Simon is absolutely spot on as he is with the majority of things on this show. They earn an absolute fortune. If you asked the average man on the street if they would play two games in the space of 48 hours for 200K a week, they would snap your hand off. Broadcasters are the driving force behind football. If you don't like it, then take a pay cut.
As much it is important for players to have chritmas with their family, the problem here is it is a public holiday and almost 99 percent people dont work on 25,26.what use would it be to telecast game on the day most people will go to work on. This is the con of working as a footballer and they should consider it the moment they start their careers otherwise should have choosen a career that gives 25 and 26 off if this is such a big deal.
Simon: "Footballer strike is a disgrace!" Keown: "No footballers, no game, Simon" Arsenal Fans: "Let boycott our club over the ticket prices!" Keown: "Fans are disgrace!"
Simple... cancel the games, get the club's to refund Amazon the millions they paid for the TV rights. Or put all players on pay as you play. See how that goes down!
Flogging the player? Really? 2 games a week? 3 hours of football. Plus 10 hours a week of training. Say footballers are being flogged to someone who works 60+ hours a week. 🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️
footballers are part time workers. henderson cries about only having 3 weeks off a year, most workers get 4 weeks off a year except they work all week long. footballers train for about 2-3 hours a day. that's barely part time work. so footballers in effect get far, far more free time than regular workers. and get to retire at 35 unlike regular workers who retire at 67. they're spoilt babies who have no concept
Behave yourself you clown. Talking about football like it’s a manual Labour job or something ffs. These multi million pound prima donnas don’t need you rushing to their defence mate, they can pay for it themselves.
Martin is so blind it’s untrue let him work in a construction site for 10 hours a day for 6 times a week for a month and see what he says after he is a clown 🤡
i work 60 hours per week nights in a factory where the turnover of staff could see 100 new people per work starting from all over the world, packed in like sardines breathing the same air, my heart absolutely bleeds for these multi millionaire footballers who work 2 hours a day because some teams only have 22 FULL FUCKING INTERNATIONALS with which to rotate. my 60 hours per week every week for the next 10 years = 1 weeks wage for DE BRUYNE, get a grip u pampered cretins
It’s like rocking up to work and saying you only want to work for 3 days a week but get paid for 5. Can’t tell you how sick I am of these people who live the dream on a daily basis complaining about how hard they’ve got it.
It's a tough run yes, but there is a two week break from the 1st - 14th. If Simon is right about the 80 percent than I really don't feel too bad. Most of us are forced to work occasional overtime. Except we do into our 60'70's.
Totally agree with Simon Jordan here.... If players want to change fixtures, broadcasting arrangements for player welfare that is fine. However they need to accept this will mean less money in football and less money for them (as fans/broadcasters are the ones ultimately paying to watch football in peak periods of which players benefit from - such big salaries).
Why are you lot always moaning about the money players get? Why is that the only thing you focus on. They are playing for their worth and yet you begrudge them for earning money.
@@usemoreoil so why aren't you the winner of the balon d'or if it's that simple. Why aren't you playing for a football team,if it's not worth much. If your life isn't worth much, that doesn't mean others shouldn't.
I don't care how much players get as long as I get to enjoy world class football on tv/stadium. However the moment the players pick and choose when they play, that doesn't justify their salaries or what I pay for tv... They are the ones moaning
@@superdemmy1038 tripper. If you get 5 mill a year, dont cry about playing lots of games at Christmas. That's why ppl moan. "Worth" nonesence. Ppl are working everyday this Christmas just to feed their familly, and these guys wana strike coz they are tired? . There are 25 players in a squad...rotate.
Martin keown is a clown 🤡 is the managers job not to rotate players to keep a healthy squad? Is it not to the players to play when told to ? I'd expect a professional athlete to play everyday if required to.
Simon’s just pandering to the working class because he finally gets to have a jab back at players, who bankrupted him. If you think what he’s saying here is intelligent it’s just because you lack the intelligence to realize what he’s doing.
I love my football but they should wake up and realise it’s a game and the top clubs have enough players to rotate the squad. You don’t hear of lower divisions complaining and they play 46 league games per season.
Some players earn more in half a year than someone will make in a life time. NHS staff rushed off there feet and they are complaining about kicking a ball while on 100,000 a week shocking.
They need to hear your complain about them. Once they do, they will strike. Forget about watching the best players then or the kid from the favela that by talent and work made it to the top. I hope you enjoy your Sunday Pub league matches.
U only talk of how much they make, have u ever thought of how much they generate , how much they give back to the society, no employer will pay an employee more than their worth .
@@Kedingamusic yes 100%, I hate when people say how much players get they get what they’re worth. Also this might unpopular but I’m actually with pep for this the associations are asking too much on the players regardless of what they’re payed a human being body can take so much there’s a reason why a lot of sports have big gaps between events yet in football we expect them to perform every 2-3 days then are shocked when things like Ericsson happens
An absolute joke these players and managers. How many people in the country would say I'm going on strike if you say I have to go into work. Rotate your players to last the 3 games it's called management for a reason to manage situations.
I bet you the players will adjust. They will take their health over an extra 10-100k. It is too many games. Simon has never played football in his life, he has no idea what he is talking about.
@@jimmelton5846 it is their job lad. The physical demands don’t allow them to play more games. You’ve never played at an elite level so you think a game of football is similar to your Sunday league games. These guys run a third of a marathon mostly sprinting during every game. You need to stop complaining
As a Man City fan who loves pep, I’m sick of hearing pep complain about the fact the prem didn’t change the substitution rule when he literally only makes 1-2 a game anyway
What is the average number of players is a squad? 22? 25? There is enough players pluss academy players to play these games. What the managers are on about is that they don't have their best players available so they will start to drop points. There not bothered about players. They are bothered about their positions in the league dropping
Yes but look at Leeds. They’ve been playing their academy players and have been getting demolished. Winning and losing in football shouldn’t be about which side has more injuries.
The absolute gall of these players and managers. Pep what an absolute.....remember when he was complaining that there weren't enough people in the stadium? Times are hard Pep, people can't afford it. Money, money, money with these people. I tell you what...you don't want to entertain someone whose done a 12 hour shift in a hospital and wants to watch a match? Leave, we'll do without you.
Try working the past 12 months in a factory with 2 kids and scared to raise a point in case you're laid off. The older I get the more I can't be bothered with the game
Hard life been a footballers in a pendemic when i worked through it fixing stuff going in peoples houses what a set of softies honestly footballers have it so so good
You just sound mad and jealous. Maybe if you were remotely talented or had actually bothered to get a decent education you wouldn't be stuck in q dead end job with no money. You've created your own future by not getting an education or not being talented at a sport/ music / acting etc.
Ah lads I’m on 2 grand a month I work 40 hours a week and football training Monday & Wednesday nights match usually on Sunday !! Get on with it !! This is all about dropping points noting to do with been tired
Ok, next year stop games 26 and 28, then tell players that everyone have to take 15% paycut since that is how much money the broadcasters / PL lose on it, se how many players agree? Fair right?
It's bit hilarious coming from Pep Guardiola, who has most expensive football squad in history of the game and he wants player welfare. Oh please you've got 25/30 world-class player's to swap & change your eleven starters.
Pep even said they’re happy to play these guys just want to make a case to talk about . I agree with Simon but that isn't what Pep meant he was drawing a reference . Pep wasn't just calling for the change of just domestic football calendar but also the unnecessary international matches, That's why he mentioned fifa and uefa also. That's why pep mentioned that players ONLY get 2 weeks off in summer and they back at it again .
