always seen to be owing Somebody Something, this situation would surely Sabotage any attempt to sign McGoldrick or anyone else if it comes to that matter.
Am I correct???

Think it only relates to football debts.

If it applied to other, non-footballing debts, just about every club in the World would have a transfer embargo!

 

[dongonzalos]

Good Morning All
Just a thought? With SISU/ CCFC in a legal process with ACL over a debt, can the transfer Embargo be reinstated until that Debt is cleared, its happened in the recent past, we always seen to be owing Somebody Something, this situation would surely Sabotage any attempt to sign McGoldrick or anyone else if it comes to that matter.
Am I correct???

you are you can bet your bottom dollar it will be a transfer embargo from the 1st jan till 1st Feb.
bad ACL stopping poor SISU signing the players we need.

 

[Tank Top]

Think it only relates to football debts.

If it applied to other, non-footballing debts, just about every club in the World would have a transfer embargo!

Thanks for that MLord, you're right of cause.