So tired of listening to the “Player Welfare” narrative. Simon is 💯 correct! Get on with it! If Pep, Klopp and Radjnik don’t like it, go and manage elsewhere!
I agree with pep here. I honestly think the players should get a pay rise with the risk they are taking. Real hard proper men going out there playing football in the wind and rain and sometimes even in the snow. Some players can’t even afford to buy their own island.
Right reason we have football on Xmas is that more people have time off. Football is a entertainment business, they know this every year we have this. Anyway in January we have the fa Cup 3 round. Alot off top teams will be resting I bet anyways
@@superdemmy1038 shut up you know nothing about how the premier league! With the kind money players earn they shouldn’t be complaining about fixtures conjestion, this has been the same for years and all of a sudden foreign managers came into the league and try to change an existing rule that made the league attractive for viewers in the first place! Concentrate on Nigerian league cos you know nothing about English football
Easy fix, every team that finishes the season in a European qualification spot doesn’t enter the league cup competition. No reply games or extra time in cup competition, Just straight to penalties after the 90 min.
They used to call Tony Adam’s a donkey in the early part of his career when all along it was Keown - “without the players there wouldn’t be a game” - he’s got the brain of an infant
It has actually been so long since any of these footballers had financial worries that they seem to have forgotten that it can be a very real issue. I have never felt stronger ill-will towards Jordan Henderson then I do now, he is someone that I admire greatly and seems like a very down-to-earth bloke but when he started talking about how tired all the players are and how they only get three weeks a year off, that's when it finally dawned on me that these lads are insulated from the real world and live in the clouds. In my old job every single week I was pushing well into 50 odd hours, getting no overtime and working like a dog, only to barely have enough for rent, food and electricity. And that's me in my early 20s, imagine someone who has done that for their entire life having the same issues hearing all these fools belly aching? Pathetic, disgraceful, disgusting, amazing. They all need to make some sacrifices if they really want to bet behind this movement, can't have your cake and eat it too. But somehow I can't see any of them voluntarily taking a massive pay cut to get what they want.
Footballers are some of the most privileged people on the planet. Medical care, first class travel and hotels, meals cooked for them, warm weather camps, etc, etc...winds me up when I hear them complain about having to play 3 times a week.
It's really not a disgrace. If this many coaches and players agree with eachother about it then OBVIOUSLY there is substance to what they're saying. If talksport wants to tee off about players and managers being out of touch then the least they could do is not hire morons like Gabby Agbonlahor
Keown : "they are flogging the players and there are too many games and players want to play them all but cant" Keown : "I agree with Wenger that we should have a world Cup every 2 years"
If these players saw the day to day life of the average working man and woman, they would quickly shut up and realize how bloody little they have to do.
It's clear that most people hates these players because of the money they earn. What is wrong in player's welfare? Majority of people are just jealous they aren't doing something worthwhile with their pathetic lives. Shameful
It's not cause of what players earn. It's from how much fans pay. We pay all this money so teams can build squads. Yet managers only want to play there first eleven.
Pep doesn't live on planet earth? I'm shocked, shocked! I'm all for games going from 26th to 29th and installing some common sense into the fixture schedule, but players going on strike when they earn more money in a year than every worker who has ever gone on strike in history has earned in their lifetime? What a complete lack reality.
@@superdemmy1038 the average player earns 2 million a year. Plus they have personal trainers, they get the best massages. Poor guys, i bet they feel so horrible. Imagine being so cucked you defend the ivory tower crybabies
@@superdemmy1038 Did I say that? Go and read what I said again. I literally said in the first sentence that I agree the schedule is too much and should be looked at but I find people striking over conditions when they earn millions a very, very hard pill to swallow, as anyone with two feet on planet earth would.
@@5bagsofpopcorn you sound mad and jealous because of thier success. Not thier fault that you have no talent or no education so you are stuck on low wages because you can only do low skilled work , so you hate on the people who have talent , who have worked hard or who have educated themselves into success and from their got great jobs and great pay. No ones fault but your own for being lazy
@@shineyb6572 we get the picture you have money you got lucky. but we cant equate being rich or having money with hard work. or worked harder. How do you quantify "hard work". Its subjective. Is it by the Calories burnt, is it by the hours worked in a week/day/month, is it by the stress of the position. YES i will bring up hard work of NHS Staff and ER Doctors. they go into their job with a set hours but so they work those set hours regularly, NO, they get on with it saving lives for a above average wage. Players have the very very best care so how is their welfare at risk? They are paid well for the few hours a week they actually "work". They train for a couple hours A,#M and some teams train for a couple hours PM. days after matches they recover, rest massage etc. this sympathy for their plight is incomprehensible. They are playing no more games now than they did 20 years ago FACT. Sometimes the schedule brings up a few more games around a set period on time which is what a Squad is for. Why are they paying a 25 man squad then moan that hey have no players to use to rotate when things get a little congested. As Simon keeps saying, the extra games (being introduced in Champions League Etc) are from the need to prop up the spiraling demand for wages. I'm not jealous or begrudging, if someone would be stupid enough to pay me silly money why wouldn't I bite your arm off. I just think they are wrong on this. What is the worst that will happen if they have to play 2 games in 2 days??????
These players are too used to getting all their own way, if they get their own way here, this won’t be the last of it…it will be one thing after another after another!
Getting their own way? You've probably never exercised to the point of exhaustion once in your life, doing that 50 times a year and 3/4 times in a week over the busy Xmas period is simply stupid and dangerous. Players are ran into the ground with the schedule, but the likes of you say 'they earn a lot of money, they shouldn't moan' 😂 it's a stupid attitude, they're still people at the end of the day.
@@reece940 they’ve done it for years they benefit from it massively from all the revenue, they don’t mind that part of it though! I used to play football just thought id mention I’ve exercised been as u know everything about me 🤣 they have done this for years, the money they earn is insane, they are looked after more than ever they have all the best nutritionists everything, it’s just one busy week and it’s always been the same! They just want all the benefits all the time! Your talking dribble
I hate that klopp is always moaning and it’s annoying, but what he says makes a bit of sense. Why can’t we have games on the 26th match and then 29th, then 2nd So everyone can have New Years offf?
imo when pep stated about club going on a strike is bcs now many managers and players complain about the welfare but nothing has change, so he said that 'going on a strike' maybe an only option to get their opinion taken seriously etc etc, he's just giving example, not revolutionary others club to go on strike, pep want to continue with the fixtures tho 🤷🏻♀️
Everton get a game called off because of "new injuries"..........precedent has been set for clubs to invent a load of injuries to get games called off now, shambles from the PL. No integrity whatsoever, scrap the season and be done with it
Easy solution, structure the players' and managers' salary such that 90% of their income come from appearance fee, let's see if they complain if they are too many games then.
@@cockoffgewgle4993 He is not on the side of the billionaires, he is on the side of fans. Billionaires are on players. fans paid for these games through broadcasting and broadcasters pay the PL..... players pocket 60-80% of the revenue. If players strike to reduce games then I will strike to pay less to the broadcasting, and Broadcasters will pay less to the players, and Pep would get paid 2m instead of 15m. Its entertainment... they get paid to entertain. no entertainment, no pay.
My fiancé is a paramedic. Over this holiday period she is working 12 hour shifts on December 23, 24,25&26. Working 48 hours in 4 days around the holiday period in a big city is no joke. These players are complaining about 3 90minute matches in 5 days when they make more in 7 days than most normal folk do in a year. Absolutely ridiculous. Other professional leagues play games on back to back nights. This is a joke, spoiled players don’t know how good they truly got it.. and you’re not gonna kill the golden goose mate, people live waaaaaaaaay harder lives than pro footballers bud they’ll be fine get on with it. Managers, rotate your squads, use young players, be quiet and GET ON WITH IT. The world has gone so damn soft it’s hilarious
Pep needs to be fined making such a stupid comment and promoting strike. He won’t say that in Spain. He should ask for a salary cap for players and coaches first.
Footballers running down their contracts can save the financial side of football!! If players want to leave then no way will clubs ask for such ridiculous prices if the make a threat to run down their contracts, especially if players do it more, Mbappé is next
pep doesn't want to strike, he's giving his opinion why this is still a thing, maybe *going on a strike* would get more attention than just whining and moaning in in the media, if you heard the full interview of him, he's not bother at all of this pile up fixtures list and want to continues the matches.
I can say with all honesty that Keown is one of the most petty and despicable people I have ever listened to. I am not a keyboard troll, just an ordinary Football Fan. In my working life as a Royal Marine, then 35 years in Ship Repair, I knew what hard work, death and injury and conditions that he could not have coped with, were and for scant reward. My mates and myself played Sunday League Foot ball after doing a Morning Shift and thought nothing of it , we loved it. Modern day Footballers need to take a long hard look at themselves and realize how lucky they are to earn a living the way they do.
Simon is flatly wrong here. That 80% is turnover/revenue. It doesn't include the buying and selling of clubs, which are assets worth billions, often. Club owners in the PL make far more money than players. Simon knows this. Or maybe he doesn't, as he failed to make money in football. The value of clubs in the PL is increasing year on year. Due to the money the PL makes. eg. our owner at Leeds bought the club for ~100mil or something, 4 years later it's worth 4 times that, and he's selling up, having made, bare minimum, 100mil. Far more than any player makes. This is why the vulture capitalists are buying up PL clubs. To make money. Spurs' owner and Levy bought the club for a pittance. It's now worth over a billion quid. Even Abramovich has likely come out with a profit, despite all his investment. So too the Saudis.
I believe Abramovich has invested a Billion of his own money but the club is now valued at 3.5 billion pounds and that valuation was 3 years ago. The club may be worth even more now. Football is an extremely profitable business
@@petersmith2522 Fella Abramovich wanted to sell the club in 2019 a d reportedly went to an American Bank to broker the deal. That bank valued the club at 3.5 billion pounds. I reckon qualified bankers know a lot more about this than you mate 😂😂😂
@@Mg-it9hv Yeah, and he bought the club for just 140mil. Even accounting for inflation he's coming out with a huge profit. And a good chunk of that investment and has gone into facilities. As that's the only thing owners can invest in freely. Transfers/wages etc are capped by FFP. So that's where a large % of the money you pay for TV subscriptions, tickets, merchandise goes. In the pockets of club owners and directors.
@@petersmith2522 Chelsea are a big six club that commercially is way bigger than Leeds. In terms of the Big six clubs they are massively more valuable than smaller clubs and so will command a Massive price to own one of those clubs. Who in there right mind would sell their asset for less than its value and even more likely more than its value
The amount of people hating on these players for earning more than them is pathetic. If you guys wanted to earn as high then you should've worked harder rather than being unmotivated lazy bumps.
@@kingsley3208 They want less games, then they should ask for 300k a week and a game off, instead of 500k a week and a game off. They’re greedy and privileged, in my opinion.
@@willbritannia5217 they may be willing to do that, to have that discussion - but right now they are not even allowed at the table, that is why they are threatening to strike.
Simon is BITTER cause he used to be an OWNER. His concern is only making money. Between Uefa Nations League, Europa Conference League, World Cup every 2 years, World Cup in November, More games every season. Even I can see it's too much.
Comments: "Players and managers get high pay, few working days ... Complaint? Disgrace!" Me: "Yea why dont you guys work your way to become players or managers? Make these noisy players and manager unemployed, good idea right?" Comments: "......" Me: "At least stop watching the games. They will earn a few quid less. MAKE THEM PAY." Comments: "......"
Why these foreign managers come to the prem and try to change how we play our game during the winter. This is why we stand out from the rest. Pep , Klopp fuckaffffff and stay fuckaffffffff
Why doesn’t Pep stop playing some of his top players in so many games, surely he is at fault here? If he thinks some players play too many games then why isn’t he utilising possibly the biggest squad of players in Europe. He’s a complete hypocrite. He has options to rest players but is choosing not to do so in order to have a better chance of winning so I’d argue he is risking his players health more than a congested fixture list is.
It's must feel so good being Simon Jordan, going into work every day knowing that the 3 people you have to argue with are Sinclair, Murphy and keown 🤣 they could go 3 on 1 and still lose
Foreign managers trying to dictate how the english game should be governed. this is the fans game, this how it's been here since the game began! Back in the day games were played on Xmas day and again on Boxing day, when players were on a fiver a week. Pep, Klopp, and the like should stick to managing the multi millionaire spoilt brats and leave our game alone !!!
Am I the only person with his mind blown when Simon said 80% of profits that football clubs make go directly to player and coaching staff wages? Did you all know that? WOW
Take City for example. All their starters make well over a million. Pep makes well over 10 millions. Now, remember all the staff, including assistant coaches, doctors, physios, et al. The analytics department is considered part of the football operations. The people in the sales department, the marketing department, the stadium workers…by volume, where the most people work, they don’t really make that much. But 80% does sound like a lot. In some ways, it’s faut. The attraction is the players.
It's the managers and the clubs who are overworking the players to succeed in the league. If they care about player's welfare they should rotate them, but they won't, coz everyone wants to win the league. #getonwithit #GOWI
A very good friend of mine has just finished a 3 week shift of 10hrs a day, consisting of a Monday morning start at 4:00am, driving for 4hrs to Slough. At the weekend driving to Coventry for two 12 hour shifts and back to Slough Monday morning. No travel time paid, so a 4 hour drive and then a 10 hour shift. His earnings for those three weeks will not even touch the sides of what most Premier league players will earn in a game.
It’s so pathetic when ex-players like Keown belittle people for talking about player’s wages, like it’s an irrelevant, childish subject. The amount of risk, pressure and sacrifice ‘normal’ people are prepared to accept in their job is DIRECTLY proportional to how much they get paid. We’d all take a much greater risk if we were being paid £300k per week as opposed to £300. So no, Martin, it’s not irrelevant to bring money into it… It’s a pretty good yardstick as to what level of risk a person should be willing to make in their profession. Seems they all want to be paid a bazillion pounds per week to face the absolute bare minimum amount of risk. Like footballers are above such compromises which normal plebs have to face to earn money.
And let’s be clear, 99.9% of players testing positive have no symptoms, are not ill, and so facing no risk to their health. Statistically, as healthy young men, they’re more likely to face complications from ‘the poke’... But we won’t get into that!
If I kept complaining to my boss that I’m too tired to work 5 days a week I would be sacked these guys get paid a gargantuan amount of money to play football which is a dream for most football fans I don’t care if they get injured that’s part of the game Get on with it
Its' a Christmas miracle! I'm actually in total agreement with Simon Jordan for once I'm all for players welfare but playing less games is ridiculous. 2 hours work every 3 days or so. Try working 8 hours 5 days a week on a building site, when you're hungover most days (because your life is so s**t and you get such little free time). Carrying bricks and concreter slabs, for less than £350 a week when some footballers get £350.000 a week. I notice it's always managers like Pep and Klopp or mediocre players that complain. Never here the great players moaning. NHL players play 5 games a week. An average NHL player skates 5kms game. 82 game regular seasons. 16-28 playoff games if you wanna win the Stanley Cup. Ice hockey takes far more toll on your body than football. But do they moan about? F**k no! Because they're not primadonna's who roll over like they've been shot and love the game. It's clearly just a job for a lot of these players. If I could work less hours in my crappy labourers job for the same money, of course I'd do it. But if I was any good at football, I'd play every other day for free and love every second of it. Which there are a few players I know who play no league football at a decent enough level on Saturday afternoon, they then play over the marshes on Sunday morning, and then sometimes might play in the week. Plus they have jobs. And they do all this for free and because they love football. And trust me if some premiership players took a Dean Bouho tackle. Then they wouldn't be rolling around pretending to be hurt. They'd be motionless because they would be hurt. Shut and play the game. And if they do go on strike then f**k em. We'll all go watch our local bon league team. Better atmosphere and more entertaining football in non league anyway nowadays. F**k modern football.
I don't understand what the argument is? Players on 50,000 to 500,000 a week asked to play two 90minute games with a days rest in-between or 3 games in one week over the Christmas period only. Get to retire before 40. While the rest of the world works 5-7 days a week and will never see what some of them earn in a week over a lifetime and have to work atleast 65 + more years now to keep a roof over their head and food on the table. Simon is right. A. rotate your squad properly. B. If you can't afford to sit out a 100million pound player to rest him don't spend 100million on a player. (didn't mind him being sat out a game to punish him for just a late night last week? Alot less serious). 😂😂😂 C. Give them less training days across the Christmas period. D. Give back some of your money if you don't want to do what your job is. 😂 If I didn't want to do the hours I have to work which I knew before I did the job or it increased I couldn't argue over it. They'll just show you the door😂. It's all about premier League dominance and revenue from winning the games and they do that by allways over paying and overplaying there best players. They trying to mask this about it's how many games they are playing and not actually the poor money grabbing structure they've created anyway.
The basketball players are playing 4-5 games within a week because they want that money. If you don't want to generated that money and are happy to get payout then its okay. If you removed some of these games that broadcasters won't pay the same amount and the players would get less money. I think Martin doesn't understand the economic part of this. We fans pay the broadcasters then the broadcasters paid players.
Dumb argument, the NBA also has unspoken tradition of resting players because of congested schedule. Baseball is notorious for resting their players most especially the pitcher
@@hozman5700 35 minutes sprint back and fourth is more taxing to the body than football who is only 65 minutes in real play time. Most players in football don’t even sprint a lot.
Anyone who backs his should be completely and utterly ashamed of themselves. I know people who work 12 hours a day cleaning hospitals for not much more than minimum wage. Imagine if they said "Bit tired.. might just not bother anymore"... Disgraceful behaviour.
Pep wasn't just calling for the change of just domestic football calendar but also the unnecessary international matches, That's why he mentioned fifa and uefa also. That's why pep mentioned that players ONLY get 2 weeks off in summer and back at it again
Simon is absolutely spot on as he is with the majority of things on this show. They earn an absolute fortune. If you asked the average man on the street if they would play two games in the space of 48 hours for 200K a week, they would snap your hand off. Broadcasters are the driving force behind football. If you don't like it, then take a pay cut.
As much it is important for players to have chritmas with their family, the problem here is it is a public holiday and almost 99 percent people dont work on 25,26.what use would it be to telecast game on the day most people will go to work on. This is the con of working as a footballer and they should consider it the moment they start their careers otherwise should have choosen a career that gives 25 and 26 off if this is such a big deal.
Imagine a man, 65 years old, worked on sites all his life, his body broken, hearing premier league players moaning about being tired. Ridiculous
That was his choice to work on sites - if you don't like it, work in an office.
Stop talking codswallop. Dated argument
@@jamesgunn7 good one
@@jamesgunn7 lol tosser, yeah people choose to be poor...
@@jamesgunn7 it was the players choice to play football then
Simon: "Footballer strike is a disgrace!"
Keown: "No footballers, no game, Simon"
Arsenal Fans: "Let boycott our club over the ticket prices!"
Keown: "Fans are disgrace!"
Simple... cancel the games, get the club's to refund Amazon the millions they paid for the TV rights.
Or put all players on pay as you play.
See how that goes down!
And then wat happens to smaller teams with shoe string revenue....
Agree to that!
Flogging the player? Really?
2 games a week? 3 hours of football. Plus 10 hours a week of training.
Say footballers are being flogged to someone who works 60+ hours a week. 🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️
footballers are part time workers. henderson cries about only having 3 weeks off a year, most workers get 4 weeks off a year except they work all week long. footballers train for about 2-3 hours a day. that's barely part time work. so footballers in effect get far, far more free time than regular workers. and get to retire at 35 unlike regular workers who retire at 67. they're spoilt babies who have no concept
Behave yourself you clown.
Talking about football like it’s a manual Labour job or something ffs. These multi million pound prima donnas don’t need you rushing to their defence mate, they can pay for it themselves.
£300k a week. Daily massages. Endless amount of women. Free nights out. Free clothes. All paid by us the public.
@@davidphan100 are you jealous of their lifestyle?
Martin is so blind it’s untrue let him work in a construction site for 10 hours a day for 6 times a week for a month and see what he says after he is a clown 🤡
i work 60 hours per week nights in a factory where the turnover of staff could see 100 new people per work starting from all over the world, packed in like sardines breathing the same air, my heart absolutely bleeds for these multi millionaire footballers who work 2 hours a day because some teams only have 22 FULL FUCKING INTERNATIONALS with which to rotate.
my 60 hours per week every week for the next 10 years = 1 weeks wage for DE BRUYNE, get a grip u pampered cretins
There’s working class people that defend these pansies as well it’s bonkers. Huge reality check needed fornthem
You should always support your striking comrades lad
@@kingsley3208 Nothing about privileged prime donna’s says ‘comrade’
you realize you not supporting millionaires you actually supporting the billionaires that benefit the most
Well said man
I'm glad Martin is on because it's important to hear what stupid people think!
He is thick as bread pudding
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Hahahaha well said. Many of us work forced overtime. Except we do into our 60's or '70's. There'll be a two week break just after.
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That gave me a good chuckle 😄
It’s like rocking up to work and saying you only want to work for 3 days a week but get paid for 5. Can’t tell you how sick I am of these people who live the dream on a daily basis complaining about how hard they’ve got it.
You have no understanding of basic human rights. Completely unsurprisingly.
the 4 day week is coming pal
@@adammchugh5456 you are a sad individual
@@adammchugh5456 Are you saying Footballers are having their human rights broken... 🤣🤣🤣 You have to be trolling.
@adam mchugh: I'm hoping it was sarcasm.....but I have fears for the worst....
Keown small minded. Simon spot on. It it wasn't for the fans their would be no football.
No; if it wasn’t for footballers there wouldn’t be football
Time will tell about this issue.
@@adam-yk6yd players come and go, the fans are always there, you can't lose the fans
It's a tough run yes, but there is a two week break from the 1st - 14th. If Simon is right about the 80 percent than I really don't feel too bad. Most of us are forced to work occasional overtime. Except we do into our 60'70's.
@@adam-yk6yd who would pay the players if there was no fans?
Totally agree with Simon Jordan here.... If players want to change fixtures, broadcasting arrangements for player welfare that is fine. However they need to accept this will mean less money in football and less money for them (as fans/broadcasters are the ones ultimately paying to watch football in peak periods of which players benefit from - such big salaries).
Why are you lot always moaning about the money players get? Why is that the only thing you focus on. They are playing for their worth and yet you begrudge them for earning money.
@@superdemmy1038 their worth??? millions for booting a ball of air around?it's obscene
@@usemoreoil so why aren't you the winner of the balon d'or if it's that simple. Why aren't you playing for a football team,if it's not worth much. If your life isn't worth much, that doesn't mean others shouldn't.
I don't care how much players get as long as I get to enjoy world class football on tv/stadium. However the moment the players pick and choose when they play, that doesn't justify their salaries or what I pay for tv... They are the ones moaning
@@superdemmy1038 tripper. If you get 5 mill a year, dont cry about playing lots of games at Christmas. That's why ppl moan. "Worth" nonesence. Ppl are working everyday this Christmas just to feed their familly, and these guys wana strike coz they are tired? . There are 25 players in a squad...rotate.
Pause their wages and they can strike as long as they want
Seems fair enough
Martin has become hilarious. Sounds like abused orphans he is defending.
Very good.
Doesn’t want to upset his mates
Many of us work occasional forced overtime. Except we do it into our 60's or 70's.
Martin keown is a clown 🤡 is the managers job not to rotate players to keep a healthy squad? Is it not to the players to play when told to ? I'd expect a professional athlete to play everyday if required to.
Given their exorbitant salaries
Martin wishes he had at least 1% of Simon's intelligence.
What a small minded clown. He doesn't even understand Simon's point.
Simon’s just pandering to the working class because he finally gets to have a jab back at players, who bankrupted him. If you think what he’s saying here is intelligent it’s just because you lack the intelligence to realize what he’s doing.
@@smallarmskepa4390
FINALLY. Someone that clearly has critical thinking skills.
It's all that ball-heading.
@@robert2690 very hard to find in this comment section!
Nurses on 30,000 a year. Unrelenting pressure day in day out. Footballers diving, moaning about 2 games in4 days 100,000 a week. Unbelievable
I love my football but they should wake up and realise it’s a game and the top clubs have enough players to rotate the squad. You don’t hear of lower divisions complaining and they play 46 league games per season.
Absolutely ridiculous - most players have a career of 15 years max earning more than most will in a lifetime. They need a reality check these lads.
Some players earn more in half a year than someone will make in a life time. NHS staff rushed off there feet and they are complaining about kicking a ball while on 100,000 a week shocking.
They need to hear your complain about them. Once they do, they will strike. Forget about watching the best players then or the kid from the favela that by talent and work made it to the top. I hope you enjoy your Sunday Pub league matches.
Mate they don’t have to be great full for how much money they make. They are paid what they’re worth financially
U only talk of how much they make, have u ever thought of how much they generate , how much they give back to the society, no employer will pay an employee more than their worth .
@@Kedingamusic yes 100%, I hate when people say how much players get they get what they’re worth. Also this might unpopular but I’m actually with pep for this the associations are asking too much on the players regardless of what they’re payed a human being body can take so much there’s a reason why a lot of sports have big gaps between events yet in football we expect them to perform every 2-3 days then are shocked when things like Ericsson happens
An absolute joke these players and managers. How many people in the country would say I'm going on strike if you say I have to go into work. Rotate your players to last the 3 games it's called management for a reason to manage situations.
Introduce more substitutes and pay them less if they don’t wanna be burdened with the schedules.
I bet you the players will adjust. They will take their health over an extra 10-100k. It is too many games. Simon has never played football in his life, he has no idea what he is talking about.
Another pocket watching battiboy.
@@jimmelton5846 it is their job lad. The physical demands don’t allow them to play more games. You’ve never played at an elite level so you think a game of football is similar to your Sunday league games. These guys run a third of a marathon mostly sprinting during every game. You need to stop complaining
@@jimmelton5846 against elche, Gavi ran 13 kilometers. A third of a marathon. Go cry little guy
As a Man City fan who loves pep, I’m sick of hearing pep complain about the fact the prem didn’t change the substitution rule when he literally only makes 1-2 a game anyway
Well said Mr Jordan again another prime example of champagne socialism by Premier league players😡
What is the average number of players is a squad? 22? 25? There is enough players pluss academy players to play these games. What the managers are on about is that they don't have their best players available so they will start to drop points. There not bothered about players. They are bothered about their positions in the league dropping
That's exactly it. They cry way too much.
Yes but look at Leeds. They’ve been playing their academy players and have been getting demolished. Winning and losing in football shouldn’t be about which side has more injuries.
Spot on
Spot on!
Exactly. This is why managers are paid.
The absolute gall of these players and managers. Pep what an absolute.....remember when he was complaining that there weren't enough people in the stadium? Times are hard Pep, people can't afford it. Money, money, money with these people. I tell you what...you don't want to entertain someone whose done a 12 hour shift in a hospital and wants to watch a match? Leave, we'll do without you.
Lol
Players going on strike, I'm surprised PL players know the meaning of the word strike.
Try working the past 12 months in a factory with 2 kids and scared to raise a point in case you're laid off. The older I get the more I can't be bothered with the game
Pep even said they’re happy to play these guys just want to make a case to talk about
Simon speaking facts tho
ikr, need to know the full context why pep said what he said there
Clearly not when he’s encouraging strikes
@@Craig-gq4gb no he's not, pep just walk straight in the bear trap, we all know how media works aren't we
Hard life been a footballers in a pendemic when i worked through it fixing stuff going in peoples houses what a set of softies honestly footballers have it so so good
Stop complaining about how unfair life was for you little guy
@@smallarmskepa4390 I'm pretty sure he's saying footballers shouldn't complain just like he doesn't
You just sound mad and jealous. Maybe if you were remotely talented or had actually bothered to get a decent education you wouldn't be stuck in q dead end job with no money. You've created your own future by not getting an education or not being talented at a sport/ music / acting etc.
@@RafaelSantos-di5yw he’s complaining about footballers
@@smallarmskepa4390 If that's how you see it then ok
"Without the players, you don't have a game."
Erm okay selfish Martin.
Without the fans, you have no money.
£0
Absolutely nothing.
I would not mind them to get rid of replays in cup games .
Simon is correct in what he's saying. Why won't Martin acknowledge any key points Simon has said?
The squads are huge just get on with it.
Because he's a bobbleheaded buffoon
Martin keown is embarrassing….well done Simon Jordan 👏👏👏
I need to get Simon to argue with my wife for me, he knows how to make an argument 🙃
Ah lads I’m on 2 grand a month I work 40 hours a week and football training Monday & Wednesday nights match usually on Sunday !! Get on with it !! This is all about dropping points noting to do with been tired
Ok, next year stop games 26 and 28, then tell players that everyone have to take 15% paycut since that is how much money the broadcasters / PL lose on it, se how many players agree? Fair right?
It's bit hilarious coming from Pep Guardiola, who has most expensive football squad in history of the game and he wants player welfare. Oh please you've got 25/30 world-class player's to swap & change your eleven starters.
Pep even said they’re happy to play these guys just want to make a case to talk about . I agree with Simon but that isn't what Pep meant he was drawing a reference . Pep wasn't just calling for the change of just domestic football calendar but also the unnecessary international matches, That's why he mentioned fifa and uefa also. That's why pep mentioned that players ONLY get 2 weeks off in summer and they back at it again .
“I continually come in this show and talk about player welfare.”
Don’t we know, Keown, my son… Don’t we know 😂
God forbid the manager utilised the squad and plays youngsters, or second choice players
Pep: give me 1 argument against 5 Subs,amid fixtures crunch
Pep: whatever they decide,will be ok for me
Simon,Jim - Selective Hearing?😂
So tired of listening to the “Player Welfare” narrative. Simon is 💯 correct! Get on with it! If Pep, Klopp and Radjnik don’t like it, go and manage elsewhere!
I agree with pep here. I honestly think the players should get a pay rise with the risk they are taking. Real hard proper men going out there playing football in the wind and rain and sometimes even in the snow. Some players can’t even afford to buy their own island.
Pepe without the money you spend on players you are an average coach. So where do you think the money you spend comes from ?
Not you
Right reason we have football on Xmas is that more people have time off. Football is a entertainment business, they know this every year we have this. Anyway in January we have the fa Cup 3 round. Alot off top teams will be resting I bet anyways
So they shouldn't talk about their welfare because you find them entertaining? That's callous.
@@superdemmy1038 shut up you know nothing about how the premier league! With the kind money players earn they shouldn’t be complaining about fixtures conjestion, this has been the same for years and all of a sudden foreign managers came into the league and try to change an existing rule that made the league attractive for viewers in the first place! Concentrate on Nigerian league cos you know nothing about English football
@@cajjtv6954 🤣🤣, typical white racist. You show your true self.
Easy fix, every team that finishes the season in a European qualification spot doesn’t enter the league cup competition. No reply games or extra time in cup competition, Just straight to penalties after the 90 min.
They used to call Tony Adam’s a donkey in the early part of his career when all along it was Keown - “without the players there wouldn’t be a game” - he’s got the brain of an infant
They are paid hundreds of thousands a week for a reason , this is their job . Since when was this ever a big deal .
What about nurses doctors shop workers and everyone else that's working through all this , my heart bleeds
It has actually been so long since any of these footballers had financial worries that they seem to have forgotten that it can be a very real issue.
I have never felt stronger ill-will towards Jordan Henderson then I do now, he is someone that I admire greatly and seems like a very down-to-earth bloke but when he started talking about how tired all the players are and how they only get three weeks a year off, that's when it finally dawned on me that these lads are insulated from the real world and live in the clouds. In my old job every single week I was pushing well into 50 odd hours, getting no overtime and working like a dog, only to barely have enough for rent, food and electricity. And that's me in my early 20s, imagine someone who has done that for their entire life having the same issues hearing all these fools belly aching?
Pathetic, disgraceful, disgusting, amazing. They all need to make some sacrifices if they really want to bet behind this movement, can't have your cake and eat it too. But somehow I can't see any of them voluntarily taking a massive pay cut to get what they want.
Footballers are some of the most privileged people on the planet. Medical care, first class travel and hotels, meals cooked for them, warm weather camps, etc, etc...winds me up when I hear them complain about having to play 3 times a week.
It's really not a disgrace. If this many coaches and players agree with eachother about it then OBVIOUSLY there is substance to what they're saying.
If talksport wants to tee off about players and managers being out of touch then the least they could do is not hire morons like Gabby Agbonlahor
If Mr Jordan was still majority owner of Palace I certainly believe he will be on the opposite side of the conversation
@@randomgeneratedname6035 he'd be the only person on the other side of the debate and for good reason
@@gregglegend he didn't say it was true he said it had substance, you really need to work on your reading comprehension
Keown : "they are flogging the players and there are too many games and players want to play them all but cant"
Keown : "I agree with Wenger that we should have a world Cup every 2 years"
he's just agreeing with a biannual world cup cause it's Wenger and he has incredible loyalty towards him
If these players saw the day to day life of the average working man and woman, they would quickly shut up and realize how bloody little they have to do.
It's clear that most people hates these players because of the money they earn. What is wrong in player's welfare? Majority of people are just jealous they aren't doing something worthwhile with their pathetic lives. Shameful
Shill
It's not cause of what players earn. It's from how much fans pay. We pay all this money so teams can build squads. Yet managers only want to play there first eleven.
I’d like to think the players go on strike because of Simon 😂😂
That would be brilliant
Pep doesn't live on planet earth? I'm shocked, shocked! I'm all for games going from 26th to 29th and installing some common sense into the fixture schedule, but players going on strike when they earn more money in a year than every worker who has ever gone on strike in history has earned in their lifetime? What a complete lack reality.
So you have a problem with the money they earn? So you don't care about their welfare. Pathetic.
@@superdemmy1038 the average player earns 2 million a year. Plus they have personal trainers, they get the best massages.
Poor guys, i bet they feel so horrible.
Imagine being so cucked you defend the ivory tower crybabies
@@superdemmy1038 Did I say that? Go and read what I said again. I literally said in the first sentence that I agree the schedule is too much and should be looked at but I find people striking over conditions when they earn millions a very, very hard pill to swallow, as anyone with two feet on planet earth would.
@@5bagsofpopcorn you sound mad and jealous because of thier success. Not thier fault that you have no talent or no education so you are stuck on low wages because you can only do low skilled work , so you hate on the people who have talent , who have worked hard or who have educated themselves into success and from their got great jobs and great pay.
No ones fault but your own for being lazy
@@shineyb6572 we get the picture you have money you got lucky. but we cant equate being rich or having money with hard work. or worked harder. How do you quantify "hard work". Its subjective. Is it by the Calories burnt, is it by the hours worked in a week/day/month, is it by the stress of the position. YES i will bring up hard work of NHS Staff and ER Doctors. they go into their job with a set hours but so they work those set hours regularly, NO, they get on with it saving lives for a above average wage.
Players have the very very best care so how is their welfare at risk? They are paid well for the few hours a week they actually "work". They train for a couple hours A,#M and some teams train for a couple hours PM. days after matches they recover, rest massage etc.
this sympathy for their plight is incomprehensible. They are playing no more games now than they did 20 years ago FACT. Sometimes the schedule brings up a few more games around a set period on time which is what a Squad is for. Why are they paying a 25 man squad then moan that hey have no players to use to rotate when things get a little congested. As Simon keeps saying, the extra games (being introduced in Champions League Etc) are from the need to prop up the spiraling demand for wages. I'm not jealous or begrudging, if someone would be stupid enough to pay me silly money why wouldn't I bite your arm off.
I just think they are wrong on this. What is the worst that will happen if they have to play 2 games in 2 days??????
These players are too used to getting all their own way, if they get their own way here, this won’t be the last of it…it will be one thing after another after another!
Getting their own way? You've probably never exercised to the point of exhaustion once in your life, doing that 50 times a year and 3/4 times in a week over the busy Xmas period is simply stupid and dangerous. Players are ran into the ground with the schedule, but the likes of you say 'they earn a lot of money, they shouldn't moan' 😂 it's a stupid attitude, they're still people at the end of the day.
@@reece940 they’ve done it for years they benefit from it massively from all the revenue, they don’t mind that part of it though! I used to play football just thought id mention I’ve exercised been as u know everything about me 🤣 they have done this for years, the money they earn is insane, they are looked after more than ever they have all the best nutritionists everything, it’s just one busy week and it’s always been the same! They just want all the benefits all the time! Your talking dribble
Simon is a extremely clever man. Ive Taken so much knowledge listening to Him and Arsen of the many years
I hate that klopp is always moaning and it’s annoying, but what he says makes a bit of sense. Why can’t we have games on the 26th match and then 29th, then 2nd
So everyone can have New Years offf?
@@Craig-gq4gb no u mean it’s the correct argument, what other important argument is there in Prem football rn?
Simons right. Players salaries are always increasing. So they wanna be paid more and play less...
yes, and, so , what?
@@adammchugh5456 okay cool my bad you right 👍
Pep wasn’t talking about just the premier league, he was talking about fifa and eufa making new competitions every year just line their pockets
Meanwhile Pep earns 20 million a year at city! Do you think he will take 50% wage cut if matches are reduced?
imo when pep stated about club going on a strike is bcs now many managers and players complain about the welfare but nothing has change, so he said that 'going on a strike' maybe an only option to get their opinion taken seriously etc etc, he's just giving example, not revolutionary others club to go on strike, pep want to continue with the fixtures tho 🤷🏻♀️
Keep on keeping on talking that Truth Simon...and i see the Flu tryna take away your mouth piece. Get well soon Mate.
Everton get a game called off because of "new injuries"..........precedent has been set for clubs to invent a load of injuries to get games called off now, shambles from the PL. No integrity whatsoever, scrap the season and be done with it
Lol why you picking on Everton Liverpool did that other day Everton have had 6 real injuries mainly all season
Easy solution, structure the players' and managers' salary such that 90% of their income come from appearance fee, let's see if they complain if they are too many games then.
You will have players purposely injuring others in training in that instance
Why are you on the side of these billionaire club owners and their sycophants in FIFA and UEFA.
Why are you on the side of billionaire business owners over millionaire employees? What a simp.
@@cockoffgewgle4993 He is not on the side of the billionaires, he is on the side of fans. Billionaires are on players. fans paid for these games through broadcasting and broadcasters pay the PL..... players pocket 60-80% of the revenue. If players strike to reduce games then I will strike to pay less to the broadcasting, and Broadcasters will pay less to the players, and Pep would get paid 2m instead of 15m.
Its entertainment... they get paid to entertain. no entertainment, no pay.
The FA should ban pep for that comment. He is inciting the players and putting the league in disrepute
This is grounds for termination. Completely serious, the Man City owners would be well within their rights to sack him.
My fiancé is a paramedic. Over this holiday period she is working 12 hour shifts on December 23, 24,25&26. Working 48 hours in 4 days around the holiday period in a big city is no joke. These players are complaining about 3 90minute matches in 5 days when they make more in 7 days than most normal folk do in a year. Absolutely ridiculous. Other professional leagues play games on back to back nights. This is a joke, spoiled players don’t know how good they truly got it.. and you’re not gonna kill the golden goose mate, people live waaaaaaaaay harder lives than pro footballers bud they’ll be fine get on with it. Managers, rotate your squads, use young players, be quiet and GET ON WITH IT. The world has gone so damn soft it’s hilarious
Pep needs to be fined making such a stupid comment and promoting strike. He won’t say that in Spain. He should ask for a salary cap for players and coaches first.
Football is rapidly bankrupting itself, madness, its like a runaway train with no brakes
Footballers running down their contracts can save the financial side of football!! If players want to leave then no way will clubs ask for such ridiculous prices if the make a threat to run down their contracts, especially if players do it more, Mbappé is next
Then if they don't want to play then they should stay without pay
Can't wait to see pep, kdb, foden, silva and sterling all huddled around an old oil barrel fire, telling supporter's not to go into the Etihad..
pep doesn't want to strike, he's giving his opinion why this is still a thing, maybe *going on a strike* would get more attention than just whining and moaning in in the media, if you heard the full interview of him, he's not bother at all of this pile up fixtures list and want to continues the matches.
I can say with all honesty that Keown is one of the most petty and despicable people I have ever listened to. I am not a keyboard troll, just an ordinary Football Fan. In my working life as a Royal Marine, then 35 years in Ship Repair, I knew what hard work, death and injury and conditions that he could not have coped with, were and for scant reward. My mates and myself played Sunday League Foot ball after doing a Morning Shift and thought nothing of it , we loved it. Modern day Footballers need to take a long hard look at themselves and realize how lucky they are to earn a living the way they do.
Keown needs to understand he isn't paid for his fashionably dull and sympathetic opinions, he gets a cheque from talksport to irritate Simon
Simon is flatly wrong here. That 80% is turnover/revenue. It doesn't include the buying and selling of clubs, which are assets worth billions, often. Club owners in the PL make far more money than players. Simon knows this. Or maybe he doesn't, as he failed to make money in football.
The value of clubs in the PL is increasing year on year. Due to the money the PL makes. eg. our owner at Leeds bought the club for ~100mil or something, 4 years later it's worth 4 times that, and he's selling up, having made, bare minimum, 100mil. Far more than any player makes. This is why the vulture capitalists are buying up PL clubs. To make money. Spurs' owner and Levy bought the club for a pittance. It's now worth over a billion quid.
Even Abramovich has likely come out with a profit, despite all his investment. So too the Saudis.
I believe Abramovich has invested a Billion of his own money but the club is now valued at 3.5 billion pounds and that valuation was 3 years ago. The club may be worth even more now. Football is an extremely profitable business
@@petersmith2522 Fella Abramovich wanted to sell the club in 2019 a d reportedly went to an American Bank to broker the deal. That bank valued the club at 3.5 billion pounds. I reckon qualified bankers know a lot more about this than you mate 😂😂😂
@@Mg-it9hv Yeah, and he bought the club for just 140mil. Even accounting for inflation he's coming out with a huge profit.
And a good chunk of that investment and has gone into facilities. As that's the only thing owners can invest in freely. Transfers/wages etc are capped by FFP.
So that's where a large % of the money you pay for TV subscriptions, tickets, merchandise goes. In the pockets of club owners and directors.
@@petersmith2522 well of course the pool of buyers is going to be small. How many people do you know who can cough up 3.5+ billion pounds 😂😂😂
@@petersmith2522 Chelsea are a big six club that commercially is way bigger than Leeds. In terms of the Big six clubs they are massively more valuable than smaller clubs and so will command a Massive price to own one of those clubs. Who in there right mind would sell their asset for less than its value and even more likely more than its value
The amount of people hating on these players for earning more than them is pathetic. If you guys wanted to earn as high then you should've worked harder rather than being unmotivated lazy bumps.
Simon for PM!
“I want 500,000 a week but I don’t wanna play 3 games in a week.”
- (Privileged) Premier League Footballers
They are still workers mate, and if they are not happy with management then they have the same right as you and me to strike.
@@kingsley3208 They want less games, then they should ask for 300k a week and a game off, instead of 500k a week and a game off.
They’re greedy and privileged, in my opinion.
@@willbritannia5217 they may be willing to do that, to have that discussion - but right now they are not even allowed at the table, that is why they are threatening to strike.
Simon Jordon is a legend he talks more sense than anyone in sport hes on a different league to the vastly popular neville who gets so much wrong
Simon is BITTER cause he used to be an OWNER. His concern is only making money. Between Uefa Nations League, Europa Conference League, World Cup every 2 years, World Cup in November, More games every season. Even I can see it's too much.
Comments: "Players and managers get high pay, few working days ... Complaint? Disgrace!"
Me: "Yea why dont you guys work your way to become players or managers? Make these noisy players and manager unemployed, good idea right?"
Comments: "......"
Me: "At least stop watching the games. They will earn a few quid less. MAKE THEM PAY."
Comments: "......"
Why these foreign managers come to the prem and try to change how we play our game during the winter. This is why we stand out from the rest. Pep , Klopp fuckaffffff and stay fuckaffffffff
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Why doesn’t Pep stop playing some of his top players in so many games, surely he is at fault here? If he thinks some players play too many games then why isn’t he utilising possibly the biggest squad of players in Europe. He’s a complete hypocrite. He has options to rest players but is choosing not to do so in order to have a better chance of winning so I’d argue he is risking his players health more than a congested fixture list is.
It's must feel so good being Simon Jordan, going into work every day knowing that the 3 people you have to argue with are Sinclair, Murphy and keown 🤣 they could go 3 on 1 and still lose
Great show again . Jordon speaks great sense , could listen to his views all day long .
Foreign managers trying to dictate how the english game should be governed. this is the fans game, this how it's been here since the game began! Back in the day games were played on Xmas day and again on Boxing day, when players were on a fiver a week. Pep, Klopp, and the like should stick to managing the multi millionaire spoilt brats and leave our game alone !!!
Imagine earning millions of pounds for doing something that most people do for fun and feeling you need to go on strike... Talk about losing touch
Am I the only person with his mind blown when Simon said 80% of profits that football clubs make go directly to player and coaching staff wages? Did you all know that? WOW
Take City for example. All their starters make well over a million. Pep makes well over 10 millions. Now, remember all the staff, including assistant coaches, doctors, physios, et al. The analytics department is considered part of the football operations. The people in the sales department, the marketing department, the stadium workers…by volume, where the most people work, they don’t really make that much. But 80% does sound like a lot. In some ways, it’s faut. The attraction is the players.
It's the managers and the clubs who are overworking the players to succeed in the league. If they care about player's welfare they should rotate them, but they won't, coz everyone wants to win the league. #getonwithit #GOWI
Peps mother literally died from Covoid. If anybody deserves a break it’s him.
A very good friend of mine has just finished a 3 week shift of 10hrs a day, consisting of a Monday morning start at 4:00am, driving for 4hrs to Slough. At the weekend driving to Coventry for two 12 hour shifts and back to Slough Monday morning. No travel time paid, so a 4 hour drive and then a 10 hour shift.
His earnings for those three weeks will not even touch the sides of what most Premier league players will earn in a game.
And he is 56.
Can't wait to see this union, strike negotiations. Bring on the salary caps and pay cuts
Martin wants the people taking the most money out of the game around the table but completely disregards the fans who put that money in.
It’s so pathetic when ex-players like Keown belittle people for talking about player’s wages, like it’s an irrelevant, childish subject.
The amount of risk, pressure and sacrifice ‘normal’ people are prepared to accept in their job is DIRECTLY proportional to how much they get paid.
We’d all take a much greater risk if we were being paid £300k per week as opposed to £300.
So no, Martin, it’s not irrelevant to bring money into it… It’s a pretty good yardstick as to what level of risk a person should be willing to make in their profession.
Seems they all want to be paid a bazillion pounds per week to face the absolute bare minimum amount of risk. Like footballers are above such compromises which normal plebs have to face to earn money.
And let’s be clear, 99.9% of players testing positive have no symptoms, are not ill, and so facing no risk to their health. Statistically, as healthy young men, they’re more likely to face complications from ‘the poke’... But we won’t get into that!
Best comment I've read in long time 👌 👏
If I kept complaining to my boss that I’m too tired to work 5 days a week I would be sacked these guys get paid a gargantuan amount of money to play football which is a dream for most football fans I don’t care if they get injured that’s part of the game Get on with it
"Don't care if they get injured." Well that says it all about you. Disgusting human being.
@@FormerPessitheRobberfan i get injured at work don't see anyone crying for me not saying i want them to die calm down
Do you agree with Simon Jordan? 🤔
Its' a Christmas miracle! I'm actually in total agreement with Simon Jordan for once I'm all for players welfare but playing less games is ridiculous. 2 hours work every 3 days or so. Try working 8 hours 5 days a week on a building site, when you're hungover most days (because your life is so s**t and you get such little free time). Carrying bricks and concreter slabs, for less than £350 a week when some footballers get £350.000 a week. I notice it's always managers like Pep and Klopp or mediocre players that complain. Never here the great players moaning. NHL players play 5 games a week. An average NHL player skates 5kms game. 82 game regular seasons. 16-28 playoff games if you wanna win the Stanley Cup. Ice hockey takes far more toll on your body than football. But do they moan about? F**k no! Because they're not primadonna's who roll over like they've been shot and love the game. It's clearly just a job for a lot of these players. If I could work less hours in my crappy labourers job for the same money, of course I'd do it. But if I was any good at football, I'd play every other day for free and love every second of it. Which there are a few players I know who play no league football at a decent enough level on Saturday afternoon, they then play over the marshes on Sunday morning, and then sometimes might play in the week. Plus they have jobs. And they do all this for free and because they love football. And trust me if some premiership players took a Dean Bouho tackle. Then they wouldn't be rolling around pretending to be hurt. They'd be motionless because they would be hurt. Shut and play the game. And if they do go on strike then f**k em. We'll all go watch our local bon league team. Better atmosphere and more entertaining football in non league anyway nowadays. F**k modern football.
I don't understand what the argument is? Players on 50,000 to 500,000 a week asked to play two 90minute games with a days rest in-between or 3 games in one week over the Christmas period only. Get to retire before 40. While the rest of the world works 5-7 days a week and will never see what some of them earn in a week over a lifetime and have to work atleast 65 + more years now to keep a roof over their head and food on the table. Simon is right. A. rotate your squad properly. B. If you can't afford to sit out a 100million pound player to rest him don't spend 100million on a player. (didn't mind him being sat out a game to punish him for just a late night last week? Alot less serious). 😂😂😂 C. Give them less training days across the Christmas period. D. Give back some of your money if you don't want to do what your job is. 😂 If I didn't want to do the hours I have to work which I knew before I did the job or it increased I couldn't argue over it. They'll just show you the door😂. It's all about premier League dominance and revenue from winning the games and they do that by allways over paying and overplaying there best players. They trying to mask this about it's how many games they are playing and not actually the poor money grabbing structure they've created anyway.
Cut wages in half then come back about “player welfare”.
The basketball players are playing 4-5 games within a week because they want that money. If you don't want to generated that money and are happy to get payout then its okay. If you removed some of these games that broadcasters won't pay the same amount and the players would get less money. I think Martin doesn't understand the economic part of this. We fans pay the broadcasters then the broadcasters paid players.
its even worse of a usa baseball team some times they play 2 matches a day
@@woodchopper1752 yeah. These Soccer players are such a softies yet want all the money
Dumb argument, the NBA also has unspoken tradition of resting players because of congested schedule. Baseball is notorious for resting their players most especially the pitcher
@@mikediao15 NBA players play 35 minutes a game compared to footballers who play 90 minutes with no timeouts.
@@hozman5700 35 minutes sprint back and fourth is more taxing to the body than football who is only 65 minutes in real play time. Most players in football don’t even sprint a lot.
Anyone who backs his should be completely and utterly ashamed of themselves. I know people who work 12 hours a day cleaning hospitals for not much more than minimum wage. Imagine if they said "Bit tired.. might just not bother anymore"... Disgraceful behaviour.
Pep wasn't just calling for the change of just domestic football calendar but also the unnecessary international matches, That's why he mentioned fifa and uefa also. That's why pep mentioned that players ONLY get 2 weeks off in summer and back at it again
The Premier league should keep the standards high. 2 many games 2 close means quality is sacrificed